To Which Extent is the "Oriental" Value Judgment Permissible? Acceptance and Rejection of Heterogeneous Thought and Form -In Search of the Limit of Cultural Tolerance in the Global Age

当前的世界体系是根据西方的价值判断和设计而建立的。世界其他地区是如何努力在“东方”的旗帜下提出这一秩序的替代方案的。本项目旨在分析其可接受性的限度，主要是在思想和艺术领域。在1850年至1950年的时间范围内，该项目在近50名学者的参与下进行了研究，并用日语出版了《东方意识》，同时在国内聚会和国外传教活动中成功地提出了建议。

The current World system is established according to the value judgment and design by the West. How the Rest of the world has made effort so as to propose alternatives to this order under the banner of the "East." The present project aimed at analyzing its limit of acceptability mainly in the field of thinking and arts. Limiting the chronological range roughly from 1850 to 1950, the project conducted researches with the participation of almost 50 scholars and published The Oriental Consciousness in Japanese while it successfully put forward the proposals both in the domestic gatherings and missions abroad.