Keio University

In this course, students join an journey of exploration into Global Readiness®, the skills and attributes that can make or break your future success in international business, government or NGO work. Participants choose a specific area to focus on for a team project, and conduct primary and secondary research to increase understanding of leadership, team dynamics, and personal development. A key component of the class is Presentation Skills, your "personal presence" that is reviewed by yourself (via video links), classmates and the professor.

This course traces the cultural similarities and spiritual affinities between Japan and India beginning in the sixth century with the arrival of Indian saint Bodhisena to Nara, moving to the cotton and silk merchants to Yokohama and Kobe in the early twentieth century, to the coming of freedom fighters like Rash Behari Bose and Subhash Chandra Bose in the early and mid-twentieth century, and ending with the recent influx of IT professionals in the twenty-first century. The course further studies the new financial assistance by Japan to India and economic cooperation between the two countries such as ODA, FDI, EPA, Maruti-Suzuki Automobile Partnership, Delhi Metro Project, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project (DMIC), and other projects related to mobile technology, disaster management, civilian nuclear technology, demonetization, artificial intelligence, and optic fiber networks. The course introduces students to borrowings between Devanagri and Hiragana syllabary and useful Indian and Japanese phrases for effective business and social communication.

Rapidly expanding corporate activity has increased the need for the standardization of accounting and auditing systems, which represent the infrastructure supporting a strong social business world. For instance, movement towards a global system of accounting standards has continued, and the global convergence of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) remains in progress. However, the process is complex, and decisions concerning appropriate action continue to be discussed. This course provides the latest trend of accounting practice from brief introduction to intermediate level. In addition, the objectives include principles and practices used by public entities, accountants, corporate executives and internal auditors in examining accounting system and latest IT environment (e.g. artificial intelligence).

Social infrastructures function to provide internet services through websites and applications. Some examples of functions are individual authentication, video calls and chats, etc. This course introduces fintech business that employ social infrastructures. It analyzes what kind of problems business face when providing fintech services and what solutions are available.

This course teaches basic Japanese grammar to engage in a simple everyday communication. Assessment: Attendance, Class Participation, Homework, Small Test, Final Exam Textbooks: Minna no Nihongo Shokyu Main Textbook Second Edition 3A Corporation Minna no Nihongo Shokyu Translation and Grammatical Notes-English Second Edition 3A Corporation

This course examines various aspects of Japanese language usage in relation to culture and society. It compares culture to language usage in different cultures and societies. Students explore what Japanese people living in this contemporary society are actually doing through their communicative practice. Whatever language we use, how we speak and write to others reveals many aspects of ourselves, such as what we are, how we see a situation we are in, and how we treat others. Assessment: attendance, participation, assignments, final report.

This lecture looks at the Japanese society in the 19th century and focuses on social groups formed at the time, and through this, attempts to analyze the society we live in today. By looking back on history, and how individuals came together to form a society, this class aims to get a better understanding of the current world.

This course aims at providing a foundation of knowledge on probability theory for advanced undergraduate students or first-year graduate students who have studied introductory statistics. The course covers basic concepts in probability theory such as conditional probabilities, random variables, probability distributions and expectation in a mathematically rigorous fashion. This course also offers students an opportunity to learn Python programming for statistical inference and Monte Carlo simulation. It is preferable for students to install Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com) on their laptop computers and bring them to the classroom.