Japan

This course instructs on how corporate finance is being practiced in Japanese corporations. The history and status of corporate finance in Japan will be presented, focusing on the uniqueness of Japanese management from a financial management perspective.

Knowledge of corporate finance is not required; the basics of financial management will be explained in each session. Each session consists of two parts.

The first part of the session addresses the history and status of corporate finance in Japan, such as the history of Japanese stock market, banking systems, how Japanese people behave with regards to asset management, etc.

The second part of the session provides a lecture on the basics of financial management, including various finance theories, e.g. Free Cash Flow, Time value of money, Discounted Cash Flow, Net Present Value, WACC, etc.  Students will be given opportunities to discuss various topics about contemporary finance such as the latest trend of the capital market, M&A etc. For the students who have already studied corporate finance prior to their arrival in Japan, this second part may be a repetition of what they have learned. However, it would aid in the understanding of what is discussed in the first part of the session.

Modern Japanese literature is filled with ghosts and goblins—if you know where to look. This introductory course surveys some of the strangest, scariest, and wildest fiction in modern Japan. The course begins at the “beginning” of modern Japanese literature in the late nineteenth century up through more contemporary works, with the stories ranging from ghost stories and fairy tales to the literary equivalent of the splatter film.

The course addresses the following questions: How did the broad genre of what is today known in Japanese as gensō bungaku (roughly corresponding to supernatural, horror, and fantasy genres), emerge and develop as a set of assumptions about the nature of modern life in Japan? How do these assumptions challenge our way of interacting with the world, with other people, and ultimately with our own sense of self? What kind of new understandings of various boundaries—between the real and the unreal, the present and the past, the foreign and the native, the living and the dead—might these stories suggest? And how are these texts part of a larger global network of weird fiction—what, in other words, does it mean to call a Japanese text “Gothic”?

This class requires a significant amount of reading outside of class.

<Level VII>

Target Students: Those who have completed and mastered intermediate-level studies.

Course Goals: To master the 200 important intermediate sentence patterns and develop understanding and command of the 100 important advanced sentence patterns for further improvement of the four skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. To master the 10,000 basic words and 2,000 basic Chinese characters.

<General 1-5>

Goal: To develop a balanced, advanced level of proficiency in reading, listening, speaking, and writing.

Contents: Mastery of intermediate sentence patterns and introduction of 100 important advanced sentence patterns, using Doshisha University’s original textbook and support materials. For students to be able to use all the expressions in an appropriate manner, exercises will be of typical situations where each expression is used, without categorizing them into grammar or vocabulary issues. Vocabulary building with an emphasis on collocation. Improving the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing through summarizing, reading, and listening comprehension of the materials; role-play using expressions learned in class, and composition exercises.

<Level IV>
Target Students: Those who have completed and mastered elementary level studies.
Course Goals: To develop understanding and command of the 100 important intermediate sentence patterns for further improvement of the four skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. To master the 4,000 basic words and 800 basic Chinese characters.
<Written Expression>
Goal: To be able to write well-formed passages of approximately 600 words in length.
Contents: Writing letters or simple essays on topics familiar to students.

This course is designed for students learning Japanese for the first time. The course focuses on the acquisition of grammar and sentence patterns based on the textbook Elementary Japanese for Academic Purposes Vol.1 (Lesson 1 to 6). Students must understand hiragana before taking this course.

One of the greatest challenges for today’s global managers involved in transnational Post-Merger Integrations (PMI), is to be able to build and manage a highly effective team. Since today’s teams cross cultural boundaries, this involves building competencies that simultaneously ensure success across numerous cultural environments and enable accelerated performance through collaborative skills. The new breed of global managers must be prepared to work in a new team environment. Critical to forming and managing effective teams is an understanding and mastery of cross-cultural competence.
This interactive course builds individual and team competencies required for working, managing, and leading across cultures and geographies in the context of transnational Post-Merger Integrations. This course is aimed at demonstrating the impact of culture on communication, building relationships, business culture, and management styles, providing participants with the necessary knowledge, mindset, and skills for more effective multicultural teamwork.

This is an independent research course with research arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific research topics vary each term and are described on a special project form for each student. A substantial paper is required. The number of units varies with the student’s project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student’s special study project form.

This course introduces students to: (I) the measurement and structure of the national economy; (II) basic macroeconomic concepts (e.g., productivity, output & employment, consumption, saving & investment, long-run economic growth, and business cycles), and (III) a basic framework for macroeconomic analysis.

This course comprehensively reviews the points studied at the elementary level;  enhances expressions skills, and improves command of such skills. The course covers various conversational situations frequently encountered in daily lives in Japan such as shopping, visiting doctors, expressing feelings and traveling; practice using newly learned phrases and sentence patterns in various role-play activities with peers and Japanese native speakers; and designing written scripts and presenting them in class. The course emphasizes understanding Japanese customs and Japanese way of thinking, which aids in understanding the dynamics of Japanese conversation. 

This course aims to explore some static and dynamic aspects of the legal system in a globalized world and examines the function and application of international law in the settlement of disputes between actors (including states).  Basic knowledge both of law and of international relations (IR) is necessary for participants to follow this class effectively. Both 'Introduction to International Relations (IR)' and 'Introduction to Legal Studies'(or similar equivalents) are strongly recommended as prerequisite subjects of study for this course.