"Love" at first sight appears as an obvious concept, but in reality it has undergone radical changes over time and differs depending on the cultural context. This course explores representations of love, longing, and desire in modern Japanese culture and literature. Following a brief excursion to pre-modern understandings of love and tracing its translation into a modern, westernized notion, we ask how love has been conceptualized in relation to sexuality, gender, marriage, and the modern nation state. In particular, we will discuss the (literary) representation of themes such as romantic love, postwar pure love, homosexual love, prostitution, love suicide, parental love, and more.

This course will explore transnational Japanese literature, particularly reconsidering the fixed notion of nation-state in relation to literature. In particular, the course will focus on the 20th century historical context of the Japan-US relationship, and will examine broadly-defined literature written by people who moved back and forth between the two countries. Throughout the course, we will critically examine the notion of "Japanese", exploring the ways in which people's movement, imperialism, war, language etc., affected their lives and writings.

This course is designed to engage students with vital research perspectives in Film Studies on theory, method and analysis. Building upon the study of a wide range of global films produced at different times, we would navigate the students through several crucial strands of film theories and cultivate their ability in critically approaching the style, aesthetics, and politics of a film work. Theoretical toolkits that we would explore include but are not limited to mise-en-scene, thematic and auteur criticism, genre, psychoanalysis, gender studies, new media theory and so forth.

By figuratively dividing the film history in Asia into two stages, namely the pre and post World War II periods, we shall start our two-part survey on Asian film history with this particular course, in which the highlight is directed to early cinemas from East Asia. In positioning the survey of films within the socio-historical exigencies and cultural context of Japan, China (Taiwan & Hong Kong) and Korea before and during World War II, this course offers the students an opportunity to engage with the early cinemas and their evolvement from the perspective of social history and discourses of modernities in this region. Students are expected to acquire the basic knowledge on early cinemas in Asia, and learn to analyze films in relation to certain socio-cultural issues that became significant during the timeframe under examination.

This class provides students with an opportunity to analyze films related to historical issues. The course comprises a combination of screenings, lectures, and discussions.

• Early Cinema, Early Star
• Restructuring Japanese Cinema in the 1920s
• Tendency Film and Marxism
• Shōshimin (Petit-bourgeois) Film and Everyday Life
• The Modern Girl and Modernity
• Militarism and Nationalism
• Empire and Colonialism

This course surveys the dramatic transformation of Japan from isolated "feudal" state to expansionist empire to modern economic superpower and producer of hybrid cars, cool games, cute characters, and wacky TV. The course has the following principal goals:

1. to become conversant with a general narrative of events (1850-present)
2. to learn to read and interpret primary documents

This is an introduction to the formation of (mostly) modern and contemporary Japanese culture(s) in the context of East Asian histories and cultures. Rather than assuming a singular, reified Japanese national culture-either synchronically or diachronically-this class will attempt to draw out the diversity of cultures in the archipelago as well as their relationships to the larger East Asian milieu.

1. Develop an understanding of Japanese culture(s) in East Asian context.
2. Develop critical reading, analytical, and communication skills.

The course is intended to examine the relationship between literature and gender from a broad perspective. To this end, we will look at literary representations of gender and sexuality issues within a wide range of modern and contemporary literary texts. We will also consider how gender plays an important role when it comes to the production and reception of literature in different historic and social contexts. The course will cover the gendering of representational modes, reading practices, writing and genre conventions, and much more.

This course aims to provide students with a survey on contemporary Western film theories mainly after the 1960s. More specific goals are:

1. to understand contemporary film theories
2. to nurture a critical and analytical view on visual media, particularly cinema
3. to develop each student's knowledge and questions with a wide scope of contemporary intellectual thoughts

This course surveys the basics of research methodology used in cultural and historical studies. Class will cover such issues as what is required in good research, developing a research question, and how to write a research proposal and literature review. Students are expected to read and analyse exemplary research articles in the field, and also practice designing and writing their own proposal and literature review. There will be end of term presentation sessions regarding individual research.

Planned as the second part of reviewing and practicing research methods for graduate studies, this course aims to examine research with various methods in cultural and historical studies, and provide students an opportunity to conduct their own research using the methods covered in class. Students are expected to develop and write a chapter that can be a part of their master's thesis. Most classes will be in seminar form, presenting, analysing and discussing exemplary research articles tailored to each student's research project. There will be mid and end of term presentation sessions to report and discuss the progress of individual research.

The course aims to deepen graduate students' understanding of research approaches to the study of modern and contemporary Japanese literature, as well as related fields. This graduate seminar will examine a broad range of topics in modern literature and related fields. The course is designed to give maximum support to students and aims to familiarize them with critical and theoretical approaches useful for their specific research projects.

This is a reading-intensive course the outcome of which depends on your preparation and active discussion in class. This graduate seminar will examine a broad range of topics in modern literature and related fields. The course is designed to give maximum support to students and aims to familiarize them with critical and theoretical approaches useful for their specific research projects.

In this fast-changing, ever globalizing world, the life and existence of human beings are to a great extent defined by the urban condition they are enmeshed within and struggling with. This seminar attempts to survey major urban issues and cultural topics in modern societies by engaging with a wide spectrum of cultural texts drawn from films and related media texts; in case studies, particular attention is paid to the social context and cities in Asia. Through the seminar, students will learn to approach and critique the cultural space of cities by utilising key concepts drawn from various theoretical perspectives such as cultural studies, visual culture and sociology.

This theory-intensive seminar seeks to explore and reflect upon cinematic image's (im)possibility in representing memory, desire and reality in contemporary times. Following a one-month theory building session based on group reading/discussion of works by philosophers and art historians such as Michel Foucault, Georges Didi-Huberman and Jacques Ranciere, we dedicate the remaining part of the seminar to the critical analysis of a group of contemporary films by global filmmakers, most of which are documentaries. Through this unusual journey, not only do we reconsider how would cinema and image engage political movements and subjects that have been either significant to or suppressed in modern history. Also, we hope that the exploration of both political images and of the politics of image would illuminate our continuing debate in the field of film studies and visual culture.

Field research on Japanese history in Nagoya. First, we will visit archives, libraries, and museums to gather primary resources. We will analyze these resources to produce a single, group project on the history of Nagoya and its environs.

Food is fundamental. It has unparalleled social, economic, and political significance, and is a key marker of power and identity. According to eminent British food historian Ben Rogers, "after language, food is the most important bearer of national identity." Food often serves as a symbol of the primordial self, of "our land," and "our history," and some of the most important national-cultural divisions of humankind are intimately related to diet. Food, as one commentator observed, "is not just relevant, but critical to dozens of disciplines. It's agriculture; it's business; it's health; it's the economy; it's the environment; it's international relations; it's war and peace."

Data analysis ability has become more important in societies. This course deals with several fundamental concepts in psychometrics, educational measurement, and statistics. We do NOT focus on remembering data analysis techniques, but on understanding thoughts and principles behind them. It will provide you with the insight of how you should obtain data, analyze them, and derive conclusions. There are a lot of topics we recommend you to study. In this semester, we will focus on TEST DEVELOPMENT.

Data analysis ability has become more important in societies. This course deals with several fundamental concepts in psychometrics, educational measurement, and statistics. We do NOT focus on remembering data analysis techniques, but on understanding thoughts and principles behind them. It will provide you with the insight of how you should obtain data, analyze them, and derive conclusions. There are a lot of topics we recommend you to study. In this semester, we will focus on what most attendants want to study in the class. It may be the sequel of the previous semester or completely a new topic. We will decide the topic in the Spring semester together. If you have any requests or ideas, please inform the course instructor.

Education problems in a society are often perceived as a political or government decision based problem. But if we see the reality in many countries, some of those problems are actually cultural based. As a Well-being program course, this anthropology of education course aims to equip students (participants) with greater understanding of education problems and culture so as to create wellbeing in Asia from the perspective of women leaders. Students learn some important concepts related to cultural issues (religion, philosophy, manner, oral culture, etc.) in educational problems with reference to real problems happening in the South East Asia region.

The aim of education processes is a basic problem, which should be discussed before other themes. Sometimes, however, this theme is skipped and discussion on education will flow to themes such as curriculum, education content, pedagogic, skill etc. Does education in every nation have the same aim? As a Well-being program course, this seminar on philosophy of human becoming course aims to equip students (participants) with greater understanding of the aims of education process in societies, with special reference to South East Asia. The goal of the course is to have participants understand the varieties of human becoming processes and its objective as the goal of education in societies.

Wellbeing is one of the main aims in life for people in modern society. However, the science of well-being and happiness is a relatively new branch of Psychology. This course offers a scientific exploration of the topic through the lenses of Social and Positive Psychology, exploring the key issues with cross-cultural references. The class focuses on the psychological aspects of a fulfilling and flourishing life with special emphasis on the wellbeing of women.

This course aims to introduce students to intercultural education and training, covering background theories, practical methods, ethics, and evaluation. As part of human resources development (HRD), intercultural education and training equips personnel with cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills to deal with cross-cultural interaction. We will look at cross-cultural theories that identify difficulty in communication between cultures, and then discuss what content and method would be most effective in training people to deal with such difficulty.

In the human development process, the problem of a society's values and how they induct other members into through education should be an issue of concern since it could interfere with people's wellbeing. If anthropologist are trying to look at what really happened in a society (what is the purpose of education but to build a society?), to know how people recognise their own problems and explain them logically is important. By knowing how a society identifies problems related to education (theoretically), we can know the relation between ideology and views in the society and how the same ideology is applied within that society.

This course covers issues in the first phase of a thesis

• Topic selection
• Basic research strategies
• Bibliography development
• Literature review
• Correct use of footnotes
• Table of Contents
• Composition: drafting the Introduction

This course introduces participants to the first phase of academic writing. The first phase covers topics, including selecting a thesis topic, basic research skills, writing a survey paper, developing a bibliography, referencing, creating a table of contents, and developing an introduction. Weekly practical assignments will help students hone their academic writing skills.

This course examines various styles and methods used in academic writing within the Social Sciences. It introduces students to the idea of clarity and consistency in writing. The course is open to all graduate students in law school who are interested in the topic; however, it is aimed primarily at the introductory level of academic work. The course is designed to supplement and enhance Academic Writing courses I & III and will include a review of the grammar and structural issues that often plague students at this level as well as provide lessons on developing organized paragraphs. At present, no text is offered although there will be required supplementary lessons accessed through My Writing Lab. Students are advised to become familiar with the required departmental writing guidelines for their theses available on the GSL web-site.

This course is a combination of 15 interactive lectures and 2 compulsory individual meetings with Prof. Lawson. The lectures are held as a double-period class on Friday mornings in October and November. Individual meetings will be scheduled at other times during the period from October to mid-December. Appointments will be held in the Writing Booths in the Main Library Learning Commons.

This workshop fully acknowledges the ever increasing need for comparison in a world in which pluralistic and transnational features are commonplace. In addressing the 'comparative study of law', it covers broad fields comprising different scholarly orientations and inside debates. However, rather than focusing on knowledge about comparative law as a separate academic field of legal science in the law curriculum, this workshop provides students with the opportunity to actually engage in comparative legal studies. First, they will gain a critical appreciation of the need to undertake the complex task of studying law comparatively. Second, they will learn how to handle a wide range of transborder issues through various comparative research strategies, practices and techniques from a comparative perspective. Focusing more precisely on questions relating to cross-border legal institution design, this workshop deals with the many processes involved in contemporary legal borrowings, and questions the pertinence from a practical perspective of concepts (including 'legal transplants') generally used by comparatists to explain the 'transfrontier mobility of the law'.

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in political science for undergraduates, and focuses on the comparative perspective and critical thinking skills required to make policies. Regular reading assignments will be issued and class members will take an active role in discussing the issues. Prof. Westra will also provide supplementary sessions on international political economics to enable students to understand the context of contemporary domestic politics. A short final essay will test basic knowledge and skills acquired during the course, but our most important work will be done in class discussions.

In 1947, the Judicial Constitution Act and the Administrative Court Act were repealed. This marked a new beginning for the new court system. More than 60 years have since passed during which time the system of judicial review of administrative action has developed. However, the contemporary situation raises many problems for us for which we need urgent reform. Through this lecture,

1. a brief history of administrative law in Japan,
2. basic legal framework of administrative action,
3. administrative procedures, and
4. administrative litigation will be explained.

This course aims to explore some characteristic regimes of company law from a comparative perspective. Each class deals with specific topics related to company law, inspired by theoretical and practical discussions about German, UK and US company law carried out in a comparative manner. Depending on students' interests and enthusiasm, the comparison can extend to counterparts in Japanese or other students' home countries.

1. Introduction Planning to the lecture
2. Stolen backhoe case, Exercise 1
3. Introduction to Civil Law
   1. What is Civil Law? Exercise 2 and 3
   2. History of Civil Code of Japan
   3. Comparison Civil Code of Japan with Uniform law (CISG, Unidroit Principles and PECL)
4. Formation of Contract
   • Principles of the formation of contract, Exercise 4 and 5
5. Validity of Contract
   • Principles of the validity of contract, Exercise 6 and 7
6. Performance of contract
   1. Principles of the contents of contract
   2. Principles of the performance of contract
7. Non-performance of contract and its remedies
   • Principles of the non-performance and remedies of contract, Exercise 8 and 9
8. Principles of unjust enrichment, Exercise 10
9. Presentation of participants groups

1. Introduction
   1. Frequency of application of tort law by Japanese courts
   2. Types of tort law around the world
2. General tort law
   1. Illustration of Point of Due Care
      1. Breach of the duty of foreseeability
      2. Breach of the duty of avoidability
   2. Causality between the tortfeasor's act and damages
      1. Factual causation
      2. Adequate causation
3. Specific tort law
   1. Case study on joint torts
      1. Judgment of Supreme Court, 13 March, 2001
      2. Judgment of Supreme Court, 11 July, 2003
   2. Product Liability
4. Summary of the Lecture
5. Presentation
   • The results of the application of your country's Tort law to the same cases that I prepared in my lecture.

This course is an introduction to the theory of the modern Constitution followed by a comparative analysis of issues in Japan and selected Asian countries.

The purpose of this course is to analyze development of national criminal law under the influence of foreign and international law. Comparison between different judicial families such as common law countries, countries with continental European legal tradition, Islamic countries and so on will be particularly focused on. Participants are required to report their country's experience and their view on desirable legislation in the future. Legal systems in general as well as specific topics in criminal law and criminal procedure will be discussed.

This course is an introduction to the Japanese judicial system in comparative perspective with Asian countries. Discussions about judicial reform in students' countries are also included.

1. Theory and practice of the Japanese judicial system,
2. Legal professions(judges, public prosecutors, and lawyers)in Japan,
3. The judicial systems of Asian countries; and
4. Issues related to judicial reform in Asian countries.

What is the most difficult aspect of setting up a legal system? Legislation, funding, or the provision of facilities? Each of these stages does have its own problems, but it is believed that training of personnel presents the biggest hurdle. Technical, legal and moral competence is required for those who staff and run the legal system. How can legal education provide such qualities to its trainees? Discussion and interviews are conducted following intensive reading on the subject.

This seminar will combine the theory of legal and business ethics with the practicalities of developing nations. Students will wrestle with questions such as how one can be ethical when working in a system containing corruption. The course, on the one hand, will draw upon theory of liberal democracy and the constitutional state. On the other, it will ask students to address scenarios testing their practical knowledge and rectitude. Practitioners and experts will participate as necessary. The course will be taught in English. Students will give oral presentations of assigned topics during the course. A short research paper is also required as the final essay. International and Japanese students are invited to attend.

This course deals with several important topics of the Meiji and Taisho periods when Japanese democracy was developing. Students will be required to make a presentation and discuss certain topics in the text books during each class.

This course is designed to help students understand the evolution of Japanese diplomacy and the dynamics of contemporary international relations:

1. History of Japanese Foreign Policy since the Meiji Restoration
2. The Role of Japan in Asian Security Cooperation
3. History of International Relations Theory
4. International Security in the Post-Cold War Era
5. The United Nations and International Organizations

In the first half of the seminar, we will read each chapter of the text on comparative public administration and discuss related arguments. In the second half, each student will report about the Public Administration of his/her country and discuss the report.

It has been six years since Uzbek government forces killed hundreds of unarmed protesters in the eastern city of Andijan on May 13, 2005, following prison attacks by armed men. Divergent views persist today with regard to this Andijan tragedy in the context of human rights and democracy.

The position taken by the Uzbek government, supported by Russia, China and countries in Central Asia, places the blame on the terrorists. It claims that the armed group belonged to the terrorists group known as Akramia - a faction of the illegal Hizb-ut-Tahri (an Islam fundamentalist Party), which sought to establish an Islamic State refusing to accept human rights and democracy. They attacked the prison and used citizens as human shields while attempting to withdraw. That was how the gun battle started and they should be held responsible for the subsequent deaths. Uzbekistan has no choice but to respond to "violence" by the Islamic fundamentalists, who reject human rights and democracy, with equal violence. The argument states that, for a premature secular state that had gained independence for a mere 20 years, any response to violence by means of respect for human rights and democracy would lead to the demise of the State and therefore the end of human rights and democracy. (Cry like a wolf when living with the wolf).

In light of this first view, certain Western countries and international human rights NGOs come up with their critical arguments that human rights were violated in Uzbekistan under the pretext of fighting terrorism led by the Islamic fundamentalists. Even a young 20-year-old independent State has a duty to respect human rights and democracy. Notwithstanding the future goal of human rights and democracy, violence carried out in response to violence will create a vicious circle of violence and hatred and render the future goal unachievable.

Six years after the Andijan tragedy, this criticism of Uzbekistan has not changed. For example, the Human Rights Watch included the following wording in its 2012 World Report: Uzbekistan's human rights record remains appalling, with no meaningful improvements in 2011. Torture remains endemic in the criminal justice system. Authorities continue to target civil society activists, opposition members, and journalists, and to persecute religious believers who worship outside strict state controls. What should be an appropriate way for Uzbekistan, a State still in the building process and the front line of the war against terror, to develop its own goals of human rights and democracy? How should legal assistance proceed to promote the development of human rights and democracy in this country? This paper reviews some lessons learned from JICA's experience of legal assistance (assistance in drafting the law on administrative procedures) in Uzbekistan and raises some issues that may be useful for the development of comparative studies in administrative law.

The purpose of this course is to explore the main methodological traditions and their practical implications in comparing different legal institutions in a globalized world. The first session (lectures 1-3) will consist of a theoretical inquiry into traditional, as well as innovative, comparative law methods. We will study how to compare and apply these methods to the most controversial topics existing within the current legal debate. In the second session (lectures 4-6), we will turn our attention to globalization, an area in which comparative law is essential for understanding many contemporary relevant phenomena.

This course examines property law from a comparative perspective. Specific topics to be explored include:

• Ownership
• Adverse possession
• Registration and deed recording systems
• Mortgage lending and priorities
• Intangible property rights

This course focuses on the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It examines both its institutional and substantive aspects including its structure, decision making procedures, and dispute settlement procedures as well as major principles used to promote free trade.

This course is designed to examine certain problems of international economic law, including the World Trade Organization's legal system and international investment laws. The course topics will be chosen in consultation with students. In 2013, we took up various articles in "International Investment Law and General International Law: From Clinical Isolation to Systemic Integration?" (Rainer Hofmann & Christian J. Tams (eds), 2011). Students are expected to give presentations on assigned topics and make positive contributions to class discussions.

In this seminar, we will choose some current problems relating to International Human Rights Law or Refugee Law as topics, and read relevant materials and/or articles. In every class, reporters will make presentations on the assigned subject(s). This will be followed by discussions among participants.

