This plenary lecture addresses concepts of Hitozukuri and Monozukuri, centuries’ old philosophy deeply rooted in Japanese culture to respectively addresses educating human to be a responsible individual who can lead the world to a better place and making things with excellence, skills, spirit, zest, pride, and more. Hitozukuri and Monozukuri are the philosophy to seek balance and harmony with nature, where integration and synthesis play a key role than specialization and analytical skills. This lecture is intended to address a possibility to create win-win philosophy by harmonizing the eastern thinking and the western thinking in education and research in the global world where we live now.