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In Japan, where the birthrate is declining and the population is aging rapidly, business innovation have been occurring in various fields in order to solve social issues that cannot be addressed by conventional systems. In this class, you will learn about business and management in the field of healthcare, with the perspective of "human security." Specifically, we aim to delve into the cases of long-term care businesses that support the lives of the elderly, social entrepreneurs who are trying to solve problems in system gaps and problems in local communities, and understand their significance and strategies.
Classes consist of discussions using the case method teaching method held at business schools, and lectures by outside guest lecturers who are on the front lines. We aim to encourage students to take action to make the society better in the future.
This course focuses on understanding the impact of information technology on the development and implementation of marketing strategies. Through lectures, discussions, and group work projects, we will explore how the Internet and information systems can be useful for marketing.
The main objective of this class is to examine how to sublimate the interests of the various stakeholders in management to the revitalization of the economy and society. The main aim of the class is to examine such measures. This lecture aims to help students understand the characteristics of the people involved in the company, understand the significance of accountability, and recognize the necessity of building cooperative relationships. In this course, We will explore, from both theoretical and applied perspectives, why addressing these issues, in light of the problems that corporations need to solve, will revitalize the social economy by making corporations responsive to society (corporate social responsibility).
In this class, students learn about various health issues related to community health care and the healthcare systems, and learn what solutions should be formulated from the standpoint of local governments.
The class consists of three parts: Part 1: Introduction to regional systems, Part 2: Regional health issues, and Part 3: Proposing policy issues from the standpoint of local governments (group work).
Basic knowledge is not required, but students with insufficient knowledge are requested to read through the handouts and prior study materials.
Group work is only for those who wish to do so, and students who do not wish to do group work will be given tests and other assignments.
This lecture will be looking into multiple cases of conflict resolutions, as well as multilateral preventive diplomacy, conducted by international and/or regional organizations that intend to defuse tension and resolve conflicts in various parts of the world, especially modern day Middle East.
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.
In this course, students will learn (1) the meanings and functions of criminal law and punishment, (2) the definitions of crime, (3) basic knowledge of criminal law in general, and (4) an overview of criminal law in particular (focusing on basic knowledge of property crimes).
The content of this course is designed to provide an opportunity to consider what effective or efficient crime control and criminal policy should be.
The progress of a networked society has brought about not only daily electronic commerce but also an accompanying industrial structure, as well as great change in our social lives. On the other hand, new problems have arisen in our current network society and various legislation has been enacted in order to address these issues. In this class, I will explain some legal structures related to cyber law using current IT-related legislation and I will give lectures on how to deal with these legal issues in our network society based on some related examples. Some legal issues of our network society such as the invasion of privacy, defamation, the infringement of personal rights and interests, the problems related to infringement of intellectual property rights such as copyright infringement, cybercrime such as unauthorised access, illegal and harmful content issues will be described in detail.
Furthermore, this class will focus on the structure of Japanese Law and will comprehensively convey knowledge of the Japanese legal system. In democratic societies, society functions effectively on the basis of laws and regulations. In Japan, these laws and regulations are constituted from several sources. These are The Constitution, The Statutory Laws, Delegated Legislation, International Treaties, Judge-Made Law, Circulars (Tsutatsu), Administrative Guidance, Local Regulations and Customary Law.
Since this course has not been held for the past few years, we will first look at the theoretical frameworks in behavioral economics and sciences and its relations to public policy. Students will be encouraged to work in groups to realize a project based on the concepts acquired.
Economics is the study of the problem of managing rare resources as efficiently as possible. The allocation of resources is determined by the interactions between consumers and firms. It is essential to analyze the results of various economic activities in order to understand consumer behaviors and firm strategies. Therefore, by modeling behaviors of consumers and firms, it is necessary to learn about supply and demand of goods. Economic trading exists when there is a balance between demand and supply of goods, which can be understood by the concept of market equilibrium. Further, based on the concept of social welfare, the study discusses the policies to achieve the desirable resource allocation. Microeconomics provides a theoretical framework for such economic analyses. This course aims to understand how the concepts of microeconomics solve the existing economic issue. Although mathematics is used in this course, the main aim is for intuitive understanding through the use of diagrams. Knowledge of microeconomics opens up new perspectives in other fields such as business administration, politics, and sociology.
