Keio University

Environmental economics is an emerging discipline that may become the force needed to drive a paradigm shift to sustainable futures for our global society. Although much is being done in the area of theory, this course focuses on the practical by exploring environmental economics through real life case studies. This course helps students further both their ability to analyze environmental problems and their understanding the trade-offs – benefits, loses and liabilities inclusive - behind the choices we make when considering environmental economics and the potential paths to realizing a sustainable future for both humankind and other living organism inhabiting planet Earth.

This course explores topics in Japanese civil law, focusing on marriage, divorce, and family conflicts. Using “roppou” and other handouts, this course unpacks the confusing parts of the civil law, and the meaning of its existence. Students learn to understand civil law as the way of protecting and controlling the citizens of Japan.