Cross-cultural Study of some Traditional Business ethics

在我们四年的成果中最想强调的一点是，我们可以与中国（2004）、韩国和德国（2006）的研究人员就跨文化视角下的经济伦理进行合作。我们的主题是“从比较文化的角度审视经济伦理并建立日本的经济伦理标准”。对东亚思想，特别是儒家思想的重新审视和评价，是一个重要的问题。此外，我们能够相互探讨对传统职业道德的重新评价和道德在日常生活中的意义，也是一个很大的收获。此外，我们可以讨论中国、韩国和日本在现代化发展的不同阶段所面临的问题，这是有意义的。许多在国外发展的公司都有一些问题，这些问题是基于文化的差异。我们能够与德国研究人员就这些问题进行辩论。这些研讨会的结果都发表在“中期报告”（2005年）中，关于经济伦理的基本研究，作为“最后一次报告”（2007年），但就“日本经济伦理标准的确立”这一问题而言，我们不得不承认，我们才刚刚开始，还需要更多的时间来完成它。2原因是道德问题的现实变得更加糟糕和迅速。因此，我们必须避免一个粗糙和现成的方法，而是考虑一个广泛意义上的教育研究。顺便说一下，这样一个基础性的研究，我们可以与稻盛和夫主席稻盛和夫基金会。我们要出版一本书。

It is the point that we want to emphasize among our result of four years most that we could collaborate with researchers of China (2004), Korea and German (2006) on business ethics in the cross-cultural perspectives.Our main theme is "examination of economic ethic from a comparison cultural viewpoint and establishment of Japanese standard of economic ethic. The re examination and re evaluation of the East Asia thought, in particular, Confucian Significance, were important problems. In addition, it was a big crop that we were able to discuss a re evaluation of traditional professional ethics and significance of morality in the daily life mutually. Furthermore, it was significant that we could discuss the problem that China, Korea and Japanese, in different stages of development of modernization, are facing today.Many company which advance abroad have several problems based on the difference of cultures. We were able to argue about such problems with German researchers.The result of these symposia are all published as "the intermediate report" (2005), and as "the last report"(2007) with fundamental researches about an economic ethic.But in terms of the problem of "establishment of Japanese standard of economic ethics" we have to confess that we have just started it and still take more time to finish it. The reason for that is that the reality of the moral issues turn far worse and quickly. Therefore we must avoid a rough-and-ready method and rather consider a study for education of a wide sense.By the way, paralleled such a fundamental researches, we could talk with Mr.Chairperson Kazuo Inamori of Inamori Foundation. We are going to publish as a book.