[Skripsi ini menganalisis mengenai ketidakikutsertaan di kalangan lanjut usiaJepang dalam kegiatan sosial. Teori yang digunakan dalam skripsi ini mengacupada argumen Li-Mei Chen (2013) bahwa lanjut usia tidak yakin padakemampuan fisik dan psikologis mereka untuk berpartisipasi dalam kegiatansosial. Hasil penelitian ini menemukan bahwa alasan ketidakikutsertaan yangdikemukakan Chen hanya berlaku di Jepang secara umum, sebab, terdapatperbedaan alasan utama ketidakikutsertaan berdasarkan lokasi dan rentang usiapada usia lanjut., This work analyzed regarding the nonparticipation among Japanese older adults involunteer activities. This work used Li-Mei Chen’s (2013) argument whichexplained that the older adults didn’t have confidence with their physical andpsychological ability to participate in volunteer activities. The results of this studyfound that the reasons explained by Chen about the Japanese older adults’nonparticipation is may be applied only in general, because, there are facts aboutdifferences on the main reasons of the nonparticipation based on the location andthe age range of older adults.]