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The twenty-first century is still the century competing globally for energy. One of our main missions would be to recreate much more clean and efficient new energy systems to sustain the future society, which could also show us a possible scenario for leading modern energy revolution on the earth.
We are now witnessing the emergence of high-performance battery in our society, whose paradigm shift of electricity reservation could bridge and make information and energy united together to finally establish highly-integrated information-energy networks. We could not imagine yet how far this dizzy paradigm shift could bring us, meanwhile, it would certainly impact our society irreversibly to create utterly new artifacts far beyond our current imagination to form pieces of “the future battery society” to come.
We sincerely wish we could envisage this new concepts and a taste of the future through this unique series of lectures.
The course consists of 3 parts: （1）Basic knowledge of the SDGs/ESG, （2）Financial organs and their practices towards the SDGs/ESG, （3）Developing the index of the SDGs.
（1）Basic knowledge of the SDGs/ESG:
Students learn the rudiments of the SDGs/ESG. For example, we will explore their concepts, history, the work being done by Japan and other member states, and how to acquire abilities in order to create and achieve a sustainable society.
（2）Financial organs and their practices:
Students will receive hints in order to make the SDGS index by learning the practices being conducted by economic organs for the SDGs/ESG, by listening to experienced guest speakers.
（3）Developing the SDGs index:
Students will develop the SDGs index to bring to leaders who will make and accelerate the inflow of investment money towards the SDGs/ESG.
In September, 2015, at the 70th United Nations General Assembly, member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The agenda explains the need for not only the government, but also for the private sector and civil society to mobilize all their available resources in order to achieve the goals.
In 2006, the United Nations proposed the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The organization appealed to institutional investors that it is necessary to incorporate environment (E), society, (S), and government (G) into the investment processes. As a result, interest in global sustainable investment (ESG investment) has increased worldwide, and expected to further accelerate in trend. In Japan, for example, the GPIF (Government Pension Investment Fund) signed with the PRI in 2015. This suggests that interest in sustainable investment has increased among investors.
In response to this growing interest, an inflow of investment money is required from the financial market to businesses that are aiming to achieve the SDGs. Therefore, indicators that measure information about sustainability and ESG factors play an important role in this process. In other words, it is important that we develop a standardized index of the SDGs that express what it means to promote and progress within the goals.
The aim of this seminar is to foster students' abilities of creating and accelerating the inflow of investment money for the SDGs/ESG. It is especially key that we are educating the generation who will be the main societal actors in the year 2030, which is the target year for achieving the SDGs. In particular, students will be creating an index that measures the SDGs for companies and businesses by observing lectures and case studies.
Today in the 21st century, the convenience of automobile transportation to human society is enormous, and there can be no society without automobiles. On the other hand, the effects of traffic accidents and social losses, which have increased with the spread of automobiles, are unacceptable problems. In recent years, the interest in safety and security has been increasing worldwide, and the purpose is to deepen the understanding of the field in the wake of traffic safety.
It is over 3 decades since SFC was established, and now so many almni so far. It is essential for us to persue how SFC should be and which direction we should be heading for. It is also preferable that local people, in additon to SFC students, almni, faculty menbers to observe and to reconstract SFC with local community. The first objective of this course to clarify the method and the logic which sill support the academic value of SFC. The second objectives is to find the way or to find the solutions to realize sustainable collaboration between studuents, local people, and almni. We do our best to create a sustainable network between SFC Mita Community and SFC faculty memebers and rennovate and attractive and sustainable style for the future. Since 2019, "Forest of Minerva" has been offered to SFC students in collaboration with many SFC almni for 4 years. Fortunately students who took the course have been so motivated by and satisfied with the course and have received the request from them to continue the renovated course for the next 30 years to come.
sfc. And the second objective is to create the method to realize a sustainable collaboration and to create a model as a team of almni, local people, students, faculty. Since 2019, we offered a course, "This course is designed for all the almuni, SFC, locality, all the memebers related to SFC to collaborate, and create sustainable future together as sustainable campus + local communities.
Today in the 21st century, the convenience of automobile transportation to human society is enormous, and there can be no society without automobiles. On the other hand, the effects of traffic accidents and social losses, which have increased with the spread of automobiles, are unacceptable problems. In recent years, the interest in safety and security has been increasing worldwide, and the purpose is to deepen the understanding of the field in the wake of traffic safety. One of the features of this course is to acquire practical knowledge such as factory tours of seat belts and child seats, introduction of advanced research, and introduction of international cases. The theme is not limited to traffic safety, but I would like to introduce the corporate management of Takata Corporation, which has grown from a venture to a global company.
