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Among the factors that determine the fate of an organization exposed to competition, this course focuses on excellent leaders, who must have strategies defined by the five P (Plan, Pattern, Position, Perspective, and Ploy) as the necessary condition and APEC (Aspiration, Philosophy, Ethics, and Commitment) as the sufficient condition.

The purpose of this seminar is to examine various policy issues from a bottom-up approach known as “case studies”. By looking into each individual within his/her “everyday life” context, one can see how that individual life is constructed in a large whole, a community and/or society, where s/he belongs, which in return helps generate feedbacks to the existing policies. The two concepts that the seminar focuses on include “risk” and “everyday life”. While “risk” as a concept has received considerable attention from different disciplines, “everyday life” is usually taken for granted and treated more as a descriptive term, rather than an operational concept. However, without understanding what constitutes one’s “everyday life”, we fail to see that people’s thoughts and behaviors are in fact subject to changes, if and when there is a change in their physical and social environment. However, these changes may not necessarily alter the consistency in the way people live, and reflect the values s/he attaches to his/her life, for which s/he may change his/her behaviors upon situations.
Case Study, with aides from different tools from cognitive sciences, psychology, behavioral theories, and narratives, would provide a “thick” description of people’s actual living in his/her everyday life in order to understand why s/he behaves the way s/he does and where s/he needs facilitation from the environment in order to act efficiently in the face of risks. Throughout the semester, 1) the students will be provided with “concept” reading materials for discussions on Risks, decision making (behavioral economics) theories, field approaches, and research-problem definition; 2) the students will have opportunities to “get their hand dirty” by participating in two ongoing projects: School Space for Handicapped children in Vietnam; 3) the students are required to examine their everyday life through "blogging" as an intellectual exercise; and 4) The students are encouraged to develop their own topics on “risks in life.” Given this overall topic, the seminar will draw on advice from Dr. Michio Umegaki, Professor Emeritus, a Political Scientist, and the former President of Human Security Association of Japan.
Keywords: Risks, Everyday Life, Policy Analysis, Decision Making theories, Narratives, Case Study

The purpose of this seminar is to examine various policy issues from a bottom-up approach known as “case studies”. By looking into each individual within his/her “everyday life” context, one can see how that individual life is constructed in a large whole, a community and/or society, where s/he belongs, which in return helps generate feedbacks to the existing policies. The two concepts that the seminar focuses on include “risk” and “everyday life”. While “risk” as a concept has received considerable attention from different disciplines, “everyday life” is usually taken for granted and treated more as a descriptive term, rather than an operational concept. However, without understanding what constitutes one’s “everyday life”, we fail to see that people’s thoughts and behaviors are in fact subject to changes, if and when there is a change in their physical and social environment. However, these changes may not necessarily alter the consistency in the way people live, and reflect the values s/he attaches to his/her life, for which s/he may change his/her behaviors upon situations. Case Study, with aides from different tools from cognitive sciences, psychology, behavioral theories, and narratives, would provide a “thick” description of people’s actual living in his/her everyday life in order to understand why s/he behaves the way s/he does and where s/he needs facilitation from the environment in order to act efficiently in the face of risks. Throughout the semester, 1) the students will be provided with “concept” reading materials for discussions on Risks, decision making (behavioral economics) theories, field approaches, and research-problem definition; 2) the students will have opportunities to “get their hand dirty” by participating in two ongoing projects: School Space for Handicapped children in Vietnam and Communities under Volcanic Risk (Fuji-san area, Japan); 3) the students are required to examine their everyday life through "blogging" as an intellectual exercise; and 4) The students are encouraged to develop their own topics on “risks in life.” Given this overall topic, the seminar will draw on advice from Dr. Michio Umegaki, Professor Emeritus, a Political Scientist and the former President of Human Security Association of Japan.
Keywords: Risks, Everyday Life, Policy Analysis, Decision Making theories, Narratives, Case Study

The lab endeavors to make a critical shift away from the industrial paradigm of Product-in Trash-out (PiTo), to a Data-in Data-out (DiDo) model through digital design and locally-based manufacturing. We embrace strategies in circular systems in economy and supply-chain, and digital innovation in 3D+ design and manufacturing. We foster collaboration between the global fab-city network and many actors, sectors and creators, in Japan and beyond.

This lecture handles several issues on Japanese language education as a second language.
In April 2019, the revised immigration law was enforced to promote a system where more international workers could stay in Japan. Additionally in June 2019, the law promoting Japanese language education was enacted in order to support foreigners living in Japanese society. This lecture focuses on understanding the current state of the Japanese language education and the state of those who need such education in Japan, it’s recent history, and what the future holds.
Moreover, students will understand the features of the Japanese language, and learn the skills and attitudes of controlling their Japanese language usage to pursue better communication with various Japanese speakers including Japanese-non-native speaker.

This course is about techniques for preparing and making academic presentations. Students are introduced to practical strategies that help strengthen their ability to communicate in a convincing manner. The course is taught in English. Its language components are speaking, listening and open discussion.
The course uses a step-by-step method that goes from simple and short speeches to the ones that are more technically and academically advanced. Discussions that follow presentations are an important part of the course; and they play a role in the overall grading.
The course will use a hybrid system of both face-to-face and online sessions. For sessions on campus, students are encouraged to take measures for preventing the spread of Covid-19. The sessions will still be streamed through Zoom for those outside of the campus. For online sessions, students who happen to be on campus can use the appointed classroom for attending the class.

