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Ethics of Future Society Lab (Yuji Iijima)
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A research division that considers the ethics of new technologies and society and develops new courses in ethics education.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about technology and society through ethics
The Future Society Ethics Education Research Division conducts interdisciplinary research that considers the social issues brought about by new technologies as the “ethics of future society” and makes proposals based on that research.
It is an endowed research division funded by the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, a public interest incorporated foundation, and was established in April 2026 within the Center for Next-Generation University Education Development of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
The research results will be developed into new courses on ethics education in higher education, which are planned to be offered at Kyushu University and also provided to higher education institutions across Japan.
The division is also developing a new type of ethics course that uses VR thought experiments.
Key terms
- Ethics
- Here, a term broadly referring to how people themselves live and how society is organized.
- Ethics education in higher education
- Education in which students and working adults learn, through discussion, the ethics that should be widely shared in society.
- Cross-disciplinary (humanities and sciences)
- An approach to research that draws not only on ethics but also on insights from other academic fields.
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New technologies can spread rapidly because of their convenience, yet they may fundamentally change how people live and how society is organized (ethics in a broad sense). This division conceives the issues arising from the tension between such technologies and society as the “ethics of future society” and works to apply the results to new courses in ethics education.
*Illustrative imageInterdisciplinary research on the “ethics of future society”
Rather than leaving social issues to experts alone, the division reframes them as ethical problems for all of us and raises them in a form that many people can share. The research is interdisciplinary, spanning the humanities and sciences and not limited to the field of ethics.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping and rolling out new courses in ethics education
The division develops new courses on ethics education in higher education so that its research results can be learned as classes. The courses encourage active participation in discussion and collaborative thinking, and will be offered at Kyushu University and provided nationwide.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Future Society Ethics Education Research Division consist of faculty belonging to the division and collaborating faculty.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYuji Iijima
- Assistant ProfessorYusuke Satake
- Assistant ProfessorNozomi Maruyama
- Associate ProfessorKensuke Kajiwara
- Associate ProfessorKoji Kanayama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Campolo Lecture” Sgerbic / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Interdisciplinary research on the “ethics of future society”: “Human+Robot” Cadop / CC0 (cropped)
- Developing and rolling out new courses in ethics education: “Seminar room at University of Kent” RyuMinjoo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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倫理〉): “AI and Wikipedia in Education session in wikimania 2026” Anup Sadi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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