On the Trail of the New Social Economy, Coop News (January, 2026) - Coop-Sapporo is not a traditional cooperative so much as an affiliation of social enterprises that it has organized to serve a range of community needs on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, from cradle to grave. This suggests a new model of the social economy: how communityship in the plural sector can play a consolidating role in rebalancing a society.