Osamu Sakura
Osamu Sakura (Ph.D.)
Title
Team Director

Members

  • Team director
    Osamu Sakura
  • Deputy team director
    Shin-ichi Fukuzumi
  • Visiting scientist
    Yoko Fujishima
  • Visiting scientist
    Yueh-hsuan Weng
  • Visiting scientist
    Yukiko Tanikawa
  • Visiting scientist
    Terumi Umematsu
  • Visiting scientist
    Nozomi Ohtsuki
  • Part-time worker II
    Hikaru Asano

Introduction

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Our research focuses on the public image of AI/robots in Japan and other East Asian countries. More specific targets are its historical transitions and its representations in fictional materials including sci-fi. Also planned is comparative research of the public images among East Asian, or Buddhist, countries. It is expected that the public images may be somewhat different from those in the Western countries which put their base of cultural norm on Judeo-Christianity. The discontinuity has been emphasized between humans and animals in Christian thinking, while from the Buddhist view human beings are placed in part of the nature. We are tackling to propose rather unique perspectives on human-AI relation from the East Asian viewpoint.

Main Research Field
Multidisciplinary
Research Field
Social Sciences & General / Environment & Ecology
Research Subjects
Relation of science knowledge and human values
How the developments of science and technology has been changing humans and society
Biological and cultural evolution of human beings
RIKEN Website URL
http://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/aip/ai_soc/sci_tech_soc/

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Research Achievements

List of Achievements

Related posts

posted on September 26, 2025 14:53Information
46 papers were accepted at NeurIPS 2025
posted on July 17, 2025 12:31Information
International Standardization Forum – International Standardization in Safety, Health, and Well-being(July 16, 2025, EXPO Salon, Osaka)
posted on November 8, 2024 17:34Seminar
AIと文化シンポジウム 「AI関連の標準化動向－技術マネジメント及び品質－」
posted on November 6, 2024 21:19Information
EJEA Conference 2024 (November 5-7, 2024,Linköping University, Sweden)
posted on October 8, 2024 18:59Information
Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence (The University of Tokyo, October 7, 2024)
posted on August 27, 2024 13:37InformationAward
Specially Selected Paper（July 15, 2024)
posted on March 11, 2024 11:00InformationAward
International Standard Development Award
posted on October 29, 2023 10:46Information
【Invited Talk】The 13th International Congress of Ergonomics & Human Factors SOCHERGO and the 8th Congress of the Latin-American Union of Ergonomics, ULAERGO In Chile (October 20, 2023, Santiago, Chile）
posted on December 29, 2023 09:39Information
【Invited Talk】The 4th Asian Conference on Ergonomics and Design (December 15, 2023, India, Mumbai)
posted on September 21, 2023 10:08Information
[In the Media]"The Presence of AI as a Companion to Humans" (Asahi Shimbun DIGITAL, September 16, 2023)
posted on August 2, 2023 13:24InterviewInformation
[In the Media] An interview about ChatAIP with Osamu Sakura(Mainichi Shinbun, August 2, 2023)
posted on July 13, 2023 10:43InterviewInformation
[In the Media] An interview about ChatAIP with Osamu Sakura(AERA, The Asahi Shimbun Company, July 10th edition , 2023)
posted on June 3, 2023 16:44Seminar
AIと文化シンポジウム：生成系AIの活用
posted on May 30, 2023 16:16Information
[In the Media] "The Impact of Generative AI on Education" (Nikkei morning edition, May 30, 2023)
posted on February 17, 2023 20:54Seminar
人の行動変容におけるAIの役割（Only available in Japanese ）
posted on November 14, 2022 22:16Symposium
reconsidering the Techno--animism
posted on October 31, 2022 12:03Information
The 3rd Japanese-German-French AI Symposium (Miraikan in Tokyo, Oct 27-28, 2022)
posted on April 15, 2022 18:38InformationAward
The 37th Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award
posted on March 30, 2022 22:54Information
【In the media】An interview with Winners of the 2021 METI Minister's Award for Industrial Standardization Contribution （METI, March 28, 2021）
posted on March 9, 2022 15:55Symposium
Science, Technology and Society Team Symposium
posted on January 6, 2022 14:36Seminar
Joint Symposium, Human-Infomation Technology Ecosystem Project and Social Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility Project
posted on October 20, 2021 12:37InformationAward
2021 METI Minister's Award for Industrial Standardization Contribution
posted on April 16, 2021 09:29Seminar
[26th AIP Open Seminar] Talks by Science, Technology and Society Team
posted on May 11, 2020 13:26Information
Research related to COVID-19
posted on February 18, 2020 09:15Information
RIKEN AIP researchers talked at the Symposium on Machine Learning and Fairness