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This Seminar consists of two projects: (1) Comparative Media Studies and (2) Learning Environment Design. Participants are required to choose either project depending on their individual research theme, however a later change is also possible. In this group work based seminar the students are expected to participate and contribute actively. They will also receive feedback on the content of their own projects. In addition to this seminar’s group work, participants are expected to work with resources not related to their own native language.

_How can we use computers and other artificial systems to break the limitation of our imagination and enhance human creativity? Computational Creativity is a multidisciplinary research field to tackle this very question._

In this course, students will learn the basics of AI techniques such as Deep Learning and explore the possibility of various applications of it in the field of art (media art, sound art, music, graphics, literature, fashion design etc.). Through both technical aspects of AI and aesthetics of the artistic expressions, we'll try to critically contemplate the impact of AI on human beings as we know now and the society of the future.

Our seminar consists of the following three activities:

[Goup Project]
We have four internal group projects (Music Generation, AI Visuals, AI Media Art, and the future of DJ). You'll join one (or multiple if you wish) of them and work with your teammate. I hope you can deepen your understanding of the field by working actively on the project.

[Personal Proejct]
Besides the group projects, I expect you to work on a small personal project within the field of Computational Creativity. We are going to organize brainstorming sessions to help you to choose the topic.

[Book reading club]
To understand and discuss the impact of new technologies from broader perspectives, you have mandatory reading assignments. This semester, we will read the following two books: Richard Dawkins's "Selfish Genes."

While ICT's progress is remarkable, we need not only to develop technology, but also need to adopt and properly use it for society and economy.
This seminar discusses digital technology policies with focusing on human beings, aiming at realization of sustainable better life and better culture in the year of 2050, with viewpoints of better and more adoption of technology, and with long-term global vision.

Lear the theory and practices of wireless communications, signal processing and mechatronics through development. If you don't have a specific topic to work on, a development theme will be provided from the faculty. Weekly seminars will be devoted to group reading and research discussions.

This lab considers sports as a tool for solving social issues, and in addition to issues that exist in sports themselves, there are other fields relating to essential issues such as medical and welfare, education, engineering and management, etc.

The purpose of this project is to develop cross-disciplinary projects, collaborate with relevant people through discussions and group work, and achieve social implementation. This laboratory mainly focuses on fieldwork for the social implementation of social issues relating to sports and diversity.

This seminar aims to get students to more deeply understand labor policies, characteristics of Japanese employment system and work style reform, as well as to consider how they will work, live and make the society better through group-work, presentations, discussions, debate etc.

Mental health is one of the most important health issues in 21th century as The WHO proposed that there can be "no health without mental health".


The main mission of Shimazu Labo is to bridge between research and practice with 3HP as key words: Health Promotion, Human Performance, and HaPpiness.

The aim of the Course is to conduct theoretical research and develop and evaluate intervention strategies to improve 3HP, by focusing on stress, coping, work, behavior, prevention, health promotion, happiness, well-being, and wellness.


Students who are interested in empirical studies and evidence-based practice and in pursuing research careers are welcome.

The purpose of this seminar is to acquire specialized knowledge and research methods by discussing and reading literature and materials on contemporary Chinese politics and diplomacy.　

Value Design in the Age of Human Survival

This seminar will focus on environment and disaster risk reduction, with specific emphasis on examples from community development and community empowerment in Asia. Asia has the highest population and density, and the region has different crucial issues of high economic development, differential poverty, and environmental issues. To address this complex issue, it needs to be linked to human security, environmental management and disaster risk reduction. Since environment and disaster issues are interlinked, to address this problem in an integrated way, it is important to understand stakeholder participation. This seminar will aims at learning on community empowerment and community development and its relation with environment and disaster risk reduction.

What we are pursuing：
"Making Your Place Where You Feel a Sense of Belonging"
Pursuing Do-It-Anyway Manner for Unpredictable Future

Kobayashi laboratory, koblab, pursues to revitalize and enforce communities and to create new value in the environment involved in communication-based social, cultural, and spatial design stemming from the micro-culture of an area and the traits that compose its rich sense of place in local society.

This research project corresponds to research on any of the following (1) and (2).

(1) China study
(2) Study on civil society, intermediate organizations such as NGOs, and religions.

This is because my research is targeting on religious NGOs in China. If you think you have interests related to these areas, you are welcome to contact us.

