Letters from Readers（Jun.

TRIZ Forum: From Readers
Letters from Readers　（Jun. - Aug. 2018）
Toru Nakagawa
Editor: Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin Univ.)
See Index Page of 'From the Readers' pages
Posted on Oct. 19, 2018

buttons guide you to the pages written in Japanese.

Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Oct. 17, 2018)

This page　’Letters from Readers' is for recording various communications between readers in the world and the Editor, myself. Communications from June to August are recorded here; I am sorry for my so much delay in posting. During this period I was working mostly for promoting the WTSP project and for preparing my paper on Principal Contradiction of Human Culture. There are many individual communications concerning to the WTSP promotion, but they are not open here.

List of Letters from Readers (and from the Editor):

May 19, 2018	---------------------------------------	Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" ---------------------
May 21, 2018	Toru Nakagawa --> Many TRIZ Colleagues in the World, and in Japan	THPJ Update Announcement (WTSP letter; Letters from Readers (Jan. - May, 2018))
Jun. 25, 2018	---------------------------------------	Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" --------------------
Jun. 26, 2018	Toru Nakagawa --> Many TRIZ Colleagues in the World, and in Japan	THPJ Update Announcement (Liberty vs. Love and Ethics (2C)(2D), WTSP Appeal)
Aug. 14, 2018	-------------------------------------	Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" --------------------
Aug. 14, 2018	Toru Nakagawa --> Many TRIZ Colleagues in the World, and in Japan	THPJ Update Announcement (Liberty vs. Love and Ethics (2D), (3))

Index of ''From the Readers' pages

Japanese page

Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" 　May 19, 2018

WTSP Letter: For Forming WTSP Teams to Build WTSP Catalog in Each Country (Toru Nakagawa) ;
WTSP Organization: List of current Members, and the WTSP organization are posted ;
TRIZ Forum: Letters from Readers　（Jan. - May 2018）: Starting the World TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP)

   Toru Nakagawa ==> Many TRIZ Colleagues in the world    "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Updated May 21, 2018

"TRIZ Home Page in Japan" has been updated last night in English and Japanese pages.
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

[1] WTSP Letter: For Forming WTSP Teams to Build WTSP Catalog in Each Country (Toru Nakagawa)

A WTSP Letter was sent on Apr. 24 to about 100 TRIZ leaders in the world for asking for their support to the WTSP project. We are at the stage of finishing the preparation and starting the actual work of building the WTSP Catalog, but our WTSP project is still very small and weak for carrying out the actual work. Voluntary cooperative work are urged not only to the TRIZ leaders addressed but also to any TRIZ practitioners and TRIZ learners.

In summary, the current jobs for us to do in the WTSP Project are:
   (a) Please join the WTSP Project by sending your Membership Application Form to Nakagawa.
   (b) Form a team of WTSP Members in your own country; Volunteer to be Country Editor.
   (c) Record the Internet survey of TRIZ sites in your country and list the sites.
   (d) Write down introductions to the TRIZ sites one by one in your own language first.
   (e) Collect the manuscripts and make a Catalog of TRIZ-related sites in your country, in your own language first.
   (f) Make a Catalog of selected TRIZ-related sites of your country in English (translation), and integrate it into the World Catalog.
Let’s work Together ! Connected !!

[2] WTSP Organization: List of current Members, and the WTSP organization are posted.

Project Leader: Toru Nakagawa (Japan)
Global Co-editors: Darrell Mann (UK), Michael Orloff (Germany), Simon Dewulf (Australia), Simon Litvin (USA) (under invitation), Valeri Souchkov (Netherlands) (under invitation), (possibly some more persons to be assigned)

[3] TRIZ Forum: Letters from Readers（Jan. - May 2018）: Starting the World TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP)

[English page] Toru Nakagawa (Japan); Alexander Kashkarov (Russia), Shahid Saleem Arshard (Australia), Maksymilian Smolnik (Poland), Juergen Jantschgi (Austria), Sebastian Koziolek (Poland), Simon Litvin (USA), Robert Adunka (Germany), Michael Orloff (Germany), Navneet Bhushan (India), Julian Vincent (UK), Tan Runhua (China), Yury Danilovsky (Korea), Denis Cavallucci (France), Dmitry Kucharavy (France), Roland De Guio (France), Sylvio Silveira Santos (Brazil), Shireen Al - Jaouni (Palestine - Jerusalem)
Starting the WTSP project is the main issue during this peirod. Various trials for building the WTSP Catalog of TRIZ-related sites have been carried out first in Japan, and are reported and demonstrated to many TRIZ leaders across the world. Responses by 17 TRIZ leaders are posted in this Forum page.

[Japanese page] Toru Nakagawa; Administrator of 'Idea Generator', Chiharu Fukuda
Reports and announcements of WTSP, especially the output 'WTSP Catalog of 92 TRIZ-related sites in Japan (in Japanese)', are sent to many readers of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan". Communications with two blog site owners are recorded.

