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　　Our project is a platform where you deepen your investigation to write graduation thesis, it is never a place in which you passively listen to lectures by teachers. That is the bottom line you must understand before participating our project. And you must fix your specific study case before participate our project.

A Our interests

　　Mainly we are interesting in three domains:

　Studies on China (A in the following figure) 　Studies on civil society or the third sphere in various areas in the world (B in the following figure) 　Studies on civil society or the third sphere in China (C in the following figure)

　　My personal study case is 3, but aspects of civil society or the third sphere are global or universal to some extent, for example, Japan also faces some problems concerning civil society, for example, grass-roots movement against nuclear power, government's new policy on national security and the new US-base in Okinawa in these days. Now I will introduce the background and basic concepts concerning such problems to help you to understand our project.

B "Official = public, non-official = private" is misleading.

　　For long time, people have thought that only "official" can be "public", while "non-official" can be only "private". However do our government and government officials really pursue public interests ? For example, do Japanese "independent administrative agencies" exist only for our public interest ? We know government offices do never give up any part of their power, is it for people or for themselves ? To put it the other way around, is "non-official" really "private" ? For example, NGOs are not government official organization. but they always assert their non-profit and "public" characters. National governments will not give up their antipersonnel mines for so-called "national interests", while NGOs demand to discard them for more public interests like human rights. It seems that "non-official" sphere has two faces like Janus: market as a purely private sphere and civil society or the third sphere as a public sphere. In other words, "non-official" sphere can be new "public" while as opposed to the old "public" represented by "official".

C The risk of delegation

　　We often hear someone on TV-shows or newspapers says "What are our administrative agencies doing ? How useless they are!" after a lonely child killed him/herself who had been suffered at the hands of his/her rough schoolmates for a long time or a lonely old man/woman had been left in his/her room for a long time after his/her death. In middle ages, most of welfare was provided by religious organizations like christian churches or Buddhism temples. They took care of homeless people, refugees of disasters, poor people suffered from sick and so on. And you should be also a believer of such religions in this ages. Your conscience would feel serious challenge from God or Buddha when you met such poor people. God or Buddha would ask you why you would not help those poor people in spite of wonderful grace and love from Jesus or Buddha. You had to respond this question, because it was responsibility. But we are very easy today. You can pass all buck to your government, because you are taxpayer and responsibility belongs only to your government in modern secular states. You can ask your government, just like God or Buddha who asked you a serious question in middle ages, whether it will fulfill its responsibility as a public servant or not. In other words, you can delegate responsibility to government and government officials today. However is it delegation of responsibility or delegation of self-determination ? Is it liberation of your conscience or nationalization of your conscience by your government ? A lot of people will pretend not to see the latter answers and make themselves consider the division of roles between government and society as wonderful progress. This is why we are often deceived by an illusion like "official = public, non-official = private". We can develop "new publicness" only when stop such delegation, recover our self-determination to participate public affairs, and recapture our conscience.

D For good life

　　New "public" is also skeptical about market. It want to overcome mammonism and materialism to pursue "good life". Market often hates voluntary labor, because such labor cannot be valued in money. Temples in some countries of South-east Asia are built by people without any expense, because the people believe such labor is service for Buddha, voluntary labor for Buddha is pleasure for them. But in Japan, Miyadaiku(carpenters who make or repair Japanese traditional palaces, shrines and temples) are engaged in construction of temples. They are professional, highly paid craftsman, of course their labor is not free (it can be valued in money). From this point of view, we can say Japan is more secular and more capitalistic than those countries in South-east Asia. In other words, Japanese temples can make a contribution to GDP growth. The labor of Japanese housewives is, however, absolutely voluntary and free. Their labor is completely for their family they love. Such love will seriously disappoint market and capitalists, because it cannot be valued in money, it is meaningless for GDP. So the more capitalistic Japanese political leaders are, the more obvious palaver is given to housewives by the leaders. The leaders will say with smile: "Women have huge potential power, they should enter professions. Household affairs can be left in the charge of housekeepers. Childcare can be left in the hands of babysitters." It is a wonderful idea for the capitalists, isn't it ? Women who have abandoned household affairs can make a great contribution to GDP growth, because their labor in offices can be valued in money, and so, it is taxable. The labor of housekeepers and babysitters is, of course, also taxable. This is why the political leaders in the capitalistic states hates voluntary labor like housewives' household affairs. However, can religions which can be valued in money really make you happy ? Are children who babysitters take care of really happy ? It seems that GDP growth may or may not provide "good life". New "public" sphere is a place in which we can think and discuss about such questions. We need new "public" sphere as the third sphere, because both of the first sphere (official institutions like government) and the second sphere (market) are all too capitalistic.