This course is about academic presentation techniques. The course introduces students to practical strategies that help strengthen their ability to make impact-lasting presentations. The course is taught in English; and its language components are speaking, listening and open discussion.
The course uses a step-by-step method that goes from simple and short speeches to the ones that are more technically and academically advanced. Brief discussions sessions that follow presentations are an important part of the course; and they also play a role in the overall grading.

Marketing Communication / Local Design
We explore communication strategies for consumers and organizations on a variety of topics in the fields of marketing communication and Local Design. Research projects based on the student's theme, as well as original business contests in collaboration with companies and organizations.
(1)Research project based on the theme of the student
We continue to develop projects that utilize advanced, large-scale marketing data provided by companies and organizations with which we have partnerships.

【Marketing Communication】
(a) SFC's Marketing and Promotion strategy
(b) Digital Marketing Strategy
(c) Business Branding
(d) Marketing of Inovation
(e) Social Media Marketing
(f) Social Listening and Mining

【Local Design】
(a) Regional revitalization
(b) Tourism business
(c) Advertisement business

Students will work in one of the above project teams and spend a lot of time. Design the plan, and struggle with the data,discuss with team members,and make presentations. Moreover, our Lab is managed by students, so during the class, you need to participate.
(2)Unique business competitions in partnership with companies and organizations
In collaboration with companies and organizations, we will conduct our own business competitions to address actual problems. During the business competition,we propose new ideas to solve the problem.
Examples of past practice:
(a) Marketing strategies for the museum
(b) Product marketing strategies of chemical manufacturers.
(c) Sales strategies of cosmetic manufacturers
(d) Growth strategies for beverage manufacturers.
(e) New route development for airline companies

Marketing Communication / Local Design
We explore communication strategies for consumers and organizations on a variety of topics in the fields of marketing communication and Local Design. Research projects based on the student's theme, as well as original business contests in collaboration with companies and organizations.
(1)Research project based on the theme of the student
We continue to develop projects that utilize advanced, large-scale marketing data provided by companies and organizations with which we have partnerships.

【Marketing Communication】
(a) SFC's Marketing and Promotion strategy
(b) Digital Marketing Strategy
(c) Business Branding
(d) Marketing of Inovation
(e) Trend Analysis
(f) Natural Language Processing
(g) Social Media Marketing
(h) Social Listening and Mining

【Local Design】
(a) Regional revitalization
(b) Tourism business
(c) Advertisement business

Students will work in one of the above project teams and spend a lot of time. Design the plan, and struggle with the data,discuss with team members,and make presentations. Moreover, our Lab is managed by students, so during the class, you need to participate.
(2)Unique business competitions in partnership with companies and organizations
In collaboration with companies and organizations, we will conduct our own business competitions to address actual problems. During the business competition,we propose new ideas to solve the problem.
Examples of past practice:
(a) Marketing strategies for the museum
(b) Product marketing strategies of chemical manufacturers.
(c) Sales strategies of cosmetic manufacturers
(d) Growth strategies for beverage manufacturers.
(e) New route development for airline companies

In this course, students will learn basic epidemiology, health policy and health communication. Epidemiology is "the study of how disease is distributed in populations and the factors that influence or determine this distribution" and the goals are preventing diseases, enhancing healthy life and quality of life.
By the end of the course, students will acquire the knowledge on basic research design, causal inferences, and ability for logical thinking.

The benefits of learning cognitive science and related academic fields are not only to be able to understand human mental processes and behaviors scientifically, but to help create effective solutions to various problems in modern society and industry.
This course aims to learn the essential literacy to apply such knowledge effectively and creatively to solve real-world problems that you will face in the future.

In this year’s course, we will focus on four topics from numerous studies related to cognitive science:

(1) Visual Perception,
(2) Affordances and Signifiers, and
(3) Decision-Making and Cognitive Biases.

I will explain the theoretical foundations of each topic, and then we will review and discuss the usefulness and the issues of their practical applications, especially in the fields of design and marketing, with the help of case studies.


We will review and discuss Dark Patterns and their potential problems from the viewpoint of cognitive science



This course particularly welcomes students who have a strong interest and passion for practical applications of academic knowledge.

　The world’s nations face rapid aging, and in Japan’s unprecedented super aging society, 30% of the population will be 65 or older by 2030, rising to 40% by 2055. The world’s eyes are upon Japan to see how we handle this situation. Publicly-financed medical care costs exceed 33 trillion yen, and are climbing by one trillion yen annually. I believe that this severe crisis presents itself, on the contrary, as an opportunity to share our accumulated know-how with the global nations in similar straits. The average human lifespan in Japan is 80.9 years, 74.5 of them lived in reasonable health, leaving 6.4 years spent in a bedridden or similar state. Approximately 66% of lifelong medical expenses occur after age 60, with about half remaining after age 70, and some 20% occurring during the final year of life. However, recent research suggests that medical care costs do not expand with a longer life; in fact, healthy longevity sees across-the-board decreases in medical care costs. In other words, achieving healthy longevity not only results in a better QOL (quality of life) for the vital individual and family, but also positively impacts rising publicly-financed medical care costs.

We overview differential and integral calculus learned at high school. Our aim is to generalize these to functions of several variables. For functions with one variable, first we extend the concept of tangent (linear approximation) to the theory of Taylor (polynomial approximation). As an application, we can solve the extreme problem in detail. For functions of several valuables, derivative is called partial derivative. We extend the theory of Taylor and the extreme problem to functions with several variables. Moreover, we consider integral of functions of several variables, which is called multiple integral. By using this we can obtain volume and area of high dimensional objects.