If law is the product of a country's history and culture, then there is no better way to understand a society in all its complexity than to study how it organizes itself and the relationships among its members. This course introduces students to the field of private law in Japan, focusing on civil law and the Civil Code. The course discusses and examines the major categories, basic concepts, and institutions that underlie the Japanese private law system.

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There are no pre-requisites for this course except interest and willingness to learn. However, good English language skills are necessary to be able to follow the lectures and take part in the discussions.

Please refer to the course outline.

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Japanese postwar diplomacy has often been labeled as passive, overly dependent on US foreign policy and its strategic objectives in Asia-Pacific as well as overly focused on its softpower components. This course is designed to help you understand the historical evolution of Japanese diplomatic objectives that had been primarily axed on the so-called Yoshida Doctrine and identify directions in which it has been moving. After brief historical introduction, the course will look at domestic political changes and shifts that significantly influenced Japan’s diplomatic and foreign policy priorities. Afterwards, sessions will look at the increased prominence of security and military aspects of Japan’s power that have been accentuated with the incumbent PM Shinzo Abe. Second part of the course will be dedicated to the analysis of Japanese diplomacy in Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific region in light of the power shifts in regional order primarily due to assertive China. In its last part, the course will look at the most important themes when it comes to Japanese diplomatic activity that are itseconomic, normative, and cultural dimensions whose prominence ought to be reexamined in the light of the recent economic slowdown and increased nationalism under the Abe Administration.

881265

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This course includes both real-time Zoom lectures and on demand content.

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The countries of East Asia offer a large variety of political structures that affect the way they interact with their citizens and with each other. This course serves as a broad survey of their constitutional, legal, and electoral systems as they relate to the workings of the government and the activities of their civil societies. To cover as much as possible, this course divides the countries of the region within a typology of regimes: closed autocracies, electoral authoritarianism, defective democracies, and stable democracies. This course also looks at the region as a whole, concerning the formation of regional ties and the protection of their peoples.

881269

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Please refer to the course outline.

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In this course students will examine the causes and science behind climate change, with aparticular focus on the impacts in the Asia Pacific region. Working with experts from a network of partner universities in the region, students will also explore potential solutions in terms of effective measures to deal with sea level rise, coral reef conservation, transition to renewable energy, promotion of low carbon economic and urban development, and so on.
This multi-disciplinary, classroom-based, videoconference enabled (using Zoom) collaborative course, provides a unique opportunity for students to interact with their peers, scientists, and experts from across the Asia Pacific and to engage in conversations on how we can collectively respond to the climate crisis.

88A068

This course requires students to have good English communication skills (no need for English language test scores). Students are welcomed to take this course to improve their English skills. Students from diverse fields of studies are encouraged to take the course.

This course requires class participation and engaged discussion. Students are expected to attend all sessions, unless there are special circumstances in which students should inform the course coordinator in advance.

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Human-Centered Design (HCD) is an approach, not a style, focusing on processes and procedures of design in order to attempt to actively involve all stakeholders - actors (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end users) in the process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable. In this course, students will learn the principles and patterns that they can adopt to different contexts, different people. Through the theme of this course, the purpose is to focus on enabling the meaningful participation of people and the understanding of how we can move from designing for people to "gdesigning with them".

88A069

Target students: All faculties except Medicine.  1st and 2nd year undergraduate students are not allowed.

Students are expected to have:

• Interest in design, visualization and design management
• Motivation and enthusiasm in critical thinking and human-centered problem solving
• Basic online/offline Skills (research, editing, technological etc.)

This course requires 70% attendance. Students absent for more three weeks are deemed to fail the course.

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The basics of chemical engineering are introduced. By employing chemical process as a case study, students will understand the conventional strategy on "Chemical Engineering":

1. Mass Balance (Unit Operations),
2. Physico-Chemical Approach (Transport Phenomena / Equilibrium),
3. Process Design. At the final stage, students will learn
4. A new strategy utilizing self-organizing system, called as "Bio-Inspired Chemical Engineering".

88A071

Prior knowledge is not required. Lectures will focused on "Chemical Process Design". Students are expected to understand its strategy and to think of its application to your study/research.

Please refer to the course outline.

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A variety of molecular self-assemblies that constitute the chemical processes are rich in diversity, such as micelles, bicelles, nanoemulsions, liposomes, vesicles, hexagonal assemblies, cubic assemblies, and lamellar assemblies. Molecular assemblies are not only used as important nano-chemical materials, but also applied to bio-/biomedical fields, such as nanocarriers in DDS, food engineering, and cosmetics. This series of lectures will be given focusing on cutting-edge research on the basics and applications of molecular assemblies from a chemical engineering perspective.

88A076

Prior knowledge is not required. If possible, students are suggested to take another VSE course 88A071 before/after this course to cultivate a broader perspective and way of thinking.

Please refer to the course outline.

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User-Experience (UX) design and research is not only for designers and innovators, but it can also be utilized as "knowledge", "idea" and "method" by all people in various fields, businesses and services to improve user-centeredness, accessibility, and equity.

88A079

Target students: All faculties except Medicine. 1st and 2nd year undergraduate students are not allowed.

Students are expected to have:

• Interest in UX design research, visualization and management
• Motivation and enthusiasm in UX problem definitions
• Basic online and field skills (research, editing, technological etc.)

This course requires 70% attendance. Students absent for more than three weeks are deemed to fail the course.

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