E The society which rejects facile delegation to government and market

　　In other words, we can say new "public" is a sort of attitudes which rejects facile delegation to government and market. In China after CCP's socialism revolution in 1949, actors in the civil society like NGOs and religious associations were dissolved or condemned by Mao Zedong, his Party (CCP) and his government, only "public" represented by government completely overwhelmed Chinese society. In this age, Chinese people had given up their self-determination and their consciences had been nationalized. But from 1980's to 1990's, Deng Xiaoping left Chinese society in the charge of market under the cloak of "socialism with Chinese characters（有中国特色的社会主义）".Chinese society vacuumed by Mao Zedong has been occupied by mammonism and materialism brought by Deng Xiaoping.

　　Many people remember Adam Smith as the author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). But we must also remember that he wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). He knew that wholesome market needed good moral sentiments and an active civil society. But people whose consciences are nationalized and lost self-determination cannot verify the morality of their market, and so cannot win the temptation of mammonism and materialism. Only people who keep their consciences and self-determination can verify system: government and market. Hence not only wholesome market but also political democracy are hopeless for Chinese people to accomplish, at least in the next two or three decades, I think. Some ask me whether China can change into a democratic state or not. My answer is YES, but there are important preconditions: Chinese people must recover their consciences and self-determination in their own civil society, and this process will spent a long time. Civil society, which is independent of government and market, will make Chinese people a chance to reconstruct their "public" sphere and participate new movements in which people struggle to resolve serious problems, for example, environmental pollution, infringement of human rights, gap between the rich and the poor and so on. This is why I focus on the growth of Chinese civil society. Of course, the recovery of civil society is very important not only for China bu also for the other countries and areas.So we will accept students who want to study civil societies, NGOs or other associations in the other countries or areas.

　　Our project is suitable for students like:

a. ones who will study Chinese society. b. ones who will study social thoughts of religions in any country or area. c. ones who will study NGOs or other associations as actors of civil society.

If you have any question, you can write an e-mail to tjm@sfc.keio.ac.jp. Only English, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese are available.

We humans are moving from our birth. By moving our body, we can see, touch, fell the world. Also, by moving our body, we can express ourselves and communicate with others. As such, our bodily movements are essentials for our life. In this course, by regarding our body and brain as a system, we are aiming to accumulate basis of humans, and reconsider our own health, by learning mechanisms behind our bodily movements.

This is a graduate-level course taught in English. The focus of the course is on the design, practice, and analysis of survey fieldwork, mainly in Asia and mainly in developing countries. The objective is to enable graduate students to do Master's-level surveys and fieldwork as a major input to their theses.
Overview and Pathway:
Students should consider the following: How are we to survey and understand the impacts that modernization and development programs have produced on the natural environments and the populations of developing countries? How do we base participatory and sustainable development must be based on accurate knowledge of the daily practices, needs and skills of the local area and its ecology?

GIGA students (or English speaking students) are welcome to join to the seminar. The main working language of this seminar is Japanese. However, students are also encouraged to make presentations, join discussion, write reports in English as well (semi-bilingual environment). Be aware that basic understanding of Japanese language will be recommended to fully participate in this seminar.

The seminar "International Security and Global Governance" (A-type/4 credits) aims at enhancing the understanding of contemporary international politics and security in the world through examining theories, policy frameworks and practices. Students are required to proactively pursue your own research agenda, participate in the crisis simulation exercise, contribute in group-works, and write a term research paper.

The international system has undergone significant changes. 15 years ago (around 2003), when the United States was recognized as “unipolar moment”, main subjects of international security are interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as international coordination on counter-terrorism. The globalization and deepening economic interdependence created notions for regional integration in Europe and Asia.