The course consists of 3 parts: （1）Basic knowledge of the SDGs/ESG, （2）Financial organs and their practices towards the SDGs/ESG, （3）Developing the index of the SDGs.
（1）Basic knowledge of the SDGs/ESG:
Students learn the rudiments of the SDGs/ESG. For example, we will explore their concepts, history, the work being done by Japan and other member states, and how to acquire abilities in order to create and achieve a sustainable society.
（2）Financial organs and their practices:
Students will receive hints in order to make the SDGS index by learning the practices being conducted by economic organs for the SDGs/ESG, by listening to experienced guest speakers.
（3）Developing the SDGs index:
Students will develop the SDGs index to bring to leaders who will make and accelerate the inflow of investment money towards the SDGs/ESG.
In September, 2015, at the 70th United Nations General Assembly, member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The agenda explains the need for not only the government, but also for the private sector and civil society to mobilize all their available resources in order to achieve the goals.
In 2006, the United Nations proposed the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The organization appealed to institutional investors that it is necessary to incorporate environment (E), society, (S), and government (G) into the investment processes. As a result, interest in global sustainable investment (ESG investment) has increased worldwide, and expected to further accelerate in trend. In Japan, for example, the GPIF (Government Pension Investment Fund) signed with the PRI in 2015. This suggests that interest in sustainable investment has increased among investors.
In response to this growing interest, an inflow of investment money is required from the financial market to businesses that are aiming to achieve the SDGs. Therefore, indicators that measure information about sustainability and ESG factors play an important role in this process. In other words, it is important that we develop a standardized index of the SDGs that express what it means to promote and progress within the goals.
The aim of this seminar is to foster students' abilities of creating and accelerating the inflow of investment money for the SDGs/ESG. It is especially key that we are educating the generation who will be the main societal actors in the year 2030, which is the target year for achieving the SDGs. In particular, students will be creating an index that measures the SDGs for companies and businesses by observing lectures and case studies.
It is over 3 decades since SFC was established, and now so many almni so far. It is essential for us to persue how SFC should be and which direction we should be heading for. It is also preferable that local people, in additon to SFC students, almni, faculty menbers to observe and to reconstract SFC with local community. The first objective of this course to clarify the method and the logic which sill support the academic value of SFC. The second objectives is to find the way or to find the solutions to realize sustainable collaboration between studuents, local people, and almni. We do our best to create a sustainable network between SFC Mita Community and SFC faculty memebers and rennovate and attractive and sustainable style for the future. Since 2019, "Forest of Minerva" has been offered to SFC students in collaboration with many SFC almni for 4 years. Fortunately students who took the course have been so motivated by and satisfied with the course and have received the request from them to continue the renovated course for the next 30 years to come.
sfc. And the second objective is to create the method to realize a sustainable collaboration and to create a model as a team of almni, local people, students, faculty. Since 2019, we offered a course, "This course is designed for all the almuni, SFC, locality, all the memebers related to SFC to collaborate, and create sustainable future together as sustainable campus + local communities.
As executives of non-profit and for-profit organizations think about the organization's medium- to long-term strategy, the department that develops the strategy, under the direction of the executives, collects and analyzes the information. For example, in the case of marketing (demand-side data) research, executives may order the marketing department to conduct street research to determine the preferences of the target audience, and the analysis works to uncover the cause-and-effect relationship between "cause and effect". In the late 1990s, the explosive spread of information technology made it possible for individuals to use IT to search and collect information, and organizations could easily accumulate a wide variety of information about their customers, such as their purchase history, as data. And with further advances in information technology in the 2010s, we've been able to keep large amounts of data at a large scale. The infrastructure is being developed to analyze, extract new knowledge and create value. In recent years, these large amounts of data are collectively referred to as big data, and the optimal statistical analysis One of the methods, correlation analysis, which investigates the relationship between two factors, has been used in some cases to make decisions. It's coming. In addition, in May 2013, the government announced the "Creation of the World's Most Advanced IT Nation" declaration as the new IT strategy of the second Abe cabinet regarding open data, which declares that public data held by the government will be provided to the people in a form that can be used for secondary purposes, and aims to realize the creation of new businesses and innovation through public-private cooperation by interconnecting it with data held by companies. Further use of these data is changing the social systems of markets, organizations, citizens and governments. In this course, in order to develop human resources that can respond to the above social systems, we aim to integrate IT, analytics, and design in order to nurture human resources that will lead to the development of data scientists who can conduct research on architects who handle big data and understand information strategies that include systems.
