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Latin America has always been a source of inspiration for those people working to build a better society. In spite of the colonial heritage and the deep division that runs through the societies of the region, innovative theories and iniciatives emerged and came to influence many aspects of the global social science and humanities of our time. This course aims to survey principal topics related to development and Latin America, covering the contemporary issues of the region especially from a focus on development and social change.
(We plan to do this course on-campus in the spring semester 2021.)
The purpose of this course is to learn CIS region comprehensively. This course would be consisted by lecturers, group work and presentations, and individual term report.
"Regional study" is needed to deal with many aspects such as politics, economics, international relations, history, ethnicity, society, religion, conflicts, environmental problems, energy problems, etc. In particular, the former Soviet Union states are young and they have many problems to be solved, and such problems are complicated and to be needed the comprehensive knowledge and considering the international relations.
In order to think about the current world, it is essential to understand the former Soviet space. Therefore, we aim to deepen the understanding of the region.
This class aims for enhancing the understanding of contemporary international political economy, security and society mainly in East Asia through examining theories, policy frameworks and practices. All sessions are conducted in English.
”Region” could be defined in various terms. In international relations, it generally indicates the multilateral groupings of neighboring nations. However, when it comes to the term regionalism, it suggests a functional relation that bundles multiple nations with their political, economic and cultural inheritance, often based on the geographical advantages. Region could be formed either inherently or arbitrary. Thus, the "Region/Regionalism" is a dynamic concept of geopolitics/economics, which rests between the global governance, the bilateral rational choice of the government, and people's perceptions.
This course specifically focuses on following agendas: 1)theory and practices of regionalism in East Asia, 2)security in Asia-Pacific region, 3)Japan’s foreign policy on regionalism.
This subject offers a comprehensive overview of the global communication landscape. Students will understand the history, current theories and the several case studies of international communication.
Students will understand about the history of news agencies and the concept of propaganda. Also they'll have a chance to think about the effect of international flow of information, things and people.
To understand the International Law including topics or issues in the International Society.
This course is about International Business. The course explains about the firms that operate in the international business environment from two perspectives: management studies as practical knowledge and management studies as a field of social science. Thus, the course is designed to introduces the participants basic theories related to international business and the reality of global business operation in practice.
This is an international finance course for undergraduate students. We will cover the monetary or macroeconomic side of international economics, such as the determinants of the exchange rate and the effects of monetary policy. The first half of the course will be devoted to the exchange rate and open-economy macroeconomics. In particular, we will learn how the exchange rate is determined. Then, in the last half, we will look at international macroeconomic policy as well as exchange rate policies in developed and developing countries. We will study how policies work, and what kind of policy is desirable.
This lecture will focus on disaster risk as the key element of international environmental studies, and will elaborate with case studies on disaster risk reduction frameworks, climate change adaptation and sustainable development. Examples from developing countries in Asia will be presented. Group discussion among students will be made.
The purpose of the this course is to reviewing and to understanding the key issues of Life-time Career Development. The course also covers topics such as work life balance, second career for seinor workers. The course also puts heavy emphasis on understanding actual career design processes and development of individuals, rather than explaing the theoretical frame work of career development.
The course invites practioners who engage in services to support career design and development of workers in thier firms. It is our aim that participating students of the course will gain knowledge and practices for their acutual career design prosesses.
Therefore, the students will gain practical knowledge and practices to enhance capability to develop their own career development programs in the future.
In this class, we will give an overview of the theory and current status of career development from various perspectives. Career development programs provided by companies are based on various ideas and career models. From that perspective, we will give an overview of various skill development and career development programs. In particular, we plan to specifically consider education and training programs, selective education programs, and the latest self-career development programs, such as designing your own career. The revised Vocational Ability Development Promotion Law, which came into effect in 2016, requires each employee to take responsibility for career design and to provide companies with support for that purpose. In the class, we plan to consider career issues and issues from a practical perspective that promotes one's career design and development. In this class, rather than giving an overview of various theories about careers, we will proceed with the lessons from the perspective of what challenges to overcome in order to carry out career design in a practical manner. In addition, we plan to invite corporate career consultants / advisors, people in charge of education and training centers, or people with unique career histories to the class to talk about various practical issues facing career development. is.