International protection of human rights has largely developed under the auspices of the United Nations. In particular, international law in the field of human rights has contributed greatly to such developments. The first part of this course is designed to provide students with general knowledge of international human rights law, and, based on such perspectives, the second part will focus on rather specific problems/situations around the world. (The "international human rights law" mentioned above includes, for example, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention of the Rights of Child, etc.) The discussion of the course will evolve around the following questions:

1. What principles should form the foundations of international human rights laws?
2. Under what conditions can an international law system contribute to the realization of universal protection of human rights?
3. What are the limitations of current international human rights laws and institutions?

This is an introductory course aimed at those who want to study international law, with the aim of imparting what international law is and how it functions. Due to time constraints, it does not cover the entire field of international law. However, through the analysis of the ICJ judgment in the Nicaragua case, it will give you a basic idea of international law. Emphasis will be placed on the structural change of international law between traditional and contemporary international law.

The course is a combination of lectures, small group workshops, and individual meetings with the instructor. The lectures and small group work will take place in the morning. Individual meetings will be scheduled at other times during the period (Tuesday 9, October to Friday 19, October). Each student is asked to SIGN UP after the end of each lecture or workshop. Appointment confirmation will be sent via e-mail. Check the INFORMATION areas of this syllabus regularly for announcements.

This is an internship program for students. Each student will develop a plan for an overseas internship and/or the domestic internship in cooperation with the supervisor and the program coordinator. The internship will take place mainly during the summer months and each student will experience some aspects of cross-border institutional design. In addition, students can receive intensive training in an Asian language and conduct research relevant to their joint work as well as their individual research.

This lecture targets foreign students, aiming at providing them with an overview of Japanese litigation procedure, deepening their knowledge and understanding of the system that can be applied to their own field of study.

Lecturers from the Tokyo Office of The Yomiuri Shimbun will conduct this course in English, based on their on-the-spot news coverage activities in Japan and many other countries, including the United States, as well as teaching experiences in California. A series of topics related to Japan and other Asian countries will be included in the lecture. The objective of this course is not only to provide Asian students with global visions and to prepare themselves as future leaders of their respective countries, but also to encourage their interest in news reporting.

International environmental law (IEL), an evolving branch of international law aimed at protecting the environment, has been providing a legal framework for international environmental cooperation. The main topics of the course are as follows:

1. IEL and its Historical Development;
2. Key Concepts of IEL;
3. Law making of IEL;
4. Ensuring Compliance with IEL;
5. Relationship between IEL and Other Areas of International Law

It would appear that overseas students entering the LL.M. in Comparative Law Program (English-taught program) arrive knowing very little about Japan. However, while this course curriculum presents advanced theories of law in each of its lecture series, there is a lack of explanation for those new to Japanese law and society. Therefore, to provide overseas students with some general information regarding Japan, this course is run in conjunction with the Aichi Prefectural Bar Association (International Special Committee) and the teaching staff of Nagoya University. Lectures are given in conjunction with onsite visits (around half the time for each. Several lectures are presented). The lectures consist of prior study of relevant materials, pre-visit explanations, question and answer sessions based on the visits, and a comparison of the system in Japan with that in students' country so as to further students' understanding of the law and society in their own countries. It is important that the onsite visits become the core part of the lectures so as to enhance students' knowledge of Japanese society and law. As a result of this varied learning experience, students will make comparisons with their own countries' systems and societies, and submit reports on future perspectives they see developing for their own countries. Over the course of a half year of lectures, students will be given a vivid impression of the overall shape of Japanese society and legal system.

This seminar provides students with opportunities to learn and discuss the actual functioning state of Japanese law and the legal system in a social context. In this semester, we will focus on the reality of legal resolution of private disputes in Japan. The lecturer will suggest reading materials (law articles) for each session. Topics may include, but will not be limited to:

1. Reluctant litigants? Legacy of Kawashima theory.
2. Socio-legal process of dispute resolution?different strategies in different areas
   1. automobile accidents,
   2. environmental pollution,
   3. neighborhood noise disputes,
   4. product liability,
   5. medical malpractice, etc.
3. Court procedures for civil disputes
   1. Analysis of the Japanese judiciary,
   2. Roles of judge and parties in civil procedures,
   3. Small claims litigation/mediation.

This lecture will provide international students who are not familiar with the Japanese legal system with fundamental knowledge on and a basic understanding of the subject. The course will start with a description of fundamental perspectives of comparative law. Students will examine the Japanese legal system from different angles, look into the basic structure of the Japanese government, differences between the pre- and post-war eras, legislation processes, the unique character of the relationship between law and society, and recent reforms of Japanese law.

The transformation that took place in Japan during the period of the Allied occupation (1945-1952) is generally regarded as a successful case of institution-transplantation under international control coupled with democratization. This example is considered a good stepping stone for a study of "cross-border legal institution transplantation". This lecture focuses on the process of crafting the Constitution of Japan (promulgated in 1946, entered into force in 1947), picking up and examining the representative legal theories supporting this transformation.

This special subject will cover negotiation and debating skills relevant to international business transactions. The course will be divided into two parts. In a series of practical exercises, class members will be divided into teams, and attempt to negotiate on the basis of the facts presented in the exercise materials. In most class sessions, half of class time will be assigned to negotiation exercises, and half to discussion of the outcome.

Course Design: This course is composed of three subjects. The coursework of each subject will build on the last, which means that each subject must be undertaken in the appropriate order and successfully completed. Thus, Peer Support Initiative 1 (PSI 1) must be completed before moving onto PSI 2 and then PSI 3, which centers on overseas training. It is not possible to skip any of these subjects. About PSI-1 focuses on providing new international students with information on Japan's culture, society, laws and politics, as well as helping these students to adjust their new environment. Japanese students will gain an understanding of the laws, politics and society of their respective international student group members and explain Japanese law, politics and society in a comparative way.

PSI-2 (Peer Support Initiative 2) prioritizes the law and politics of the international students' home countries, with the aim of deepening mutual understanding of the participants' countries. To enable the characteristics of the international students' home countries' legal and political systems to be better highlighted, Japanese students shall, when needed, provide information on Japan. As far as possible, the international students will explain the law and society of their own country in Japanese. Opportunities for Japanese students to give the same explanations in the languages of international students will be increased. Documents containing these explanations will be created by Japanese and international students in cooperation with each other. Video conferencing, multilingual group bulletin boards and so on will be actively used, and collaborative learning will take place in a variety of fields, not just in students' specialist areas. The video conferencing system will be useful for training within informal discussions. Small group trips to investigate the courts and other judicial institutions in Japan will be encouraged and students will receive assistance to independently gather materials for Japanese students' research of these places.

The purpose of this final phase is to bring together the work carried out in the prior two semesters and to conduct detailed field research. In this portion of the program, students will conduct field research in their target countries, complete a report detailing their research, and present their research results. The field trip portion is not required for foreign students though they are encouraged to attend if possible. Foreign students are however responsible for working with their Japanese team members to organize the field research and cooperate in the final report and research presentation.

In the first three classes, the instructor (Suzuki) will give lectures. The students are supposed to study the materials (distributed in advance) and prepare for the discussion in the class. The remaining classes will be conducted as seminars. Namely, assigned student(s) will give presentations first, and then all the participants join discussions which will be moderated by the assigned student(s) with assistance from the instructor. In these seminars, all the participants are expected to read assignments (academic articles and/or court decisions with comments) beforehand and contribute actively to the discussion.

The purpose of this course is to allow students to develop the skills needed to understand foreign legal systems and search for better ways of building appropriate legal systems for different communities using comparative techniques. This series of lectures focuses mainly on East and South Asia. Because Asia is a vast region that contains a multitude of cultural backgrounds, we do not have a clear definition of the term "Asian law". Only a small number of universities in the world provide courses on "Asian law" at either the undergraduate or graduate level. The term is often used to refer simply to Chinese law, even in Asia, or Indian law as it is in the United Kingdom. In this course, we use East Asia in order to gain a clearer understanding of contemporary Japanese law, and South Asia to gain a better understanding of the actual situation surrounding the application of religious laws. During the course of these lectures we will learn how to locate appropriate sources, a skill that is essential in finding the applicable law and resolving legal problems. An example of this would be finding the conditions necessary for a valid marriage in the case of a mixed marriage.

This course offers lectures about the Implementation of Management Accounting System for SMEs in Japan; develops an understanding through case studies of the implementation of Management Accounting System for the revival of SMEs in Japan; develops an understanding through discussions about case studies; and enhances applicable ability in the practice of Management Accounting.

This course enhances applicable ability in VBM (value based management), especially decision making for company capital policy, financial strategy and M&A valuation with understanding corporate finance and valuation theory.

The primary objective of the course is to provide an introduction to the current empirical auditing or financial accounting research literature. The course aims to develop:

1. An appreciation of the roles of theory in empirical research.
2. A knowledge of the research methods and designs employed in empirical auditing research to examine various financial accounting issues.
3. A research ability to critically analyze, evaluate, and apply various research methods and designs employed in empirical auditing or financial accounting research.
4. An applicable ability to generate, design, and conduct empirical auditing or financial accounting research.

The purpose of this course is to enhance applicable ability in reading and writing English papers by discussing the contents of high quality academic journals in the field of accounting and auditing.

This course enhances research ability by teaching classical ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis. The emphasis is on understanding the assumptions underlying OLS regression models. The goal is to critically understand various empirical studies that use OLS regression models.

This course enhances research ability by learning how previous good studies in development/health economics established causality.

This course enhances research ability in economic history by acquiring fundamental understandings about some theories and the course of world economic history between the primitive and modern era.

The aim of this course is to improve the research ability for a research agenda involved in Economics or Economic Thought, by understanding the History of Economics from a methodological view.

This course is designed to build your research ability by providing particularly important methodological skills that are often used in modern macroeconomic research. In particular, we shall focus on

1. difference equations for describing variables that evolve over time, and
2. dynamic optimization for describing the optimal allocation of resources over time.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to a variety of topics related to the empirical study of macroeconomics. After briefly summarizing the theory for each topic, the course focuses on understanding the major empirical evidence in the macroeconomy and will provide insight into macroeconomics for those interested in the practical analysis of macroeconomy. We will develop tools for understanding (or ability to apply the theory to) current topics in macroeconomics by analyzing economic models and examining actual data. Students are expected to make a presentation of each empirical paper and to participate in class discussions.

The purpose of this course is to read academic journals on strategic management and innovation to enhance research ability in management.

This course is designed for the students to acquire the basic knowledge in behavioral finance. We cover the on-going research in addition to the well-known important articles to enhance research ability.

This course enhances research ability by studying Dynamic Optimization Theory.

Following Advanced Microeconomic Theory I, this course offers advanced-level materials in microeconomic theory with special attention to game theory and its applications. It is intended to provide students with a comprehensive grasp of game theory with specific emphasis on applications in Economics. This course enhances applicable ability in the strategic thinking and economic analysis.

This course aims to enhance the research ability on fundamental issues of a capitalist economy by learning the basic framework of radical political economy.

The modern microeconomics consists of the theories of perfect competition and other complementary theories that have been significantly advanced in the last couple of decades (taught in Advanced Price Theory). This course is designed for those who seek to conduct original research, and covers basic concepts in the theory of consumption and production under perfect competition.

We study various methods and interpretations of agricultural production functions and develop research ability related to this topic.

This course enhances research ability in the research areas of earning management and audit.

The purpose of this course is to enhance applicable ability in implementing a business analysis using financial statements.

This course enhances Applicable Ability in studying income distribution from the viewpoint of post-Keynesian economics and the US radicals.

This course is a subject study of the Chinese economy. The purpose is to foster the ability to analyze the Chinese economy through studying theories of economic development and case studies of China's economic development. China became the world's second largest economy beyond Japan in 2010, the largest exporter in 2013 and will surpass the United States as No.1 in 2018 by PPP according to a prediction of OECD. Currently China is transforming itself from a "factory of the world" into the main "market of the world". What are the secrets of China high growth? What are the problems facing China now? Can China continue its high growth? How should the world deal with a rising China? This lecture will provide you some optional answers to the above questions.

This course aims to enhance research ability by introducing elementary econometric techniques with their statistical background. Main topics include statistical inference, regression analysis, and quality choice models.

This course enhances research ability in empirical economic research.

This lecture is a subject study on climate change and low-carbon economy. It offers students monographic studies on the theories of climate change, environment economics, global value chains and carbon emissions, carbon tax, energy policy as well as country studies such as China, the largest carbon emitter in the world.

It fosters to enhance applicable ability in improving the research capacity of students through advanced lectures and case studies given by internationally well-known scholars.

This course enhances applicable ability in understanding the basic structure of the economic society which has been formed in the historical process. In this lecture we focus the analysis especially in the transition from the 19th to 20th century.

The objectives of this course are twofold:

1. to introduce students to the current research topics in finance, and
2. to develop their own research questions that are related to the study of finance.

By the end of the module, students should have the "applicable ability" in finance. We focus mainly on empirical finance. The topics (below) will be modified depending on the interest of participants.

To provide students with an understanding of the theory and application of accounting principles generally accepted in the USA.

Reading and analysing several classical texts in the western thoughts and economics, the lectures will give a broad perspective of the history of economics both in the past and the future. The aim is to promote research ability in the history of economics

Studying the origin and developments of modern European thought in the18th century and their contradictions and significances in today's world, this lecture will consider the meaning of the Enlightenment for humanity in the 21st century.

The aim is to promote research ability in the history of thought

The aim of this course is to provide students with how to conduct research in Industrial Organization. In particular, it deals with firms' behavior (on pricing and other related activities) under oligopolistic competition. The emphasis will be placed on how to come up with a good research question, and how to combine knowledge on industry, data, economic theory, and econometrics.

The lecture is intended to provide an opportunity for students to learn and understand international aspects of accounting. (This lecture is for applicable ability.)

This course offers materials in international trade theory under imperfect competition. The goal is to enhance students' research ability by complete understanding of basic models of international trade and their applications.

This course enhances applicable ability to analyze economic development theoretically and substantially by comparing the Industrial Revolution of Japan with the experience in Europe, America, and Asia.

This course enhances applicable ability in research in development/labor economics by providing economics explanations on human resources development and human behavior especially in developing countries.

In macroeconomics, subjects of the analysis are the economic activities in a whole country. Thus, learning the macroeconomic theory, we can understand various issues faced by the country. The objective of this course is to learn an applicable ability of the basic macroeconomic theory and an insight into the economy with the perspective of macroeconomics.

This course enhances applicable ability in macroeconomics by studying the following topics: First, we will review foundations of macroeconomics and mathematics. Second, students should understand the Solow model, which is a basic model of economic growth theory. Finally, participants are expected to explain the essential concepts of the overlapping generations model, which is one dynamic macroeconomic model with microfoundations.

This course is designed to help students to understand the behavior of individual economic units. It focuses on the intuitive understanding of theories and their application to business decision making and policy analysis. Topics examined include the analysis of demand, cost, and market efficiency; the design of pricing strategies; investment and production decisions; as well as public policy analysis. Upon successful completion of the course, the students should be able to improve their research ability/applicable ability in the following senses:

1. understand the principles of microeconomics, especially those related to the strategic interactions of firms;
2. understand public policy and appreciate how a modern economy functions; and
3. apply the principles of microeconomics in the arenas of private and public-policy decision making.

This course enhances research ability in Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Model.

Scheduling is one of the important issues to manage production systems. This course deals with various scheduling problems and the theoretical approaches in order to enhance the applicable ability for managing the actual manufacturing processes of industrial products such as automobiles and semiconductor devices. Furthermore, the relation among scheduling, process planning and resource allocation is introduced by the examples in order to understand integrated management of production systems.

This course cultivates a better understanding and enhances applicable ability on Management Accounting through reading a representative text on Management Control System.

Through an exploration of fundamental management concepts and skills, this course promotes critical thinking and the ability to make sound business decisions using managerial theory. During Fall semester we will examine various approaches to management, ethical issues, sustainability and innovation, cultural diversity, decision making, planning, and strategic management.

This course deals with acquisition and application in order to enhance applicable ability for management on production. The method is based on the mathematical approach and their applications are introduced in order to choose one solution for production management.

This course reviews strategic management theories by examining various books and academic papers. The goal is to enhance your applicable ability of theoretical knowledge.

This course aims at enhancing basic research ability and applied skill in microeconomic theory.

This course provides an introduction to topics in game theory and the economics of information and enhances the ability to apply theoretical knowledge in practice. Topics include Nash equilibrium and its refinements, cheap talk, mechanism design, repeated games, and reputations.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to a variety of topics related to financial economics. The course will provide insight into the economics of financial markets and institutions for those interested in both the practice of finance and financial management, including financial regulatory policy. In the course, we will develop tools for understanding (or ability to apply the theory to) current topics in financial economics by analyzing economic models and examining actual financial data.

The course will provide topics relating to knowledge management with up-to-date empirical studies. The course contains six lessons labelled "Empirical Study" in which the lecturer and students discuss the techniques used in reading assignments (empirical papers) and their adequacy. Through the discussion, the course expects students to develop academic thinking and/or skills (research ability) required to write their own papers.

By reading and discussing academic HRM articles published recently, this course will enhances students' applicable ability in business administration.

This course enhances research ability in management through reading the textbook on new product development.

This course deals with basic and applied models of public economics. It also enhances research ability in this research field.

The goal of this lecture is to enhance research ability in tax issues on global trade by understanding the basic theory of international taxation.

In this seminar, we will discuss topics of mutual interest, including students' current graduate research topics and selected readings.

The purpose of this seminar is to instruct graduate students for their own research, including how to narrow down a topic, how to construct an academic paper, and how to make a good presentation.

In this seminar, we will discuss topics of mutual interest, including students' current graduate research topics and selected readings.

The main purpose of the seminar is to support students in the completion of their master's theses.

The course is designed to provide the necessary research tools to analyze real-life problems in which the data set is collected as a cross section. Through a combination of theory and data, we will learn the restrictive assumptions that support the consistent estimation in the simple regression model, and how to proceed when these assumptions do not hold in our dataset.

This workshop presents an overview of the current global economy and global management of various issues, such as corporate management, global human resources management, and global trade and environmental issues. By inviting guest speakers from several global companies, we will review the hands-on activities of those companies within the global economy. By reviewing Japan's economic history we will try to gain an understanding of the conditions that are essential for economic development and globalization.

This course is designed to enhance research ability/ applicable ability of graduate students through the presentation of the speaker and discussions among the workshop participants. Furthermore, students may acquire more specific knowledge in a certain area of finance, better presentation skills, and a quick summary of the topic.

This course enhances research ability in investigating short term and long term movement of the Japanese Economy. At the end of this course participants are required to make forecasts regarding the Japanese economy and to recommend a fundamental policy for their own future.

This course deals with unique characteristics of management under a socialist market economy. This course enhances applicable ability.

This course enhances applicable ability in learning corporate management by long term planning.

This lecture is a subject study on climate change and the low-carbon economy. It offers students monographic studies on the theories of climate change, environment economics, global value chains and carbon emissions, carbon tax, energy policy as well as country studies such as China, the largest carbon emitter in the world. It fosters applicable ability in improving the research capacity of students through advanced lectures and case studies given by internationally known scholars.

This course will introduce the statistical base of data analysis as well as the statistical way of thinking. The course is designed for students concerned with the business practice to enhance their ability of applying statistical techniques.

This course enhances applicable ability in innovation of management by studying the Toyota production and Toyota management systems.

We learn applicable management through instructing, leveraging and connecting people. "Only One" management can only be achieved by employees who believe in the corporate mission and who rise to challenges through their own work. Employee satisfaction is the source of customer satisfaction. We learn a methodology to achieve customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction management and polish applicable ability in order to leverage corporate innovation.

Accounting is called the "language of business", as they are used to communicate among interested parties of the business. Students will be learning very basics of how to write (make entries) and read (financial statement analysis) that "language".

