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Masahiro Morioka
is a Japanese philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of philosophy of life, bioethics, gender studies, media theory, and civilization studies. He is a professor of philosophy and ethics at Waseda University, Japan. He coined the term "life studies" for an integrated approach to the issues of life, death, and nature in contemporary society.〔"An Invitation to Study of Life"〕 Since 2006 he has proposed a new philosophical discipline he calls "philosophy of life".〔"In Search of a Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society: An Introduction" (2010)〕 He has published numerous academic books and articles, mainly in Japanese, and has regularly contributed commentaries and book reviews to major Japanese newspapers and magazines.〔(List of bookreviews in Japanese )〕 His books include ''Painless Civilization'', which criticizes the incessant attempts to escape from pain and suffering in modern civilization, ''The Insensitive Man'', which illuminates some of the darker sides of male sexuality such as the "Lolita complex" and male frigidity, and ''Lessons in Love for Herbivore Boys'', one of the books that helped popularize the term "herbivore men".〔(List of books in Japanese )〕 He is the editor-in-chief of ''Journal of Philosophy of Life''〔http://www.philosophyoflife.org/〕 and an associate editor of ''Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics''.〔(EJAIB website )〕
== Biography ==
Morioka was born in Kochi prefecture, Japan, in 1958 and entered The University of Tokyo in 1977. In the beginning he studied physics and mathematics but he later turned to philosophy and ethics.〔"How to Live in a Post-religious Age"〕 In graduate school he specialized in bioethics and environmental ethics, a newly emerging field at that time as well as Wittgenstein’s later philosophy.〔Masahiro Morioka, “The Structure of the Inner Life of a Philosopher: The Multi-Layered Aspects of Speech,” in Tetsuo Yamaori (ed.) Nihonjin no Shisô no Jusôsei: Watashi no Shiza kara Kangaeru. Chikuma Shobo. April 1998, pp.77-100. (In Japanese)〕 He published two books on bioethics, ''An Invitation to the Study of Life'' and ''Brain Dead Person'', and moved to the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, in 1988. There he wrote several books including ''How to Live in a Post-religious Age'' and ''Consciousness Communication''; the former is a philosophical and psychological analysis of Aum Shinrikyo’s sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway that occurred in 1995〔“How to Live in a Post-religious Age”〕 and the latter discusses subconscious interactions in the age of computer communications (''Consciousness Communication'' won The Telecom Social Science award in 1993).〔(Profile (Lifestudies.org) )〕 "He spent one year as a visiting scholar at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA, in 1991."〔(Profile Lifestudies.org Morioka Profile )〕
In 1997, he moved to Osaka Prefecture University where he taught philosophy and ethics.〔(Morioka’s page at OPU )〕 In 2001 he published ''Life Studies Approaches to Bioethics'', in which he discussed brain death and organ transplantation, feminist bioethics and abortion, the disability rights movement, and new forms of eugenics from the perspective of “life studies.” In this book he introduces concepts such as "the fundamental sense of security" and "the reality of a deeply shaken self", which he discovered through an examination of Japanese bioethics literature written in the 1970s.〔“Life Studies Approaches to Bioethics” (Publisher’s webpage )〕 He published ''Painless Civilization'', mentioned above, in 2003. This is considered by many his most important and influential book to date.〔(Painless Civilization (Lifestudies.org) )〕 His books on men’s studies, also mentioned above, have been frequently referred to in the field of gender studies.〔(Kanjinai Otoko (Lifestudies.org/jp) )〕 He published ''The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy'' in 2013. He established the Research Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life at Osaka Prefecture University.〔(RICPL website )〕 He played an important role in the revision of the organ transplantation law in Japan in the years 2000-2009. He asserted that organs should not be harvested from small children who have been declared brain dead but his proposal was ultimately rejected by the Diet.〔(Special page for the revision of the Japanese organ transplantation law )〕
He moved to the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, in 2015.
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