Robots and Privacy in Japanese, Thai and Chinese Cultures. \ud Discussions on Robots and Privacy as Topics of Intercultural Information Ethics in ‘Far East’

In this paper, I will analyze ‘cultural meanings and values’ associated with some of the important IIE(intercultural information ethics) topics in ‘Far East, ’i.e. ‘human and robot interaction(HRI)’ and ‘privacy.’ By focusing on these relatively newly emerging topics in ‘Far East,’ I will attempt to make the cultural Ba (locus/place where different\ud meanings of things, events, people’s experiences come together; or frameworks for understanding meanings of phenomena and events) visible through analysis of research data done in Japan, Thailand and China in the past several years. The research data shown in this paper suggest that we can’t understand people’s attitudes toward robots and privacy in ‘Far East’ without taking into consideration people’s broader views on ‘what is a good life?’ and ‘what is a virtuous life?

Different discussions on roboethics and information ethics based on different contexts (BA). Discussions on robots, informatics and life in the information era in Japanese\ud bulletin board forums and mass media

In this paper, I will analyze „what sort of invisible reasons lie behind differences of discussions on roboethics and IE (Information Ethics) in Japan and “Western” cultures‟, focusing on (1) the recent trends of researches in roboethics in „Western‟ cultures, (2) the tendencies of portrayal of robots, ICTs, Informatics, life in the information era reflected in news papers reports and talks on BBSs in Japan. As we will see in this paper, Japanese people have difficulty in understanding some of the key concepts used in the fields of roboethics and IE (Information Ethics) such as „autonomy‟ or „responsibility (of robots)‟,etc. This difficulty appears to derive from different types of discussions based on of different cultural contexts (Ba) in which the majority of people in each culture are provided with a certain sort of shared/ normalized frames of narratives. In my view and according to some Japanese critics or authors, senses of „reality‟ of Japanese people are strongly related with "emotional sensitivity to things/persons/events in life" or "direct-non>mediated-intuitive\ud awareness/knowing" (Izutsu, 2001). These tendencies in Japanese minds seem to influence their limited interest in the "abstract" discussions as well\ud as in straightforward emotional expressions with regard to robots and ICTs

A New Possible Approach to Information Society : Where Do the "Imaginative" Objects and the "Real" objects Meet Together?

departmental bulletin pape

Comparative studies on the relations between ‘people’s views on life, world and societies’ and ‘their views on communication on the Internet’ in Eastern Asia

科学研究費助成事業(科学研究費補助金)研究成果報告書：基盤研究(C)2010-2012課題番号：2253052

Robots and Privacy in Japanese, Thai and Chinese Cultures. Discussions on Robots and Privacy as Topics of Intercultural Information Ethics in ‘Far East’

In this paper, I will analyze ‘cultural meanings and values’ associated with some of the important IIE(intercultural information ethics) topics in ‘Far East, ’i.e. ‘human and robot interaction(HRI)’ and ‘privacy.’ By focusing on these relatively newly emerging topics in ‘Far East,’ I will attempt to make the cultural Ba (locus/place where different meanings of things, events, people’s experiences come together; or frameworks for understanding meanings of phenomena and events) visible through analysis of research data done in Japan, Thailand and China in the past several years. The research data shown in this paper suggest that we can’t understand people’s attitudes toward robots and privacy in ‘Far East’ without taking into consideration people’s broader views on ‘what is a good life?’ and ‘what is a virtuous life?

情報化時代における日本と東アジア・東南アジアの価値観の比較研究 : 「もののあわれ」等に関わる「内面」の問題を中心に

In this paper, I focus on the following points: 1) why do we find the presence of Mononoawaresenstivity (a subtle sensitivity to nature and life) in modern Japense mind?; 2) why is this Mononoaware-sentivity found to be related to various views on politics, environmental problems, robethics, information ethics in spite of separation between them in terms of ‘logical meaning’?; 3) how can this kind of Japanese inner mind be compared to those of other cultures and societies in East Asia and South East Asia? I will examine these points by analyzing my research data I have collected and related literature on this subject

情報化時代における東アジアの相互理解のための価値意識・情報倫理の比較社会論的研究

科学研究費助成事業 研究成果報告書：基盤研究(C)2014-2017課題番号 : 2638066

Technology, Artificial Things, Robots, Disasters and Privacy Seen from Seken as the Cultural-Existential Perspectives in Japan and the ‘Far East’

One can posit that Japanese people currently live in two realms of society at the same time: Shakai and Seken. In contrast to Shakai, which is society in relation to values and ways of seeing things imported from Western modernity, Seken is a traditional and ingenious realm/aspect of our society where the meaning of \u27a good-virtuous life\u27 is important. To put it differently, Seken is a cultural-existential Ba (place, space, locus) where people share various views on life or the world itself from cultural-existential perspectives. The term Seken itself emanates from Buddhism. It derives from the Sanskrit word loca. Se means time or transient situations of this world/life and Ken means in-between, space, place, locus, i.e., the transient Ba consisting of transient human activities and the place where these activities are done. In Japanese history, these views were combined with other views coming from Shinto, Confucianism, the praxis of internalizing the human mind in the tradition of literature, Kokugaku, Bushido, and others. These combined views bestowed on forming the criteria, \u27What is a good-virtuous life?\u27 This paper discusses the implication of the findings concerning Seken derived through my previous research. These studies were conducted in Japan and other \u27Far East\u27 countries and we discovered that Seken-related meanings or some perspectives similar to Seken exist in the minds of people in the \u27Far East.\u27 We also found that Seken-related meanings and some other views on \u27roboethics,\u27 \u27privacy,\u27 \u27publicness\u27 and others form a kind of a network of understanding in Japan and the \u27Far East.\u2