This course covers Japanese organizational change, followed by their reforms in other countries like in ASEAN. The structure of this course is lectures, student presentations and discussion sessions. It aims to: introduce students to various ways of restructuring in large organizations focusing on how external pressure has influenced their restructuring measures; provide students with an opportunity to analyze different ways of reforms and acquire insight into how much Japanese organizations have really changed through students' presentation and discussion sessions; an impart critical thinking of the main theoretical ideas relating to Japanese organizational change.

This class looks at how Japanese companies are managed from human resources aspects. We will introduce Japanese business ethics and several successful businessmen. We also look at Leadership manifested in Japanese companies. Case studies are used. Guest speakers will be invited. Active participation of the students is required. We will organize group discussion, group study and group presentation at the end of the term. This class aims to foster the research ability by encouraging individual / group study and presentations.

This course enhances applicable ability by studying basic principles, procedures and skills needed for selecting the most economically attractive investment proposal or the best combination of proposals among technically feasible alternatives in a production environment. In the class, the concept of profitability judgment for different types of investment proposals is discussed and the basic procedure for selecting the most attractive proposal is summarized. The major subjects of the course include principles for comparison, the concept of sunk costs, use of efficiency indices, evaluation of investment proposals, the influence of price increase, and risk analysis including sensitivity analysis and break-even analysis.

This workshop enhances the applicable ability to understand contemporary socio-economic systems from a broad perspective.

This course cultivates research ability and applicable ability through lots of cases of a product development process of Toyota Motor Corporation.

This lecture is a subject study on resource, environment, and economic growth. It offers students monographic studies on the theories of climate change, environment economics, labor migration and income distribution, global value chains and carbon emissions, carbon tax, energy policy as well as country studies such as China. Some lectures will be given by invited scholars and other experts. It fosters to enhance applicable ability in improving the research capacity of students through advanced lectures and case studies.

The objective of this seminar is, through exposure to the micro/macroeconomic research frontier and the discussions on it, to help broaden participants' perspectives and foster their research capability.

The aim of Astrophysics A is to understand the basic physics that affect the structure formation in the Universe.

Basics of Astrophysics: Basic equations for theoretical astrophysics are derived from the first principle and links to astronomical observations are made.

X-ray Astrophysics: X-ray observations have revealed that high-energy phenomena are ubiquitous in the universe. In this lecture, various celestial X-ray phenomena will be presented and basic physical processes for understanding the phenomena will be explained.

This class provides the basic knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology necessary for biophysical researches, as well as the methodology to study the molecular mechanisms of biological phenomena.

1. Biological energy
   1. Gibbs free energy, Chemical equilibrium
   2. Redox potentials, electron transfer reactions
   3. Enzymatic reactions, effects of inhibitors
2. Spectroscopic methods to study biological systems
   1. Light and life
   2. Molecular orbitals of biomolecules
   3. Light absorption and emission
   4. Molecular vibrations, infrared absorption
   5. Structures and functions of proteins

In the first two thirds of the courses, the contemporary understanding of the critical phenomena and phase transition are introduced. We especially focus on the idea of the renormalization group. The rest of the course will be devoted to a crash course of the nonequilibrium statistical physics. Outline Overview:

1. Phase and phase transition
2. Mean field theory
3. Scaling and renormalization group
4. Renormalization group in real space
5. Renormalization group in k-space: Perturbative method
6. Introduction of nonequilibrium statistical physics

At first, dynamics of present Space-Sun-Earth system will be explained. The basic structure of the solar-terrestrial system and the controlling physical processes will be overviewed. After that, atmospheric - hydrospheric processes in the Earth surface, which is essential for maintaining the life system, will be explained. Specifically, the role of water in the atmospheric circulation, physical - biological processes in the hydrosphere, and those structures and variations will be explained. Additionally, current status of climate warming as well as the adaptation strategies in the Arctic regions will be overviewed. Finally, several paleoclimate studies will be introduced.

In this lecture, students will learn theoretical concepts that determine structures and reaction pathways of chemical compounds without using complicated mathematics. For this purpose, students will learn the basics of group theory in the first half of this course. They will learn various point groups, structures of character tables, and basic mathematical techniques related to group theory. Students will then learn the first- and second-order Jahn-Teller effects that are related to the distortions of ground-state structures and the activation energy of chemical reactions. Finally, students will learn symmetry rules that determine the pathways of reactions. By taking this course, students will understand

1. symmetry elements and symmetry operations of various point groups;
2. methods of mathematical calculations using character tables;
3. principles to draw molecular orbital of complicated molecules and metal complexes;
4. analyses of normal mode vibrations of simple molecules;
5. judgment if a given dipole transition is allowed or not;
6. determinations of ground-state structures of various compounds; and
7. judgment if a given reaction is allowed to proceed thermally or not.

The purpose of this course is to learn some important features of basic/advanced organic chemistry. This course will assist student in understanding the intellectual roots of organic chemistry under the specific topics selectively chosen and to develop knowledge and appreciation of structure, mechanism, reactions, and synthesis in organic chemistry.

This course is designed as a broad survey of modern topics in physical chemistry. The omnibus form of lecture is conducted by Professors and Associate Professors. They will provide you the most-advanced physics and chemistry concerning fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, organometallics, nanoparticles, electronic devices, catalysts, solar cells, etc. These lectures will help you to understand the important issues in modern physical chemistry.

The purpose of this course is to learn the basics of polymer science. The course begins with basic polymer concepts, then proceeds to polymerization and synthesis of various structured polymers, and finishes with polymer characterization and properties of polymers.

In complex reaction systems at high temperatures, following the minimum energy pathways on the potential energy surface is not only impossible, but will entirely neglect important entropic effects during the reactions. Quantum chemical molecular dynamics (QM/MD) simulations have recently elucidated the formation as well as erosion mechanisms of nanomaterials such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphenes. In this class, all theoretical concepts important for QM/MD simulations will be covered.

This lecture covers interdisciplinary fields between elementary particle physics and astrophysics probed by cosmic rays, namely, astroparticle physics. The lecture reveals how cosmic rays opened elementary particle physics and extended its field to contemporary cutting edge science. The lecture provides very basic knowledge on particle and nuclear physics, strong and weak interactions, the structure of hadrons as well as basic knowledge on astronomy and astrophysics, which are all relevant to understand the universe in terms of particle physics. The lectures also cover very recent hot topics in astrophysics and non-accelerator particle physics such as neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and gravitational micro-lensing.

This course is an introduction to atmospheric chemistry. We will learn the fundamentals of atomic and molecular spectroscopy as well as reaction kinetics. Then, we will present various chemical reaction mechanisms controlling the abundance of stratospheric ozone, the oxidizing power of the atmosphere, smog, and acid rain. We will learn the Chapman mechanism for ozone formation and ozone depletion catalytic reactions in the stratosphere.

In this course, laboratory members will take turns giving a one-hour presentation accompanied by another-hour long discussion. Students will critique the latest research. Every session will require that participants work more then eight hours on their research work for their thesis. For more details, M1 students are going to learn the basic theories of the main themes of this laboratory such as metal complex, protein, enzyme reaction and structural analysis, and then have a presentation to the other members on these topics including their own research results. In addition to these sessions, participants will also directly learn how to carry out various kinds of enzyme reaction research through discussions.

The purpose of this course is to learn about the research process from the academic literature.

The purpose of this course is to learn about the research process from the academic literature.

In this course, laboratory members will take turns giving a one-hour presentation accompanied by another-hour long discussion. Students will critique the latest research. Every session will require that participants work more then eight hours on their research work for their thesis. For more details, M1 students are going to learn the basic theories of the main themes of this laboratory such as metal complex, protein, enzyme reaction and structural analysis, and then have a presentation to the other members on these topics including their own research results. In addition to these sessions, participants will also directly learn how to carry out various kinds of enzyme reaction research through discussions.

This course is intended to increase a student's knowledge of basic biophysical sciences based on the principles of physics, and honing their ability to think deeply from a broad range of perspectives.
Course contents

1. Electronic state, structure, and dynamics of molecular systems
2. Transitions between states of matter
3. Interaction between light and matter
4. Liquid theory
5. Electron transfer, Proton transfer, and Vibrational energy tranfer
6. What is Biophysics ?

In this lecture, students will learn theoretical concepts that determine structures and reaction pathways of chemical compounds without using complicated mathematics. For this purpose, students will learn basic concepts of group theory in the first half of this course. Students will learn various point groups, structures of character tables, and basic mathematical techniques related to group theory. Then the students will learn first- and second-order Jahn-Teller effects that are related to the distortions of ground-state structures and the activation energy of chemical reactions. Finally, the students will learn symmetry rules that determine the pathways of reactions.

The purpose of this course is to learn some important features of basic/advanced organic chemistry. This course will assist the student to understand the intellectual roots of organic chemistry under the specific topics selectively chosen and to develop knowledge and appreciation of structure, mechanism, reactions, and synthesis in organic chemistry.

The purpose of this course is to review the formerly acquired knowledge of Physical Chemistry, and apply it to solve problems in chemistry and biochemistry. Solving problems in the class and at home is the focus of this course, which will prepare the student for more specialized Physical Chemistry courses in the future.

Cosmic rays are particles with the highest energy from the Universe. We can now understand most of the energetic phenomena in the universe by observing cosmic rays. Therefore several kinds of energetic astrophysical objects are shown at first. Multiwavelength observations are also introduced together with cosmic rays in order for students to develop wide astrophysical views. Specific topics in cosmic rays, such as gamma ray astronomy, gamma ray bursts, and most energetic cosmic rays, are also discussed.

One way to know the origin and acceleration mechanism of cosmic rays is by observing neutral particles which are produced at the acceleration sites of cosmic rays. In contrast to charged particles, which occupy the main portion of cosmic rays, neutral particles are not reflected by magnetic fields in space. Therefore, we can obtain information about the place and time of the acceleration by observing neutral particles. Among the neutral particles, neutrons associated with solar flares will be the main focus for this lecture.

This seminar is designed in a typical journalist club style for students. Every student provides a short presentation about one of the recent topics on cosmic ray physics, astrophysics, particle physics and solar-terrestrial physics. The topics should be selected from very recent journal papers or similar publications. In this way students will develop the skills to search, digest and make a presentation on various works. The students will also learn about recent activities in related research fields and key technologies. Reports are shared among all the CR-lab members. Students who take this seminar must actively join the discussions, and evaluate their own presentation.

The course objectives for this seminar are as follows:

1. To acquire a broader knowledge on recent activities in cosmic-ray physics as well as astrophysics, particle physics and solar-terrestrial physics.
2. To obtain the skills required to search and understand other works in recent publications, to summarize the contents of the publication and present it in a way to draw other students' attentions, and to identify and critically discuss important issues in the presentations.

This seminar aims to deepen students' knowledge on various phenomena in space, to improve the skill for presentation and to cultivate the ability for active discussions on various research themes. The themes of the seminar are selected in the fields of space environment, the sun, cosmic rays and their relations to the earth. In particular, the aim is to promote a flexible use of knowledge by presenting the contents of their own theme to other students and to accelerate to understand the presentation on different themes and participate discussions.

Understanding of computer systems, error analyses, and statistics are indispensable in scientific research. The purpose of this lecture is to understand computers, error analyses and statistics. The lecture includes hardware, software, and network of the computer system, error and statistical analyses. Exercises of a free analysis tool ROOT that is widely used in high-energy physics and cosmic-ray research are included.

The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To obtain the basic knowledge about chemical processes and measurement techniques for minor constituents in the atmosphere.
2. To obtain the skill of explaining the contents of basic books and reference papers on atmospheric chemistry and physics.

The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To obtain the basic knowledge about chemical processes and measurement techniques for minor constituents in the atmosphere, and to understand the mechanisms of atmospheric environmental issues caused by anthropogenic activities.
2. To obtain the skill of explaining the contents of texts and research papers on atmospheric chemistry and physics.

The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To obtain the basic knowledge about the chemical and physical processes of minor constituents in the lower and middle atmosphere.
2. To learn the basic techniques of atmospheric measurements and data analysis.
3. To obtain the skill of intelligible presentation and discussion about the contents of basic textbooks and reference papers on atmospheric science.

The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To obtain the comprehensive and latest knowledge about the chemical and physical processes of minor constituents in the lower and middle atmosphere and to understand the significance of students' individual research subjects in the related field of study.
2. To learn the advanced techniques of atmospheric observations and data analysis.
3. To obtain the skill of intelligible presentation and discussion about the contents of advanced textbooks and the cutting-edge topics in journal papers on atmospheric science.

This course provides an overview of the basic cosmic-ray observations such as interactions of cosmic rays, detector technologies and signal processing electronics. Topics includes charged-particle interactions, photon interactions, electromagnetic and hadronic cascades for cosmic-ray interactions, scintillation detectors, gas detectors, liquid detectors and semiconductor detectors for detector technologies, and analog and digital signal processing for signal processing electronics. In addition, we will review currently operating or planned cosmic-ray experiments, and discuss real-life usages and development issues of detector and signal processing technologies.

Overview of the basis of modern physics aiming to nurture researchers to pioneer new physics beyond the assembly of existing astronomy, astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics. Lecture Plan

1. Overview of elementary particles and their interactions
2. Basics of relativity
3. What is field theory? (basics of scalar field theory)
4. Quantization of fields (production and annihilation of particles)
5. Fermions (Dirac's equation)
6. Dirac's theory of fields
7. Gauge symmetry
8. Quantum Electro-Dynamics, Quantum Chromo-Dynamics
9. Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry (Higgs mechanism)
10. Standard model of elementary particles and theories beyond it
11. Overview of the standard model of elementary particles
12. Elementary particle reactions
13. Particle accelerators
14. Particle detectors
15. Data reduction and analysis

This course aims at studying the basics on the Universe and the basic cosmology which deals with evolution of the Universe. The related key words of this course are as follows:

Elements of the Universe

• stars and planets
• galaxies and clusters of galaxies

Evolution of the Universe

• the interstellar medium
• the high energy universe
• galaxy evolution

Expanding universe

• Friedman equation
• cosmological parameters
• definitions of distance in the Universe
• evolution of the Universe

Big bang

• transparent to radiation
• nuclear synthesis
• inflation
• thermal history of the Universe

Space between the sun and the earth, called the solar-terrestrial environment, is the main subject of this class. Various phenomena observed in the solar-terrestrial environment will be described. As an introduction to the advanced solar-terrestrial science, this class will touch on the implications of how we attempt to understand various phenomena in the sun, geo-space, heliosphere, atmosphere, and cosmic ray. Recent studies of space weather and space climate will also be explained.

Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 1 and 2 are continuous seminars opened through a year, and these seminars liaise with Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 3 and 4 which are also opened through a year. Therefore it is recommended to take these four seminars. These seminars study the solar wind physics (basics and advanced topics), and observation /analysis methods which are necessary to pursue your own research.

Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 1 and 2 are continuous seminars opened through a year, and these seminars liaise with Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 3 and 4 which are also open through the year. Therefore it is recommended to take these four seminars. These seminars aim at studying the solar wind physics (basics and advanced topics), and observation /analysis methods which are necessary to pursue your own research.

Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 3 and 4 are continuous seminars opened through a year, and these seminars liaise with Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 1 and 2 which are also open through the year. Therefore it is recommended to take these four seminars. These seminars aim at studying the solar wind physics (basics and advanced topics), and observation /analysis methods which are necessary to pursue your own research.

Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 3 and 4 are continuous seminars opened through a year, and these seminars liaise with Research on Heliospheric Plasma Physics 1 and 2 which are also open through the year. Therefore it is recommended to take these four seminars. These seminars aim at studying the solar wind physics (basics and advanced topics), and observation /analysis methods which are necessary to pursue your own research.

The aim of this course is to understand the basic of particle physics from experimental point of views, learn how the Standard Model has been established throughout collider, fixed-target and non-accelerator experiments, discuss possibility to find New Physics beyond the Standard Model, and also learn the basics of detectors and accelerators.

1. Introduction
2. Quark flavor physics
3. Lepton flavor physics
4. Energy Frontier
5. Fundamental physics with neutrons
6. Neutrino and dark matter physics

In order to understand the Earth's ionosphere, we study the plasma motion and electric currents in the ionosphere where the plasma collides with the neutral particles. Basic physics of various phenomena in the ionosphere, such as plasma fountain, equatorial anomaly, plasma bubble, traveling ionospheric disturbance, sporadic E, dynamo mechanism and so on, are studied. Radio wave propagation in the ionosphere and ionospheric measurements using radio and optical techniques, especially radar, GPS and airglow CCD imager, are also studied.

This class deals with basic space plasma physics in the terrestrial/planetary magnetosphere, their structure and dynamics, and the in-situ measurement techniques in space. The contents are as follows:

1. Lecture Briefing and Research Activity
2. Basic Concepts of Plasma
3. Single Particle Motion
4. Structure and Dynamics of Terrestrial Magnetosphere
5. Measurement Techniques for Magnetospheric Physics
6. Dynamics of the Magnetosphere.

This lecture provides an advanced review of the physical and chemical processes in the middle atmosphere based on observational results obtained by using in-situ, ground-based, airborne and satellite-based instruments. Principles and practical techniques with various methods to observe physical properties and chemical composition in the middle atmosphere are reviewed. In addition, the analysis techniques for retrieving information from the observed data are discussed.

Paleo cosmic ray physics is a research field relating the variations in past cosmic ray intensity, solar activity, terrestrial and space environments derived from time variation of cosmogenic isotope production. This course aims to teach about nuclear reactions by cosmic rays, behaviour of produced isotopes and the measurements methods. A discussion on how cosmic ray intensity and solar activity have changed and the effect on the earth's climate will also be given.

This course aims to introduce students basic knowledge in the particle physics to help them to understand recent developments in this area. Improvements in thinking are also required to solve assignments in the class.

1. Particle phenomenologies in the standard model of particle physics, which are vital to understand various beyond-the-standard models (BSM).
   • Particle phenomena in the standard model
   • Electroweak precision tests
   • Dynamics of the electroweak symmetry breaking
2. Supersymmetric grand unification theory, which is considered to be one of the most promising BSM scenarios.
   • Grand Unification Theories (GUT)
   • Supersymmetry
   • Phenomenologies in the supersymmetric GUTs
   • Supersymmetric GUTs
3. 　
   • Polyakov string
   • Light cone quantization in the string theory
   • D-brane
   • T-duality

This lecture provides an overview of the physics and chemistry involved in the atmospheric radiative processes which occur in the middle atmosphere. We study basic principles of the radiation and absorption processes and apply them to the Earth atmosphere in order to understand the vertical structure of the atmosphere and the energy budget that affects the climate on the Earth.

The Solar wind, which is the supersonic plasma outflow from the Sun, has a significant influence on the space environment near the Earth (the geospace). Recently, it has been recognized that solar wind affects the environment near the Earth's surface. Thus, a sound understanding of the solar wind is vital for students who study solar-terrestrial physics. This lecture aims to provide basic knowledge on the 3D structure and dynamical behavior of solar wind.

The purpose of this course is to give each student an appreciation and understanding of the theoretical framework for space and astronomical plasma phenomena, in particular of magnetohydrodynamics. This course shall discuss the following subjects:

What is plasma?

• Mathematical description of plasmas
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
• MHD equilibrium
• Waves in plasma
• Instability
• Self-gravity fluid
• Convection. Dynamos
• Magnetic reconnection
• Radial flow
• Shock
• Particle acceleration
• Landau damping
• Plasma simulation.

The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical framework for the application of molecular genetics to research in life sciences. Analyses of major breakthroughs in molecular genetics, with descriptions of their historical and biological backgrounds, will be followed by discussions on future prospects.

Important subjects in current modern life science have been investigated by using the biochemical and biophysical methods. The aim of this course is to introduce fundamental principals of such methods, and insights into functions of gene products in vivo and in vitro. Lectures will begin with the explanation of fundamental principles followed by in-depth analysis.

