1. Objectives 1) This course aims to gain a deep insight into and understanding of how to get numbers relating to GHG emissions and climate-related risks. Numbers on climate-related risks and opportunities are more readily available, but more information is needed to calculate them. Knowing it is worth getting a deeper understanding of the climate-related information disclosure framework as a businessperson and conducting studies and analyses on climate-related topics as a researcher. In this course, I mainly focus on quantifying GHG emissions and climate-related risks and opportunities using scenario analysis. 2) The lecturer has been involved in climate-related finance at public banks and the World Bank for a long time and is now working for an asset management company to engage with invested companies on climate—and ESG-related agendas. Another objective of this course is to share the latest discussion and outlook in this field with students so that this course will provide some hints for finding research questions and methodology for analysis in their thesis. 2. Overview 1) In this course, students will learn how to calculate scopes 1, 2, and 3, how to calculate transition risks and physical risks of the individual company and financed emissions of the portfolio based on PCAF methodology, how to get Implausible Temperature Rise (ITR), how to quantify portfolio-based transition (TVaR) and physical risks (PVaR), and how to analyze the impact of climate-related risks on the macro economy, referring to the NGFS framework. 2) This course is primarily for students who are interested in calculating GHG emissions and climate-related risks and analyzing them using those methodologies.

Understand the objectives and effects of key policies in international finance from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In particular, this course focuses on a major conceptual question: How does, and should, the international financial system play a role in three important macroeconomic phenomena, namely the business cycle, economic growth, and financial crises? In addition, this course covers frequently discussed recent policy issues, including monetary union, cross-border payment systems, and global imbalances.

People have to live with food safety risk under global economy. There are lot of arguments for and against pesticides, GMOs, food additives etc. from the view point of food safety. Objective of this class is to learn the meaning of ‘food safety and risk” at the beginning, and then learn the international framework of food safety with risk assessment, risk management and risk communication. The students learn the characteristics of hazards and effective control measure, and how to govern or live with risk under risk society. Introduction and several case studies on risk assessment and risk management are also provided on microbiological risk(food poisoning and infectious disease), food allergy, GMOs, clone meat, agricultural chemicals(ex. pesticides), food additives, dietary supplements and newly introduced nano-tech foods by advanced technology.

The course is designed for second-year Master's students who major in international finance. The course is designed to learn mainly two issues; (i) small open economy business cycles, and (ii) international financial crises. By understanding key issues in international finance, students are expected to acquire enough knowledge to work as policymakers at policy institutions and international organizations.

This course consists of a practical component for future policymakers and businesspeople and a research component for researchers. The practical component provides an institutional understanding of real estate markets, financial analysis, and investment decisions, which also serves as a foundation for academic research. It combines lectures with in-class labs for hands-on learning. The research component introduces theories, methods, and empirical findings through lectures and student presentations. Real estate finance also serves as a good prototype for learning general finance, including corporate finance and asset pricing.

This course consists of a practical component for future policymakers and businesspeople and a research component for researchers. The practical component provides an institutional understanding of real estate markets, financial analysis, and investment decisions, which also serves as a foundation for academic research. It combines lectures with in-class labs for hands-on learning. The research component introduces theories, methods, and empirical findings through lectures and student presentations. Real estate finance also serves as a good prototype for learning general finance, including corporate finance and asset pricing.

This course consists of a practical component for future policymakers and businesspeople and a research component for researchers. The practical component provides an institutional understanding of real estate markets, financial analysis, and investment decisions, which also serves as a foundation for academic research. It combines lectures with in-class labs for hands-on learning. The research component introduces theories, methods, and empirical findings through lectures and student presentations. Real estate finance also serves as a good prototype for learning general finance, including corporate finance and asset pricing.

The development and diffusion of science innovative technologies is indispensable for modern society. However, despite its benefits, the development of science and technology is not without various risks and social problems. So far as we are going to make societal decisions for the use of science and technologies with diverse social implications that encompass both risks and benefits, sometimes involving values implications, there is a need for mechanisms of decision making and management of the development and utilization of science and technology. Decisions can be different depending on environmental, institutional and cultural conditions. In addition, innovative policy instruments/ mechanisms to deal with rapidly changing science and technology, including regulatory measures, are required for implementing decisions. This course will deal with wide range of issues from local to global levels faced at the interface areas between science, technology and public policy from comparative perspective of Japan, the US and Europe. It offers key theoretical issues surrounding Science and Technology and provides students with the tools and frameworks, such as risk assessment/ management and transition management, to analyze them. This course invites students from both natural science backgrounds (i.e. the graduate school of engineering, new frontier science and so on) and social science backgrounds (graduate school of public policy, law and politics, and economics and public policy). We expect students to acquire interdisciplinary perspective in addition to their primary major, which is one of the critical skill in analyzing complex social technical issues posed by science and technology.

The development and diffusion of science innovative technologies is indispensable for modern society. However, despite its benefits, the development of science and technology is not without various risks and social problems. So far as we are going to make societal decisions for the use of science and technologies with diverse social implications that encompass both risks and benefits, sometimes involving values implications, there is a need for mechanisms of decision making and management of the development and utilization of science and technology. Decisions can be different depending on environmental, institutional and cultural conditions. In addition, innovative policy instruments/ mechanisms to deal with rapidly changing science and technology, including regulatory measures, are required for implementing decisions. This course will deal with wide range of issues from local to global levels faced at the interface areas between science, technology and public policy from comparative perspective of Japan, the US and Europe. It offers key theoretical issues surrounding Science and Technology and provides students with the tools and frameworks, such as risk assessment/ management and transition management, to analyze them. This course invites students from both natural science backgrounds (i.e. the graduate school of engineering, new frontier science and so on) and social science backgrounds (graduate school of public policy, law and politics, and economics and public policy). We expect students to acquire interdisciplinary perspective in addition to their primary major, which is one of the critical skill in analyzing complex social technical issues posed by science and technology.

広く産学官にわたってグローバルに活躍するために必要な「俯瞰力」を養成することを目指す。物質科学の各分野について最先端の知識を修得し、自分の専門分野と周辺分野がどのように関連するか、あるいはし得るか、について深く考察するために、第一線で活躍する講師の方々にその分野の最前線を概観していただく。さらに、それらの講義を通して異分野間のコミュニケーションを円滑に進めるための具体的方法論を学ぶ。 This survey course is designed to enable students to develop the broad perspective that is required of global leaders working in and across industry, academia, and government. Students will gain knowledge and insight on advancements in each field of materials science research, given by leading researchers working on the frontline in those fields. This will allow students to consider how peripheral fields are related to their own area of expertise, and to consider the potential for forging bridges between related fields in the future. In addition, students will learn specific methodologies designed to facilitate smooth communication among different disciplines.