Masayoshi Ohira (1910-1980), Prime Minister of Japan from 1978 to 1980, was characterized as a prophet of the coming 1980s as well as the 21st century [Kumon 1993]. In 1980, the year of his sudden death during his second term in office, Ohira allowed his advisory group to publish a paper called “The Age of Culture (Bunka no Jidai)”. It was the time, so Ohira recognized, when Japan had caught up with the advanced Western societies in terms of modern economy and technology and was ready to step forward into the course of creative development with a philosophical basis of its own. Ohira also regarded the earth as a single community with growing interdependence, and he insisted in his 1979 statements that the 1980s for Japan would be the age of culture as well as internationalization (kokusaika) [Ohira 1979a, 1979b].