In astrophysics, since we can examine the properties by experiments for very limited objects, it is fundamental to understand the basic process of astrophysical phenomena through observation. We regard the observation process as a part of the fundamental physical processes and learn astrophysics from a viewpoint of radiation, matter, and spacetime.

We choose some sections and participants give a student lecture on the subject. The presenter should distribute material, and we discuss the topics based on it.

In astrophysics, since we can examine the properties by experiments for very limited objects, it is fundamental to understand the basic process of astrophysical phenomena through observation. We regard the observation process as a part of the fundamental physical processes and learn astrophysics from a viewpoint of radiation, matter, and spacetime.

We choose some sections and participants give a student lecture on the subject. The presenter should distribute material, and we discuss the topics based on it.

The purpose of this seminar is to train the ability of thinking logically and of studying by oneself, through a series of seminars on a specific topic chosen from the quantum field theory, the elementary particle physics, etc.

Every seminar is open to free discussion, organized by one of the attendees. The topic together with a textbook will be determined via the discussion among attendee at the first seminar. Examples of candidates of topics are as follows; quantum field theory, basic of elementary particle physics, representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, introduction to string theory.

Learn on the basic knowledge of particle physics from the experimental viewpoint. Especially, understand the overview of the Standard Model of the current particle physics. Furthermore, discuss the issues on the Standard Model and direction of future experiments. The most important purpose is to discuss the physics among the students actively. Discuss the following items among the students, based on the reference textbooks, and in some cases, discuss the current studies, which students actually work on.

• Basic particle physics
• Strong interaction
• Electroweak interaction
• Gauge theory
• Higgs mechanism
• Particle experiments
• Detector technology

Aim to investigate the main subjects on Elementary particle physics from the experimental point of view to get a trigger to learn enough experimental knowledge for the research for a Master's thesis.

Presentation on subjects are prepared by several reporters who discuss the related content.

We learn fundamental concepts in elementary physics with lecturing in turn and discussions to understand the fundamental concepts in quantum field theory for the standard model and beyond in elementary particle physics, and to learn logical thinking, explaining, and discussing abilities and developing thought. Lecturing in turn the standard textbook for quantum field theory, and understanding the following things by discussions between participants.

1. Symmetry and Conservation law
2. Quantization of fields
3. Perturbation theory and Feynmann rule
4. Renormalization
5. Gauge theory

Basically, this seminar is a sequel to the seminar on particle physics 1.

The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To understand dynamics of electromagnetic disturbances, plasma phenomena, and upper-atmospheric environment in the solar-terrestrial system.
2. To obtain skill in scientific research of the solar-terrestrial physics by conducting numerical simulation and/or observations and necessary data analyses.
3. To obtain skills of giving clear scientific presentations.

The objects of this seminar are as follows:

1. To understand dynamics of electromagnetic disturbances, plasma phenomena, and upper-atmospheric environment in the solar-terrestrial system.
2. To obtain skill in scientific research of the solar-terrestrial physics by conducting numerical simulation and/or observations and necessary data analyses.
3. To obtain skills of giving clear scientific presentations.

The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To understand dynamics of electromagnetic disturbances, plasma phenomena, and upper-atmospheric environment in the solar-terrestrial system.
2. To obtain skill in scientific research of the solar-terrestrial physics by conducting numerical simulation and/or observations and necessary data analyses.
3. To obtain skills of writing a scientific paper.

The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To understand dynamics of electromagnetic disturbances, plasma phenomena, and upper-atmospheric environment in the solar-terrestrial system.
2. To obtain skill in scientific research of the solar-terrestrial physics by conducting numerical simulation and/or observations and necessary data analyses.
3. To obtain skills of clear scientific presentations.

Students are required to make reviews of text, journal papers in the solar-terrestrial physics and presentations of their own research. Active participation in scientific discussions at presentations by other students, teachers, and related scientists is also expected.

The main purpose of this lecture is to learn the fundamental structure of the sun and various physical phenomena in the solar atmosphere. This lecture also aims to develop a detailed consideration of the physical phenomena with a wide field of view. The contents of this lecture include

• the History of Solar Research
• Structure of the Sun
• Radiation in the Corona
• Solar Flare
• Coronal Mass Ejection
• Coronal Heating
• Coronal Hole
• High
• Energy Particle
• Solar Activity and the Earth.

A student reads an assigned part of an English textbook in advance then gives presentation about what he/she has learned from the assigned part of the text book. All the students attending the class are recommended to join a discussion about the topics presented by a speaker with other staff and students. The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To learn about electromagnetic, plasma, and atmospheric environments in the solar-terrestrial region and in the upper atmosphere.
2. To obtain the ability to clearly explain their own ideas.
3. To obtain the ability to have a scientific discussion with others.

A student reads an assigned part of an English textbook in advance and then gives a presentation about what he/she has learned from the assigned part of the text book. All the students attending the class are recommended to join a discussion about the topics presented by a speaker with other staff and students. The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To learn about electromagnetic, plasma, and atmospheric environments in the solar-terrestrial region and in the upper atmosphere.
2. To obtain the ability to clearly explain their own ideas.
3. To obtain the ability to have a scientific discussion with others.

A student reads an assigned part of an English textbook in advance then gives a presentation about what he/she has learned from the assigned part of the text book. All the students attending the class are recommended to join a discussion about the topics presented by the speaker with other staff and students. The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To learn about electromagnetic, plasma, and atmospheric environments in the solar-terrestrial region and in the upper atmosphere.
2. To obtain the ability to clearly explain their own ideas.
3. To obtain the ability to have a scientific discussion with others.

A student reads an assigned part of an English textbook in advance then presents what he or she has learned from the assigned part of the text book. All students are recommended to join a discussion about the topics presented by a speaker with other staff and students. The objectives of this seminar are as follows:

1. To learn electromagnetic, plasma, and atmospheric environments in the solar-terrestrial region and in the upper atmosphere.
2. To obtain the ability to clearly explain their own ideas.
3. To obtain the ability to have a scientific discussion with others.

This course will mainly focus on cluster algebras, introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in 2002, and their elementary properties. It will also make the link with representation theory of hereditary algebras. A lot of explicit examples will be computed.

In this course we study upper atmospheric physics. We focus on the lower thermosphere, the upper mesosphere, and the ionosphere. To understand the upper atmosphere more deeply, we also study the lower and middle atmosphere briefly. In particular, we study what makes the atmosphere in motion, interplay between the thermosphere (neutral atmosphere) and ionosphere (ion and electron) and atmospheric waves (gravity waves, tidal waves, and planetary waves).

The overall aim of this course is to understand the Administrative Regulations for Health in Japan. This course will cover the framework provided by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as well as the roles of local authorities and the judicial system. In addition, details about food safety, drug safety and related issues in Japan will also be discussed.

Biostatistics provides us with tools to describe and summarize phenomena observed in populations. The basic approaches of biostatistics include significance testing and inference. This course will explain how to successfully apply both approaches for epidemiologic measurements. In addition, we will cover survival analysis and multivariate analyses including logistic and proportional hazard models.

Students will synchronize cells at the G1 phase. On the first day, the professor will give you a short orientation. According to the protocol participants change culture medium daily and sequentially. Cell cycle phases are analyzed on the morning of the last day.

This course provides students with the opportunity to listen and hold discussions with scholars, medical officers, doctors, other healthcare professionals and future leaders from various fields inside and outside of Japan on topics relevant to people's health.

The aim of this course is to understand:

1. The systems that support community health in Japan
2. Global public health issues and strategies
3. Social and demographic determinants of health

In this course, the participants learn how to genotype by DNA fragment analysis from PCR products for STR (short tandem repeat) (microsatellite) markers, which are widely applied in forensic field for personal identification and kinship analyses. This technique will make it possible for the participants to perform linkage analyses using microsatellite markers in clinical medicine.

To be concrete, the participants extract DNA from their own buccal swabs by a convenient commercial kit. Those DNA samples are amplified using a commercially released PCR multiplex kit with multi-colored fluorescently labeled primer sets for personal identification. The PCR products are loaded, sized and genotyped by capillary electrophoresis with a Genetic Analyzer 310. The participants calculate the probabilities for personal identification.

This course will provide basic knowledge of document retrieval, and basic skills of some typical databases of medical science. In addition, the lecturer will introduce some useful library services for the members of Nagoya University.

This course covers an introduction to epidemiology. Basic epidemiological concepts include measures of disease frequency and measures of association between particular factors and disease. Study designs in epidemiology, such as cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, cohort studies and intervention studies are explained.

First, the rabbit heart is removed and ensured the coronary artery flow through the aorta (Langendorff perfusion). Subsequently, cannulation to the pulmonary vein, pulmonary artery, and superior vena cava (including left superior vena cava) is performed with ligated inferior vena cava. In this model, the atrial pressure is adjusted voluntarily. Electrophysiological properties of atrium will be examined after creating the model.

Excursions to different regions in Japan visiting medical and public health related facilities, enabling participants to better-undrstand Japanese healthcare system and the culture behind it as well.

The objectives of this course are to comprehend

1. medical service and facilities in Japanese health care system,
2. education and licensing for medical professionals in Japan,
3. administrative regulations for health
4. ospital administration and
5. to compare Japanese situation with those in Asian countries.

Students are expected to discuss current health care status, professions and administration with classmate who have individual specialty and propose your own ideas in English.

Japan has achieved the highest life expectancy in the world mainly because of its early introduction of universal health insurance coverage. The successful implementation of an efficient health insurance system should protect and promote the health of the people, as well as contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The focus of this course is to learn how to develop such a system compatible with the social system, economy, culture and ethics of a particular country. The basics of healthcare economics will also be introduced.

The aim of this course is to understand:

1. Available healthcare facilities and services in Japan.
2. Education, licensing, and services provided by professionals.
3. Introduction of these points to students in YLP (Young Leaders Program).

The aim of this course is to understand the requirements of hospital administrators to manage a hospital in Japan. The sections of a hospital and the practices of each section, as well as infection control methods and patient safety, are introduced.

Rationale and protocols of in utero electroporation-mediated gene transfer and other related methods will be introduced. Mouse embryos that had been subjected to electroporation, as well as fluorescent-labeled slices, will be observed under a fluorescent microscope.

In this course, the fundamentals of clinical practice will be taught as well as basic knowledge about representative clinical medicine such as internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics.

In this course, students will be expected to be able to identify and explain the following characteristics of each healthcare system in Asia:

• Historical and political background
• Basic structure of public policy making and public health systems
• Financing
• Healthcare delivery system
• Issues including research, healthcare industry, quality, consumerism, and a review of past and future health care trends

And, this course will develop students' skills to professional demands to examine the philosophical, social, and political economic foundation underlying a healthcare system in Asia.

Participants will be introduced to the basic skills of conducting a meta-analysis using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) software.

This course gives you an opportunity to obtain the knowledge and technique how to cut single or clustered cells from pathological specimens by the use of a special microscope. Thereafter, the cells will be used for DNA or RNA extraction, followed by PCR analysis or microarray analyses. The training contains the specific cutting of glomerulus from the frozen kidney specimen.

YLP participants will complete a Master's thesis project and give an oral presentation on their findings. Every YLP thesis is expected to be policy-oriented or practical since graduates are potentially future leaders in healthcare administration. Writing a policy-oriented or practice-oriented paper should be useful for participant's future work and, therefore, for people's health.

Fluid secretion containing high concentrations of HCO3- is produced by epithelial cells lining distal pancreatic ducts. Interlobular ducts isolated from rodent pancreas (diameter: ~100 µm) retain the polarity and function of epithelia and provides a useful tool to investigate cellular and molecular mechanisms of vectorial HCO3- transport. In this course, we introduce the basics and techniques to measure intracellular ion concentrations and analyze transepithelial ion transport by using isolated pancreatic ductules as a model cell.

Many regulations restrict medical administration and practices. In this course the fundamental principles of criminal law, civil law, and administrative law will be briefly explained and specific laws relating to medical administration and practices in Japan will also be discussed. The application of bioethics in health services will also be taught. This knowledge of legal and ethical issues will be useful for participants developing health policies.

This course will cover:

1. Elucidation of mechanisms underlying development and regression of neuroblastoma
2. Elucidation of regulatory mechanisms of axon regeneration by sulfated glycans
3. Elucidation of mechanisms of synaptic plasticity regulated by sulfated glycans

This course will cover:

1. Identification and analysis of action mechanisms of genes/molecules that are involved in cancer cell growth, invasion and metastasis.
2. Analyses of neurodegeneration, regeneration with a focus on glials using glycosylation mutant mice.
3. Regulatory mechanisms of lipid-nutrition metabolism and functions of cell membrane with sugar chains.
4. Self-renewal/differentiation of (cancer) stem cells, and mechanisms for cancer metastasis.
5. Development of antibody therapy and anti-signaling molecule therapy toward cancers.
6. Analysis of cell cycle-associated kinases and their target molecules.
7. Regulatory mechanisms for immune-inflammatory reaction and autoimmune reaction with glycosylation. By studying these subjects, we will aim towards applicative trials of results in the clinical field.

This course will cover:

1. Isolation and identification of pathogenic bacteria
2. Evaluation and analyses of bacterial pathogenicity
3. Test and characterization of antimicrobial resistance of bacteria
4. Genetic characterization of molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance
5. Molecular epidemiology of pathogenic bacteria
6. Purification and crystallization of molecules involved with antimicrobial resistance
7. Designing and evaluation of inhibitors that depend on molecular information

This course should aid participants in promoting measures for the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial infections

Through lectures students will learn about the immune system before joining a research group. Current topics include:

1. Development of neutrophils from bone marrow and function of neutrophils to bacteria
2. Development of macrophages from yolk sac and bone marrow and function of macrophages to microbes
3. Innate immune system from fetus to aged
4. Production of pluripotent cells from macrophages
5. Molecular mechanism of regulatory T cells
6. Obesity and immune system; metabolic diseases and fatty liver, Type II Diabetes
7. Murine model of colon cancer development and innate immune cells

We try to clarify the molecular pathology of how virus infections lead to disorders. We also develop novel methods of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment for such virus infections. Our goal is not confined to basic virology, but we would like to emphasize a "translational" mindset by integrating information from clinical and applicative aspects.

1. Basic theory and methodology of virology
2. Development of novel method of diagnosis, prevention for intractable virus infection
3. Molecular pathology of virus-associated lymphomas
4. Development of novel treatment for intractable virus infection
5. Basic/clinical application of oncolytic therapy using herpes simplex virus
6. Development of novel treatment for central neurological infection
7. Molecular mechanism and regulation of opportunistic infection in immunodeficiency
8. Molecular mechanism of mother-to-child transmission and congenital infection

Several topics will be presented in this course:

1. The fundamental cell biology and molecular genetics of the yeasts and the fungi
2. The relationship between pathogenicity and stress sensitivity on pathogenic yeast
3. The genomic information needed for rapid identification of pathogenic yeast
4. The relationship between candidiasis and genetic type
5. Genotyping of Candida albicans and its geographical distribution based on the microsatellite analysis
6. The fundamental information about the secondary metabolite genes of fungi

1. Molecular architecture of the neuromuscular junction
2. Pathomechanisms and therapy of abnormal neuromuscular signal transmission due to genetic mutations
3. Physiological roles of RNA-binding proteins
4. Molecular mechanisms underlying aberrations of RNA metabolism
5. Drug-repositioning strategy for orphan diseases
6. The effects of molecular hydrogen on oxidative stress-mediated and inflammatory diseases
7. Tools to analyze the microarray data
8. Tools to analyze the next generation sequencing data

1. Genome-wide discovery of biological modulation factors with gene networks
2. Trans omics analysis of intra-tumor heterogeneity
3. Analysis of reprogramming energy metabolism in cancer cells
4. Analysis of epigenetic alterations in cancer
5. Chromatin conformation analysis for characterizing cell-type specificity
6. Development of tools for analyzing NGS data
7. Development of tools for visualization of omics data

The seminars cover the identification and functional analysis of susceptible genes by systematic genetic tools using laboratory mice. The exercises cover the identification and functional analysis of susceptible genes for human disease including parasitic infection and diabetes by the method of forward genetics in mice.

This course covers:

1. Analysis of physiological function of cellular senescence related genes involved in individual aging
2. Regulatory mechanism of apoptosis-related factors and aging suffered from the oxidative stress
3. Study on the mechanism of cell cycle regulation or cellular senescence induction through DNA damage checkpoints
4. Analysis of the inducible mechanism of cellular senescence by DNA damage response
5. Research on the mechanism of physiological aging or onset of geriatric diseases by model mice
6. Analysis of molecular mechanism of functional decline in immunosenescence and development of its rejuvenation

The seminar will focus on virus structure, replication, and pathogenesis as well as anti-HIV treatment and molecular-epidemiological trends. The training covers the basic molecular biological techniques and the following special techniques to work on HIV; isolation of infectious HIV by in vitro culture system, amplification of HIV gene by RT-PCR, nucleotide sequencing and bioinformatics analysis, protein crystalizing and in silico structural analysis.

This course will cover:

1. Molecular biology of mechanosensing and patch clamp recordings of mechanosensitive channels
2. Cellular biology and cellular physiology of mechanosensitive channels
3. Neuroscience of synaptic formation and growth cones dynamic movements
4. Real time imaging of synaptic plasticity in animal brains

This course will cover:

1. Physiological techniques (patch clamp, microelectrode arrays, ion imaging)
2. Histochemical techniques (immunostaining, in-situ hybridization)
3. Molecular biological techniques (quantitative PCR, transgenic animals)
4. Computer simulation
5. Clinical measurements (MRI, magnetic sensor)
6. Tips on organizing research, writing papers, presentations

This course will cover:

1. The mechanisms of various cellular processes such as cell polarity, migration and cytokinesis
2. The mechanisms of neuronal polarity
3. The pathology of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

The course contents of the Medical Science Practical Research are to learn biochemical and cell biological techniques

1. To monitor living cells using fluorescent protein-tagged cytoskeletal proteins or signaling molecules
2. To monitor neuronal polarity using time-lapse analysis
3. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders

The enrolled students participate in our research on the molecular pathogenesis of human solid hard-to-cure cancers, especially lung cancer, through state-of-the-art genomic/proteomic and bioinformatic analyses, coupled with elucidation of their detailed biological and biochemical functions. They are also provided with opportunities to learn how to translate basic findings for the development of novel diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, in order to realize "from bench to bedside."

Students will read representative papers related to the topics below. The students will make presentations based on the papers they read and participate in discussions. The course aims to help students acquire the ability to research information and prepare presentations. Topics include:

1. Cell cycle control
2. Signal transductions in cancer
3. Cancer cell invasion, metastasis and epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT)
4. Regulation of RNA splicing and translation

1. Students will obtain basic and up-to-date knowledge of synaptic transmission, information processing in neural circuits, synaptic plasticity, learning, and experience-dependent development of brain functions by reading and introducing original papers.
2. Students will analyze synaptic transmission, the properties of neural circuits, and synaptic plasticity using the patch-clamp recording method in visual cortical slices. They will also record and analyze the response of cortical neurons to visual stimulation using anesthetized animals.

Medical Science Seminar: The course includes a series of seminars in which the molecular mechanism underlying metabolic diseases are actively discussed. Especially, focusing on the involvement of stromal cells such as immune cells, novel pathogenesis and therapeutic strategy are discussed.

Medical Science Practical Research: The exercises include basic procedure of experiments such as molecular biology, cell biology and histopathology. Depending on the projects that the student is engaged, the exercises cover how to produce and evaluate animal models on metabolic diseases using genetically engineered mice.

The course is a series of seminars in which neural regulatory mechanisms of instinctive behaviors are described. The course also includes a discussion about state of the art research using molecular biology, behavior pharmacology and electrophysiology.

