Osamu Sakura
Biographic Data
| ID | 4679931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Osamu Sakura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Osamu |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakura |
| SIGNATURE | SAKURA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2781-7956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How and Why Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute was Dismantled
Robot and ukiyo-e
The social and cultural causes behind the widespread use and acceptance of robots in Japan are not yet completely understood. This study compares humans and robots in images gathered through Google searches in Japanese and in English. Numerous pictures obtained by the search in Japanese were found to have a human and a robot looking together at something else (“third item”), whereas many of the images acquired by search in English show a human an…
The Religious Impacts of Taoism on Ethically Aligned Design in HRI
The rise of historical and cultural perspectives in fashion studies in Japan
This article seeks to clarify the historical process by which the study of western clothing developed in Japan, and to discuss how this has related to traditional Japanese clothing culture. From this perspective, the study of dress and fashion in Japan will be seen in conjunction with the processes by which the Japanese fashion industry adopted western clothes into its own fashion culture. In the 1970s, a strong desire to promote further developm…
A View from the Far East
Cross-cultural studies of neuroethics that focus on Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan tend to dwell on three areas of “cultural” concern: local variations, the gap between the scientific community and the public, and the different approaches to ethical issues taken by different disciplines. According to a survey, Western and Taiwanese views on the relationship between the “soul” and the “mind” may have little in common. In South Korea, scientific re…
A Practical Approach to Identifying Ethical and Social Problems During Research and Development
In spite of growing interest in neuroethics, the process of research and development (R&D) is not focused enough on the context of ethical, legal, and social issues. These processes present a unique and largely overlooked opportunity to integrate ethical and societal considerations into interactions with these technologies. We implemented a research ethics consultation during the R&D phase of Japan's national project for brain-machine interfaces;…
Towards the Governance of Neuroscience
Neuroscience in Japan has been rapidly growing during this decade. Interdisciplinarity and application oriented approach are two major tendencies of that. These are clearly observed in the recent launched big projects of neuroscience organized by departments and/or agencies of the Japanese government such as MEXT, NEDO and JST. We report the details of the project of Brain-machine Interface (BMI) as the typical example, which include research tea…
Social Decision-making Processes in Local Contexts
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 1, Number 1, December 2007
Social Decision-Making Processes in Local Contexts
This is an STS case study of the social decision-making process on the siting of a nuclear power plant in Japan, from the point of view of a sociological case analysis. Energy technologies are critically important for industrial society but often trigger serious disputes through the R&D phase and the phase involving introduction into society. Nuclear power technology especially has provoked a lot of conflicts all over the world. By focusing on se…
Factors affecting party size and composition of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) Bossou, Guinea
Hand preference and tool use in wild chimpanzees
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
Case report on the death of a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus)
Case report on the death of a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus)
Hand preference and tool use in wild chimpanzees
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
Factors affecting party size and composition of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) Bossou, Guinea
Social Decision-making Processes in Local Contexts
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 1, Number 1, December 2007
Social Decision-Making Processes in Local Contexts
This is an STS case study of the social decision-making process on the siting of a nuclear power plant in Japan, from the point of view of a sociological case analysis. Energy technologies are critically important for industrial society but often trigger serious disputes through the R&D phase and the phase involving introduction into society. Nuclear power technology especially has provoked a lot of conflicts all over the world. By focusing on se…
Towards the Governance of Neuroscience
Neuroscience in Japan has been rapidly growing during this decade. Interdisciplinarity and application oriented approach are two major tendencies of that. These are clearly observed in the recent launched big projects of neuroscience organized by departments and/or agencies of the Japanese government such as MEXT, NEDO and JST. We report the details of the project of Brain-machine Interface (BMI) as the typical example, which include research tea…
A View from the Far East
Cross-cultural studies of neuroethics that focus on Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan tend to dwell on three areas of “cultural” concern: local variations, the gap between the scientific community and the public, and the different approaches to ethical issues taken by different disciplines. According to a survey, Western and Taiwanese views on the relationship between the “soul” and the “mind” may have little in common. In South Korea, scientific re…
A Practical Approach to Identifying Ethical and Social Problems During Research and Development
In spite of growing interest in neuroethics, the process of research and development (R&D) is not focused enough on the context of ethical, legal, and social issues. These processes present a unique and largely overlooked opportunity to integrate ethical and societal considerations into interactions with these technologies. We implemented a research ethics consultation during the R&D phase of Japan's national project for brain-machine interfaces;…
The rise of historical and cultural perspectives in fashion studies in Japan
This article seeks to clarify the historical process by which the study of western clothing developed in Japan, and to discuss how this has related to traditional Japanese clothing culture. From this perspective, the study of dress and fashion in Japan will be seen in conjunction with the processes by which the Japanese fashion industry adopted western clothes into its own fashion culture. In the 1970s, a strong desire to promote further developm…
The Religious Impacts of Taoism on Ethically Aligned Design in HRI
Robot and ukiyo-e
The social and cultural causes behind the widespread use and acceptance of robots in Japan are not yet completely understood. This study compares humans and robots in images gathered through Google searches in Japanese and in English. Numerous pictures obtained by the search in Japanese were found to have a human and a robot looking together at something else (“third item”), whereas many of the images acquired by search in English show a human an…
How and Why Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute was Dismantled
Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (5 works) · Animal ecology (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works)