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Please take a look at 'WTSP Catalog of TRIZ-related Sites in Japan' (in English): http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eWTSP/eWTSP-Outputs/eWTSP-D-jp-Japan/eWTSP-D-jp-Japan.html
It is not just a list of TRIZ links, but a large catalog of TRIZ-related sites, where individual sites are introduced closely with respect to their history, structures, features, noteworthy articles, etc. It introduces 24 selected sites closely and 68 more sites briefly. There are a lot of sites, which are active, unique, instructive, well-thought, high-quality, theoretical, practical, case studies, tool-based, business-oriented, etc. etc.
There could be many more wonderful sites in your country, and certainly much more excellent sites over the world. We wish to learn such accumulation of knowledge and activities in the field of TRIZ and related methodologies through the WTSP Catalog.
Let's work Together!, Connected!!
Best wishes, Sincerely, Toru

Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" 　Jun. 25, 2018

Paper: 'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics'at the Personal Level　（C) (Toru Nakagawa, ETRIA TFC2017) ;
Paper: 'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics'at the Personal Level　(D)　（Toru Nakagawa, TRIZ Home Page in Japan)
Memorial of Mr. Masatoshi Hotta (Toru Nakagawa, Ellen Domb) ;
WTSP Appeal: An Appeal for Building Catalogs of TRIZ-related Sites in the World (WTSP Global Co-editors: Toru Nakagawa (Japan), Darrell Mann (UK), Michael Orloff (Germany), Simon Dewulf (Australia), Simon Litvin (USA), and Valeri Souchkov (Netherlands))

   Toru Nakagawa ==> Many TRIZ Colleagues in the world    "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Updated Jun. 26, 2018

"TRIZ Home Page in Japan" has been updated last night (dated Jun. 25) in English and Japanese pages.
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

[1] TRIZ/CrePS Paper (Social problem): 'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level　 (C) and (D) Toru Nakagawa

Last fall I presented papers with the same title as shown above at 3 conferences:
    (A) Japan Creativity Society Conf. (Sept. 9-10, Yokohama),
    (B) Japan TRIZ Symposium (Sept. 21-22, Tokyo), and
    (C) ETRIA TFC2017 (Oct. 4-6, Finland).
(A) and (B) were already posted in my site (Sept. 28, 2017).

(C) has been officially published by ETRIA (Mar. 18,2018) as:    Nakagawa, T., 'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level. Journal of the European TRIZ Association, INNOVATOR, ISSN 1866-4180, 02/2017 Volume 04, pp. 97-104 . http://www.etria.eu/innovator/ETRIAjournal2017vol04.pdf . In "TRIZ Home Page in Japan", I am now posting a link to the PDF shown above and the paper and the presentation slides in HTML and in PDF .

(D) is an Extended paper in Japanese published in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan", Jun. 25, 2018. Just after the JCS Conf., I extended the paper (A) by adding much discussions, and submitted it to the Journal of JCS. But I received a rejection reply in January, mainly because of not enough reference to preceding works on Ethics. I revised the paper further in January and in February, but the review process was not opened again.
Presenting my basic hypotheses thoroughly is important at this stage, I think, I am publishing the Extended Paper (D) here in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan". English translation is not ready, but the headings of the Discussion section are shown in the brief note in English.

[2] Memorial of Mr. Masatoshi Hotta (Toru Nakagawa)

Mr. Masatoshi Hotta, the former Managing Director of Japan TRIZ Society, has passed away on June 8, 2018.
In 1997, leading a department in Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI), he started to introduce TRIZ into Japan in contract with Invention Machine Corp. He organized users group and users Consortium, and held study meetings every month and completed the Japanese Edition of IM TechOptimizer software, thus contributed much to the dissemination of TRIZ to industries in Japan.
He was also involved actively in organizing and managing Japan TRIZ CB and NPO Japan TRIZ Society, serving as the Managing Director. At the end of 2012 he quitted his consulting firm SKI and resigned from management of JTS.
We remember him with his strengths in organization and practices and his warm heart of accepting people. In memory of Mr. Masatoshi Hotta we have a memorial page here. Please send us information of him and your messages for him.

[3] WTSP Appeal: An Appeal for Building Catalogs of TRIZ-related Sites in the World
(WTSP Global Co-editors: Toru Nakagawa (Japan), Darrell Mann (UK), Michael Orloff (Germany), Simon Dewulf (Australia), Simon Litvin (USA), and Valeri Souchkov (Netherlands), Jun. 25, 2018

While the activities and accumulated knowledge of TRIZ and relavant methodologies become larger and larger, Internet search for them comes more difficult because of so much noise. In order to solve such a difficulty, we propose to build Catalogs of TRIZ-related Web Sites in the world. We had a prototype in 2008 and have recently demonstrated WTSP Catalog of TRIZ-related Sites in Japan. On the basis of these experiences, we are going to form a WTSP team in every country and build WTSP Catalog of each country and then of the World.
Why don't you join WTSP? Could you please post this Appeal (in PDF, attached) in your own Web site and forward it to your colleagues, as a sign of your support for the WTSP project?
Best wishes, Toru

