Toru IWAO

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The Sincere Civilization Paradigm

A New Framework of Human Society — Future Built on Sincerity

With inquiry and exploration as keywords, I am researching human resource development, organizational learning, and community building through well-being. My core interest is transforming “inarticulate discomfort” into questions, and updating society and systems to become self-correcting through a cycle of inquiry → hypothesis → verification → reflection.

I have also conceived the Well-being Continuity Platform (WCP), which expands the concept of BCP from “business continuity” to “people continuity,” and am exploring the creation of a society of integrity (Society 6.0), learning platforms, and new forms of higher education.

Self-Introduction

Toru Iwao

Self-introduction

Working from sincerity (Sincerity), inquiry (Inquiry), and ethical coherence (Ethical Coherence), I connect the concept-to-implementation pathway for Society 6.0 as a self-correcting civilizational design. Using SBEF (an ethical design framework that makes sincerity auditable) as the basis for ethical operation, I translate consensus-building, social contract, governance, compliance, and AI/data governance into operable design. Concretely, I use intuitive AI + xAI, SCWEI, SBEF, EBPM, PLATEAU, and related methods to visualize value, side effects, evidence, and fairness across domains, enabling policies and on-the-ground decisions to become self-correcting. My integrated themes span education/inquiry/assessment design, career and hiring, team and talent development, regional revitalization, power resilience, BCP→WCP, circular economy (waste, recycling, LCA), and environment/energy.

Founder of the Sincere Civilization Paradigm
Sincere Civilization Architect
Philosopher of Sincere Intelligence
Systems thinker / Interdisciplinary researcher
Working on the Sincere Civilization Paradigm and Society 6.0

Introduction

Toru Iwao is an interdisciplinary systems thinker and researcher exploring how sincerity, inquiry, and ethical coherence can serve as design principles for a humane, transparent, and self-correcting civilization.

He proposes the Sincere Civilization Paradigm—a civilizational framework that places sincerity, rather than mere efficiency or growth, at the structural core of societal evolution. Within this paradigm, Society 6.0 functions as a working name for a dignity-centered society capable of continuous self-correction.

His research focuses on sincerity-oriented institutional design, empowerment-based governance, and measurement-enabled approaches such as WEI and SCWEI to evaluate procedural capacity, institutional resilience, and alignment with public value. He also develops and applies ethical foundations for AI and governance, including SBEF (aligning Truth / Intention / Action / Trust), alongside methods for anticipatory decision-making, transparency-by-design, and evidence-informed policy.

He further studies continuity design beyond traditional BCP, proposing WCP (Well-being Continuity Platform) as an evolution toward “continuity of people and life,” and explores inquiry-based learning ecosystems, community innovation, and governance architectures that integrate foresight and measurable accountability.

Note: This website presents public-facing conceptual overviews of the work. It does not disclose unpublished data, algorithms, or technical methods currently under peer review.

Research Keywords

Place-based community innovation, learning platforms, future higher education
Sincerity / integrity-by-design, ethical coherence
Inquiry cycles: Question → Hypothesis → Verification → Reflection
Governance architecture, social contract, consensus-building
Composite indicators: WEI, SCWEI; measurement-enabled policy evaluation
Anticipatory decision-making, transparency-by-design, EBPM
AI ethics & governance (SBEF), xAI and accountability
BCP → WCP (Well-being Continuity Platform), continuity of people and life

Origin

I want to design a civilization in which people can live with dignity—grounded in sincerity, inquiry, and ethical coherence.

Centered on sincerity, I want to help society self-correct through:
Question → Hypothesis → Verification → Reflection,
and to implement a humane and transparent civilizational system (Society 6.0) across education, organizations, communities, infrastructure, and AI.

Overview

Society 6.0: a self-correcting society
Sincerity: operating trust, accountability, and alignment between words and actions
Inquiry: updating learning and institutions through Question → Hypothesis → Verification → Reflection
Ethical Coherence: reducing contradictions among values / rules / technology / behavior
SBEF: an ethical design framework that makes sincerity auditable (Truth / Intention / Action / Trust alignment)
SCWEI: an indicator concept that integrates acceptability, well-being, social contract, and agency—operated to enable self-correction
WCP: Well-being Continuity Platform (extending BCP toward “continuity of people”)
Implementation toolkit: intuitive AI, xAI, WEI, EBPM, PLATEAU, data science, etc. to visualize value, side effects, evidence, and fairness

What I’m always thinking about

Integrated Knowledge | Society 6.0, Sincerity, Future Society

Society 6.0 — What is a self-correcting society?
What is sincerity? — Aligning truth, intention, action, and trust
SBEF — A sincerity-centered ethical design framework
SCWEI — A social indicator to operate “acceptability” with sincerity at its core
AI and society — Who governs technology, and how?
Mapping the future — Why “being human” is questioned more as technology advances
Designing society with well-being × empowerment × fairness

