Teacher: Steve IVINGS
Course Code: JK17009
This course aims to provide students with the overview of economic and business history from global perspectives.
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Heidi in Japan
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
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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Teacher: ZHANG, Zikang
Course Code: JK17010
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) East Asia is the significant role played by intermediaries.
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Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK21005
This course invites us to reflect upon the multiplicity of environments and environmental thinking around the world, at a moment defined by global-scale environmental crises and human impacts.
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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’s early diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Teacher: SANO Mayuko
Course Code: JK17005
This course aims to explore Japanese diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate, through in-depth readings of documents (such as memoirs, diaries, and diplomatic correspondences) written by people who worked on the ground during that time.
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Teacher: MINAMIDANI Yoshimi
Course Code: JK16002
Through the reading of Joanna Bourke’s The Story of pain: from Prayer to Painkillers (2014) and stories about painful experiences,
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Teacher: YUKAWA Shikiko
Course Code: JK15003
The aim of this course is to seek and discuss Japanese values, ideas and attitudes toward certain universal themes, such as love, death, human nature and aesthetic beauty through a close reading of selected representative works of classical Japanese literature. We will use well-known English translations of the Manyoshu, Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari and Tsurezuregusa, among other works, as our texts.
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