Morimichi Kato is an emeritus professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and a former professor at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. For the past 10 years, his research activity has been centred on the comparative study of the Western and the Far Eastern philosophy of education. Kato was a former editor-in-chief of Studies in the Philosophy of Education, The Philosophy of Education Society of Japan and a former editor-in-chief of the E-Journal of Philosophy of Education (International Yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society of Japan).
