Students will explore and debate questions about human experience from multiple perspectives as they discover influential works from cultures around the world, both ancient and modern. Students will develop critical approaches and analytical skills as they exchange ideas with peers, ask questions, and respond to works in different genres through a variety of expressive modes. The course will focus on four fundamental themes: love, identity, death, and the meaning of life.

Students will explore and debate questions about human experience from multiple perspectives as they discover influential works from cultures around the world, both ancient and modern. Students will develop critical approaches and analytical skills as they exchange ideas with peers, ask questions, and respond to works in different genres through a variety of expressive modes. The course will focus on four fundamental themes: love, identity, death, and the meaning of life.

This course aims to introduce selected topics of public management research and reform discourse. It is designed to serve students who aspire to work for a public organization or to become informed citizens who can critically assess the functioning of their government organizations. The lectures cover theories and empirical research findings, as well as real-world examples, and the treatment of topics is comparative and international in scope; this approach helps students to look at their own countries from an outside perspective and to see their distinctiveness. It also helps students to see trade-offs involved in different approaches to public management, which can differ substantially at the international level. Discussions are based on cases and questions prepared by the instructor.

Class objectives and themes • Understand an overview of the research fields that the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology are working on. • Understand the research results of each laboratory and the latest trends in the research field. • Consider the role of agricultural and environmental biology in food production and environmental problems in the future. Outline of the class In this lecture, the basic knowledge and the latest results of the research conducted in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology will be introduced. Through the understanding of the research and its achievement, we will consider the agricultural biological resources and production systems that will be required in the coming era.

This course provides an introduction to the political economy of regime change. The course explores theories of regime change, and some of the questions we will investigate in the class include: Do concessions help the regime’s survival?; Which is better for the regime’s survival, concession or repression?; How does the technology affect regime’s survival? This class will help you develop an understanding of the answers to these questions.

This course provides an introduction to the political economy of regime change. The course explores theories of regime change, and some of the questions we will investigate in the class include: Do concessions help the regime’s survival?; Which is better for the regime’s survival, concession or repression?; How does the technology affect regime’s survival? This class will help you develop an understanding of the answers to these questions.

This course provides an introduction to the political economy of regime change. The course explores theories of regime change, and some of the questions we will investigate in the class include: Do concessions help the regime’s survival?; Which is better for the regime’s survival, concession or repression?; How does the technology affect regime’s survival? This class will help you develop an understanding of the answers to these questions.

Where would you like to go for your next holiday? Wherever you choose as your destination, you are entitled to visit there because everyone has the right to sightseeing. However, you may be unable to exercise this right due to harmful events such as pandemics, economic depressions, political turmoil, and natural disasters. We must also bear in mind that tourism may have detrimental impacts on our world. A dire consequence of mass tourism is overtourism, a situation in which excessive tourists negatively affect the environment, culture, and society. How can we make tourism more sustainable? This is the question we address during this course. The objective of this course is to explore the interrelationship between tourism and economic, environmental, and sociocultural conditions. The content of the course includes definitions of sustainable tourism, some cases of unsustainable tourism development, causes of unsustainable tourism, and strategies for sustainable tourism. Students who have never learned about tourism are welcome because this course covers topics fundamental to the tourism discourse. One of the expected learning outcomes is to propose a novel strategy to make tourism sustainable and resilient. Sustainable Development Goals: Targets of SDG 8 (Decent work and economic growth), SDG 12 (Responsible consumption and production), and SDG 14 (Life below water) explicitly mention their relevance to tourism. Target 8.9: “By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products”. Target 12.b: “Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products”. Target 14.7: “By 2030 increase the economic benefits to SIDS and LDCs from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism”. However, many other SDGs are relevant to tourism. For example, tourism is a contributing factor in climate change (SDG 13).

Where would you like to go for your next holiday? Wherever you choose as your destination, you are entitled to visit there because everyone has the right to sightseeing. However, you may be unable to exercise this right due to harmful events such as pandemics, economic depressions, political turmoil, and natural disasters. We must also bear in mind that tourism may have detrimental impacts on our world. A dire consequence of mass tourism is overtourism, a situation in which excessive tourists negatively affect the environment, culture, and society. How can we make tourism more sustainable? This is the question we address during this course. The objective of this course is to explore the interrelationship between tourism and economic, environmental, and sociocultural conditions. The content of the course includes definitions of sustainable tourism, some cases of unsustainable tourism development, causes of unsustainable tourism, and strategies for sustainable tourism. Students who have never learned about tourism are welcome because this course covers topics fundamental to the tourism discourse. One of the expected learning outcomes is to propose a novel strategy to make tourism sustainable and resilient. Sustainable Development Goals: Targets of SDG 8 (Decent work and economic growth), SDG 12 (Responsible consumption and production), and SDG 14 (Life below water) explicitly mention their relevance to tourism. Target 8.9: “By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products”. Target 12.b: “Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products”. Target 14.7: “By 2030 increase the economic benefits to SIDS and LDCs from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism”. However, many other SDGs are relevant to tourism. For example, tourism is a contributing factor in climate change (SDG 13).

This course covers the theory and practice of intelligence. ‘Intelligence’ in this course is ‘a mechanism by which knowledge on critical national security issues is collected and analysed on request, and provided to policy makers’, and its primary function is to support policy making on national security. The main topics include (1) role of intelligence in policy making, (2) process by which intelligence functions, (3) intelligence organizations, and (4) recent trends in intelligence. The course will provide an overview of academic theories on each topic, while referring to actual examples. Theories and example cases are mainly from the US and Japan. The goal of the course is to enhance insight and literacy regarding intelligence by examining the above topics. The course is intended for future intelligence professionals, policy makers in the security field, and those who are interested in international affairs and decision-making mechanisms based on intelligence.