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Alasdair MacIntyre said the modern world lacks a moral foundation. To be precise, I suspect that the system of politics and markets, not the whole modern world, lacks a moral foundation. Modern liberalists believe that reason freed humans from the "prejudice" of customs and beliefs. Therefore, the system that liberalism envisions must be value-neutral, not bound by customs or beliefs. On the other hand, they also believe that the system should not intervene in the choices of individuals in the lifeworld. Therefore, in principle, liberal nations such as the United States and Japan maintain the separation of church and state in the system and protect the freedom of religion and thought in the lifeworld. As a result, in the liberal system, monetary value becomes the de facto standard, not the morals of customs and beliefs. Economic growth, materially affluent life, and maintaining security and national defense so as not to threaten them are top priorities.
Therefore, there is no moral foundation. In fact, even if someone say that "liberalism ends up in utilitarianism," I believe, "realists" like T. Hobbs would not object it. On the other hand, idealistic liberalists like I. Kant, J. Rolls and J. Habermas were trying to say, "Morality can be derived from the reason." Habermas is seriously thinking how to derive morals explicitly verbalized by reason from the customs and beliefs that are freely spoken in the lifeworld, how to reflect them in the system, and what kind of communication is possible for that purpose ,and he insists that "those who have religious beliefs should translate and send out rational expressions unrelated to their beliefs."
On the other hand, authoritarian systems based on nationalism or/and socialism have emerged while denying liberalism as egoism. Authoritarianism does not drive customs and beliefs out of the system, but determines the only correct belief with its own authority. The origins of their "justice" are idols like ethnic community or revolutionary classes.
Then, we are in a dire situation. In liberalism, we are subordinate to the idol of money, and in authoritarianism, we are subordinate to the national idol. So, back to McIntyre, the question is, "Where is morality?"
Personally, I don't think we are hopeless. From a Habermas perspective, there is a living morality in the lifeworld. However, I also think, "Is there really a communication process that changes it into an explicit language?" "Is there a need to reflect it in the system?" If the lifeworld has the strength to compete with the monetary idols and state-owned idols of the system, we can resist with fortifying our lifeworld, and I think that resistance means our freedom and independence. R. Bellah said we have unverbalized moral consciousness in the lifeworld.
So, I am doing this kind of research, focusing on how far religious practices can continue to create new moral consciousness in the lifeworld. I believe it is possible even in a country like China.

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.

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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

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 seminar will provide the academic training to write individual research paper by using microdata and the methods of applied econometrics. Research topic will be chosen by each student.

This Kenkyukai is conducting research activities with the goal of building data-driven smart cities and regions. Data Driven means to make decisions and take actions based on data. In today's data-driven society, more quantitative and rational ways of thinking are required instead of the conventional qualitative decision-making. In light of this social trend, we are researching how to discover, solve, and implement problems using analytical methods that utilize data.
Concretely speaking, we use geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and map geographic data to discover problems in cities and regions, such as the environment, disaster prevention, transportation, tourism, welfare, and agriculture, to understand the causes of problems and their relationship to the people living there, to propose solutions for an ultra-smart society, and to provide policy support. We also propose solutions for an ultra-smart society and provide policy support. We are a research group that can discover problems, devise solutions, and implement them, which is a characteristic of SFC.

The Iba Laboratory is looking for people who will work together on research and practice with the aim of shifting to a “natural and creative living” society where “natural deep creativity” occurs every day. The following projects are planned for 2022 Fall semester (they are current plans and subject to change).

(1) Action research on Creative Learning and Pattern Language at junior highshool
(2) Research on creating Pattern Languages for describing good features embedded in a certain organization
(3) Action Research on the practical application of Pattern Language in New Development Assistance
(4) Research on creating a Pattern Language for Generators That Spark Creativity
(5) Research on the creating a Pattern Language for Well-Being in Companies That Produce Results
(6) Research on creating a Pattern Language for Market Creation Marketing
(7) Action research on training and workshops for elderly care using Words for Elderly Care and Environment

The Algorithmic Design Lab. (ADL), as its name suggests, is a research group that conducts research and practice on the architectural design process called "algorithmic design.



At ADL, we are exploring the computability of architecture by writing down every design process related to architecture into computer algorithms. By doing so thoroughly, we will reveal what only humans can do and what designers should do, in other words, the (in)computability of architecture.



For more specific information about the activities, please see the following two lecture videos.

Algorithmic Design --- Growing architecture like plants ---(00:12:16)

Framework for Algorithmic Design(01:29:47)



If you are at all interested in ADL after watching these videos, please come to our lab.

Even if you are a beginner in architectural design or have no experience in programming, you are welcome. If you are interested but worried, please talk to the current ADL members first. We welcome motivated students who are willing to explore the (in)computability of architecture with us.

This research project focuses on Cyber-Law issues.

Based on the current situation of smart agriculture, we will consider future directions.

The seminar will consist of two parts. The first half will be based on reading short articles on various economics-related issues and students' presentation and discussions. If time allows, we may try debate on recent topics. The topics of short articles vary depending on Finance & Development and IMF blogs, but may cover US economy, China's economy, green recovery and climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, emerging market economies' debt problems and poverty, DX and digital economy. The second half will be based on students' presentation on the term paper. The first half will be conducted mainly on a face to face format while the latter half will be conduced mainly using an online format.

We discuss international relations and students research their own topics.

We discuss how the rise of information society changes our life.