JFS Newsletter No.74 (October 2008)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/mailmagazine/newsletter/pages/028542.html

Takashi Umehara, born March 20, 1925, is one of Japan's most prominent philosophers. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, at Kyoto University, majoring in western philosophy, and he has studied the depth of Japanese culture, centering on Japanese Buddhism.

He is now a professor emeritus at the Kyoto City University of Art, and also serves as an adviser to the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. He is also a recipient of Japan's Order of Culture.

About Takeshi Umehara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umehara_Takeshi

Umehara has been vocal on environmental issues. This essay is a summary of his remarks at a lecture in Osaka in September 2008.

(Note that this summary is based on the author's own notes taken during the lecture, and the author takes responsibility for its content.)

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