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Prof. Rihito Kimura's Office (Bioethics)
Research & Development Center #1-303,
Waseda University Bldg. 120,
513 Tsurumaki-cho, Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo,
162-0041 Japan.
If you have anything to talk to Prof. KIMURA about,
please make contact with Naoto Kawahara (Research Asst.).
E-mail (Naoto Kawahara) : naox@ruri.waseda.jp / Tel&Fax: +81-3-3208-2470

Welcome to our BIoethics Seminar's Info-website, Japan (^o^)!!
In Japan, much of the recent interest in bioethics is seen as a response to various civic movements which formulate a public policy based on the advocacy of the dignity of human beings. The women's liberation movement, access to equal opportunity, and the recognition of patients' rights and the importance of informed consent are among some of the movements influencing the development of bioethics in Japan. Bioethics is a totally new interdiscipline for the Japanese lay public, if not for the medical profession in general.
So, Bioethics...It's a new academic field and a movement that originate new values and social agreement that open up a new world in the future.
Our bioethics seminar which is in the Department of Human Health Sciences, and the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University has a wide sphere of research activities. We study various bioethical issues and problems, such as genetic recombination, in-vitro fertilization, AIDS, brain death and an organ transplant, death and dying, gene therapy in the social, natural, and environmental context. Particularly, we learn from various case studies of patients' rights, clinical testings, terminal care, etc.
In the seminar, we are required full participation in the discussion of bioethics. So, all the members exchange views with one another on each bioethical interest and concern aiming to the practical solution.
Through this "WASEDA BIOETHICS WEBSITE", we'll continue to inform of such the seminar's activities to the public as part of the bioethical studies.
Do you have anything to say about the bioethical issues? Please send us your candid opinion by E-mail!!
The "WASEDA BIOETHICS WEBSITE" is updated often, so please check back regularly for new informations, thank you!!

CONTENTS

  • the GATEWAY of Waseda Bioethics Website

  • About Prof. Rihito Kimura

  • The Professor's Message

  • Table of Graduation Theses in the Bioethics Seminar

  • The WWW Database
    "All The Works of Prof. Kimura"

  • "Bioethical Public Policy and the Making of the 1997 Japanese Long-term Care Insurance Law
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  • "Genetic Diagnosis and Gene Therapy in the Cultural Context: Social and Bioethical Implications in Japan"

  • "Jurisprudence in Genetics"

  • "Bioethics and Socio-Legal Aspects of the Elderly in Japan: With Special Reference to Life-Sustaining Technologies"

  • "Advance Care Planning and the ALS Patient: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Advance Directives"

  • "Death, Dying, and Advance Directives in Japan: Socio-Cultural and Legal Point of View"

  • "Organ Transplantation and Brain-Death in Japan. Cultural, Legal and Bioethical Background"

  • "CONTEMPORARY JAPAN" [In Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Revised Ed.]

  • "Ethics Committees for "High Tech" Innovations in Japan"

  • "Bioethics and the International Community"

  • "Bioethics as Civic Action in Japan"

  • "Death and Dying in Japan"

  • "Bioethics and Japanese Health Care"

  • "Who should manipulate life?"
    : A Bioethical Point of View

  • "Anencephalic Organ Donation: A Japanese Case"

  • "The need for new images"
    /World Health Forum, WHO, 1997.

  • "The right to be informed: an aspect of dignity"
    /World Health Forum, WHO, 1991.

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    Team 29322, "THE BIOETHICS" in ThinkQuest 99'
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  • Our featuring linkage with a students' bioethics homepage project
    It is required the following Plug-Ins (download free) to browse these "ThinkQuest 99'-Team29322" pages.

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  • The Bioethics in ThinkQuest 99'-Index
  • Introduction of Prof. Rihito Kimura
  • The Bioethics Television Lerning System
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  • Interview Reports to Prof. Rihito Kimura

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    "WASEDA/CWRU Project, 1998"

  • The linkage with the project topics (CWRU)
    I. Bio-Medical Ethical Issues Relating to the Beginning of Life
    : 1. Abortion
    : 2. Assisted Reproductive Technologies
    : 3. Cloning
    II. Bio-Medical Ethical Issues Relating to the Quality of Life
    : 4. Organ Procurement and Transplants
    : 5. Gene Therapy/Genetic Testing
    : 6. Patients' Rights and Codes of Medical Ethics in U.S. and Japan
    : 7. Feminism and Biomedical Ethics
    : 8. Quality of Life for Children
    : 9. Discrimination against Social Minorities
    III. Bio-Medical Ethical Issues Relating to the End of Life
    : 10. Definition of Death
    : 11. Withholding and Withdrawal of Treatment
    : 12. Hospice Care
    : 13. Euthanasia/Suicide

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  • the 2001st Members' Directories

  • The WWW Site Selections
    Related to Bioethics

  • WWW Information Search
    Java, GIF & JPG Resources





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