As executives of non-profit and for-profit organizations think about the organization's medium- to long-term strategy, the department that develops the strategy, under the direction of the executives, collects and analyzes the information. For example, in the case of marketing(demand-side data) research, executives may order the marketing department to conduct street research to determine the preferences of the target audience, and the analysis works to uncover the cause-and-effect relationship. In the late 1990s, the explosive spread of information technology made it possible for individuals to use IT to search and collect information, and organizations could easily accumulate a wide variety of information about their customers as data, such as their purchase history. With further advances in information technology in the 2010s, we have been able to keep large amounts of data at a large scale. The infrastructure is being developed to analyze, extract new knowledge and create value. In recent years, these large amounts of data are referred to as big data. One of the optimal statistical analysis, correlation analysis, which investigates the relationship between two factors, has been used in some cases to make decisions. In addition, in May 2013, the government announced the “Creation of the World’s Most Advanced IT Nation” declaration as the new IT strategy of the second Abe cabinet regarding open data, which declares the public data held by the government will be provided to the people in a form that can be used for secondary purposes, and aims to realize the creation of new businesses and innovation through public-private cooperation by interconnecting it with data held by companies. Further use of these data is changing the social systems of markets, organizations, citizens and governments. In this course, in order to develop human resources that can respond to the above social systems, we aim to integrate IT, analytics, and design in order to nurture human resources that will lead to the development of data scientists who can conduct research on architects who handle big data and understand information strategies that include systems.
Today in the 21st century, the convenience of automobile transportation to human society is enormous, and there can be no society without automobiles. On the other hand, the effects of traffic accidents and social losses, which have increased with the spread of automobiles, are unacceptable problems. In recent years, the interest in safety and security has been increasing worldwide, and the purpose is to deepen the understanding of the field in the wake of traffic safety. One of the features of this course is to acquire practical knowledge such as factory tours of seat belts and child seats, introduction of advanced research, and introduction of international cases.
As executives of non-profit and for-profit organizations think about the organization's medium- to long-term strategy, the department that develops the strategy, under the direction of the executives, collects and analyzes the information. For example, in the case of marketing (demand-side data) research, executives may order the marketing department to conduct street research to determine the preferences of the target audience, and the analysis works to uncover the cause-and-effect relationship between "cause and effect". In the late 1990s, the explosive spread of information technology made it possible for individuals to use IT to search and collect information, and organizations could easily accumulate a wide variety of information about their customers, such as their purchase history, as data. And with further advances in information technology in the 2010s, we've been able to keep large amounts of data at a large scale. The infrastructure is being developed to analyze, extract new knowledge and create value. In recent years, these large amounts of data are collectively referred to as big data, and the optimal statistical analysis One of the methods, correlation analysis, which investigates the relationship between two factors, has been used in some cases to make decisions. It's coming. In addition, in May 2013, the government announced the "Creation of the World's Most Advanced IT Nation" declaration as the new IT strategy of the second Abe cabinet regarding open data, which declares that public data held by the government will be provided to the people in a form that can be used for secondary purposes, and aims to realize the creation of new businesses and innovation through public-private cooperation by interconnecting it with data held by companies. Further use of these data is changing the social systems of markets, organizations, citizens and governments. In this course, in order to develop human resources that can respond to the above social systems, we aim to integrate IT, analytics, and design in order to nurture human resources that will lead to the development of data scientists who can conduct research on architects who handle big data and understand information strategies that include systems.
As executives of non-profit and for-profit organizations think about the organization's medium- to long-term strategy, the department that develops the strategy, under the direction of the executives, collects and analyzes the information. For example, in the case of marketing(demand-side data) research, executives may order the marketing department to conduct street research to determine the preferences of the target audience, and the analysis works to uncover the cause-and-effect relationship. In the late 1990s, the explosive spread of information technology made it possible for individuals to use IT to search and collect information, and organizations could easily accumulate a wide variety of information about their customers as data, such as their purchase history. With further advances in information technology in the 2010s, we have been able to keep large amounts of data at a large scale. The infrastructure is being developed to analyze, extract new knowledge and create value. In recent years, these large amounts of data are referred to as big data. One of the optimal statistical analysis, correlation analysis, which investigates the relationship between two factors, has been used in some cases to make decisions. In addition, in May 2013, the government announced the “Creation of the World’s Most Advanced IT Nation” declaration as the new IT strategy of the second Abe cabinet regarding open data, which declares the public data held by the government will be provided to the people in a form that can be used for secondary purposes, and aims to realize the creation of new businesses and innovation through public-private cooperation by interconnecting it with data held by companies. Further use of these data is changing the social systems of markets, organizations, citizens and governments. In this course, in order to develop human resources that can respond to the above social systems, we aim to integrate IT, analytics, and design in order to nurture human resources that will lead to the development of data scientists who can conduct research on architects who handle big data and understand information strategies that include systems.
