The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Moral Education

The fourth industrial revolution may have less welcome consequences with the social, political, cultural, and economic upheavals. to cope with their associated problems in japan in the years ahead, the japanese cabinet office has proposed a new concept, “society 5.0”, and has tasked the ministry of culture, sports, science and technology to support this policy in the education sector, with a focus on “strengths as human beings” as one of the key policy concerns. the nurturing of such human strengths, however, belongs primarily to the field of moral education rather than that of new technology. hence there is plenty of room to expand the japanese concept of society 5.0.