However, with the global shift of distribution of power, the United States no longer maintains unipolar structure. The rise of China challenges the existing region and global order. Middle East is in mess. The momentum of European integration has largely been waned as the result, but not limited to, of the Brexit. Geopolitical and historical tensions still linger in Northeast Asia.

We are now entering in the era where we need to change the prism/framework of looking into the world and regional affairs. Examples include: 1) from US-centric power and order to multi-actor equilibrium, 2) from traditional deterrence to multi-layered anti-access and denial, 3) from ‘legacy’ military capability to high-tech, cyber, and space technologies, 4) from liberal international order to non-liberal state capitalism, 5) redefinition of ‘global commons’ (maritime order, cyber and space). This seminar will grapple squarely with emerging agendas that we face in 2010s and 2020s.

Below are examples of themes for the ‘group-work’ for this semester:
The rise of China and the change of international system
North Korea’s nuclear and missile developments
Current trends of international terrorism
The agenda for peace-building

Social Produce in the Society5.0

Social Produce in the Society5.0

Social Innovation　
Theory　　　Value
Lecture by Inspiring Social Innovators
Create social innovation plan

Project structure in the information society is changing radically. Today, we have to start up various projects with social significance under the progressively diversifying sense of values. This class aims to master news way to create project through practice.
Firstly, we will deepen the understanding of information editing, gathering, investigation, evaluation, articulation, synthesis and expression. Then, we will understand the process of grasping total trend such as historical background and social background, vivifying awareness of the problem as the person concerned, gathering various features such as needs and new seeds of specific community, and creating new trends and practices by putting together those features. By utilizing these frameworks and developing projects, we aim to brush up practical skills

New Business Creation Workshop
Lecture about methods to create new business plan,
Stakeholder Mapping, Core Issue Mapping, Chronology, Social Resources, SWOT analysis
Creat new business plan by yourself
Presentation and Counlutation

This is an active course where you practice your communication skills in English. This course is opened to all students who wish to improve their speaking, writing, and reading skills. The course introduces you to African social and economic activities.

This course is designed to help students improve their oral communication skill necessary for the TCF (Test de connaissance du français) or various interviews. In these types of communication, it is important to understand speakers correctly, and also to express your own opinion clearly and logically with appropriate vocabulary. Furthermore, it is desirable to be acquainted with current topics and cultural issues. In this course, the focus will be put on these aspects in order to develop students’ oral communication skill. N.B. This course is open to all students who satisfy the requirement a) or b) if they do not plan to take the TCF.

NPO/NGO and Social Business in Japan originate from the volunteer movement in the Hanshin-Awaji great earthquake in 1995. The situation surrounded by NPOs in Japan has been changed since then. The activities have been diversified and empowered (influential) not only in the field of disaster relief but in the field of community design, human service and new business development. Social entrepreneurs and social business, CSR, social consumption and dynamic collaboration beyond sectors have been occurred for these years.

What is in common is that these activities in public aspect have been done based on the principle of networking and making community, and the significance has been more important to solve the various social issues.

In this seminar, you will learn the current situation, challenges, significance and possibility of the activities in "social sector" with the theoretical and practical approach. Group work (project) and individual research will be proceeded in parallel. You will discuss the theme and the case in group work and will put together what you learn in a paper as a graduation thesis.

NPO/NGO and Social Business in Japan originate from the volunteer movement in the Hanshin-Awaji great earthquake in 1995. The situation surrounded by NPOs in Japan has been changed since then. The activities have been diversified and empowered (influential) not only in the field of disaster relief but in the field of community design, human service and new business development. Social entrepreneurs and social business, CSR, social consumption and dynamic collaboration beyond sectors have been occurred for these years.

What is in common is that these activities in public aspect have been done based on the principle of networking and making community, and the significance has been more important to solve the various social issues.

In this seminar, you will learn the current situation, challenges, significance and possibility of the activities in "social sector" with the theoretical and practical approach. Group work (project) and individual research will be proceeded in parallel. You will discuss the theme and the case in group work and will put together what you learn in a paper as a graduation thesis.