Medical Science Seminar In this seminar, students will acquire a basic knowledge regarding pathobiology of neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on the roles of glia-neuron interaction and protein/nucleic acid metabolism in disease. Medical Science Practical Research The laboratory course provides students with opportunities to analyze the cell/animal models of neurodegenerative diseases using multiple methods in cell biology, biochemistry, immunology, and neuroscience.

This seminar plans to provide knowledge on the emerging relationship between genetic abnormalities and neuropathogenesis in developmental disorders, focusing especially on Autism spectrum disorders and mental retardations.

This course will cover:

1. Membrane domains
2. Physiological functions and abnormality of lipid droplets
3. Mechanism of autophagosome biogenesis
4. Techniques for membrane research
5. Application of chemical biology to ultrastructure analysis

This course will cover:

1. Mechanisms underlying nerve regeneration
2. Neuron-Glia interactions after nerve injury
3. Cellular and molecular responses under chronic stress
4. Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying abnormal pain in response to nerve injury and chronic stress

Anatomical training is necessary. For example, students should learn how to dissect mouse embryos to isolate brain promordia. Basic histological techniques such as how to fix the specimen using fixatives such as paraformaldehyde, and then how to make a frozen block for further sectioning of the sample should be understood. Then, obtained sections will be stained using classical dyes or by using antibodies. Immunostained sections will be inspected using fluorescent microscopes. Images will be captured using CCD cameras and processed to make informative figures. For live imaging, slice culture techniques will be learned and practiced. On-stage cultures will be performed and images will be filmed. Cellular behaviors captured in movies will be analyzed quantitatively and statistically.

Projects in this course include:

1. Elucidation of iron-mediated oxidative stress-induced carcinogenesis
2. Elucidation of asbestos-induced mesothelioma and development of prevention strategies
3. Prevention of oxidative stress-induced carcinogenesis
4. Evaluation of novel nanomaterials including carbon nanotubes

Students will learn to mix and harmonize several different strategies such as pathological, genetic and molecular biology techniques.

1. In this course, students will study the molecular mechanisms of cancer development, invasion and metastasis caused by mutations of cancer-related genes including receptor tyrosine kinases and their downstream molecules and transcription factors and methods to apply the findings of basic research to issues related to human cancers using clinical pathological samples.
2. In this seminar, students will study the molecular mechanisms of cytoskeleton regulation by growth factors which control cell mortality. This course will show the biological and biochemical research methods with cultured cell lines. In addition, students will learn the histological methods to analyze in vivo roles of cytoskeleton regulation with the gene targeted mice. This course also provides the knowledge about biological roles of cell mortality in cancer cells, endothelial cells and neural cells with medical view points.
3. In this course, students will study the molecular mechanisms of survival and differentiation of neuronal cells regulated by neurotrophic factors such as GDNF and NGF. Students will also learn the techniques to study the mechanisms of neuronal survival and differentiation using cultured neuronal cell lines and primary cultured neurons. In addition, students will learn the techniques to study the development and in vivo roles of neural tissues in genetically modified mice.

This course uses seminars in which research on cell cycle control, including the novel molecular mechanism of the regulation of the cell cycle by centrosomes and primary cilia, are presented and actively discussed. The course also includes seminars on cutting edge knowledge of cancer immunology and immunotherapy.

This course covers:

1. Development of highly-sensitive analysis method of drugs and poisons by various mass spectrometry
2. Development of mass spectrometric differentiation method of isomers of designer drugs
3. Development of analysis method of bile acids and its application to biochemical research
4. Application of metabolomics to forensic toxicology
5. Assessment of toxicities and biological effects of designer drugs by metabolomics
6. Studies on personal identification and kinship by DNA analysis from human specimens
7. Human population genetical studies focused on Japanese and East/Southeast Asians
8. DNA analyses with human genome information from archaeological/historical samples
9. Evolutional studies on microsatellites in primates

Students will learn about the basic knowledge regarding cell cultures, immunoblot and PCR, immunohistochemistry and management of genetically-modified mice. Students will also learn about environmental monitoring using advanced equipment such as HPLC, ICP-MS and GC-MS. Moreover, it is possible to learn basic knowledge and technique of fieldwork research as a department of social medicine.

The seminars in this course cover epidemiological measures, and typical designs and statistical analysis of epidemiological studies, including multivariate analysis. Lectures on basic medical statistics are also provided. Students will participate in a cross-sectional study, case-control study, cohort study, or intervention study conducted at the Department. Applicants may also design a medical study and conduct it themselves.

In the seminar students will learn about the health situation and trends in Japan and the world; epidemiology and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases; social determinants of health; healthcare management; health communication; health systems; health policies; community health; etc. Students will also conduct practical research where they will learn methodologies of data collection, how to do statistical and qualitative analyses, research design and logistics management, preparation of scientific papers and presentations. Students will also learn and practice systematic review, social science approaches, and participatory problem analysis.

This course covers:

1. Public health in general: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, occupational health, international health, community health, and medical law
2. Healthcare administration in general: population structure, disease patterns, medical facilities, medical professionals, healthcare levels, hospital administration, health insurance, long term care insurance, regulations by law, roles and structures of central government and local governments
3. Healthcare systems in Asia, supportive measures, and international organizations

The seminar course is composed of a series of seminars which cover the mechanisms of digestion and absorption of nutrients at molecular, cellular, and organ levels. The course also includes a series of seminars to understand the pathogenesis and genetic background of cystic fibrosis and pancreatitis. The exercises for practical research include:

1. the basics and techniques to measure intracellular ion concentrations and analyze transepithelial ion transport
2. the skills to isolate pancreatic ductules retaining epithelial polarity and the activity of bicarbonate secretion
3. the methods to analyze mutations/polymorphisms of the genes related to cystic fibrosis and pancreatitis

Effects of life-style modification(ex. Increase in physical activity) could clinically and basally be understood in metabolic syndorome, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and artheriosclerosis.

Students will attempt to develop the results of basic medicine and physiology to promote health under the following themes:

1. Clarification of characteristics and mechanisms for respiratory and cardiovascular responses to exercise
2. Clarification of volitional respiration during exercise by means of learning and cognition
3. Clarification of mechanism and physiological significance for locomotor-respiratory coupling during exercise
4. Clarification of respiratory and cardiovascular responses to hypoxic condition and exercise under hypoxic condition
5. Clarification of adaptation to respiratory and cardiovascular functions after aerobic training

In this course, students will analyze existing data on cancer by applying the different methods of statistical studies. This includes

1. Basic method of cancer descriptive epidemiology
2. Analysis using Aichi Cancer Registry data
3. How to analyze data for case-control study
4. To know current studies on gene-environment interaction
5. How to analyze survival data

This course covers:

1. Regulation mechanism of proliferation, differentiation and living in hematopoiesis
2. Development of novel molecularly targeting agents
3. Development of immunotherapy for neoplasm
4. Analysis of molecular events associated with the development and progression of hematological malignancies

For this purpose, we offer a series of seminars using clinical symptomatology, neuropathology, molecular biology, epidemiology, neurophysiology, and imaging study including molecular imaging technique, and actively discuss with participants.

• Diganosis and therapy of neurodegeneration/dementia
• Translational research on neurodegeneration/dementia
• Heath and disease of neural network
• Application of omics analyses

This course covers:

1. Identification of causative genes for genodermatosis using the next generation sequencer
2. Analysis of anti-nuclear antibodies and their target epitopes in a variety of collagen diseases
3. Innovation of novel therapeutic strategies for genetic keratinization disorders using genetically engineered mice
4. Elucidation of roles of ER stress response during differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes
5. Analysis of filaggrin gene mutations as a predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis
6. Prenatal diagnosis of severe genetic skin disorders

Lectures are provided in order for students to attain the following learning objectives:

1. Current status of healthcare and long-term care in Japan
2. Common characteristics of illnesses in old age and their symptoms.
3. Basic researches aimed to elucidate the mechanism and etiology of age-related diseases.
4. Community-based observational/interventional studies
5. Interprofessional work and its involvement in community healthcare
6. Healthcare policy for Japan's older population

The course compromises a series of seminars in which molecular mechanisms maintain and regulate the genomic stability. Their physiological relevance are presented and actively discussed. Basic techniques for molecular and cellular biology required for the genome dynamics research will be studied. Those include molecular cloning of the genes of interest, expression and purification of the proteins, and functional analyses of the gene products in cell-free systems and in cells.

Studies on the quantitative evaluations of in vivo toxicokinetics of drugs and chemicals will be done, and then, the prediction methods for adverse drug reactions will be reviewed. Application studies for processing, evaluation and statistical analyses of genome-related data will also be learned.

1. Establishment of animal model for drug-induced liver injury
2. Elucidation of the mechanism of drug-induced liver injury
3. Development of in vitro cell-based assay system for the screening of drug-induced liver injury
4. Evaluation of the toxicity of acyl glucuronides
5. Involvement of non-coding RNAs in drug metabolism and drug disposition
6. Establishment of biomarker of non-coding RNA for organ-toxicity
7. Study for the hypersensitivity of drug-induced skin adverse reactions

This course will focus on the following objectives:

1. Identification and functional analysis of neural circuits and molecules that are involved in the regulation of higher brain function such as learning/ memory and emotion
2. Development of animal models for neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, and the application for drug discovery
3. Investigation of neuronal mechanism for pathological gambling as well as drug addiction, and the development of new treatment
4. Investigation of immune responses in the central nervous system
5. Molecular mechanism of stress-induced brain dysfunction

This course will focus on the application of biostatistical methods through the following key points:

1. Foundations of biostatistical methods (statistical inference/modelling, regression and discriminant analysis, Bayesian analysis etc.) and methods for designing and analyzing clinical/epidemiologic studies
2. Data analysis and simulation experiments using statistical software such as R and SAS
3. Practice of biostatistics in real biomedical researches

It has been becoming clear that mitochondrial dysfunction plays an impotant role in induction of senescence and premature senescence in humans, animals and cultured cells. Therefore, telomera shortening and free radical theory of ageing should be reconsidered at this moment. Metabolic changes occured through mitochondrial dysfunction. In the course, mitochondrial membrane potentials of cultured cells are manipulated by expression of UCP2 (uncoupling protein). We will discuss the metabolic changes caused by the impairment of oxdative phosphorylation and morphological changes.

We are going to perform the following training, Direct sequencing and Real time PCR.

This course covers medical fields where normal or abnormal morphologies and structural organizations are studied in a variety of systems comprising the human body. It includes gross anatomy, histology, electron microscopy, cell biology, developmental biology, neuroanatomy, neurosymptomatology, radiology, and pathology.

The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive overview of occupational and environmental health. The course will provide a framework for understanding how scientific information is used in risk assessment designated to protect workers and information. Students will learn to research and develop integrated presentations on occupational and environmental health issues, supported by current scientific knowledge.

Participants learn methodological principles and practical tips for optogenetical analysis of neural circuit functions. They are provided with opportunities to perform experiments in which freely moving transgenic animals where photosensitive proteins are expressed in specific neurons are photostimulated and change their behavior.

Clinical doctors from various areas of expertise will address YLP participants on the latest technology in clinical medicine in Japan. Students will have an opportunity to be exposed to how clinical education is actually conducted.

In this course we learn about the pathological changes caused by microbial infections (virus, bacteria and fungus) or toxic materials which induce tissue damage. Then we learn that our immune system recognizes them using receptors, eradicates microbes and repairs damaged tissues. Specific microbes such as hepatitis C and continued or carcinogenetic stimuli can overcome the immune system and lead to tissue failure or the development of cancer.

Primacy of cryosectioning over paraffin sectioning is preservation of enzymatic activity, RNA content, lipid content, and antigenecities of protein. In this seminar, students will experience perfusion, dissection, cryosectioning, and slide preparation in a single day.

This course covers an introduction to Pharmacy Management. The mission, goals and policies of hospital pharmacists are introduced.

This course aims to provide basic knowledge on physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, neuroscience and pharmacology in the human body, as well as providing a discussion on the fundamentals of life sciences.

For protein expression, various expression systems such as E. coli, yeast and insect cells are available. The yeast expression system offers several advantages over other systems since it allows to produce a large amount of correctly folded disulfide-bonded recombinant proteins. In this training course, EGF domains of Notch receptors are expressed using K. lactis and detected by dot-blotting.

The overall aim of this course is to understand the essentials of how to write health research papers. Problem statement, literature search, what to write and what not write in each of the introduction, methods, results and discussion sections will be explained.

This course is designed to develop student skills in practice/policy-oriented research. The concept of practice/policy-oriented research and the different approaches for health research such as practical quantitative research, qualitative research, and mixed methods are covered in this course.

The overall aim of this course is to develop the basic knowledge and management skills of epidemiological data and basic statistical analysis. The collection, entry, management, description, recording and analysis of data is covered.

The overall aim of this course is to increase understanding of policy-oriented and practical field research. Invited lecturers will share their research areas and introduce previous studies which they conducted or were involved. Research methods introduced in this course are advanced and complex but will be helpful for public health administrators participating in large research projects.

Issues related to health services administration will be covered in each class.

The participants will visit healthcare administration offices which have pivotal roles in healthcare administration in Japan or the region. Roles will be discussed with the persons in charge after the explanation.

Students will learn about the ideal correlation between society and medicine by studying Public Health and Health Systems, Occupational and Environmental Health, Preventive Medicine, Legal Medicine and Bioethics, Geriatric Medicine, Transplantation and Health Promotion.

We will set up web pages for this course. Students are requested to download the text and data for practice and to solve the given tasks by themselves. After completing the tasks, please send a report answering questions for credit to our department. Consult instructors in office hours (mentioned above) if needed.

This practical course will provide a SDS page protocol at the first day and Western blotting protocol on the second day. You can perform each step by yourself. The purpose of the course is to provide practical knowledge.

This course will provide the basics of the development and protection of batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The study and insightful understanding of this topic is of immense importance to the future of the electric vehicle industry.

The aim of this course is to help students acquire deep understanding of the fundamental science and engineering related to automobiles through experiments.

The aim of this course is to help students acquire deep understanding of the fundamental science and engineering related to automobiles through experiments.

The purpose of this course is to understand the role of infrastructure by learning its economic characteristics, planning procedure, financing and evaluation methods.

This lecture covers several topics related to information systems, which include statistical hypothesis testing, logic, operating system, algorithmic techniques, and information security.

In this course, students will learn about the advanced direct injection gasoline and gas engines. Course objectives include

1. developing an understanding of the design and mechanics of direct injection gasoline and gas engines and,
2. reviewing revolutionary enabling technologies for direct injection gasoline and gas engines.

This course discusses chemical engineering, such as mass balance, transport phenomena, reaction engineering, powder technology, and material engineering.

This lecture focuses on wireless communication and image processing technologies which are fundamental to automotive engineering.

Fundamentals and applications of some major computational techniques currently used to analyze mechanical behaviors of continuum media are given.

Advanced lectures on the fundamental and applied subjects of the dynamical system. Particle system, rigid body system with constraints will be described. Moreover, the analytical techniques, concepts in the dynamical analysis for these systems will be described.

To understand how to utilize knowledge of heat transfer in the real world, and think about their purpose (thermal management, serious energy problems, and global warming)

To understand the importance of thermal management.

To understand about trend of research and development for thermal & energy management in the engineering field (Not limited to space field)

To understand the thermal environment in space and how thermal control is conducted for spacecraft.

This series of special lectures provides guided practice in written and spoken English in academic, scientific, and technical contexts. Lectures include illustrated presentations and activities for students to utilize to apply their learning. The series is open to native speakers and non-native speakers of English.

Topics include:

1. Impact biomechanics
2. Crash dummies
3. Structural deformation
4. Frontal impact
5. Occupant protection
6. Side impact
7. Compatibility
8. Pedestrian protection,
9. Child occupant protection
10. Accident reconstruction
11. Whiplash injury

Substantial difficulties of dynamic systems in the real world lie in the involvement of a large number of related factors that deviate statistically. Multivariate analyses and statistics are common tools for understanding and modeling these intricate systems. This course is arranged for those who had few opportunities to study statistics, multivariate analyses, and some basis for these mathematics. We learn intermediate topics of classic and modern multivariate analyses and related statistics. We also practice how to apply each method of multivariate analysis on real data and interpret the results.

Securing safety of mechanical systems can be achieved through the life cycle of the targeted system by risk assessment followed by risk reduction measures based upon the assessment results. The course aims at providing mathematical /logical tools indispensable when conducting risk assessment processes.

Lecture on basics of numerical analysis technique.

Understand the roles of infrastructure by learning its economic characteristics, planning procedures, financing and evaluation methods.

The purpose of this course is to learn the fundamental knowledge of various energy conversion systems and technologies for energy saving and environmental protections. More specific goals include:

1. to understand the basis of thermodynamics, and be able to make the calculation connected with them
2. to understand the principle of various energy conversion systems like combustion and gasification
3. to understand the principle of global environmental problems, and be able to estimate the contribution of energy conversion systems to the global environment, using thermodynamic quantities such as exergy analyses.

There is no doubt that a considerable portion of pollution emissions result from transportation related activities and vehicular movements in particular. Managing traffic safely and efficiently is one of the most effective solutions to relieve environmental issues worldwide. Training specialists who have the knowledge and skills of traffic engineering is highly demanded especially in developing countries where travel demand is rapidly increasing despite insufficient transportation infrastructure. In this course, fundamentals and international issues in traffic engineering are to be covered in theory and practice, so that students can effectively master the most important issues for practicing highway planning and traffic operations.

The purpose of this course is for students: to understand how to utilize knowledge of heat transfer in the real world, and think about its purpose (thermal management, serious energy problem, and global warming); to understand the importance of thermal management; to understand trends of research and development for thermal & energy management in the engineering field (Not limited To space field); and to understand about the thermal environment in space and how thermal control is conducted for spacecraft.

The aim of this course is to help students acquire deep understanding of the fundamental science and engineering related to automobiles.

The aim of this course is to help students acquire deep understanding of the fundamental science and engineering related to automobiles.

The aim of this course is to help students acquire deep understanding of the fundamental science and engineering related to automobiles.

The aim of this course is to help students acquire deep understanding of the fundamental science and engineering related to automobiles.

The objective of this course is to enable students to study various issues including sustainable development, environmental management, and international cooperation in order to gain a better understanding of the fundamental knowledge and applied skills that are required in the field of civil engineering in developing countries. A comprehensive method of thinking will be studied.

The objectives of this course are

1. to study fundamental knowledge on planning, design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure in Japan, as well as in developing countries, and
2. to survey various civil engineering issues, including those related to environmental problems and recent development of regional disaster mitigation activities.

Lectures on climate change (global warming) will be presented, particularly from the viewpoints of policies and institutions. Students are expected to understand:

1. basic facts about climate change,
2. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and
3. climate change mitigation measures in developing countries.

The aims of this lecture-style class is to teach students to understand the basics of remediation of contaminated soil and water through a lecture on the outbreak of pollution, environmental standards, exposure to organisms, toxicity, environmental fates of pollutants, effects on ecosystems, remediation technologies of soil and water, and waste treatment technologies.

Fundamentals on electric power and energy engineering will be studied.

Develop ability to learn and think about environmental problems in English, and apply this present and discuss one's ideas in English.

This course encourages a unique style of learning. The course consists of:

1. lectures by representatives of environmental industries located in the Chubu area,
2. presentations and/or discussions among students,
3. discussions between students and industry staff. The guest speakers are from prominent companies primarily in the manufacturing field.

Note that the students are strongly recommended to take a course on "Theory of Environmental Resources Management".

The class aims to understand the basic knowledge and techniques to carry out the research on the pollution of soil and groundwater, and waste treatment by the exercise.

