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

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In this project, we tired to 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. These research data shown in this paper suggest, I believe, 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?’ which are, in turn, considered to be strongly combined to Seken-related views.