This course is devoted to mastering the basic theory of macroeconomics.The contents dealt with in this class are the perspective of SNA, how to decide GDP, fiscal and monetary policy by IS-LM analysis, economic policy of aggregate demand / aggregate supply analysis, and so on.
Several topics on Career and Society will be discussed in this course. Dynamic changes of Japanese society have made major differences in work styles, competencies, and career development. We analyze those shifts from social and individual perspectives. Please note that this course does not include a macro level perspectives such as labor economics.
The purposes of this course are not only to understand concepts of career development in changing society, but also to think about your own career development. Students who are interested in becoming a professional in Human Resource Management/Development, HR business, career education, and adult education are expected for this course.
This lecture is an intermediate microeconomic analysis. The purpose of
this lecture is to provide the techniques of equilibrium analysis. Topics covered are the foundations of the positive and normative analysis of interaction among agents in competitive markets.
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.
(1)Penal Code specifies requirements in which punishments could be invoked by a state. In general, criminal law lectures are to be organized into its general parts and its specific parts. The general parts discuss about common elements of crimes. The specific parts discuss about specific elements of each crime. To learn the basic ideas of them.
(2)In order to be in touch with the reality of criminal justice, students are requested to view "Alternative Justice Congress"(5 days) (※）and discusse them within a group(group work).
(3)Let's try
(a)Read the white papers on crimes.
(b)Read documents for prosecution on charges.
(c)Read a case in a judicial case collection book.
（※）https://yuji-hosono.com/alternative-justice-congress_en/
This course is designed to assist students to explore the structure of Japanese Corporate Law. We will mainly focus on the organization of Stock Companies under Japanese Companies Act.
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.
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.
This course aims at giving the overview on institutions and functions of the Japanese Local/Prefectural Government. This course clarifies the following points: 1) Institutional and functional comparison on the Local Government in the world: Federal System versus Unitary System of Government and the local decentralization of the government in Japan, 2) The local community and interest groups in Japan, 3) Citizen participation and governmental information disclosure, 4) Local governmental structure of Japan; The Governor, Mayor and the prefectural/local assembly, 5) the local administration: policy innovation, policy planning and administration, and performance evaluation and restructuring of the policy. 6) Special topics such as administering large urban cities, disaster management, administrating broad area of a region . This course is given in Japanese.
紛争解決を目的とする国際機関やそれに準じた組織による予防外交や多国間調停および裁定について、主として中東地域において生じた事例を中心に講義する。
Through a view from the community, this course aims to understand the development of cities and neighborhoods, identify various issues we are facing now, and explore the options that make our living environment better.
Historically the cities were built by the authorities/specialists such as governments, engineers, and architects. They laid out the infrastructure and tried to lead the built environment suitable for certain purposes. In contrast to this “traditional” planning, the ideas that the users, residents, and visitors, discover how they live and use the city, “machizukuri”, has become widely accepted and supported recently. Based on this community-based planning concept, this class will explore and discuss, through interdisciplinary approaches, how we can work with diverse groups of people in a community to find ways to make their cities and neighborhood better: thriving, safe, inclusive, and just.
この講義では、地域計画の重要な要素として災害リスクの視点から、統合計画、沿岸部の地域計画、乾燥地域の計画、都市計画などのケーススタディを詳述する。アジアの開発途上国の事例を紹介する。学生間のグループディスカッションを行います。
Cities have been the spaces where social changes have been most apparent throughout the history. This class focuses on the "urbanization" that began in the late 18th century and continued through the 20th century. By tracing the process of formation and development of the city from various aspects such as politics, economics, society and culture, we will be able to understand how the city was formed and consider the challenges facing the space of the city.
The class will be conducted in a lecture style, but students will analyze maps and historical materials, and will be asked to submit their opinions and impressions. It is desirable to be active in the class.