Civilization, Electricity, and Infrastructure History | Civilization theory / the current war / standardization

Civilization and electricity — How invisible infrastructure shaped the world
The current war — How technology, capital, and public perception decide the outcome
Edison vs. Tesla — Who decides the “winner” of technology?
Standardization — A technical decision or a social contract?
Why civilization fails, and how it can self-correct (designing self-correction)

Philosophy and Science | Civilization theory / quantum & philosophy / decision-making

Philosophy and science — Why they split, and why they must reconnect
Question, hypothesis, verification — Why the scientific method is strong
Decision-making under uncertainty — How to choose without “the correct answer”
Quantum mechanics and philosophy — What is observation? What is reality?
Can scientific thinking support democracy?
Can consensus be built through philosophy and science?

Science Communication | Bridging story, media, and learning

Can science become a story? — Designing curiosity while reducing misunderstanding
Breaking the “illusion of understanding” — Iterating intuition and verification
Implementing scientific literacy — The interface of education and media
Translating STEM thinking into language that truly lands

Inquiry & Education | Active learning / inquiry assessment / inquiry burnout

Facing questions without a single correct answer
Inquiry-based approach — Observe → Notice → Hypothesize → Test → Reflect
Active learning: the essence and limits — designs that work vs. fail
The structure of inquiry burnout — why it happens / how to prevent it
Beyond impressions — building evidence, reasoning, and reflection
Designing inquiry assessment — balancing fairness and acceptability
Assessment reshapes learning — indicators and learning behavior

Making Inquiry Visible | Accreditation / certification / third-party evaluation

Can inquiry capability be measured? — designing accreditation and certification
Third-party evaluation of inquiry — balancing fairness and acceptability
Certification transforms education — connecting learning to society
Governance of inquiry evaluation — transparency, accountability, and trust

Parenting & Pathways | Home and school through an inquiry lens

Parenting through inquiry — raising grades or raising question-power?
Pathways through inquiry — what to design before choosing a school
Dialogue at home — nurturing the habit of verification
Learning and job search through inquiry — turning learning into capability

Dreams, Purpose, and Career | Life as “research”

How do we find a dream? — Is it wrong not to have one?
Connecting what you like, what you’re good at, and what society needs
What does it mean to work? — Updating your worldview of work
Life as research: Question → Hypothesis → Verification (career design)

Blue-Collar Millionaire / Craft-Based Career

Blue-Collar Millionaire — building a life through technical skills
Skill is the strongest capital and the engine of innovation — revaluing making
Kaizen as inquiry — work becomes research
Breaking the white/blue collar binary — what society truly needs

Job Hunting & Hiring

The essence of job hunting — choosing an employer as a social contract
The essence of hiring — what we see and what we miss
What is agency? — detect / develop / evaluate
The structure of mismatch — linking hiring and development through evaluation design

Organizations, HR, Talent Development | Team building / psychology / well-being

A self-correcting organization — PDCA that works vs. PDCA that breaks
When evaluation systems damage organizations — why good intentions backfire
Psychological safety and performance — not “kindness,” but learning capacity
Team building — design principles behind strong teams
Talent development is environment design, not only skill training
Designing organizations with well-being and empowerment

Governance & Compliance | Internal control / accountability / audit

What is governance? — activating governance on the ground
Why compliance becomes hollow
Compliance is not morality — incentives, systems, and evaluation design
Organizational bottlenecks — how “system holes” break organizations
Accountability and transparency — from “said/didn’t say” to evidence-based explanation
Making sincerity auditable with SBEF — defining and operating integrity
Data/AI governance — who is responsible for what?
Governance × consensus — decision-making as a social contract

Consensus and Social Contract | “How we decide” in a polarized era

Why consensus is hard — designing decision processes
Can the social contract be updated?
From “more transparency” to “better dialogue” — rebuttal, revision, reflection
Embedding self-correction into institutions — legitimacy recovery and recurrence prevention

Community / Place-making / “Thing-making”

Can dialogue change society?
Can communities be designed? — building relationships and mechanisms
Philosophical dialogue in the city
Learning “how to sustain a place”
How to make things happen — build small, grow, and scale

City Design & Regional Revitalization | Two-base living / relocation / “a place you want to return to”

Why regional revitalization is hard — conditions for success and failure
Two-base living as a strategy — connecting cities and regions
Can relocation succeed? — designing life, work, and relationships
Designing an attractive city people want to return to
Creating regional circulation through community and infrastructure

