In the spring of 2015, two doctoral graduate students—Shibly Shahrier from Bangladesh and Raja Timilsina from Nepal—arrived at the Kochi University of Technology. Their advisor, Koji Kotani, is one of Japan’s leading researchers in experimental economics and development economics. Shahrier was doing his Master’s thesis on the damage caused by a cyclone in Bangladesh, and Timilsina was doing his on an emissions trading experiment in Nepal. Both students said that although not many people in their hometowns behave as Western-style economic models assume, it would not be possible to write a thesis without using such an economic model. When I explained to them the details of Future Design and the intergenerational sustainability dilemma experiment, their eyes lit up. They empathized with the idea of aiming to build a sustainable society by changing the way people think. They also thought that there were other ways to move forward besides massive investment of resources, modernization, and accelerated growth as in Europe, the U.S., and Japan, and that perhaps there might be clues in concepts such as “imaginary future people” and “imaginary future generations.”