Japanese and East Asian values as alternative world views with an orientation to plurality of meanings of life in the informatized era: the cultural-ethical traditions behind East Asian people’s evaluation on human-robot-interaction, privacy-related problems, AI, Technologies

• The informatization of society creates serious problems such as loss of face-to-face communication, capital concentration, and technological determinism.
• Japanese and East Asian evaluation of technologies like AI, robots, and privacy issues is deeply influenced by traditional cultural-existential perspectives such as Seken, Ba, and Aida.
• Empirical research data show strong statistical correlations between people's views on a virtuous life and their ethical evaluations of care robots, autonomous driving machines, and privacy.
• Alternative worldviews focusing on ontology and the plurality of meanings of life offer a framework to overcome the narrow eyesight of techno-determinism.
• Robots and technologies are often perceived in Asian contexts as entities integrated into a broader cultural and existential life sphere rather than purely objective tools.

· Introduction
· Japan’s crisis due to the informatization
· Seken, Ba, Aida and Japanese cultural traditions
· Seken or Japanese Ba in the information Era
· Research findings on Japanese views and Asian people’s views on Seken-related meanings
· Where does the crisis in Japan come from?
· Conclusions