The following four points are critical for children to live in the modern international community
where globalization is advancing; (1) Respect each other, (2) Accept cultural diversity, (3) Live
independently, and (4) try to realize “Symbiosis”. Symbiosis in terms of international understanding
can only be realized by interactions among the people who have different cultures in their daily
lives.
This means that we need to interact with the people who have differences not only in races
or nationalities, but also in cultural backgrounds and life backgrounds, to recognize each other,
and to deepen each other’s understanding. This also overlaps with the philosophy of law-related
education, which trains to think proactively, and to live better together with the people who have
different opinions.
This paper shows the legal framework “Intellectual Tool” to be used in cross-cultural
interactions and the perspectives to be used whenever children need to think how to interact with
different cultural people.
This also shows the criteria to judge among “individual case”, “public case”, “important case”,
and “non-important case”, and has developed a class where children can acquire an attitude and
capability to establish a good relationship with people with diverse cultures.