Update of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" 　Aug. 14, 2018

Paper: 'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level (D)　( Toru Nakagawa, TRITRI Home Page in Japan) in English translation
Paper: ‘Liberty vs Love’ and Ethics: Principal Contradiction of Human Culture and Solution Directions　（Toru　Nakagawa, ICCI2018)
Sofware: Fuda-Memo is Open for Public Use: A Simplififed Fuda-Yose Software without using Excel　（Akihiro Katahira ('Daiichi Kousha' )）

   Toru Nakagawa ==> Many TRIZ Colleagues in the world    "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Updated Aug. 14, 2018

TRIZ Home Page in Japan" has been updated today (dated Aug. 14) in English and Japanese pages. http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

[1] TRIZ/CrePS Paper (Social problem): 'Liberty vs. Love': The Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2) The 'Liberty vs. Love' Contradiction and 'Ethics' at the Personal Level,　(Toru Nakagawa)
(Extended Paper: (2)(D)) "TRIZ Home Page in Japan", in Japanese (Jun. 25, 2018). full English translation (Aug. 14, 2018).

Just after the JCS (Japan Creativity Society) Conf. 2017 I extended the paper in Proceedings by adding much discussions, and submitted it to the Journal of JCS. But I received a rejection reply in January, mainly because of not enough reference to preceeding works on Ethics. I revised the paper further in January and in February, but the review process was not opened again.
Since presenting my basic hypotheses thoroughly is important at this stage, I think, I have decided to publish the Extended Paper (D) in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan". The paper in Japanese was published on Jun. 25, 2018. Full English translation version is now posted (Aug. 14, 2018)

Its Discussion section has following sub-sections:
    6.1 Contributions of the Creative Problem Solving Methodology (TRIZ/CrePS);
    6.2 Verifications of problem situations, relevant references, and hypothesis setting;
    6.3 Structure and significance of the Basic Hypotheses;
    6.4 Possibility of Common Basis of Ethics in Human Culture;
    6.5 Significance and influences of the First Principle Liberty: Reformism and conservatism;
    6.6 Significance, influences, and limitations of the Second Guiding Principle Love: Reformism and conservatism;
    6.7 Social roles of the 0th Guiding Principle Ethics;
    6.8 Factors which make the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture 'Liberty vs Love' even more difficult to solve.

[2] TRIZ/CrePS Paper (Social problem): ‘Liberty vs Love’ and Ethics: Principal Contradiction of Human Culture and Solution Directions　(Toru　Nakagawa)
Paper to be presented at ICCI2018 (International Conference on Creativity and Innovation) to be held by JCS on Sept. 10-12, 2018, Osaka.
In English page, Abstract only is posted. (Full paper will be posted after the Conference). In Japanese page, Japanese translation of Abstract, Discussions, Conclusion, and References are posted (Aug. 14, 2018)

The main purpose of this paper is to respond the referees' comments on my previous paper shown above [1]. Having studied several books in Ethics closely in Japanese, I now have confirmed my understanding that the Basic Hypotheses postulated in the present study are quite different from vaious preceeding works in reference and provide with new aspects and theory of significant importance.

The Discussion section has the following subsections:
    7. Discussion: Implications of the present Hypotheses in Comparison with the conventional/standard theories of Ethics and Philosophy'.
    7.1 What is the real root of the directions of Ethics ?;
    7.2 Nature of Ethical Principles/Rules;
    7.3 Comments on modern Ethics, especially on Utilitarianism;
    7.4 Liberty vs Love Contradiction in place of Sidgwick’s Dualism of Practical Reasoning;
    7.5 Discussion on Rawls’“Principle of Justice”;
    7.6 Liberty, Equity, and Fraternity;
7.7 Concepts of Good and Happiness in the Present Study.

Section 7.7 says:
In the present study, concepts of Good and Happiness were not defined initially. And finally we reached a definition: Good is the 'overall direction' guided by the three Principal Guiding Principles of Human Culture, i.e., deepening the 0th Principle Ethics, extending the 1st Principle Liberty, and universalizing the 2nd Principle Love, together. The three Principal Guiding Principles form a system to guide Human Culture in a consistent and compatible way and yet facing with intrinsic contradictions on the way of their application to various situations. Any part of the system is NOT regarded as Good. Thus, Liberty itself is not Good, Love is not Good, Ethics is not Good, but Liberty, Love, and Ethics Together is Good.

[3] Sofware: Fuda-Memo is Open for Public Use: A Simplififed Fuda-Yose Software without using Excel 　(Akihiro Katahira) (in Japanese)

The author is a unique thinker in creative problem solving and the developer of Fuda-Yose Tool, which Nakagawa used much for Visual Thinking on social problems. Fuda-Memo software is another simple, nice, and useful software for Visual Thinking.

Best wishes, Toru