Please note that in November 1997 the Centre for Asian and International Bioethics was established in Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The background to this idea, and that of a Senpo Sugihara Asian Bioethics Centre is below.
The idea of the Chiune (Senpo) Sugihara Asian Bioethics Centre was proposed publically in November 1994 by Frank J. Leavitt, Ph.D., in the Eubios Ethics Institute Newsletter 4 (November, 1994) 72-73. It was updated in January 1995. It was most recently updated in 2000. At the end of May, 1995, members of the Israeli embassy staff in Japan announced a proposal for a Chiune (Senpo) Sugihara Life Science Research Centre at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, to business groups in Japan. It was reported in the media, and generated interest. A new building was planned, but no further work has been reported to date.
International Planning Board of the Senpo Sugihara Asian Bioethics Centre:
Prof. Jayapaul Azariah, Ph.D. (University of Madras, India)
Prof. Jochanan Benbassat, M.D.(Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba,
Israel)
Prof. Norio Fujiki, M.D. (Fukui Medical School, Japan)
Frank Leavitt, Ph.D. (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel)
Darryl Macer, Ph.D. (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Masahiro Morioka (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto,
Japan)
Prof. Pinit Ratanakul, Ph.D. (Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Eitan Shmuel (Kibbutz Lotan, Israel).
Prof. Tomio Tada, M.D. (University of Tokyo, Japan)
For further
information contact:
Dr. Frank J. Leavitt
The Faculty of Health Sciences
Ben Gurion Univeristy of the Negev
P.O.B. 653, 84105 Beer-Sheva, ISRAEL
Home Tel/Fax: Int+972-2-9963048
OR:
Darryl Macer, Ph.D.
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Science City,
Ibaraki 305, Japan
Fax: Int+81-298-53-6614
Tel: Int+81-298-53-4662
Email: D.macer@unescobkk.org
Further background paper by F.J. Leavitt,
"Neshama and Inochi as bases for Israeli-Japanese bioethical
communication," pp.62-77 in Bioethics for the People by the People, Christchurch and Tsukuba, Eubios Ethics Institute,
1994.