Kiyoshi Murata    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Date	2010/04/15
Presentation Theme	Information Ethics and Culture: Revisiting Traditional Japanese Ethical Values (Keynote Address)
Conference	ETHICOMP 2010
Promoters	Universitat Rovira i Virgili, De Montfort University, Southern Connecticut State University, East Tennessee State University
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (Keynote)
Contribution Type	Individual
Invited	Invited
Details	Although Japan is a global leader in the development and usage of information and communication technology (ICT) and ICT-based information systems, issues regarding information ethics have not been addressed appropriately. Traditional ethical thinking and discourse have declined because the Japanese have, in the process of developing a capitalist democracy, lost sight of their core ethical values, which were developed in the Tokugawa Era. Restoration of these core ethical values as the basis of ethical thinking and discourse, as well as recognition of their limitations, are necessary for the Japanese to appropriately address ethical issues concerning ICT, which necessarily have a multicultural aspect.