Satoshi Hara, born in Japan in 1947, studied international law at Kyoto University, Japan, and joined the Japanese foreign services. He continued his studies at Christ Church, Oxford. As a diplomat, he has traveled widely, serving in UK, Canada, South Africa, Kuwait, Malaysia, and he was Japan's Ambassador to Brunei and Portugal. He has visited some eighty countries in the world and his experiences have given him an understanding of just how different Japanese values are from others. Over the course of time his studies in Japanese values and the way of thinking have culminated in writing this book. He believes the expansion of Japanese values will have an important role to play in the pursuit of creating a truly peaceful and harmonious world. Hara now teaches diplomatic history and cross-cultural studies at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.