Marking its tenth anniversary, The Tokyo Foundation is conducting a series of symposiums to explore diverse aspects of globalization and seek new values to guide us through the current century.
The effects of globalization have made identical products and services available worldwide, and various socioeconomic systems and rules, and even our lifestyles and values, are homogenizing.
There are those who believe that globalization will bring universal development and happiness to all and seek to further advance it, while others are forced into poverty or disadvantage, having been shut off from the blessings of globalization. Meanwhile, there are those who are concerned about the effects that standardization predicated on growth may have on global resources, the environment, unique cultures, and diverse values.
Marking its tenth anniversary, the Tokyo Foundation launched a series of symposiums to explore the possibility of sustaining a diversity of values in the global age. Through 7 symposiums, we investigated how we, humankind, should reconcile globalization with cultural distinctiveness and what sorts of schemes and rules must be generated to that end. Together with the participants, we had opportunities to seek a new democracy, a new market regime, and new systems and rules for the international community that will serve us for the next 100 years.