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.
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, elementary of open macroeconomics and so on.
This course is designed to learn advanced macroeconomics for students who already completead a coursework of basic economics.
This is an undergraduate level econometrics course. In this course, we will start with a review of probability and statistics that are the basics of econometrics. After studying a linear regression model with one regressor, together with its statistical inferences, we will extend our models so that we can have more than one regressor. Issues that interfere with desirable properties of our estimators, such as errors that have autocorrelation or heterosckedasticity, will then be studied. The last part of this course will be devoted to non-linear models, regression with binary dependent variables, instrumental variable regression, and time series regression.
This course will learn about financial markets including the stock and bond markets from the macroeconomic perspectives, concepts of money, money stock, and money creation (and crypto assets), practices of conventional and unconventional monetary policy. This course will take an overview over recent monetary policy changes and challenges as well. The course will be occasionally provided online.
In this course, you will learn the basics of system and legal regulations related to police and criminal investigation, and will look at various issues and policies and regarding public safety in Japan.
In this course, we will examine the Japanese governance mechanism including the Diet, both central and local governments.
Sharing the professor's experience as a lawmaker and a bureaucrat, we will discuss how to improve Japan's policy making process.
Furthermore, students are expected to design the future society in which not only government sector but also NPOs/NGOs and private companies share more active role in the field of public policies.
In this course, you will learn the basic concepts of administrative law through specific issues related to administration. It deals with important items in the interpretation law such as administrative discretion and legal administration, as well as matters related to public policy such as private consignment, administrative regulation, social welfare and city planning. In addition, as the latest topic, we plan to set the theme of traffic policy such as drones and self-driving cars and digitization of administration. By considering the mechanism of current law and disputes, we would like to examine the direction of legal policy that should be in the future.
Experts may be invited as guest speakers at the request of the students.
This class is also used with Zoom Live or On-Demand, approximately twice a month.
This course focuses on corporate legal issues. Companies need to overcome a numerous kinds of complex and advanced problems in order to create value by cooperating with other companies, such as M&A activities. The objective of this course is to give students an introduction to Critical Legal Thinking and Practical Legal Methods to handle issues associated with co-creation activities by corporations. The topics will address from very fundamental and essential issues of Corporate Governance and Finance to the latest issues of M&A, Venture Investment, and Joint Venture. The style of the course is lecture and class activity. It is expected to analyze issues deeply in the class although class activities will complete in the class. In the co-creation activities like M&A, companies solve problems by putting variety of knowledge of professions in different fields such as management, finance, tax and legal. In this course, too, employing interdisciplinary approaches will enable students to obtain deep insights and provide solutions for the issues.
This course is for investigating the structure of Japanese intellectual property laws such as copyright law, patent law and trademark law.
Theory and Analysis of Public Finance for Central Government
This course aims to understand the standard knowledge and theory of public finance, which is the study of revenue and expenditure of the country, and to consider the important fiscal issues surrounding our country today. Individually, we will examine what constitutes a fair tax system with respect to social security systems (e.g. medical care, public pension system and social welfare) and the tax system, which tends to be biased in its historical context.
Local government in Japan consists of 47 prefectures and 1,718 municipalities (City, Town and Village). Before HEISEI Merger, the number of municipalities was over 3,000. Difficulty of public finance forced reform of municipalities. Yubari city, Hokkaido is the only bankruptcy municipality in Japan now. In future, some municipality will face the same difficulty.
This class provides the understanding a general and a specific topics of the public finance of local government. Students investigate the accounting reports.
We discuss intelligence communities. They provide products for decision-makers in diplomacy and national security. So-called spy activities are just a part of them. United State intelligence community faced failures in 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Iraqi War in 2003. Their reforms have been discussed for a long time, but they saw another failure in U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Intelligence activities are becoming increasingly important in Japanese diplomacy and national security.
An introduction to International Relations theory and practice, with particular reference to the Indo Pacific Region.
This course is designed to assist students to explore various topics underlying international development from both theoretical and methodological perspectives. We particularly focus on the human capital accumulation which is regarded as a driving force of economic development.