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  • Special Report: No.1 Brain Death and Transplantation in Japan
    • Outline Outline of the history and the proposals
      • Organ-transplant Laws Draw Fire
    • Report Reconsidering Brain Death
    • Material A Proposal for Revision of the Organ Transplantation Law Based on a Child Donor's Prior Declaration
    • Book Brain Dead Person
    • Papers Two Aspects of Brain Dead Being / Bioethics and Japanese Culture / Current Debate on the Ethical Issues of Brain Death
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  • Special Report: No.2 Japanese Responses to the World Trade Center Attack
    • Report How did Japanese Netizens Respond to the World Trade Center Attack?
    • Links List of Japanese Websites about the WTC Attack
  • Special Report: No.3 Bioethics around the World
    • Comparative Study of the History of Bioethics
      • Japan Brief Outline
    • 2) Bioethics Institutes around the World
• Essays and Papers
  • Painless Civilization and Fundamental Sense of Security: A Philosophical Challenge in the Age of Human Biotechnology
  • Painless Civilization
  • The Structure of the Inner Life of a Philosopher: The Multi-Layered Aspects of Speech
  • Ulrike WÖHR, Die Ambivalenz des Lebens und die Unmöglichkeit der Religion
  • Cross-cultural Approaches to the Philosophy of Life in the Contemporary World
  • The Concept of Inochi
  • The Human Natures and Modern Civilization (external link)
  • Reconsidering Brain Death
  • Brain Dead Person
  • Is it Morally Acceptable to Remove Organs from Brain-Dead Children?
  • Two Aspects of Brain Dead Being
  • A Proposal for Revision of the Organ Transplantation Law Based on A Child Donor's Prior Declaration
  • Current Debate on the Ethical Issues of Brain Death
  • The Insensitive Man
  • What do we Learn from Japanese Feminist Bioethics?
  • Disability Movement and Inner Eugenic Thought
  • Bioethics and Japanese Culture
  • The Ethics of Human Cloning and its Legal Regulation in Japan
  • Toward International and Cross-cultural Bioethics
• Books
  • Brain Dead Person
    • Chapter 1 Brain Death as a Form of Human Relationships
      • Commentary on "Brain Dead Person" Chapter 1 by Robert D. Truog, MD
    • Chapter 2: What Kind of Place is an Intensive Care Unit?
    • Chapter 5: My Death and the Death of Others
    • Chapter 7: Efficiency and Irreplaceability
  • The Insensitive Man
    • Preface
    • Chapter 1: If Only They Wear Mini-skirts We don't Need Flesh-and-Blood Women Any More!?
    • Chapter 2: Men Who Turn Their Eyes Away from “Male Frigidity”
  • Painless Civilization
    • Chapter 1 What is Painless Civilization?
  • How to Live in a Post-religious Age
  • Consciousness Communication
  • Life Studies Approaches to Bioethics
  • Life Studies for Beginngers

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    • Discussion on the Morality of Eating Meat and Humans
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    • Reconsidering Marx
    • Want to Live another 40 Years?
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