Is the first to explicitly present and discuss the relevance of Japanese ethics of technology

Is timely and topical in view of the Fukushima disaster and its impact

Includes a discussion of the reception of Japanese ethics of technology in the West

Brings together Japanese and non-Japanese scholars

Thomas Taro Lennerfors (Ph.D., Docent) is an associate professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a visiting researcher at Meiji University, Japan. His work concerns ethics, philosophy, business and technology. Apart from monographs and book chapters, he has published papers for example in Futures, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Information, Communication, and Ethics in Society, Business Ethics: A European Review, Business and Society, Harvard Business Review, and Business History Review.
 
Kiyoshi Murata is Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics and Professor of MIS at the School of Commerce, Meiji University. His research interest is in information ethics including privacy, surveillance, ICT professionalism and gender issues. Kiyoshi is International Research Associate at the Centre for Computing and  Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, and President of the Japan Society for Information and Management. He has published his papers in scholarly journals including Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, AI and Society, International Review of Information Ethics, and Journal of Business Ethics.