Life and Care in Comparative Cultural Perspective towards creating the international research network

21世纪的曙光代表了生活和关怀文化重新概念化的开始。该项目的目的是寻找最适合日本文化气候的护理方式，其特点是倾向于在个人的自我决定和社会支持之间取得平衡。人们经常讨论东西方对生死的不同看法。在这种讨论中，最重要的不是优劣的评定，而是理性分析和本能综合之间的相互理解和影响。在这一领域，国际化的视角至关重要；我们要避免简单的类型学，将事物固定在“亚洲”或“日本”以及狭隘的民族主义上，而是要理解不同国家的护理类型，因为它们有着悠久的历史和最近的发展。这个全球化的世纪要求我们以一种坦率、公正的态度和比较文化研究的立场来思考这个问题。事实上，我们的国际研讨会使我们能够审视我们的观点并向国际与会者学习。临床方法小组指出了从机构到家庭护理的稳定趋势。在这里，社区关怀和精神关怀的重要性显著增加。在对后代的生命伦理教育中，我们强调通过对各种形式的艺术和知识的欣赏来实现人类的活力、美丽和自信的重要性。例如，在科学教育中，我们需要节目来考虑科学知识及其技术应用的社会影响，参考实际案例，并通过对自然和宇宙的基本把握。我们已经在我们的网站、书籍、公开校园讲座和常规课堂上向公众提供了这些成果。

The dawn of the 21st century represents the beginning of re-conceptualization of culture of life and care. The aim of this project has been to search for the ways of care most suitable for the Japanese cultural climate, which is characterized by its inclination to take balance between individual's self-decision and social support. The different views of life and death between the East and the West are frequently discussed. In such discussion the most important is not the assessment of superiority, but the mutual understanding and influence between the rational analysis and instinctive synthesis. In this field, internationalized perspective is crucial ; we are to avoid easy typology, fixation of things ‘Asian' or ‘Japanese' and narrow-minded nationalism, but to comprehend the types of care in various countries with their long history and their recent developments. This globalizing century requires of us a candid and fair attitude and a standpoint of comparative cultural studies to consider this problem. Indeed, our international symposium enabled us to examine our view and learn from the international participants.The clinical approach team has pointed out the settled trend from institutionalization toward home care. Here there is a marked growth in importance of the community care and the spiritual care.In bioethical education of the future generations, we emphasize the importance of realizing the vitality, beauty and confidence of human beings through admiration of various forms of art and knowledge. In science education, for example, we need programs to deliberate over the social influence of scientific knowledge and its technical application, referring to practical cases, as well as to pass fundamental grasp of nature and universe.We have made the output available to the public on our website, in the books, in the open campus lectures and in the regular classrooms.