Students will learn "the art of knowledge compilation" through interactive communications with lectures, guest lectures, and searching and reporting experience based on learning experience from spring semester.
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Facing drastic technological changes in communication, we need to gain editorial skills in compiling and understanding social knowledge in the context of historical and multi-dimensional settings. During nearly 30 years experience, lecturer has worked on numerous social/business/academic topics, interviewed world-class prominent scholars, and developed print/online new media at traditional mass media companies. In this course, lecturer will give you basics of the art of knowledge compilation in the economy and business.
Students will submit reports before or after the lecture. Highly recommend to read books and articles in reading lists.
Excellent students in performance may have a chance to publish byline articles on business media.
The power to compile solid knowledge and shape your life - that's what we're doing. Social media makes individual opinions visible, while we are divided into asymmetrical clusters and bombarded with information that is a mixture of extreme bias and falsehood; AI (Artificial Intelligence) is rapidly evolving and learning large amounts of text online; and the Internet is becoming more and more sophisticated, with the ability to communicate and act on information that is being shared and with others. It is becoming increasingly important for everyone to develop the skills to understand, communicate, and act on the nature of change in the events that occur in society every day.
In this course, students learn to "compile" and apply their own knowledge of trends in economics, business administration, and other knowledge that is becoming useful in the real world. Through assignments, students will increase their thought paths, broaden their perspectives, and comprehensively develop their discernment and expressive abilities.
In addition to lectures and exercises, guest lectures by professionals from Japan and abroad and group work will be interwoven into the program. On the last day of the lecture, Professor Michael Osborne of Oxford University, a world-renowned researcher in the field of machine learning who sparked a worldwide debate in 2013 with his co-authored paper "The Future of employment," which stated that "47% of U.S. jobs will be automated by machines," will be a special guest speaker via Zoom.
The lecturer has gained a variety of experience over the past 30 years as a reporter, author, and editor for national newspapers, economic magazines, English-language media, online media, and books. She has interviewed many of the world's top economists and management scholars, including Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Professor Richard Thaler and world-renowned management expert Professor Michael Porter, and has edited and translated and edited academic articles in the media, as well as translated and subtitled interview videos. He has also translated and subtitled interview videos.
Based on the instructor's extensive and unique journalism experience and network, students will learn the techniques of "knowledge compilation" as a non-professional.
Extremely outstanding assignments will be considered for publication in digital media.
Students will learn "the art of knowledge compilation" through interactive communications with lectures, guest lectures, and searching and reporting experience based on learning experience from spring semester.
The lecturer in charge of this course is an editor and economic journalist who writes columns on economics and management in Nikkei Business and partly works for the policy think-tank, the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). This course is a continuation of the previous semester's 'The Art of Knowledge Compilation - 1'. While the Spring semester focused on input, the Fall semester will include instruction in presentation and writing, so that students can master "the techniques of thinking critically about specialist knowledge and events in their own minds and compiling knowledge" as non-specialists. While the first semester focused on economics and the real world, the second semester will focus on a wider range of problem solving. There will be more group work and exercises than in the previous term. In the second semester, we will continue to invite guest speakers from home and abroad and aim to make the classes interactive. Assignments are given in almost every class.
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Compiling solid knowledge and the power to shape your life - that's what we're doing. While social media "visualizes" individual opinions, it also divides them into asymmetrical clusters and floods them with bias and falsehoods. We need to have the wisdom to think about what is happening behind the scenes. It is becoming increasingly important for everyone to understand, communicate, and acquire the skills to act on the nature of change in the context of daily social events.
In this course, students will learn how to "compile" and utilize such knowledge on their own, based on the basic knowledge of theories and ideas in economics and business administration, which are often discussed in the real world. Through weekly assignments of 300 to 600 words, midterm assignments, and final assignments, students will increase their thought paths, broaden their perspectives, and comprehensively develop their discernment, expressive skills, and ability to summarize findings.
In addition to lectures and exercises, guest lectures by professionals from Japan and overseas and group work will be interwoven throughout the program. On the last day of the lecture, we will invite Professor Ulrike Schade of the University of California, San Diego, who is one of the most detailed watchers of Japanese companies and the Japanese economy in the United States, to give a special lecture on her unique insights into Japanese society via Zoom.