The aim of the lecture is to comprehensively examine the framework of civil engineering by introducing various research topics, projects and so on that civil engineering staff have investigated in recent years.

As part of the Global Environmental Leaders Program, this course aims to provide students with research and survey opportunities at universities, research institutions, companies and governments in Japan and overseas to enable them to acquire the ability to conduct practical and applied research. Internships should be conducted based on close communication with Academic Advisors. Students are expected to acquire practical research know-how through Research Training (ORT). Details of internships such as periods and terms of implementation should be decided through consultation with the Academic Advisor and experts at recipient organizations.

In this course, students study ionizing radiations, activity, and radiation detections. Students will also study how ionizing radiations are powerful tools in manufacturing industries.

To learn about policies, plans and technological and institutional measures to realize low carbon cities with a view to integrating climatic change mitigation into urban development.

Fundamental properties of semiconductors and physics of photonic devices and quantum devices for micro- and nano electronics are studied. A guideline of novel device designs is mastered in this lecture.

The aims of this seminar are:

1. to cultivate a broad and general view on computational science and engineering, and
2. to acquire the ability to present in English through practices presentations and cross examination under supervision by native speakers of English.

The following issues can be explained using a comprehensive understanding: of

1. Mechanism of soil and groundwater pollution.
2. Fate of pollutants in soil and groundwater.
3. Bioremediation technologies and microorganisms.
4. Other physical and chemical remediation technologies.

The aim of this class is to equip students with an understanding of the fundamental phenomena in relation to the pollution of soil and ground water: mechanism and modelling of pollutant behavior, bioremediation technologies and microbial behavior, waste management and environmental risk assessment, and other relevant issues. Students should be able to explain two of the following issues based on a comprehensive understanding.

1. Mechanism of soil and groundwater pollution
2. Fate of pollutants in soil and groundwater.
3. Bioremediation technologies and microorganisms.
4. Other physical and chemical remediation technologies

The aim of this class is to equip students with an understanding of the fundamental phenomena in relation to the pollution of soil and ground water and, the mechanism and modelling of pollutant behavior, bioremediation technologies and microbial behavior, waste management.

The aim of this class is to equip students with an understanding of the fundamental phenomena in relation to the pollution of soil and ground water and, the mechanism and modelling of pollutant behavior, bioremediation technologies and microbial behavior, waste management.

The objective of the course is to provide students with several definitions, views, interpretations, and analyses on the notion of sustainability.

The purpose of this seminar is to learn measuring methods and the technique of data analysis for experiments of electronic and information systems. You can understand main methods through lectures and exercises using computers. The lecture cultivates the fundamental skill of collecting and analyzing experimental data.

Students are expected to understand environmental problems from the viewpoint of 'resources'. They are required to understand

1. Optimal point of use of the resources; and
2. Theory and cases of 3R.

To understand approaches and methods to analyze travel behavior and demands for various transportation systems

Water pollution and solid waste are two major environmental problems facing our society today. In this class, we will learn about various technologies and measures applied to drinking water supply, control of pollution of water bodies, and solid waste management.

Water pollution and solid waste are some of the major environmental problems facing our society today. In this class we will learn about various technologies and measures applied to the drinking water supply, control of pollution of water bodies, and solid waste management.

This course will introduce the latest scientific findings related to bioagricultural sciences. Also in this course, students will introduce their own research subjects. The aim of this course is to learn presentation and discussion skills and to deepen the knowledge for own study through the discussion with the students from different research fields.

This course will introduce the scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations that contributed to modern agriculture. The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the current advances in science and technology and how such innovations have shaped the agriculture that we know today. In this course, active discussion among students will be facilitated in order to evaluate the application of scientific and technological advances that will promote agricultural progress not only in developed countries but in all countries worldwide.

This course will be based on participants' presentations. Some of the students will be assigned to do a presentation in a session, but all of them are requested to prepare every class and actively participate in it. Topics include

1. Basic theory of method for growth analysis
2. Absolute growth rate and relative growth rate
3. Basic parameters for growth analysis
4. Cross relationships between the parameters
5. Basic tips for how to proceed with a research and growth analysis

This program will look at the following topics: history of ODA (Official Development Assistance) and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency), activities of JICA specialists, roles of NGOs (non-governmental organization), developing international consortium run by ICCAE (International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Education, NU), networks for north-south international cooperation and other related matters.

This course aims at comparing and analyzing the activities of international organizations and NGOs for solving the problems developing countries are suffering from. You are going to generate reform policies for education, an efficient curriculum and syllabus to foster professional people in the agricultural field. You could also get profound insight into common problems when disseminating technologies and building effective systems of it. Other issues for the course will be set on learning to find out the local needs and the methods for prior, mid-term, wrap-up and post-project evaluation in the agricultural international cooperation.

The aim of this course is to develop students' writing skills and familiarize them with the conventions related to academic writing in English. We will focus on cleaning up common errors of grammar, collocation and word choice. We will use paragraph structure as a starting point to expand in to longer essay formats, focusing on how to formulate sound topics, concluding sentences, and providing supporting information. Some of the classes will also be conducted like workshop sessions, where the instructor works closely with students in small groups. Evaluation will be based on in-class and homework assignments as well as some short writing assignments. Students will use workshop sessions to formulate topics for their writing assignments. The small-group sessions will also feature peer review and revision to encourage collaborative habits and allow students to learn from, and assist, their classmates.

Academic Writing Skills II consolidates and expands on the writing skills learned in Academic Writing Skills I while also focusing on more specific issues relating to academic writing, such as document formats and style guides, citing and footnoting, and avoiding plagiarism. Another goal is to familiarize students with a number of different essay formats, such as contrastive essays and argumentative essays. Within each topic of study we will also examine grammar-related problems that frequently occur. Students will use their own thesis or dissertation topic as the basis for in-class and homework assignments with the goal of improving the quality of their work prior to submission for examination.

This course aims to develop various perspectives to analyze politics in developing countries through examining various case studies which are sometimes overlooked by the perspectives of Western Political Science.

The main objective of this course is to know and discuss various perspectives on the meanings and functions of education in society and for individual learners. Particular references will be given to the learners in developing countries and issues encountered there. For that objective, the students will be exposed to the research paradigms, methodologies, and issues of international development, comparative education and relevant academic fields. While the course in the fall semester focuses more on school-based education and policy issues, this course will look at educational phenomena in the wider socio-economic, cultural, and political pictures. The questions to be raised include: What does it mean to educate people? And how is it interpreted from different perspectives?

This course will identify key issues concerning international labor migration. Starting from theories and concepts of migration studies, participants will discuss various aspects and case studies of both sending and receiving countries of migrants. Students are requested to make presentations depending on their research interests.

Participants are expected to acquire comprehensive view of migration issues through discussion and presentation.

This course will introduce the policies and practices of Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) on current hot issues in the subject of infrastructure development. This includes transportation and urban development, regional development, the global environment including climate change, disaster risk management, and other trends and topics in recent development cooperation. Some lecturers will offer the lecture through their practical experiences related to the above subjects. The student is given the assignment of both report and presentation. There are some presentation/report themes presented by the lecturers, which are related to the above subjects. Each student needs to choose one out of the presented themes and make a presentation (individual or group) in the latter part of this course. They must also submit a report on a chosen theme after the presentation.

The course discusses the practical side of development cooperation that participants have to know about to work on projects. Firstly, we will study World Bank aid strategy including activities in the International Development Association of the World Bank group. Development practitioners should not be isolated from what is going on in the international aid community. Understanding of aid strategy in the international aid community will not only help participants work together with other development institutions in donor meetings but also enhance the impact of projects and improve their quality. The second topic of the course is about credit risk analysis. Participants will study debt crisis as a consequence of project lending without credit analysis on repayment capability. Familiarity of macroeconomic risk management of the projects is crucial for development practitioners in identifying projects, funding them and managing them. We will work through several criteria broadly employed by aid organizations including JICA, the World Bank and the IMF. The required level of economics will be kept to a minimum (second year college level). The third topic will be social protection with a focus on pension system. Developing countries are aging faster than developed countries. However, developing countries are not well prepared against rapid aging in terms of income levels as well as institutions including pension systems. Income inequality is substantially higher among the elderly than the national average. Reforming and initiating pension systems is of urgent importance for developing countries since it will take time for any reforms to have an effect. The course will also cover the social side of aid with many examples from the World Bank and ADB. Apart from the above three topics, development cooperation by the private sector and development cooperation in the areas of education will be discussed.

As the core discipline subject of the DID's Economic Development Policy & Management (EDPM) Program, this course offers key principles and issues of the Economics of Development bearing the needs of first-time learners in mind. Topics to be covered are:

1. the role of economic development in "development" and poverty reduction (in conjunction with attaining the MDGs);
2. the evolution of economic development thinking;
3. stylized facts in economic development (open and closed questions);
4. theories of development (traditional and new growth theories);
5. dualistic development and structural change (growth, poverty, and income distribution; rural-urban dichotomy);
6. education and development;
7. sustainable development (the environment and development);
8. trade and development (import substitution, export promotion, and globalization);
9. financing development (capital and saving, financial system and development);
10. guiding development of markets vs. controls (the role of government in development, good governance);
11. development and institutions; and
12. new development challenges in the 21st century (globalization, international economic system, peace building, growth fetishism (?), etc.)

This course will cover various topics of development finance. The first part of this course is dedicated to policy issues of development finance and related theories. In the second part, we will discuss country or region-specific issues of development finance and consider policy recommendations based on macroeconomic situations, financial crises, and MDGs based on presentations of textbooks and related papers. Having a good understanding of all the core courses of the EDPM program would be preferable.

The objective of this subject is to understand basic macro & international economic theories and apply them to developing countries. It begins with the basic concepts of Economics (demand, supply and price), National Accounts, GNI (Gross National Income), Keynesian theories, International trade theories, economic growth and development models, and Globalization of the world economy. We will deal with economic topics in Japan and also practice how to extract macroeconomic features of a country from various economic statistics. Students are expected to acquire basic knowledge and tools for the analysis of developing economies.

This course is designed to provide the essence of microeconomic theory, which would be useful for the analysis on development microeconomics. Later in this course, we will discuss various issues on development microeconomics. Students will be asked to write a term paper on those topics presented in the class or of their choices and to present in the class.

Development is inevitably political as it is fundamentally related with distribution of scarce resources which are very critical for us to realize "good lives". People have developed various thoughts, practices and institutions to tame conflicts over the resources. This course aims to encourage students to precisely analyze political and developmental problems of developing countries through deepening their understanding on important political philosophies.

This course aims to argue one of the most important aspects of development politics: institution. Recently institution has been widely employed by many social scientists as the concept that occupies the centre of analysis. The role of the State and its different organizational levels and "capacities" have also been questioned over the last decades. In this course, we first address the puzzle of collective action as the limit of self-government, and then discuss how institution has become one of the fundamental perspectives to understand political processes, policy outcomes and varieties of political phenomena. We will review both classical and recent works that directly tackled institutional aspects of politics, so as to comprehend and critically argue the most recent development of theories as well as their possible application in empirical analysis. All participants are required to read the designated course materials in advance, and actively participate in the discussion of each class.

This course provides students with basic knowledge and concepts of "Management" and theories of "Plan", "Do", and "See" in implementing development projects related to economy, society, humanity and environment, especially taking "sustainability" into account.

This lecture series will introduce students to basic theories and approaches in international development. We will begin by examining how development has been defined, measured, and approached by the development community. This is followed by the review of classical theories of development that examine the roles of the market and the state in promoting development. We will try particularly to understand theories about modernization and underdevelopment, the two major currents of thought that explore the causes of why nations stay poor. We will then look at development actors, i.e., foreign donors, aid recipients, international financial institutions, the United Nations, multinational corporations, and civil society organizations. Lastly, we will discuss some of the current issues in international development: environment, rural and urban development, and health. By the end of this course, students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of the evolution of development theories and to enhance their ability to articulate their views concerning current development issues.

This is an introductory statistics course for social sciences, especially for development economics. Lectures cover basic theories and applications of regression analysis.

Computer assisted practical exercises are given using EXCEL and SPSS. Supplementary lectures on basic mathematics, probability and statistics are provided for those who need them.

This course introduces students to current trends and issues on health and development in developing countries. A combination of various methods, such as lectures, group discussion, workshops and case studies will be used. By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to explain the key concept of primary health care, factors affecting people's health, and approaches to link health with other social development issues.

This course considers how firm-based research, education, and training contribute to the creation and dissemination of knowledge and the formation and development of skills, and thereby to industrial and economic development. This course is divided into three parts. The first part theoretically and historically analyzes the relationship between skills development and economic development. The second part examines the role of institutions associated with the formation and dissemination of knowledge and skills, such as research and development (R&D) laboratories, corporate training centers, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in improving industrial performance. The third part explores the effects of digitization of the workplace on firm-based skill formation and considers implications of the ongoing process toward a "knowledge-based economy" for the nature of work, the patterns of skill formation, and the labor markets in developing countries. This course includes a few field visits to corporate training centers in Nagoya and adjacent cities for observing the actual practice of in-firm human resources development.

This course is intended to generate comprehensive understanding of theories and practices in educational development and cooperation. The course is divided into two parts. Part 1 is aimed at fostering the acquisition of basic knowledge and skills necessary when approaching issues in educational development and cooperation. The class covers major methodologies in social sciences, as research in educational development and cooperation inevitably requires an interdisciplinary approach. Part 2 provides an overview of practices in international cooperation in education. Starting with an introduction to basic governance structures and organizations of international cooperation, the class covers major issues in the practices of educational development and cooperation at various levels in education.

This course aims to consider the role of higher education under the framework of educational development planning and evaluation. Higher education plays an essential role in contemporary knowledge based society, and has its own context distinguished from primary and secondary education. At the same time, education planning and evaluation is inevitably linked with the issues of access to higher education, brain drain and brain gain typically occurring at the higher education level. The class covers the following topics:

1. historical origins of modern higher education,
2. access and equity in higher education,
3. knowledge economy and higher education, and
4. assessment of international cooperation in higher education.

Across these topics, participants are expected to examine the role and value of international cooperation in higher education.

The major objective of this course is to acquire a comprehensive understanding of theories and practical issues on educational development and international cooperation for it. The course is divided into two parts. The first part is to review major theories and dimensions of educational development as an area contributing to the comprehensive national development, economically, socially, or culturally. This part also focuses on the cooperation/aid by the outside actors, mostly multi- and bi-lateral donor organizations in relation to the historical changes of international educational cooperation from the 1960s up to the present. Normative trends of educational assistance, oft-used modalities of aid, and challenges of aid will be discussed. The last part of the course will touch upon issues regarding different aspects of formal education, such as quality of teaching and learning, administration, finance, and decentralization.

GSID Domestic Fieldwork (DFW) is a research programme to understand issues on regional development in Japan. It is composed of several parts: lectures, preparation of research tools, field work, analysis, and reporting back to the stakeholders. It is planned to be held during October 21-23, 2014 in Ohdai town, Mie Prefecture. Presentation to stakeholders will be held afterward. Students will be divided into different thematic groups. They are expected to write up reports on their findings as group work. Those who register this course should take Preparatory Seminar for GSID DFW.

The Overseas Fieldwork Program (OFW) of GSID aims to provide students with an opportunity to gain first-hand experiences of conducting fieldworks in a developing country and to enhance communication skills based on group work. In the past, overseas fieldworks were conducted in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, South Korea, and Cambodia.

The main aim of this course is to enable students to understand and evaluate "indigenous development" both in theory and in practice. By the end of this course, students will

1. understand the current main points of debate on cultural transformation and globalisation,
2. be able to critically examine the concept of "indigenous development"
3. be able to contextualise "indigenous development" within the current debate of development and to evaluate its role.

This is an introductory course for the study of international law, with the aim of imparting a basic knowledge of what international law is, and how it functions. International law is understood as a set of rules to promote friendly relations among States and international cooperation to ensure peace, human rights and democracy. Due to time constraints, it does not cover the entire field of international law; however, it will impart a basic idea on how international law is created, how it is enforced and how it is implemented.

This course provides an examination of the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the law on foreign investment. It first provides a brief introduction to the history and evolution of the legal framework for trade liberalization and investment protection. It then proceeds to examine WTO law, focusing primarily on the WTO Agreement on Goods (GATT) and on the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), while a brief overview of topics such as the General Agreement on Services (GATS) and financial services in the GATS as well as intellectual property under the WTO will also be provided. The latter half of this course deals with investment law, focusing on selected substantive obligations for investment protection and investment arbitration as a means of procedural protection for foreign investment. The course concludes by examining the developing trends towards regionalism demonstrated by the ongoing negotiations of mega Free Trade Agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

This course will identify key issues concerning international labor migration. Starting from theories and concepts of migration studies, participants will discuss various aspects and case studies of both sending and receiving countries of migrants. Students are requested to make presentations depending on their research interests.

Participants are expected to acquire comprehensive view of migration issues through discussion and presentation.

This course will introduce an overall framework and essential ideas of International Development and Cooperation using an interdisciplinary approach. Participants in this GSID common course are expected to acquire wider knowledge and overview of international development study. Disciplines and crucial issues of International Development will be explained by instructors from seven programs, and help participants open up perspectives on International Development.

The main purpose of this course is to help students acquire the basic knowledge and skills needed to conduct interviews and surveys during fieldwork. This course first introduces students to the principles of fieldwork and then provides hands-on experience by doing a small fieldwork project in a group of three or four students. Each month, the course focuses upon a different aspect of fieldwork. In April, students will learn the basics of fieldwork research and research design, decide on their fieldwork topic, and begin their pre-fieldwork. In May, students will learn how to plan interviews, conduct them in a professional way, and analyze interview data. They will also learn how to present interview data effectively. In June, students will learn how to create a field survey and how to do basic descriptive and inferential analysis. They will also learn how to present survey data effectively. In July, students will first learn how to make strong and credible claims based upon the evidence that they have gathered. Then, each group will present their findings. By the end of the semester, students should have developed a strong understanding of the principles and practice of fieldwork.

This course examines the development and modernisation process of Japan from various perspectives, including both positive and negative. Lecturers from different disciplines deal with issues such as economy, law, governments, agricultural/rural development, education, social development, peace-building, etc. Participants will understand the crucial issues pertaining to Japan's development experience, and consider the adaptability of this experience to other countries.

The aim of "Law and Development Studies (LDS)" is analysis of the role of legal system and institutions in socio-economic development, or relationship between development and legal systems in developing countries. This course focuses on the relevant theories on LDS, and case studies. Participants are required to read designated reading materials (in English) on LDS before each lecture. The reading list will be given in the first lecture. This course also covers issues about legal culture and informal law (e.g. religious law) in the modern world.

This is a special lecture focusing on the policies of energy and climate change and carbon emissions. The lecture will provide students the theories and methodologies low-carbon economics, a brand new research field of economic theory. Students are encouraged to do field studies in local countries and present research result in workshop and international conference.

In this lecture the student will not only learn theory about the UN agency but also look back on individual students' history and experiences. As we do this those attending the lecture will be able to create their own precise career path which is preparation for those who want to work in either the UN agency or another workplace. In these intensive lectures, students will prepare their own UN personal history form (P-11) / CV and practice interviewing. In the lectures, handouts will mainly be used.

What is a nation, and who belongs in it/to it? How does human mobility affect development on the levels of labor, policy, culture and society? This course will explore the concepts of nation and citizenship by examining how different societies throughout the world deal with the question of including or excluding the "other". This examination will then expand to focus on how questions of human mobility and development issues. It will look at the presence of both foreign others (immigrants, refugees and exiles) and domestic others (minority ethnicities and internal migrants, for example) in different nations, and how different approaches are used to include or exclude non- or marginalized citizens. We will examine these issues starting from a historical perspective and trace developments to the present day, using themes relating to selected countries from a variety of continents and regions

The purpose of this class is to gain a deeper understanding of the global movement of people, which is becoming much more active due to the phenomenon of globalization. In this class, a wide range of historical and contemporary issues related to international migration will be considered through active discussions among participants. To understand current immigration issues, Australian radio news on immigration related topic will be introduced at every class.