Environment & Energy Policy | Intuitive AI / xAI / SCWEI / SBEF / EBPM / PLATEAU

Evaluating policy with intuitive AI + xAI — one-view of value, side effects, and evidence
Operating acceptability with WEI — households, industries, and regions on one map
Always-on EBPM — Observe → Notice → Verify → Reflect
PLATEAU linkage — visualizing regional differences and causes to strengthen consensus and accountability
Deciding the energy mix — acceptance, reliability, stability, and fairness
Electricity markets and tariffs — for whom is the system designed?
Reliability and grid stability — prioritizing resilience investments
Public transit × energy — linking demand management, urban policy, and corridor value
Statistics and ABM — understanding markets and demand/supply; counterfactual comparisons for evidence

Power Resilience & Disaster Response

Power resilience and disaster response — designing protection against outages
Critical facilities, regional bias, restoration priority — deciding with fairness
Prioritizing resilience investment — agreeing on what we protect

BCP → WCP | Continuity design (WCP = Well-being Continuity Platform)

BCP is not “disaster prevention” — designing continuity
WCP — implementing continuity of people (keeping life/organizations/communities going)
BCP × WCP — optimizing critical operations and life continuity together
Crisis decision-making — scenario comparison and operating self-correction
Exercise-based: redesigning how your organization/region “stops” (table-top simulation)

Waste Management / Recycling / Circular Economy | Environment / ecosystem / LCA

Waste management as a social contract — who bears costs and who benefits?
Why recycling doesn’t “turn” — a design problem beyond sorting
Circularity doesn’t run on goodwill — incentives, pricing, and institutions
Resilience of reverse logistics infrastructure — disaster waste and recovery design
What is “environment”? — ecosystems as relationships
Urban metabolism — seeing cities through material circulation
LCA basics — verifying whether “good” is truly good
Beyond carbon — evaluating side effects with LCA
Lifecycle optimization — connecting design, procurement, production, logistics, and recovery

Railways and Public Transit | City value, publicness, energy linkage

How railways change cities — corridor value and publicness
Public transit and regional revitalization — mobility reshapes life
Public transit × energy — linking urban policy and infrastructure

Engineering & Making | Electricity / mechanics / metalworking / power / quality

Making supports civilization — field inquiry changes society
Electricity, mechanics, metalworking — the essence of technology is reproducibility
What is quality? — it is ethics and trust
Scientific kaizen — data + hypotheses for improvement
Reframing power systems as the “blood vessels” of civilization

Data Science | Evaluation / policy / organizations / society

Can data science make people happier?
Indicators are worldviews — what you measure decides the future
Modeling society — statistics, ABM, scenario comparison
Can AI question its own assumptions?
Operating AI ethics — connecting SBEF to governance

Space | A space lens on civilization, energy, resilience

Viewing civilization from space — infrastructure, energy, survival strategy
Social design in the space era — what counts as “public”?
What extreme environments teach resilience — redefining disaster readiness on Earth

This framework can also expand into combinations such as: civilization history × governance / inquiry × career / power resilience × city design / BCP→WCP × circular economy × consensus, etc.

Roles / 役割

1. Philosopher of Sincere Intelligence（誠実知の哲学者）

誠実性（Integrity）と問い（Inquiry）を結びつけ
人間が「どう誠実に考え、どう誠実に応答するか」を探究
哲学・認知科学・教育・倫理を横断した「思索の領域」

2. Sincere Civilization Architect（誠実文明アーキテクト）

社会OS、都市、制度、公共AI、レジリエンスの設計
誠実性に基づく社会アーキテクチャの再構築
Society 6.0、FELIXモデル等の文明設計思想の開発（※概念レベルのみ記載）

3. Founder of the Sincere Civilization Paradigm（誠実文明パラダイム創始者）

誠実 × 問い × 共鳴 × 社会OS に基づく新しい文明理論
人類の次の社会モデルの「構造」を提示
工学・倫理・思想・社会科学を統合した独自のフレーム

Research Themes / 研究テーマ

1. Sincere Civilization Paradigm

誠実性・制度的整合性・問いの文化を、文明の基盤とする新しい概念モデル。

2. Sincere Intelligence（誠実知）

自分と他者と社会に誠実であろうとする知性。探究・倫理・意味理解を統合する新しい知性概念。

3. Social Systems Architecture

交通、エネルギー、教育、福祉、医療など、社会システム全体の構造を、誠実性・信頼・透明性で再設計する理論研究。

4. Institutional Integrity & Ethical Governance

説明責任、応答責任、透明性、信頼構造など、公共・行政・組織の倫理と制度設計。

5. Inquiry-Based Learning & Civic Capability

問い（Qchain）を中心にした探究文化、市民が学び続ける社会の構造。

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Mission / 使命

To articulate how sincerity, inquiry, and ethical coherence can serve as guiding principles for designing humane, transparent, and future-ready civilizational systems.

誠実性・問い・倫理的整合性を軸に、「人が尊厳ある状態に生きられる文明」を設計する。

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