Empathy for the Japanese, empathy ranks high among the virtues considered indispensable for one to be really human, morally mature, and deserving of respect. Empathy refer to the ability and willingness to feel what others are felling, to vicariously experience the pleasure or pain that they are undergoing, and to help them satisfy their wishes. Kindness or benevolence becomes empathy only if it is derived from such sensitivity to the recipient’s feeling. The ideal in empathy is for ego to enter into Alter’s kokoro, “heart,” and to absorb all information about Alter’s feeling without being told verbally. Empathy takes several forms.