This research seminar deals with contemporary issues discussed in political and moral philosophy. In general, this branch of philosophy is interested in normative topics, not so much on what “is”, but rather on what “ought to be”. For example, since the times of Ancient Greece, political philosophy has been defined as the quest for the best regime. It addresses the question of what the ideal political regime ought to be. This seminar focuses on normative themes treated by contemporary philosophical theories.
Please note that this seminar is mainly for advanced students who prepare their graduation project 1 and 2, and who undertake individual research projects.

This research seminar deals with basic issues discussed in political and moral philosophy. In general, this branch of philosophy is interested in normative topics, not so much on what “is”, but rather on what “ought to be”. For example, since the times of Ancient Greece, political philosophy has been defined as the quest for the best regime. It addresses the question of what the ideal political regime ought to be. This seminar focuses on political and moral themes from philosophical perspectives.
※ ”Class Format (Online/On campus) is subject to change due to various circumstances. Please check emails regularly for future updates via SOL.

This research seminar deals with contemporary issues discussed in political and moral philosophy. In general, this branch of philosophy is interested in normative topics, not so much on what “is”, but rather on what “ought to be”. For example, since the times of Ancient Greece, political philosophy has been defined as the quest for the best regime. It addresses the question of what the ideal political regime ought to be. This seminar focuses on normative themes treated by contemporary philosophical theories.
Please note that this seminar is mainly for advanced students who prepare their graduation project 1 and 2, and who undertake individual research projects.

This research seminar deals with basic issues discussed in political and moral philosophy. In general, this branch of philosophy is interested in normative topics, not so much on what “is”, but rather on what “ought to be”. For example, since the times of Ancient Greece, political philosophy has been defined as the quest for the best regime. It addresses the question of what the ideal political regime ought to be. This seminar focuses on political and moral themes from philosophical perspectives.
※ ”Class Format (Online/On campus) is subject to change due to various circumstances. Please check emails regularly for future updates via SOL.

Our brain and body are always interacting each other by sending information named "neural signals", and being essentials for our movements and sensations. In this seminar, by considering the brain and body as a system, we are trying to learn the control and learning mechanisms of our bodily movements and to understand the secrets and essentials of humans from physiological and/or psychological points of view.

Our brain and body are always interacting each other by sending information named "neural signals", and being essentials for our movements and sensations. In this seminar, by considering the brain and body as a system, we are trying to learn the control and learning mechanisms of our bodily movements and to understand the secrets and essentials of humans from physiological and/or psychological points of view.

This course is designed to help students become proficient in expressing and responding to opinion in discussions. There will be a lot of opportunities to practice inquiring and making suggestions as well so that at the end of the semester, students can confidently express and present opinions with another English speaker. Basic presentation skills will also be taught and practiced in class.

Entertaining and informative, the third edition of All About the USA 3 features thirty units about American people, places, and events. Readers expand their knowledge of the USA as they explore fascinating topics ranging from Henry Ford and the White House to baseball and body language. [From the back cover of the book]

This course will focus on various elements (food, music, holidays, famous artists and inventors, etc.) of American culture. We will use All About the USA 3: A Cultural Reader (2008) by Milada Broukal and Peter Murphy as a springboard into deeper discussions about the US lifestyle and how it compares to life in Japan. Students should be the driving force of these discussions. Enthusiastic class participation is expected. There will be weekly homework based on the textbook material, a midterm presentation, and a final presentation. Students will choose an aspect of American culture (not mentioned in the textbook) to introduce to the class in each presentation.

Students must buy the book (available at Keio Co-op Fujisawa store) for this course.

Students learn techniques and skills to enable them to successfully deliver presentations to audiences in English. We focus on presentation formats including; objects, processes and problem & solutions. Students focus on delivery, research and multimedia use. They are introduced to public speaking and learn how to suitably address groups, use non-verbal communication, project the voice and logically structure presentations. Subject to approval, students choose their own topics-the only stipulation is that all topics must have some connection to relevant global issues and specific reference must be made the United Nation’s Sustainable Developments Goals. During the semester there are two group presentations and one individual presentation. At the end of the course, students should be able to give well structured, media assisted presentations in English.