医療・介護の分野における医薬品情報の重要性について、モノとヒトなど様々な視点から理解を深め、育薬という考え方を身に着ける。

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.

空間情報科学の基本的概念・理論と空間データを扱うための方法論の基礎を学び、分析の目的にあった基本的な空間情報解析を行えるようになることを目標とする。授業は講義と地理情報システム(Geographic Information Systems; GIS)のソフトウェア等を使用した演習からなり、理論と実用的な操作技術の両面から、空間情報解析の基礎を身に付けることを目指す。 This course aims to have students learn basic concepts and theories of spatial information science and fundamental methodologies to handle spatial data so that they can conduct spatial information analysis that suits the purposes of analysis. The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises using GIS software to develop basic skills in spatial information analysis in terms of both theoretical knowledge and practical techniques.

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。

This lecture will cover the theory of spatial information measurement and representation methods, as well as the applications of how it is used in various fields, and its recent development in combination with big data, AI, mobile technology and urban digital twin. Since there is an exercise on spatial information systems in the time slot after this lecture, it is strongly recommended to take this course together in order to enhance the learning effect. 本講義は空間情報の計測、表現方法などの理論を学ぶとともに、様々な分野でどのように使われているかの応用、さらには、近年のビッグデータ、AI、モバイル技術や都市のデジタルツインなどとの組み合わせでの発展について学ぶ。本講義の後の時間帯に空間情報システム演習があるため、学習効果を高めるためにも併せて履修することを強く推奨する。

This course is aimed at providing an introduction to Geoinformatics. It is a highly demanded technique recently in the research and pragmatic field of international development. The first part of the course is about GIS (Geographical Information System), and the second part is about RS (Remote Sensing). The course consists of lectures on theoretical backgrounds of geographical information and exercises on tools and techniques to process geo-data with GIS software. Participants learn how to apply Geoinformatics for resource and environmental management.