This paper analysed the nature of autonomy, in particular respect for autonomy in medical ethics/bioethics in Japan. We have undertaken a literature survey in Japanese and English and begin with the historical background and explanation of the Japanese word Jiritsu (autonomy). We go on to identi...
What Do We Know? Yuhan Rui 1, Dafang Fu 1, Ha Do Minh 2, Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan 2,* ID , Chris Zevenbergen 2 and Assela Pathirana 2 ID 1 School of Civil Engineering, SEU-Monash Joint Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Southeast University (SEU), Nanjing 210096, China; rui...