Japan

This course teaches how economic and psychological factors affect economic decisions of individuals, focusing on their bounded rationality. Each class is composed of two parts. The first half of the class explains the basic concepts and principles of Behavioral Economics; the second half introduces a few research articles to bolster student discussion of related research questions. 

How does government work? This course focuses on public policy and management, especially on their recent development and on changes in public service delivery under NPM (New Public Management) and NPG (New Public Governance). Through cases of various nation states and local governments, the course discusses main issues about public management, focusing on its historical and theoretical background. Special attention will be paid to centre-periphery relationship and possibility of devolved government. The course also discusses recent topics such as privatization, deregulation, decentralization, devolution and agencification. 

This course examines the evolution of global internet governance. It focuses on the changing role of key actors and conflicts between them – the conflict between private or public oversight, the rise of multistakeholderism, and the attempts of democratic as well as authoritarian states to increase their regulatory grip. It also focuses on key issues of global internet governance such as privacy protection, content control, or cyber security. The course starts from the assumption that despite its dynamics, internet governance is politics like any other and can be understood with standard social science tools, particularly with concepts from international relations and political science.

This course develops one's understandig of economic phenomena through analyzing evolutions of Japanese economy over the past decades and their interactions with economic policies, including monetary, fiscal, financial regulation policies, trade and industrial policy. The discussion encompasses the high-speed growth period of the '60s; the hyper-inflation age of the '70s; the financial bubble of the '80s; the financial crises of the '90s and 2000s, as well as the successive deflationary decades extended through the launch of the new policies - Abenomics and beyond. 
 

This course presents special advanced studies in selected areas of Gender and Queer Theory. It aims to strengthen students' knowledge of Gender and Sexuality Studies from the philosophical and aesthetical points of view, as well as their knowledge of Gender and Queer Studies from a historical and a thematic perspective (with a special interest in the French Theory).  

This course introduces the fundamental principles of economics and business administration. The course explores two main themes: academic research in college and corporate business. Through a dynamic combination of lectures, group presentations, and discussions, students acquire both theoretical knowledge and practical skills crucial for their academic and professional endeavors.  

Although Australia is one of Japan's most important partners in the current international arena, the real picture of Australian society remains unfamiliar to Japanese people. After fighting each other in WWII, Australia and Japan have built a firm relationship through human exchange and trade. In recent years, they are strengthening their ties in the field of security, resulting in a “special strategic partnership.” This course is expected to deepen one's knowledge about Australia - Japan's Asia Pacific neighbor. 

This course covers methodologies of empirical regional/development economics, such as: 

(1) How to conduct field surveys;

(2) How to use RCTs and micro-econometric methods, and 

(3) How to read journal articles and how to prepare referee reports.

Course Prerequisites: Intermediate/advanced microeconomics and econometrics.

This course explains that language has a role other than communication. It aims to understand that human language has both diversity and universality. The course discovers areas related to linguistics using comprehensible examples.

This course is a very practical introduction to quantitative analysis in International Relations. Students learn the elements of causal inference methods, computational skills for R statistical software, and examples in International Relations (ex. conflict studies, among others).