The lecturer has gained a wide range of experience over the past 30 years as a reporter, author, and editor for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Nikkei Business magazine, the English-language media Nikkei Asia, the online media Nikkei Business Online (now Nikkei Business E-edition), and academic books. In the past 15 years, I have interviewed many of the world's top economists and management scholars, including the Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Professor Richard Thaler and the world-renowned management expert Professor Michael Porter. In 2023, I have published three edited volumes based on the economics and business administration interviews I have conducted (see bibliography), including "12 Lessons From The World's Premier Economists", --book review of it has been published in the weekly Toyo Keizai (Toyo Keizai Shinposha), the weekly The Economist (Mainichi Newspapers), and the Seikyo Shimbun (Seikyo Newspaper).
Based on the instructor's extensive and unique journalism experience and network, students will learn "knowledge compilation" techniques to look at society as a non-professional.
This class explores how Shakespeare helps us understand the world we live in. Exploring why his plays are still relevant today, this class will introduce the enduring appeal of his works. This class will also help students understand and appreciate his plays, bearing in mind that they reflect social and cultural contexts in which he wrote. Hopefully, through this class, students will develop a richer sense of humanity in order to play an active role as a global citizen in the 21st century.
Undergraduate students will read a selection of famous scenes, while graduate students need to read the entire play for some of the plays covered in this class. All students receive lectures and write comments on weekly classes. We will watch DVDs of past performances and consider how his plays should be performed today.
Graduate students are expected to facilitate discussions, read one academic monograph on Shakespeare, write a book review, and make use of its content in the final report.
No one is irrelevant to gender. In this course, starting with the viewpoints of ‘gender’, students firstly look into various discomfortable feelings in daily lives and our society, and then, try to reconsider gender issues in work The goal of this course is to learn the ways to figure out concrete and feasible proposals to diminish gender gaps.
No one is irrelevant to gender. In this course, starting with the viewpoints of ‘gender’, students firstly look into various discomfortable feelings in daily lives and our society, and then, try to reconsider gender issues in work The goal of this course is to learn the ways to figure out concrete and feasible proposals to diminish gender gaps.
Focus on five major aspects of daily life management (i.e., behavior, cognition, interpersonal relationship, emotion, and performance) and acquire typical skills in each aspect.
Learn through lecture with audiovisual materials (e.g., slides and videos) and work (e.g.,individual, pair, role-play).
Active participation is essential in order to acquire skills that can be used in daily life.
Provided as a GIGA subject.
Focus on five major aspects of daily life management (i.e., behavior, cognition, interpersonal relationship, emotion, and performance) and acquire typical skills in each aspect.
Learn through lecture with audiovisual materials (e.g., slides and videos) and work (e.g.,individual, pair, role-play).
Active participation is essential in order to acquire skills that can be used in daily life.
Provided as a GIGA subject.
Focus on five major aspects of daily life management (i.e., behavior, cognition, interpersonal relationship, emotion, and performance) and acquire typical skills in each aspect.
Learn through lecture with audiovisual materials (e.g., slides and videos) and work (e.g.,individual, pair, role-play).
Active participation is essential in order to acquire skills that can be used in daily life.
Provided as a GIGA subject.
■ Outline of this course
Whether you are going to do some kind of business or go into the company, data-driven analytical problem-solving skills and hands-on understanding of data utilization are essential in the days ahead.
This course aims to develop minimum data literacy to survive in this data-driven age for the students with at least 10th-11th grade mathematics skill and basic familiarity of Excel, on the assumption that they do not have much experience in data analysis and utilization.
Classes will be conducted interactively as much as possible. We will invest a considerable amount of time for each homework review and answers to the questions received in a weekly questionnaire.
■ Skill that aims to be acquired
- Perspectives on data-driven society
- Appropriate understanding of various related buzzwords
- Basic skills to extract implications of data
- Basic skills to avoid being deceived by data
- Basic skills of data handling and quantitative analysis
(Note) It is not a course to nurture experts in information science and big data processing
- Natural language processing
- Image processing
- Machine learning
- Data infrastructure construction
- Real time processing, etc.
■Expected outcome
Learns the power and fun of data
Acquire the practical basis of science and data-driven thinking
Becoming able to get the some implications when encounters with a data related news
■Tools to be used
Excel (required)
Powerpoint (optional but preferred to use)
MySQL (optional)
R (optional)
Python (optional)
This is the second GIGA (English) version of this course, and since it is an experimental effort, we hope that those who can take that risk will take the course. It is strongly recommended that those who understand Japanese take the course in the spring.