Digital games are widely recognized as a global culture. However, the term global remains vague in most discussions, to say the least.
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Digital games in a transcultural perspective
East Asian Origins: Ancient History and Material Culture
Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR, VMC
Term: Fall
Teacher: YOSHII Hideo, SHIMOGAKI Hitoshi, TOMII Makoto, Erika Angela FORTE
Course Code: JK23001
Ecocinema: From Plastic Garbage to Art
Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK19001
The search for a sustainable life is a pressing issue in Japan, especially after the Fukushima disaster.
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Teacher: KAWASHIMA Takashi
Course Code: JK15002
In this class, we will discuss the story of “Heidi” (1880/81) by Johanna Spyri from the perspective of comparative literature.
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Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK21003
This seminar introduces students to issues related to the historical study of animals..
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Teacher: KOBAYASHI Mai, HISANO Shuji
Course Code: JK17008
This semi-intensive course provides students with a diverse overview of Japan’s international development assistance policy and practice of the Japanese government, business actors, and civil society organizations based on actual cases.
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Unlike modern diplomatic relations, which are based on direct negotiations by diplomats representing the two governments, one of the major characteristics of international relations in the early modern (seventeenth century to mid-nineteenth century).
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East Asia has various types of economies, for example transitional economy, planning economy, development economy and market economy.
Italian Neorealism in World Cinema
Teacher: Ida DURETTO
Course Code: JK19004
Italian neorealism (1945-1952) was a crucial movement in film history, marking an aware move away from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking and focusing on realistic characters and stories.
Japan at Play: Cultural Orderings of Leisure and Asobi
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK21002
The focus of this interactive seminar lies on theoretical concepts and analytical techniques useful to study transcultural phenomena such as nation-branding from a perspective of cultural ordering and power relations.
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