| Keynote Speaker: Muneo Yoshikawa |
 Dr. Muneo Yoshikawa, a native of Japan, is a professor emeritus at Kauai Community College, University of Hawaii; an adjunct professor at Keio (SFC), Shizuoka Prefecture University, the University of the Pacific, and Kyoto Bunkyu University; president of the International Mentorship Graduate School in Japan; board member of the School of Integrated Medicine in Tokyo; director of the Holonic Paradigm Institute in Osaka; and an associate of Ken Blanchard Companies in San Diego. Dr. Muneo is also a member of the IOU Foundation Board of Governors and a member of their Core Faculty. Muneo conducts seminars and presents lectures worldwide, and has authored books, chapters, and articles that deal with the Japanese mindscape and intercultural communication with the Japanese. As a visiting professor at the Shanghai University of Foreign Trade, he lectured on Japanese and Chinese mindscapes.Source of the text and picture: http://www.intercultural.org/Connections/Yoshikawa.htm Dr. Muneo yoshikawa is currently professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii. He was invited as one of the speakers for the International Forum 2000 Symposium held at the World Fair 2000 in Germany. The Symposium brought together eminent scientists, philosophers, educators, managers and artists coming from many parts of the world to explore new paradigms of thinking for the 21st century. He presented his theory of integration based on his Mobius integration philosophy. According to his theory of Mobius integration, as the Mobius Ring visually shows, the front side and the back side of the Ring appear divided, but both sides are apparently interconnected, and may be viewed as one and the same. This theoretical model indicates that one is neither this side or that side nor beyond both sides, but one is the between. This position of “between” is , however, not a neutral middle position nor a transcendent position “beyond” nor a mere dialectical (melting) synthesis which lacks a dynamic process, but rather is a dynamic, tension-laden “between” in which there is a constant pull from both sides of the pole. This model signifies the dynamic complementary interplay of two opposing forces, and integrates all the multiple polarities such as yin and yang, man and man, man and the world, man and nature, subject and object, digital and analog, part and whole, mechanistic world view and organic world view, etc. This type of integration may be called an “ identity-in-integration” in which the uniqueness of each is intensified over against the other. This type of integration requires one to hold two paradoxical and contrasting ideas at the same time and, because of this creative tension, one is able to create something anew. This theoretical model of integration was recognized as one of new paradigms for the 21st Century. As a breakthrough thinking model, Dr. Yoshikawa’s theoretical model of integration was recognized as one of the new paradigms for the 21st |
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