People saying that I am aiming to work in the UN is like saying I want to take part in the Olympics. The reason is that the Olympics has many games, and so in a similar way, the UN has many agencies and organizations. And so it can be vague as to what exactly you want to work as. In the Olympics, you need to decide which sport you take part in and your ability in that sport. In a similar way, in the UN, you need to decide which agency or organization to join and know your ability to work in that chosen agency. In this class student will not only learn theory about the UN agency but also look back on individual students' history and experiences. As we do this those attending the lecture will be able to create their own precise career path which is preparation for those who want to work in either the UN agency or another workplace. In these intensive lectures, students will prepare their own UN personal history form (P-11) / CV and practice interviewing. In the lectures, handouts will mainly be used.

This course introduces students to typical topics in development economics. Both micro and macro issues in development economics will be covered. For example, we will discuss rural credit issues. Informal money lenders, such as landlords and shopkeepers, and the offering of loans with high interest rates in rural credit markets. What prevents formal lenders, such as government and commercial banks, from participating in rural credit markets in spite of the prevalent high interest rates? For another example, we will study agricultural land tenancy. In Latin American countries, land tenancy is largely in the form of fixed rent, whereas Asian tenancy is characterized by a high incidence of sharecropping. Where does the difference come from?

This course introduces students to typical topics in development economics. Both micro and macro issues in development economics will be covered. For example, we will discuss rural credit issues, informal money lenders, such as landlords and shopkeepers, and those who offer loans with high interest rates in rural credit markets. What prevents formal lenders, such as government and commercial banks, from participating in rural credit markets in spite of the prevalent high interest rates? For another example, we will study agricultural land tenancy. In Latin American countries, land tenancy is largely in the form of fixed rent, whereas Asian tenancy is characterized by a high incidence of sharecropping. Where does the difference come from?

The aim of "Peace building" is to research and analyze the normalization process of a social system in post-conflict or post-disaster societies. This course focuses the relationship between "rule of law" and peace building process. In the lecture, we will read a monograph on human rights and the peace building process.

This course will deal with ethnicity-related issues. Starting from key concepts (ethnicity, nationalism, etc.), it will cover various topics and cases of nation-state building and majority-minority relations mainly from a sociological viewpoint. Students may be requested to make presentations on case studies depending on their research interests.

The aim of this course is to enable students to understand and evaluate the theories and practices of participatory rural development, especially aspects of rural industry promotion. By the end of this course, students will have achieved the following:

1. Have a critical understanding of the major and minor strands in debates on participatory rural industry promotion
2. Be able to critically assess cases of participatory development in rural communities
3. Be able to apply theoretical and practical lessons of effective interventions using participatory methods

The course provides students with a critical understanding of participatory rural industry promotion in both theory and practice. The course is divided into three parts. The first part provides a general theoretical grounding and traces developments in the theoretical understanding of participatory and rural development. It then moves onto some of the main issues and current debates pertaining to rural development, with specific reference to industry promotion. Finally, it examines concrete case studies. Students are expected to read the key text for each week specified in the reading list, which will be provided in the first lecture.

This course introduces key concepts and issues related to peacebuilding in conflict-prone and post-conflict societies. It aims to examine central challenges in peacebuilding as a part of development cooperation activities - both in terms of theory and practice. The course is made up of three parts. Part I explores frameworks for peacebuilding. In so doing, students will be equipped with some conflict analysis and impact assessment tools. Part II explores three basic strategies commonly seen in peacebuilding:

1. humanitarian/emergency response,
2. institutionalization, and
3. societal reconstruction.

Part III focuses on cross-sector issues, exploring some foundational themes for sustainable peace.

This course is aimed for discussing political representation and participation in developing countries. This course begins with a traditional argument that the system of political representation is sometimes not designed necessarily to reflect the interest of people. To understand this discussion practically, we start with a discussion of "policy switching", that is, the violation of mandate by an elected authority, which was observed in some developing countries during the neoliberal era. The same problem may apply in cases where the opposing interests of actors prevail or the distribution of disadvantages is inevitable. Then we will discuss the different forms of political representation and participation, the factors and conditions related to collective action, and the variety of relationship between governmental elites and the population. Participants are required to read the assigned material and submit the answers to quiz before class.

This course aims at deepening our macro-level understanding of conflict. A broad theme is presented in each class. On each theme, a short video clip will be introduced. Students are expected to undertake a small study project based on the video clip and share it with other members of the course. By the end of the course, students are expected to grasp the changing context of international politics and its effects on conflict.

This course reviews changing debates on poverty in the field of international development and is intended to help you gain policy perspectives on poverty reduction. It does so by making connections between theory and practice and by examining poverty reduction tools used around the world. Intended learning goals

• Understand the multi-dimensional nature of poverty
• Understand the historical changes in the geography of global poverty
• Understand the changing global strategies for poverty reduction
• Understand global debates concerning the different types of poverty reduction tools used around the world.

This course is a preparation course for Domestic Fieldwork (DFW). DFW participants should take this course. By attending lectures, participants could understand the basic characteristics of local administration, rural development, and education in Japan. Especially, are introduced various activities to revitalize the communities in the DFW site in 2015 (Ohdai-cho town, Mie prefecture). DFW participants also make a research plan of DFW held in October, 2015.

This seminar series aims to provide participants in OFW with basic information about the country of study, background of field sites and fieldwork methods. All the OFW participants are required to take this course for credit. Classes will be given by resource persons both within and outside GSID.

This is an introductory course on project planning and evaluation. It aims to provide basic knowledge required for management of whole programs and project cycles including identification, preparation, appraisal, implementation and evaluation of projects. Special attention is given to various ex-ante and ex-post evaluation methods. Computer exercises of calculation of project cash flow are included. Participatory methods of formation and the preparation of projects as well as Public Financial Management, which has developed recently, are also included in the lectures.

This is an advanced statistics course for development economics to be continued from the course of Development Statistics. Lectures cover regression analysis of time series data, panel data analysis, simultaneous equations model, CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) model, and so on. Computer assisted exercises are given based on the developing country data.

This interdisciplinary course focuses on the sub-national region as a socioeconomic development unit, and considers various issues related to regional development in the context of developing countries. The course first introduces basic theories and concepts concerning regional development planning, and then discusses contemporary issues and policies pertinent to promoting regional social and economic development from a political economy perspective. Topics covered in this course include urbanization, rural-urban linkages, community development, regional disparities, urban labor markets, regional industrial clusters development, and regional innovation systems.

This course introduces the scope and nature of development in developing countries from two viewpoints: macro-level like nation or region and micro-level like farmers or community. The lectures aim to help students understand "How disciplines similar to Economics grasp development" and learning how to improve rural livelihoods as well as agricultural production, especially through reviewing issues in rural development. Furthermore, factors for sustainable development are learned from agricultural and rural development projects experiences.

The main theme of this seminar is basically Economic and Tourism Development, more specifically, Sustainable Tourism Development in Developing Countries from the community to the international level. Seminar I for M1 and II for M2 will be a joint class. Both M1 and M2 students have to attend two classes. All students are expected to participate in discussions and make presentation according to their research progress by rotation. Students registered these seminars should take the lecture on Economic Development Policy and Management I.

Frontiers of development studies will be explored. Otsubo Seminar generally deals with the existing and emerging development management/governance issues under globalization and the market-oriented development process. Our recent research agenda includes International Trade and Development (incl. strategic trade liberalization and FTA/CEP strategies), External Finance of Development (incl. capital flow management and FDI induction strategies), Macroeconomic Management under Globalization (incl. exchange rate regimes and monetary policy rules, and debt sustainability and fiscal management), Investment/Industrial Promotion, Structural Reforms and Institution Building, ICT and Development, Roles of Government in Market-Oriented Development Strategies, Public Sector Management, Global Governance (incl. WTO, IMF, WB), Globalization and Income/Spatial Inequality, and so forth. Each participant is expected to conduct research in his/her chosen field, make periodic presentations, and prepare academic papers and a degree thesis.

(1) Seminar 1:Monday Period 4

In this seminar the first year students in the Master's program will read a text book of statistics and do some computer based practice on statistical analysis. Students are also occasionally asked to make presentations about their research topics.

(2) Seminar 2: Monday Period 3

In this seminar, the second year students in the Master's program and the students in the Doctoral program are asked to make presentations on their research progress leading to some hot discussions. Through the seminar, M2 students are expected to write good Master theses.

This seminar is on development economics and public policies. We will read textbooks on development economics, micro-surveys, and discuss policies for welfare improvement, trade, and poverty reduction. Students will be expected to make presentations on their research plans, progress, and papers of their research interests later in the course.

This research seminar is primarily intended to help students develop analytical skills, conduct research, and write a thesis. It also introduces students to qualitative research methods and strategies. In the first semester, students will critically discuss the key literature relevant to their research, formulate research questions, and carry out literature reviews. In the second semester, M2 and doctoral students will present their research in progress, while M1 students select a topic, consider research methodologies, and write a research paper.

The major objective of this research seminar is to help students develop skills of critical thinking and analysis. M1 students are expected to learn, by participating in a joint research project, the critical reading of literature, designing a research framework, conducting interviews, analysis, and writing up. M2 and other students will design their own thesis research and present its progress in the seminar to get suggestions for improvement.

This seminar focuses on presentations and discussions, concerning master thesis while examining the basic research of social issues. Assignments, such as the selection of a thesis topic, literature review, data collection, analysis, and writing are decided through consultation with students. Any empirical research is acceptable.

This seminar series will be used as small group tutorials to provide M1 students with opportunities to discuss issues covered by lecture series, and to exchange views on what they have learned during the week. Additionally - depending on the participants' composition and disposition to talk, students will be given 'cases' to discuss or topics to debate on. The purpose of the tutorials is to get students to talk. M2 students will be trained in research methods and thesis writing skills.

This seminar will serve as a forum of students who are interested in the role of laws in global and domestic governance, particularly in the economic area. Depending upon interests of participants, it will cover various topics including current issues in international economic law as well as development and implementation of competition laws in developed and developing economies. For example, it will deal with issues such as "trade and development" in the World Trade Organization (WTO) law, accession negotiations to the WTO, development of Doha Round negotiations, and cases of competition laws in Japan, the United States, the European Union and other countries. Participants are required to make presentations on assigned topics and encouraged to contribute to discussion thereon, based on their experience and expertise. Participants are advised to also take my courses: International Economic Law (Spring) and International Competition Law (Fall).

This seminar aims to explore perspectives that bridge qualitative research of area studies and political theories to analyze politics of developing countries. Participants are required to present on their studies and reviews of related materials.

This seminar helps students to develop their research themes for MA and PhD dissertations. Students are expected to prepare presentation on their own research topic. Participants of this seminar are also expected to actively comment on the presented topic(s).

In this course, students will learn how to write a thesis on social and cultural changes resulting from economic development, globalization, and modernization. Coursework includes learning how to formulate research questions, developing fieldwork plans, examining case studies, giving presentations, and writing reports.

This seminar is to discuss the crucial points of methodology in causal inference, especially the difference between quantitative and qualitative analysis. Methodology is one of the area where many arguments have taken place during the last two decades. While many common understandings have been submitted by retrospective reflection and introduction of quantitative techniques still many others have been left as topics of contestation.

In this seminar, we will discuss, mainly, the legal systems in non-European countries, and the relationship between socio-economic development and the legal system in developing countries. First year students in master's degree course are required to read and make presentations on one monograph about law and economic development. Second year students and doctoral degree course students are required to make presentations about their own research theme.

Seminar I

This is a seminar on international law, which is often called "law of war and peace." International law provides the international society with order, stability and standards on the basis of which international disputes shall be settled. Rules of international law regulate the daily conducts of states, international organizations, NGOs and individuals. One of the examples is the Charter of the United Nations. In this seminar, some aspects of international law will be examined.

Seminar II

This seminar has a purpose to give students basic knowledge necessary for writing a dissertation as a partial requirement of M.A. Participants are expected to make presentation on their own research and to be actively involved in discussion.

Seminar I aims at reviewing articles/reports related to regional/area studies as well as rural studies and acquiring research abilities through intensive discussion of their methodologies and empirical knowledge. In Seminar II, students make regular presentations on their research theme/interests related to rural development or regional development. In practice, students can complete basic research works like survey (preparation and implementation), analyses and writing etc.

This research seminar is primarily intended to help students develop analytical skills, conduct research, and write a thesis. It also introduces students to inductive qualitative research methods and strategies. In the first semester, students will critically discuss the key literature relevant to their research, formulate research questions, and carry out literature reviews. In the second semester, M2 and doctoral students will present their research in progress, while M1 students select a topic, consider research methodologies, and write a research paper.

Each month, the course focuses upon a different aspect of fieldwork. In April, students will learn the basics of fieldwork research and research design, decide on their fieldwork topic, and begin their pre-fieldwork. In May, students will learn how to plan interviews, conduct them in a professional way, and analyze interview data. They will also learn how to present interview data effectively. In June, students will learn how to create a field survey and how to do basic descriptive and inferential analysis. They will also learn how to present survey data effectively. In July, students will first learn how to make strong and credible claims based upon the evidence that they have gathered. Then, each group will present their findings. By the end of the semester, students should have developed a strong understanding of the principles and practice of fieldwork.

This research seminar is primarily intended to help students develop analytical skills, conduct research, and write a thesis. It also introduces students with inductive qualitative research methods and strategies. In the first semester, students will critically discuss the key literature relevant to their research, formulate research questions, and carry out literature reviews. In the second semester, M2 and doctoral students present their research in progress, while M1 students select a topic, consider research methodologies, and write a research paper.

The main theme of this seminar is "Tourism and Development" and "Economics of Tourism". More specifically, we look at "Sustainable Tourism Development in Developing Countries", from the community to the international level. As you know, tourism might be helpful or harmful for destinations and the local people. The objective of this lecture is to understand both positive and negative effects of tourism in a sustainable manner. This lecture includes various aspects not only economic but also social and other aspects of tourism and its development. An introductory textbook will be used. Also various cases studies especially tourism development of small island developing states will be discussed.

This course has an aim to understand the security issues in the framework of the Charter of the United Nations. First the collective security system is dealt with in comparison with the old balance of power structure. Secondly the changing system of UN collective security after 1990 will be addressed. Finally, a moot court competition will be practiced by students, who will play a role as agent for the plaintiff, defendant, or judge. If you have no knowledge on international law you are strongly advised to take the course International Cooperation Law in the spring semester first.

This course examines NGOs and civil society in development as well as other issues in the world, including how they have grown and developed and their present conditions and challenges. This course will also introduce the practical management of NGOs and the value and skills necessary to understand the function of NGOs. Various practical cases will be introduced, and students will be encouraged to discuss and debate each issue.

This course aims at understanding urbanity, rurality and their relations from a diverse perspective. The lectures are delivered by three experts on India (Prof Ota), Indonesia (Prof Arata) and Japan (Prof Yasumoto) and examine the characteristics of urban and rural areas, and interactions and influences between urban and rural areas.

This course is designed to be one of the English courses which the Graduate School of Mathematics is providing for the graduate and undergraduate students not only from foreign countries but also domestic students who wish to study abroad or to communicate with foreign scientists in English. All course activities including lectures, homework assignments, questions and consultations are in English. The purpose of this course is to introduce and explain the various methods in mathematical science.

This course is designed to be one of the English courses which the Graduate School of Mathematics is providing for the graduate and undergraduate students not only from foreign countries but also domestic students who wish to study abroad or to communicate with foreign scientists in English. All course activities including lectures, homework assignments, questions and consultations are in English. The purpose of this course is to introduce and explain the various methods in mathematical science.

Subtitle: Hilbert space methods for quantum mechanics

This course will provide an overview of some classical tools of functional analysis which have been partially developed for quantum mechanics. In particular, an introduction to spectral and scattering theory will be presented. These theories have deep connections with other branches of mathematics, like PDE, operator algebras or dynamical systems. Some up-to-date tools of spectral theory will also be introduced, as for example commutator methods for spectral theory. In order to provide a large panorama on the subject together with applications, some details might be omitted, but references for all proofs will be provided.

Setting aside for the time being the question of precisely what the word ‘media’ means in today's rapidly-evolving communication context we may say that, in very broad terms, ‘media studies’ entails investigation of three core areas: production (including regulation, ownership and working practices), consumption and texts. Although this course focuses mainly on texts it also involves a consideration of the other two areas since it views texts not as free-standing linguistic or semiotic phenomena but as instances of discourse, that is, as the discoursal aspect of social practices including those of production and consumption. Moreover, although most of the media texts to be studied will be in English (with some Japanese too depending on the ability of the participants), we shall aim to transcend national frontiers and consider how media discourses are propagated and circulated on a global scale. In doing so, participants will be encouraged to share their knowledge and describe their personal experience of media texts in their own countries, Japan and elsewhere.

We shall begin in the first few weeks of the course by mapping out the territory of the academic border zone where media studies and discourse studies meet. This will entail a discussion of the meaning of a number of key terms including mediation, discourse, ideology, hegemony, genre and intertextuality. The remainder of the course will be devoted to an exploration of the two theoretical and methodological frameworks that underpin the course as a whole: systemic functional grammar (which turns out to be far less boring than it sounds!) and critical discourse analysis. There is a great deal of complex information to be absorbed here and participants, particularly those who do not have a background in linguistics, will have to put in considerable time and energy in order to keep on track. Those who do so successfully, however, will be rewarded by the acquisition of a powerful set of theoretical tools with which to approach the comparative analysis of media discourse in a global context.

The first few weeks of the course will be spent reviewing the theoretical concepts, methodological techniques and key issues introduced in the previous course. The remainder of the course will be devoted to two activities to be conducted in parallel. The first will be the selection, development and implementation of a student-led group media discourse analysis project. The findings of this project will be reported on as a series of Powerpoint presentations. The second will be the study of selected advanced readings in this field and discussion of some of the key issues arising therefrom. This will culminate in the production of individually authored written papers. As with the previous course, although most of the media texts and discourses to be studied will be in English we shall aim to transcend national frontiers and consider how media discourses are propagated and circulated on a global scale. In doing so, participants will be encouraged to share their knowledge and describe their personal experience of media texts in their own countries, Japan and elsewhere.

Ideophones (called giongoor gitaigoin Japanese) such as the words bowwow, swoosh and wobble and sound symbolism (for example the non-word bouba sounds curvy, whereas kiki sounds spiky) constitute a complex research topic in cognitive linguistics and psychology. In this course, we will look at various empirical approaches, both formal and functional and both qualitative and quantitative, to this interesting but seemingly elusive topic. The issues to be discussed include the following:

The embodied basis of sound symbolism (phonetics, phonosemantics);

The distribution of quotative markers in Japanese ideophones (phonology);

The meanings of ideophonic templates (morphology, semantics);

The typology of ideophonic syntax (morphosyntax);

Ideophones and paralinguistic features (semiotics, pragmatics);

Ideophones and language acquisition (developmental/cognitive psychology).

This course is a survey of modern Japanese cultural and intellectual history, spanning the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) periods. With a focus on novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and cinema, we will examine how these cultural forms served as vehicles for interrogating ideologies of modernity and depicting the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and Westernization on Japan and its people.

This seminar is an introduction to classical Japanese literature, spanning the genres of poetry, narrative prose, and drama. Working within this context, students will be introduced to basic concepts and methods in literary studies, and challenged to think critically about the linguistic, aesthetic, and cultural conditions that informed literary production and reception within the early and medieval Japanese contexts.

