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.

最終的には、日本近代史の博士論文を書き上げるために必要な問題意識や分析視角を身につけられるような演習をめざす。①史料を精緻に読んで、独創的な論点を構成する力と、②先行研究を説得力ある論法と論拠で批判しうる力を育み、③書評・論文のかたちに具体的に表現してゆくように共に学びたい。

This course explores the visions and historical processes that shaped the political, economic, and legal principles, policies, and practices of a transnational order in East Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Its focus will be on the trans-Pacific interactions between the United States, Japan, the Philippines, and China, but always with the rest of East Asia in mind. The discussions will delve into the interplay of law, politics, and economics during the period covered. Through these discussions, this class will explore new ways of understanding the historical developments whereby a coherent transnational order was formed in East Asia. The aim will be to overcome the limitations of the two prevalent narratives regarding East Asian history. The first, known as the “Western Impact” model, looks at modern East Asian history in the context of how each society reacted to Western powers attempting to dominate the area through trade and colonization. The second approach has traditionally been presented as an antithesis to the first, focusing on the internal logic of East Asian societies, and modernization in these societies is explained by referring primarily to domestic political dynamics, avoiding overemphasis on influence from the West. By grounding our analyses on the development of a transnational order among East Asian societies on one hand, but focusing on trans-Pacific interactions on the other, our objective will be to re-assess not just the history of East Asian societies, but the history of the US, and its role in the shaping of a global order that remains crucially important to this day.

This course explores the visions and historical processes that shaped the political, economic, and legal principles, policies, and practices of a transnational order in East Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Its focus will be on the trans-Pacific interactions between the United States, Japan, the Philippines, and China, but always with the rest of East Asia in mind. The discussions will delve into the interplay of law, politics, and economics during the period covered. Through these discussions, this class will explore new ways of understanding the historical developments whereby a coherent transnational order was formed in East Asia. The aim will be to overcome the limitations of the two prevalent narratives regarding East Asian history. The first, known as the “Western Impact” model, looks at modern East Asian history in the context of how each society reacted to Western powers attempting to dominate the area through trade and colonization. The second approach has traditionally been presented as an antithesis to the first, focusing on the internal logic of East Asian societies, and modernization in these societies is explained by referring primarily to domestic political dynamics, avoiding overemphasis on influence from the West. By grounding our analyses on the development of a transnational order among East Asian societies on one hand, but focusing on trans-Pacific interactions on the other, our objective will be to re-assess not just the history of East Asian societies, but the history of the US, and its role in the shaping of a global order that remains crucially important to this day.

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

We will reveal the history of modern Japan through various images and historical documents. Students are expected to complete a few group projects to deepen their understanding of the content covered in the course. This intensive course will take place in February (usually over 5 days). Details will be announced in December-January via email/portal site system. 歴史を描いたイメージを通して日本が近代国家に変容する姿を明らかにします。学生は授業で扱う内容を深めるためにグループプロジェクトを行います。使用言語は英語ですので、日本人学生にとっては英語によるディスカッション、文献購読、ライティング力の強化のためにいい機会となります。授業は２月に開講されます（約5日の集中講義）。詳細は12~1月頃にポータルサイトを通してお知らせする予定です。

You are now a student at the University of Tokyo. People tell you it’s the best university in Japan. At the same time, if you mean to make your way in the wider world not limited to Japan, you know you still have a long way to go. What this course tries to do is to provide the student with an intellectual framework, or a basic skill-set, that would allow them to maximise the effect of an education in this university, when applying it to a career in the wider world. The knowledge that you acquire from your specialised courses, while important, will only be one part of what you are expected to learn at (a top) university. You will be required to be able to explain how you, as an individual, connect and contextualise the knowledge acquired (separately) in the different courses you have chosen to study. Moreover, if your background is going to include study at the University of Tokyo, it would be difficult for others not to assume that that context would have something to do with a profound understanding of Japan and its place in the world. This course tries to provide the opportunity to build up such a context that could be presented in a convincing manner.

量子力学は、宇宙の最も深い理論を支えています。シュレーディンガー方程式は、私たちがこれまで書き留めてきた他のすべての科学方程式や世界モデルを生み出す役割を果たしています。しかし、この方程式の解釈は驚くべきものです。私たちは多元宇宙に住んでいます!量子的な出来事が起こるたびに、宇宙は分裂します。多くの教科書がそれを避けるために余分な公理を導入しているという事実にもかかわらず、この解釈には実際のところ議論の余地はありません。 このコースの目的は、1) 宇宙論と基礎物理学の研究の最前線で量子論がどのように使用されているかを紹介すること、2) 多元宇宙の概念を紹介すること、そして教科書の量子公理がどのようにそれに従うかを紹介することです。

　昭和戦前期の政治に関する一次史料を読み解くにあたって、過去の研究成果・先行研究に学びつつ、独創性に富んだ論点を研究史上に残せるような力を育む。 　Sセメスターでは、ポツダム宣言受諾から、主として米軍による日本占領の開始、占領期の日本の対外関係の再構築の過程を、『昭和天皇実録』、「日本外交文書」、「公文類聚」、旧軍関係者の公・私文書、外務省関係者の公・私文書、アメリカ側史料を用いつつ、戦後の日本が敗戦の現状をいかに認識し、いかなる対外関係を、世界、そしてアジアと構築しようとしたのかを先行研究に学びながら、再検討する。米国本国の方針、連合国最高司令官総司令部の方針、天皇と重臣グループの方針を見る一方で、戦時期に「革新」派として統制経済政策や対中・独・伊・ソ連との外交関係構築に邁進していた勢力の戦後における方針を確認していく。 　学期の前半では、上記の問題意識に従った先行研究や関係文献を会読し、現在の研究史の到達点を把握する。学期の後半では、新たに論点となしうる問題、新たな分析視角などを意識して、数人のチームで発表を行う。