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Environmental issues have been recognized as global risks, and risks such as climate change, water, food crises, and resource depletion have become reality. The purpose of this lecture is to understand the actual situation and background of the growing environmental issues, to know the trends of domestic and foreign policies, and to acquire a basic perspective on how to realize a sustainable world. In classes, you will also learn the importance of understanding actual data and events and grasping things from a medium- to long-term perspective.

This is an introductory course on evidence-based policy with a focus on health. The focus of this course will be on how to read or analyze evidence. Strengthened "evidence literacy" should enable you to contribute to (health and social) equity, through policies, program and project management and communication. The course is also recommended for those designing or working on their graduation projects.

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.

This course examines the challenges of current Japanese politics,and explores solutions.
We will consider some points, such as the relationship between politics and bureaucracy, politics and industry, electoral system and the reality of election campaign.
At the same time, we will discuss how to shrink the distance that lies between the politics and the people.

This course aims to introduce the fundamental theories of administration for local governance. It also follows the latest local government studies not only in Japan but also around the world. The instructor will discuss the contemporary issues of local governance with students, including the role of administration, the differences between public organizations and private firms, decentralization, local government performance, the role of citizens, and digital-era governance.

Japan's laws and ordinances constitute the legal system of vast spreading hem with the Constitution as the highest regulation at the top. It is important to understand the basic principle and interpretation of the Constitution, since various laws and regulations have been enacted based on the Constitution which is the highest law in the country of law. In this lecture, we acquire the necessary legal thinking for social life through the mechanism of human rights protection in the Constitution.

Japan's laws and ordinances constitute the legal system of vast spreading hem with the Constitution as the highest regulation at the top. It is important to understand the basic principle and interpretation of the Constitution, since various laws and regulations have been enacted based on the Constitution which is the highest law in the country of law. The Japanese Constitution establishes governance from legislative, judicial and administrative authority. In the Constitution (governance), centering on these, we will study about nation and sovereignty.

This course is designed to assist students to explore the structure of Japan’s Companies Act. We mainly focus on the organization of stock companies under Japan’s Companies Act, as well as the essential Japanese corporate matters, establishment, financing, and organizational restructuring. In this course, we use studies about some contemporary
issues such as startups and corporate governance related to overseas subsidiaries.

The purpose of this classis to provide opportunities.to acquire the legal perspective, knowledge, and sense of risk necessary for starting and operating a new business in a start-up, social venture (an organization that aims to solve social issues such as NPOs) or an existing organization. In starting and operating a business, various laws, contracts, regulations, etc. are closely related beyond individual legal areas such as civil law, company law, and copyright law. Since the purpose of the class in Law school or faculty of law is to study "law", classes are held in each specialized field. However, in the actual society, usually, problems in various fields are intricately intertwined. This class is based on the experience of lecturer who has been involved in various businesses as practitioners (lawyers), and provides the legal perspectives that entrepreneurs or those who aim to start new businesses in the future should acquire. We will provide knowledge and sense of risk through discussions, etc. with reference to materials such as lectures by lecturers, securities reports, and fictitious cases. I graduated from SFC and would like to make the class interactive as much as possible.

Administrative law is a legal field that discusses the overall structure of administrative activities and the relationship between the state and the people. How to respond to diverse needs is an issue for administrative activities. Based on this perspective, this lecture aims to understand the basic idea of administrative law.

This is an introductory Microeconomics course.
First we will be looking at consumers and households to study how the demand curve is derived. We then introduce the supply curve, and discuss how markets work. Focusing on equilibrium, we will analyze economic welfare. Then, we will study externalities that a simple demand-supply model fails to take into account. Firm behavior and the organization of industry, in particular, the costs of production and monopoly in the markets are then studied. Finally, the markets for the factor of production, such as labor and capital markets are studied.
Although this course requires some mathematical knowledge, including basic calculus and linear algebra, I will try not to make lectures technical, but rather intuitive.

This course presents theory of microeconomics, focusing on various policy issues that current Japan faces.The course equips students to analyze the Japanese economy comprehensively from various viewpoints.

In this lecture, the students will learn intermediate-level microeconomics. Assuming that introductory-level microeconomics has been already studied, the lecture focuses on the foundations for advanced economic theory. The lecture begins with a review of the scope of microeconomics. The analysis of economic agents engaging in economic activities follows. The model of consumer behavior is presented, which facilitates the understanding of the concept of demand. The lecture moves on to the analysis of firms, another type of players in economic systems, to introduce the concept of supply. Economic transactions are basically the result of balance of supply and demand. A key conception is “equilibrium.” Its implications to social welfare are discussed in detail.

This course aims at promoting basic concepts and theories related to

Introductory Macroeconomics.

This is an introductory Macroeconomics course. Though I assume some students have taken Macroeconomics 1, none of its topics is prerequisite for this course. We will start with a brief review of basics of Macroeconomics that include the measurement of production, income, and expenditure of an economy. Then we will discuss production, growth, consumption, saving, and investment, and the determination thereof. After learning asset market, money, and prices, we will study the AD-AS model and Monetary and fiscal policy. Finally, the short-run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation will be discussed. Although this course requires some (very) basic mathematical knowledge, I will try not to make lectures technical, but rather intuitive.

This course will learn about the recent global issues related to SDGs corporate management and ESG investment.

This is a course on foreign policy analysis, known as FPA. It focuses on policy-making, decision-making and implelemtation of foreign policy, mainly of Japan, but we will compare it with other countries. This course will also examine policy process within the European Union (EU) - particularly, European foreign policy (EFP) - and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).

This course is intended for students who have already completed "Civil Code (General Provisions and Property Rights)" and "Civil Code (Torts and Contracts)" or have equivalent knowledge. We will practice using precedents and case studies.

Using microeconomics and game theory mainly, the public choice explains political phenomena, analyzes interdependence between polity and economy, and clarifies the basis of legal system and social norm. Adopting the analytical methods of microeconomics and game theory here means that the public choice basically depends on the hypothesis that people and organizations behave to maximally achieve their specific objectives under given conditions.

In this lecture, in order to place emphasis on having students understand the basic idea of public choice, we will not carry out detailed technical explanation as a rule. However, because it is necessary to respond well to the intellectual requirements of graduate students, somewhat advanced contents may be included for undergraduates.

The first goal is to understand the fundamentals of microeconomics and macroeconomics that form the basis of economics with certainty. The economic thinking is unexpectedly simple (this can be said for both microeconomics and macroeconomics), students will acquire representative analytical techniques such as constrained maximization (minimization) and comparative statics.

Then, when viewing the real economy, it is the second goal to get a first understanding of what points to focus on and how to use theoretical tools. Also, I would like to mention the latest topics within the scope of time.

This course deals with corporate finance (sometimes called financial strategy or financial management theory). The objective of this course is to master financial strategies from a management perspective, based on the knowledge acquired in "Business Analysis". This course is designed to provide students with the minimum knowledge and skills necessary to work in investment banks, consulting firms, corporate planning departments, financial strategy departments, management levels, and boards of directors.

This course is aimed to learn the basics of risk management and insurance economics.
Appropriately managing risk increases the utility of individuals and firm value.
This decision-making process is "risk management."
There are many financial instruments for risk management such as insurance, annuities, and derivatives, provided by insurance companies and financial institutions, regulated by the authority.

Theories of international relations are discussed.

This class will be conducted in Japanese. Please refer the Japanese page.

The objective of this course to understand how to apply the economic theories and econometrics methods in analysing education and human capital accumulations in developing countries.