In order to acquire a deep understanding of Japanese culture and society, students will use a technology, industrial field, particular company or product that interests them as a basis for investigating Japanese technology through comparison of that same case in their country of origin or elsewhere. At least one presentation on this comparative research is assigned to each student during the course in addition to the final paper.

Topic details, expectations and the due date will be explained in the first class session. Successful students will also actively participate in class discussion. Topics that will be discussed in the class:

1. Introduction to a history of technology;
2. Establishment of the Meiji Administration and the network of the telegraph;
3. Electrification of factories - Management and discipline of labor;
4. The beginning of the domestic production of household appliances;
5. Sending one's voice - Telephone as a new sound media;
6. Radio and propaganda in wartime;
7. Science and technology policies in the postwar period.

Studies on native Japanese speakers are first introduced to identify how native speakers process their first language, (L1) Japanese. Based on L1 Japanese studies, the Japanese processing mechanism of JSL learners, such as native Chinese, Korean and English speakers, are examined by reading previous publications related to JSL processing and acquisition. New techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking are utilized in the experimental field of psycholinguistics and are applied to JSL learners. Therefore, previous studies that used these new techniques are also presented during the course of 15 classes.

This class situates the Japanese language within the context of recent findings in Linguistic Typology, a discipline that inquires into language universals and cross-linguistic variation. Participants are expected to gain

1. an enhanced understanding of how Japanese differs from other languages of the world, and
2. an analytical perspective from which to view and work on linguistic phenomenon in Japanese cross-linguistically.

In this course, students will learn and discuss how innovative poets and writers in the Modernist tradition have utilized translation and expressions in foreign languages in the composition of their works. The special focus will be on Ezra Pound, especially his translation and use of Japanese and Chinese literature, but we will also pay attention to other poets and writers such as Kenneth Rexroth, Rosmarie Waldrop, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Yoko Tawada, and discuss how they use translation and expressions in foreign languages and what kinds of meanings -- literary, linguistic, sociological and political -- can be found in each of the examples. A more detailed class schedule will be provided on the class website: http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~nagahata/lectures15/modernism/modernism15.html

Taking Canada's official multiculturalism as a starting point, we shall discuss issues connected to historiography, national identity, multiculturalism, and issues of representation in contemporary media and cultural texts, including literature, film, and television. Course themes include aboriginal-Euro-Canadian relations, French-English relations, immigration in the twentieth century, English-Canadian identity, and multiculturalism as ideology, policy, and practice.

The course will examine key literary and film texts in order to understand the image and significance of the automobile and the road in American culture.

This course explores the social and cultural implications of developments in information and communications technology (ICT) and related digital media such as smart phones, particularly in terms of how these have dramatically altered the processes of news production, distribution, and consumption and the formation of public opinion. From the theoretical perspective of online communication, we will investigate the influence that interactive web-based communication tools such as social networking services (SNS) are having on the political process and consider the potential role of digital media in promoting social trust and greater participation in elections. In addition, we will discuss the some of the negative social effects of social media such as the digital divide, the knowledge gap and the gender gap.

This course aims to introduce graduate students to the study of political communication by providing students with general understanding of the key terms and ideas in the field. While it gives an overview of the Japanese and global systems of media communications, it also examines the changing relationship between the media and contemporary political institutions and processes. Major topics include the media's role in setting political agendas; the growing importance of public opinion; current international issues on Japan and Northeast Asia and the emerging professional political communications.

In this course, participants will read and discuss essays about translation. Every week the participants will be assigned a scholarly article about translation, and one of the participants will be selected as the designated commentator for the week. He or she will write a position paper about the assigned article and post it to the class mailing list one day before the meeting of the class. The other participants will read the assigned text and the position paper before coming to the classroom. In the class the designated commentator will introduce the author of the article, give its summary and start a discussion by presenting his/her position orally.

The articles to be discussed will be announced in the first meeting of the class. They will be mainly those collected in Lawrence Venuti, ed., The Translation Studies Reader, 2nd edition, and Mona Baker, ed, Critical Reader in Translation Studies.

This course will focus on examining the mechanism of first and second language spoken word recognition. The instructor will provide and introduction to the key issues of the topic for each class using PowerPoint. Students will be asked questions regarding the issue, and will be given some time to discuss with other students to answer the questions. At the beginning of every lesson after the first one, a quiz on the key concepts from the previous week will be given. The following topics will be covered in this course:

1. Prosody in the lexical activation and competition processes
2. Where does language-specificity begin?
3. Second-language listening: sounds to words
4. Second-language listening: words in their speech contexts
5. The plasticity of adult speech perception
6. The architecture of native listening system

We will focus on sociocultural theory and practice from a pedagogical perspective. Underlying concepts such as the ZPD, Activity Theory, and dynamic assessment will be covered, as well as empirical research which examines the application of such notions in relation to L2 reading, writing, listening and speaking.

We will focus on sociocultural theory and practice from a pedagogical perspective. Underlying concepts such as the ZPD, Activity Theory, and dynamic assessment will be covered, as well as empirical research which examines the application of such notions in relation to L2 reading, writing, listening and speaking.

This is a practical course for students in the initial stages of their Master's level research. In this course, students will consider issues related to their research including the formulation of research questions, research design, data collection and analysis. Students will be provided with ample opportunities to improve their academic writing skills by writing on these aspects of their research in a thesis chapter format. Students will be encouraged to present their research to their peers, participate in group discussions and give feedback.

This is a practical course for students in the initial stages of their Master's level research. In this course, students will consider issues related to their research including the formulation of research questions, research design, data collection and analysis. Students will be provided with ample opportunities to improve their academic writing skills by writing on these aspects of their research in a thesis chapter format. Students will be encouraged to present their research to their peers, participate in group discussions and give feedback.

This course is a survey of modern forms of visual storytelling that flourished between the Meiji (1868-1912) and mid-Shōwa (1926-1989) periods. Through a series of units on individual works and genres, including woodblock prints, photography, ponchi-e, manga, kami-shibai ("paper theater"), shashin shōsetsu (photo novels), early film and animation, students will gain practical knowledge about the production and reception of visual narratives, with a view towards gaining historical and cultural context for appreciating the interplay between word and image.

This seminar is an introduction to Japanese visual culture, from the Edo period (1603-1868) to the present. In this course, we will examine how formations of cultural production and visual practice have shaped national and ethnic identities, consumer desires, cultural memory, and the aesthetics of everyday life. Students will be challenged to engage with different methodologies and analytic approaches as they develop original research on topics of their choosing. Students are free to work in anime, film, digital media, photography, fine art, print media, manga, manuscripts, or material objects.

During the first few weeks students will be introduced to a wide range of animated works created during the past decade. Then we will proceed to discussions of works by major figures in the history of animation. Although countries like Korea, Thailand and China have recently started to produce interesting works we will limit our scope to three major areas in the world: Northern America, Europe and Japan. Major figures and studios chosen for discussion will include Walt Disney, Fleischer Studios, Ray Harryhausen, Jiri Trnka, Priit Parn, Yuri Norstein, Hayao Miyazaki, Noburo Ofuji, Jan Svankmajer, Oskar Fischinger, Osamu Tezuka, Winsor McCay, Norman McLaren and others. There will be in-class screenings but students are expected to view assigned films in advance on the internet if they are available. Students are also assigned to read articles related to the authors and films in discussion. Our theoretical approach will be that of 'thick description' as introduced by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. This can be thought of as a common sense approach. Trivia for the sake of trivia do not interest us. Only such information that aids understanding of works of art does. Students are expected to participate in discussions with the instructor and with eachother. Term papers can be on any topic as long as it is related to animation. Students are also encouraged to give one presentation per semester on a topic of his or her choosing.

English communication ability is a fundamental requirement for engineers and scientists working in the field of environmental problems. This course aims to develop student's ability to learn and think about environmental problems in English by presenting and discussing these ideas in English. Students will be assigned specific subjects concerning environmental problems and will be required to study the assigned subjects deeply, and then present and discuss the studied subjects in class in English.

This course tries to realize a unique style of learning. It consists of

1. lectures by environmental industries located in the Chubu region around Nagoya
2. presentations and/or discussions among students
3. discussions between students and industry members

The industries are of prominent companies mainly in the field of manufacturing. Students are strongly recommended to also take "Theory of Environmental Resources Management" course.

Description

1. Environmental Systems: Natural Resources and Human Activities
2. Circulation and Transformation of Water, Air, Energy and Materials
3. Environmental Space and Carrying Capacity of the Earth
4. Global Climate Issues
5. Math: Modeling of Climate Change
6. Environmental Resouce Economics
7. Math: Lotka-Volterra's Equations
8. Sustainable Development
9. Environmental Indicators and Environmental Resource Accounting
10. Life Cycle Assessment
11. Urban Climate System

As part of the Global Environmental Leaders Program, this course aims at providing students research and survey opportunities at universities, research institutions, companies, governments in Japan and overseas to acquire the ability to conduct practical and applied research. The internship should be conducted based on close communication with Academic Advisors. Students are expected to acquire practical research skills through Research Training (ORT). Details of the Internship such as period and terms of implementation should be decided through consultation with Academic Advisor and experts at recipient organizations. Students are able to learn through research and survey practice at universities, research institutions, companies, governments in Japan and overseas.

The aim of this course is:

1. To learn the policies, plans, technological and institutional measures to realize low carbon cities with a vision to integrate climatic change mitigation in urban development.
2. To have a concrete idea of planning a low carbon city. An actual policy plan for establishing a low carbon city will be reviewed in this course.

Students are supposed to have taken (or be taking) "Environmental Systems Analysis and Planning" course.

Choose two or three methods from the following and apply them to the analysis of topics which the student is interested in.

1. GIS (Geographic Information Systems, ArcGIS)
2. Statistical Analysis such as SPSS or R
3. Systems Dynamics

Group reading of an English book on Environmental Resource Economics.

Group reading of an English book on global environmental issues.

Group reading of an English book on regional economics and space economics.

Group reading of an English book on regional economics and space economics.

Students will present materials related to their research themes and make group discussions.

Students will present materials related to their research themes and make group discussions.

Students will present materials related to their research themes and make group discussions.

Students will present materials related to their research themes and make group discussions.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

Constructing a methodology for infrastructure improvement associated with the development stage of cities and regions, and social capitalization of urban area district blocks is the objective of this seminar. Technologies, institutions and policy measures for sustainable development of cities are discussed within the scope of the regional economy and public policy analysis. Students review and collect the relevant advanced and recent literatures. The results are presented and discussed together with students and supervisors.

The purpose of this course is to acquire thinking and discussing skills in English, as well as the most up-to-date knowledge and awareness of environmental issues. Lectures are done by guest professors and discussions are held on various topics in English. Some other short courses (e.g. workshop) may be authorized by the curriculum committee.

The purpose of this course is to acquire thinking and discussing skills in English, as well as the most up-to-date knowledge and awareness of environmental issues. Lectures are done by guest professors and discussions are held on various topics in English. Some other short courses (e.g. workshop) may be authorized by the curriculum committee.

The objective of the course is to provide students with several definitions, views, interpretations, and analyses on the notion of sustainability. The lessons are to be given by several lecturers which may include external guest speakers. Due to the fact that sustainability covers broad areas, it is inevitable that the course consists of various topics. The course tries to clarify the topics from three viewpoints, namely:

1. Society and/or social sciences.
2. Observation and data by natural sciences.
3. Urban and spatial perspective.

Water pollution and solid waste are some of the major environmental problems facing our society today. In this class we will learn about various technologies and measures applied to the supply of drinking water, the control of pollution of water bodies, and solid waste management.

Water pollution and solid waste are some of the major environmental problems facing our society today. For effective management of water and waste, it is essential to have relevant rules, laws and policies, and the appropriate institutions to monitor them. This course will introduce legal, policy and institutional frameworks for managing water and waste.

The course provides an introduction to quantum information and quantum computation. It is suitable for any audience and requires no specific background. The following topics are covered:

1. Mathematical description of quantum systems
2. Composite systems, purification, and quantum entanglement
3. Evolution of open quantum systems - quantum channels
4. Quantum measurement processes
5. Simple quantum communication scenarios (noiseless channels, super-dense coding, quantum teleportation)
6. Quantum circuit formalism
7. Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm
8. Bernstein-Vazirani quantum algorithm
9. Gover's quantum search algorithm
10. Shor's quantum factorization algorithm

This class is intended for students to learn about molecular biology, biochemistry, bioengineering, and information science, and also to obtain the scientific capability of dealing with important problems in life science. In addition, technical knowledge for better use of biological systems is also learned. In lectures, we provide you with recent progress of science and technology especially concerning drug development. It is required that students participate in discussions and express their own opinions.

This Advanced Organic Chemistry course covers diverse topics in modern synthetic organic chemistry. In the very first part of this course, total synthesis of natural products will be discussed on the basis of structural types including alkaroids, polyketides, quinones, terpenoids, and steroids. The second part is devoted to the chemistry of functional molecules and their applications to organic synthesis. Amino acids and sugars as chiral pools and the structure and synthesis of heterocycles will be covered. The last part will deal with organometallic chemistry and its application to homogeneous catalysis. These include important principles of organometallic chemistry, transition-metal catalyses, and catalytic asymmetric transformations.

The three major methods for structural biology, X-ray crystallography, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and Cryo-electron Microscopy, are explained. The lecture topics include:

1. Experimental aspects for structure determination of membrane proteins
2. Structural biology of channels and adhennels
3. Structural biology of GPCRs and other receptors
4. Structural biology of multi-domain proteins
5. Pharmaceutical NMR applications and HSQC based experiments
6. NMR-guided in silico drug screening
7. Conformationally restricted nucleic acids as medicines.

This course aims at improving the student's level of understanding of scientific English by practicing correct pronunciation of English terminology of chemistry and biology. It also includes a self-introduction speech by students and exercises in English dictation.

This is an active learning course! It means that you will learn through active interactions with the course instructor and your group members. There will be plenty of lectures, group works, presentations, and discussions. All these activities will be implemented based on YOUR OWN RESEARCH! The spring semester will cover the following sessions:

Lesson 1:

Introduction to the course: Why is logical thinking necessary for research writing? (Lecture)

Lesson 2:

What is research writing? Introducing a narrow but useful definition of research writing. (Lecture)

Lesson 3:

Developing a main idea for your research - Part 1: Understanding the role of thesis statement in research writing. (Lecture)

Lesson 4:

Developing a main idea for your research - Part 2: Step-by-step guide on how to build a thesis statement for your research.

Lesson 5:

Let's present and discuss your thesis statement. (Student presentation - part 1)

Lesson 6:

Let's present and discuss your thesis statement. (Student presentation - part 2)

Lesson 7:

What is logic? How it can be used practically and effectively? (Lecture)

Lesson 8:

YES! Logic can be practically applied to YOUR research! (Lecture)

Lesson 9:

Let's learn to apply logic through some fun and exciting exercises! (Group work)

Lesson 10:

Developing a logical argument for your research - Part 1: Step-by-step guide on how to build an argument for your research.

Lesson 11:

Developing a logical argument for your research - Part 2: Let's build your argument!

(Group work)

Lesson 12:

Let's present and discuss your logical argument. (Student presentation - part 1)

Lesson 13:

Let's present and discuss your logical argument. (Student presentation - part 2)

Lesson 14:

What is plagiarism? How logic education can combat plagiarism? (Lecture)

Lesson 15:

Review, reflection, and course evaluation. (Discussion)

Tentative schedule

1. What is academic writing?
2. Audience and purpose in academic writing
3. Developing a research question
4. What is a thesis statement?
5. Logical argumentation 1: Deductive reasoning
6. Logical argumentation 2: Inductive reasoning
7. Research design
8. Writing a strong thesis statement
9. What is an abstract?
10. Writing an abstract
11. Logical, rhetorical, and statistical fallacies
12. Student presentations
13. Student presentations
14. Peer review
15. Final abstracts

Students should come to class with research ideas from their field of study. This class will be very interactive. Lectures will be interwoven with activities, tasks, and questions. Lessons will proceed as follows:

Lesson 1:

What is the purpose of your research? What is the purpose of this class?

HW1:

Expectations Survey

Lesson 2:

Critical thinking (What does this mean? How to do it better?)

Old Problems --> New Insights

Lesson 3:

Critical thinking and Common Logical Fallacies

Evaluating the claims of other researchers -- Activity

HW 2:

Evaluate the claims of a paper in your field

Lesson 4:

The function of a thesis statement in your research

HW 3:

Create a novel thesis statement

Lesson 5:

Refining your thesis, proposal, research question

Lesson 6:

Research Outline (An organized plan to investigate your thesis)

HW 4:

Draft outline of your proposal/plan for your presentation

Lesson 7:

Student thesis statement and research proposal presentation.

Lesson 8:

Student thesis statement and research proposal presentation.

Lesson 9:

Writing Abstracts: Types and Organization

Lesson 10:

Writing Abstracts: Paper Conference vs. Paper Abstracts / Weak vs. Strong

Abstracts

HW 5:

Draft outline of your Abstract /plan for your presentation

Lesson 11:

Student Abstract Presentations

Lesson 12:

Student Abstract Presentations

Lesson 13:

Collaborating with your research (Due: Conference Abstract Draft 1)

Writing Workshop (group work focused on helping each other)

Lesson 14:

Learning from the editorial process (Abstracts are returned with comments)

Lesson 15:

Review, reflection, and course evaluation. (Due: Final Abstract)

Classes are conducted in an informal, communicative atmosphere. Students discuss issues and work together in pairs or small groups, changing partners each week in order to increase communication opportunities. Most lessons include a short interactive lecture.

1. Introduction: the functions and pleasures of presentations
2. Understanding audiences, reducing nervousness
3. Finding your main idea and significance
4. Logically structuring your presentation
5. Using logical support and evidence effectively
6. Effective slide design principles, techniques
7. 1st presentations
8. 1st presentations
9. 1st presentations
10. Delivery: voice, body language, interaction with slides
11. Question time strategies and language
12. 2nd presentations
13. 2nd presentations
14. 2nd presentations
15. Course review

* Students give 2 short presentations and may use their own research or other research material. Consultation is offered during preparation and detailed feedback is given to support improvement.

1. Introduction
2. Plans to Deal with Information Overload
3. Notes-Style Writing
4. Communicating with Visual Symbols
5. 1st Presentation: Effectively Using Handouts
6. Readings from a Script vs. Reading from a Paper
7. Practice Maintaining Eye Contact while Using a Script [viewing of video examples]
8. Compacting Sentences into Notes
9. In Class Critiques of Student Scripts
10. 2nd Presentation Using A Script
11. Elements of a PowerPoint Presentation
12. Literature, Theory, and Methodology Sections of a Power Point Presentation
13. The Data and Findings Section of a PowerPoint Presentation
14. Visual Elements of a PowerPoint Presentation
15. Final Presentation

[This schedule and its contents are subject to change]

The summer camp has been widely praised as the best outdoor learning experience in the university life. It is the perfect combination of learning and enjoyment. The 5-day camp will cover the following sessions:

Session 1:

Introduction to the course. (To be carried out at a date prior to departure)

Session 2:

Camp orientation. (Day 1)

Session 3:

Workshop on academic writing and logical thinking. (Day 2)

Session 4:

Student teamwork - 1. (Day 1)

Session 5:

Student teamwork - 2. (Day 1)

Session 6:

Workshop on thesis statement. (Day 2)

Session 7:

Student teamwork - 3. (Day 2)

Session 8:

Student teamwork - 4. (Day 2)

Session 9:

Workshop on logical argumentation. (Day 3)

Session 10:

Student teamwork - 5. (Day 3)

Session 11:

Student teamwork - 6. (Day 3)

Session 12:

Workshop on research ethics. (Day 4)

Session 13:

Student teamwork - 7. (Day 4)

Session 14:

Final presentation (Day 4)

Session 15:

Review and reflections (Day 5)