Japan

This course delves into distinct strategies for strategizing, supervising, and structuring marketing within the hospitality & tourism sector. It sheds light on the pivotal choices that marketers encounter when involved in tourism enterprises, with a particular emphasis on two key aspects: conducting marketing research and devising marketing strategies tailored to the needs of tourism organizations.

To learn about the fundamental properties of life, this course addresses concepts in macroscopic (Ecology, Evolution and Ethology) and microscopic (Cells, DNA) aspects of biology. The purpose of this course is to deepen an understanding to the question of “What does it mean for an organism to be alive?” and to use this understanding as a starting point for expanding one’s thinking about their own existence as a living thing.  

The course covers the following topics:
1) What is science, and what is biology?
2) Cells, the basic unit of all organisms
3) The world of DNA and the mechanism of heredity
4) How does DNA research and analysis technology relate to us?
5) Evolution and Diversity of Life.
6) Life around us - Can we live on Earth with other living things?

This class focuses on reading literature written in Spanish about the current situation of indigenous peoples in Central and South America, as well as viewing video materials, remote real-time interviews with people in the relevant communities, and presentations by the participants. The course aims to deepen students' comprehensive understanding of Spanish and the indigenous peoples of Central and South America, and provide clues for research into the region. 

This course provides training to acquire skills necessary for writing academic reports and papers. In class, each student chooses a theme, writes a report, and conducts peer review of these reports. 

This course is taught in an omnibus format. Lectures and practical training will be provided on anime and video games. 
 

This course features host directors and producers who work on the front lines of animation production as guest speakers. Video materials are utilized to learn the origins of Japan's unique animation. 

Video games are now a major pillar of Japanese subculture. Thirty years have passed since the first video game, PONG, which started in the United States, achieved commercial success.  This course discusses the history of how American-born video games developed in Japan. 
Next, it looks at the current scale and trends of Japan's game industry, including some of its challenge, as well as how games are made; what kind of tasks are involved; the development process, and different jobs in game development. 

This course introduces common statistical analysis methods used in psychology and sociology research and teaches students when and how to apply these methods to address their research questions.  Students learn how to select the appropriate statistical analysis methods based on their research questions, perform them using R, and present the results in APA style.
 

This course is designed for students who have mastered intermediate kanji to expand knowledge of kanji compound words and idiomatic expressions. While examining the structure of kanji compounds, students study kanji systematically by learning opposite and similar meanings of kanji as well as by applying suffixes and prefixes. By expanding their kanji vocabulary, students will be able to select the most appropriate kanji based on the context.

This course explores the history of early modern Japan, approximately from the 16th to the 19th century. It studies examples to understand the views and mentalities of ordinary people during the Edo period as well as discusses whether their way of thinking changed during the late Edo era and early Meiji period. Please note that this course will not always examine topics in chronological order; it will move back and forth between the 16th and 19th centuries, depending on the topics.

This course is mainly based on the organizational behavior perspective in a global context. It focuses helping one build their own global mindset; enhance their understanding of issues in global management, and develop their own global skills. Topics to be covered in the course include individual-level inputs, outputs and processes (IOPs) such as demographic diversity, personality and values, attitudes and behaviors, emotions and moods, perception and Individual decision making, and motivations, as well as group-level and organizational level IOPs in the global context. The focus will be on leading and managing people in a global setting, and issues such as strategy, trade, finance, etc. will not be covered. 
 

This course introduces oil painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture that arrived in Japan and developed uniquely with modernization since the Meiji period. It also examines the history of modern art, which was a complex mix of old techniques and traditions amid the influx of new Western ideas, technologies, and systems, with a focus on the Meiji period.