Mikio Matsuoka

Present Positions

Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy

Director, the Institute of Oriental Thought

Professor, Higashi Nippon International University

Fields of Research

Social Philosophy

Buddhist Philosophy

Academic Societies

Japanese Association for Religious Study

Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies

Education

The University of Tokyo, Ph.D. in Social Science Studies (2004)

Main Publications

• Nichiren Bukkyō no shakai shisōteki tenkai : kindai Nihon no shūkyōteki ideorogī (University of Tokyo Press, 2005 )
• “The Buddhist Concept of the Human Being: From the Viewpoint of the Philosophy of the Soka Gakkai,” The Journal of Oriental Studies 15 (2005): 50-65.
• “Kitaro Nishida’s A Study of Good and Contemporary Environmental Ethics-Through a Comparison with Deep Ecology,” The Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Philosophy 15 (1999): 45-67.
• A Vision of 21st Century Oriental Thought: From the Symposium Cosponsored by the Daisaku Ikeda Research Society of Beijing University: The Buddhist Concept of the Human Being: From the Viewpoint of the Philosophy of the Soka Gakkai (2005).