短期、長期の天気予報や地球温暖化の予測に関わる基礎的な事項を学び、問題点や課題を議論する。/ Students will learn about the fundamentals involved in short- and long-term weather forecasting and global warming prediction, and discuss problems and issues.

This course broadly surveys the development of the architectural, landscape and urban forms of Japan from prehistory through to the present. There will be a focus on specific architectural monuments, such as Ise Shrine, Tōdaiji, Katsura Villa, Nihonbashi and the Osaka Expo, as well as on the major modes of urbanization from the sacred sites of Shinto and the capitals of the Asuka period to medieval castle towns and the modern city. Cultural, economic and ecological contexts will be interwoven into the discussion of architecture and urbanism, including Buddhist philosophy and the Meiji ideology of modernization to artisanal traditions of carpentry and gardening.

This course broadly surveys the development of the architectural, landscape and urban forms of Japan from prehistory through to the present. There will be a focus on specific architectural monuments, such as Ise Shrine, Tōdaiji, Katsura Villa, Nihonbashi and the Osaka Expo, as well as on the major modes of urbanization from the sacred sites of Shinto and the capitals of the Asuka period to medieval castle towns and the modern city. Cultural, economic and ecological contexts will be interwoven into the discussion of architecture and urbanism, including Buddhist philosophy and the Meiji ideology of modernization to artisanal traditions of carpentry and gardening.

金融工学入門の内容で構成され、経済物理、金融市場のシミュレーション、金融市場への人工知能の応用などの研究を展開するための理工学的知識準備をする。

Does the written word have a future? Some contemporary trends seem to suggest otherwise: the replacement of the novel first by movies and then video games as leading cultural form; the shift from text to audio and video in messenger apps and on social media platforms; a (related?) loss of concentration and focus; and sinking rates of functional literacy in many developed countries. And just a year after large language models such as ChatGPT arrived on the scene, artificial intelligence is already doing a lot of writing and reading for us. In this seminar we will take these trends not necessarily at face value, but as a starting point to explore the relationship between reading/writing, media and society from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. I invited colleagues in literature and psychology, book history and the history of computing to co-teach this seminar together with me. Together we will look at long-term trends related to various textual media, the evolution of technologies from the printing press to social media platforms, and the social contexts of reading and literacy in order to think about past, present, and future trajectories of textuality. <<Learning Goals>> After successfully completing this seminar, participants will be able to - identify and compare different conceptions of text, reading, writing and literacy - understand textuality as a complex social and cultural practice - analyze how textual practices are influenced by social and technological contexts - consider a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from social media studies, anthropology, history and science and technology studies on textuality - apply critical approaches on the relationship between text, media, and society to their own research as well as to reflections on future scenarios

This course does not focus on a particular nation’s foreign policy. Rather, we examine the impacts of both the rise of Asia, regionalism and American commitment on the order in East Asia. Behaviors of not only great powers but small and middle powers are to be analyzed.

This course does not focus on a particular nation’s foreign policy. Rather, we examine the impacts of both the rise of Asia, regionalism and American commitment on the order in East Asia. Behaviors of not only great powers but small and middle powers are to be analyzed.

この講義は、ゲント大学のアンナ・アンドレ―ワ特任教授をゲスト・スピーカーに迎え、中世日本におけるお産について、時間・力関係・知識という観点に注目しながら論じていく。授業計画やキーワードを見れば察せられるように、中世日本におけるお産の文化史は、日本の思想や宗教を専攻する学生にとってはもちろんのこと、ジェンダー論に関心のある学生にとっても興味深い論点を多く含んでいる。本授業は、受講者にとって、欧米における日本文化研究の問題意識やアプローチを学ぶ機会となるだろう。

The standard macroeconomic theory is based on dynamic general equilibrium, and its framework has been vigorously extended to the environments where heterogeneous agents interact with each other. This course provides a self-contained introduction to this literature. As an application, we focus on power-law distributions, which emerge in heterogeneities of microeconomic agents and also in fluctuations of macroeconomic variables. For example, household income and wealth distributions, firm size distribution, and the distribution of asset price fluctuations all follow power-law distributions. This course demonstrates that the dynamic general equilibrium models can incorporate power-law distributions of both heterogeneous agents and aggregate fluctuations.

This course discusses topics on contract theory, with emphasis on organizations and market interaction, at a graduate level. The aim is to provide a basic ground of theor- etical frameworks and to stimulate participants’ research activities on contract theory, industrial organization, and organizational economics. The course is mainly for second-year graduate students or above. Other students or post-doctoral scholars interested in this course are also welcome as long as they satisfy the prerequisite described below.