This course aims to raise awareness on the critical role of space technology in our daily lives and the important implications it has on domestic policymaking and international relations. The first part of the course, titled “Space and Society”, provides an overview of major space technologies and their applications. It then demonstrates how space assets have become a critical infrastructure on which advanced societies are over-reliant, and the hazards and threats that they are facing. The second part of course delves into political science and international relations. It addresses the various approaches to space policymaking, the structure of international relations in outer space and the major challenges ahead for the space sector.

This course aims to provide an overview of space governance from the perspectives of space policy and law. For this purpose, lectures are to be given by academia, practitioners and specialists in outer space activities and utilization. The course requires students to explore the possible solutions/proposals on specific themes through joining group work and writing individual report. Space governance and space policy are interrelated and the key terms in understanding how space missions need to cope with the existing regulatory framework and how to identify pressing issues/challenges that all space actors need to go through. Such knowledge is beneficial not only to traditional actors (e.g., government and national space agencies) but also to New Space actors (e.g., private entities) or new space-faring nations (e.g., UAE) who started space missions recently. With the increasing number of space actors, due to growing interest in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), various space applications both by government and private sector are flourishing to support societal needs. Considering such a crowded situation in Earth orbit and the limits of resources available in outer space, this course provides comprehensive lectures that help students to explore the possible and practical solutions necessary for pursuing further space activities. In FY 2024, before dealing with the latest topics including space traffic management (STM), space resources exploration, and space x SDGs, the course provides introductory lectures on space policy and law, governance of various space activities, the role of space actors (i.e., space agencies, industry, international organizations) and the process/forum of rule-making for sustainable space activities.

This course aims to raise awareness on the critical role of space technology in our daily lives and the important implications it has on domestic policymaking and international relations. The first part of the course, titled “Space and Society”, provides an overview of major space technologies and their applications. It then demonstrates how space assets have become a critical infrastructure on which advanced societies are over-reliant, and the hazards and threats that they are facing. The second part of course delves into political science and international relations. It addresses the various approaches to space policymaking, the structure of international relations in outer space and the major challenges ahead for the space sector.

本講義ではウェブにおけるプロダクト開発の基礎的な知識とそれを取りまくビジネスモデルについて学ぶ。実際に現場で成果を出しているゲスト講師の方々による講演と、グループ課題としてのプロダクト開発を通して、現代のビジネス環境で自らプロダクトを開発しビジネスを立ち上げることが出来る知識と実践力を身につけることを目指す。

This course aims to raise awareness on the critical role of space technology in our daily lives and the important implications it has on domestic policymaking and international relations. The first part of the course, titled “Space and Society”, provides an overview of major space technologies and their applications. It then demonstrates how space assets have become a critical infrastructure on which advanced societies are over-reliant, and the hazards and threats that they are facing. The second part of course delves into political science and international relations. It addresses the various approaches to space policymaking, the structure of international relations in outer space and the major challenges ahead for the space sector.

このコースは受講生徒に、起業とはなにか、ビジネスモデルとしてのベンチャーキャピタルは如何にワークするのか、の基本的な考え方を理解する機会を与えることを旨とする。 授業は、クラス講義、クラス討論、チーム発表、及び最終試験（持ち込み可）からなり、すべて英語で行われる。 This course is designed to give students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with basic understanding of what start-up and entrepreneurship are and how venture capital works as a business model. The Class will consist of lectures, discussions, team business presentation and final open book examination, which are all made in English.

This course aims to provide an overview of space governance from the perspectives of space policy and law. For this purpose, lectures are to be given by academia, practitioners and specialists in outer space activities and utilization. The course requires students to explore the possible solutions/proposals on specific themes through joining group work and writing individual report. Space governance and space policy are interrelated and the key terms in understanding how space missions need to cope with the existing regulatory framework and how to identify pressing issues/challenges that all space actors need to go through. Such knowledge is beneficial not only to traditional actors (e.g., government and national space agencies) but also to New Space actors (e.g., private entities) or new space-faring nations (e.g., UAE) who started space missions recently. With the increasing number of space actors, due to growing interest in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), various space applications both by government and private sector are flourishing to support societal needs. Considering such a crowded situation in Earth orbit and the limits of resources available in outer space, this course provides comprehensive lectures that help students to explore the possible and practical solutions necessary for pursuing further space activities. In FY 2024, before dealing with the latest topics including space traffic management (STM), space resources exploration, and space x SDGs, the course provides introductory lectures on space policy and law, governance of various space activities, the role of space actors (i.e., space agencies, industry, international organizations) and the process/forum of rule-making for sustainable space activities.

我々はどこからきたのか、という問いはシンプルかつ深遠な問いである。この問いを突き詰めていくと、宇宙の始まりを考えざるを得ない。宇宙の中身は我々を含め何が入っているのか？ここでのキーワードは、ブラックホール、ニュートリノ、ダークマター、そしてダークエネルギー。また、そうした中身を内包する宇宙はどう始まり、どう成長して、どう終わりを迎えるのか。こうした問いに対して、物理学というアプローチから見た現在の宇宙の理解、そしてまだ残る謎について専攻する分野を問わず一緒に考える。なるべく質疑応答の時間を設けることで双方向の授業を目指す。素朴な質問などでも歓迎である。 ``Where did we come from?'' This is such a simple and yet fundamental question to address. This question inevitably leads us to the beginning of the Universe. What does the Universe contain within it? We have keywords, e.g. blackhole, neutrino, dark matter, and dark energy. Also, how did the Universe begin and evolve? Eventually, how will it end? We introduce these questions and the front line of research using the current knowledge of physics today. We also introduce the effort to go beyond the current knowledge of physics. We try to have bi-directional discussions instead of one-way lectures.

In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of mathematical modeling. A model is a miniature representation of the real world. Mathematical modeling is a process of developing models in mathematical terms. It is an abstraction of the real world to help us understand its essence clearly by simplifying its complexity. It also helps to formulate various problems concerning our lives for finding their solutions. The concept of mathematical modeling is a common basis for virtually all empirical sciences—not only natural and engineering sciences but also human sciences such as economics, psychology, sociology, etc. The lectures introduce three types of mathematical models: optimization models, dynamic models, and probability models. Part I begins with concepts of mathematical optimization, then moves on to the calculus for finding optimal solutions, focusing on computational techniques. Part II explores the behavior of both discrete and continuous dynamical systems. The fundamental concepts include state space and state variables. Analytic methods as well as simulation techniques for analysis of dynamical systems are presented. Part III deals with modeling techniques for probabilistic phenomena and stochastic processes. It overviews some of the key concepts of probability and statistics and also discusses some analytical techniques such as Markov chains and Monte Carlo simulation. In each part, the students are given opportunities to work on computer programming and numerical algorithms by the use of software utilities in practice sessions.

There have developed quite separate debates concerning, on the one hand, the Transformation of Warfare, and Revolution in Military Affairs on the other. Conventional knowledge is that while the former approach encompasses a vast range of scholarly analysis on how war in the contemporary era might have transformed in all spheres of economy, politics and society, the latter has focused on the impact of technological advancement in a narrower sense on warfare, especially the way in which warfare has been conducted or ought to be conducted. However, to discuss changes in the character of war in these quite distinct spheres, each with specific preoccupations with no interactions, is not very conducive to a meaningful generalization about the transformation of warfare itself. The purpose of this seminar is to consider the impact of modern and contemporary technological changes, espe-cially focusing on communication and media spheres, on the character and conduct of warfare today, hence bridging the two distinct spheres of interests.