The case of wartime laborers, compensation for comfort women, dispute over theLiancourt Rocks (Takeshima / Dokdo)... the anti-Japanese activities in Korea seems tobecome more and more violent for the last few years.For the better understanding of Korea, here we would like to review Korean history andcandidly show the points about which we regularly have questions. We would ask people inthe world to judge whether this belief is correct. «about the author» In 1938, Masaru TOKUDA was born in Japan, as the second son of a fallen soldier. After graduating from a technical school, engaged in research & development, manufacturing and sales of industrial machinery equipment. Also, engaged in corporatemanagement for a Japanese private enterprise. Through the business, interacted with people from India, four Southeast Asian countries, twenty-six provinces/cities of China, Taiwan, South Korea, three European countries andthe United States. After retirement, lived his life at the fullest. But concerned about intense of anti-Japanesemovement in South Korea. Established the “Association for the Review of Japan-KoreaRelationship”, and now works in research about the relationship of two countries.

※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字だけを拡大することや、文字列のハイライト、検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。 This book is about a way to build one’s global-local(g-local) mindset for the 21st century. I have based the book on information about Japan and the Japanese way of life, particularly information related to technology, economics, politics, environment, and society. And I talk about our relations with China and ASEAN countries to show how they influence us to nurture our g-local mindset for the future. 　“Civilization may evolve into a merger of technology and humanity. Since Japanese culture seems a good harmony between mystic attitudes and technocratic knowledge more than others, it could be a positive influence on our future Conscious-Technology Age. Which Way Are the Japanese People Heading? Creating a Pan Pacific Culture by Professor Mizuta Kazuo on sustainable development and global consciousness gives great detail on this transition to the required future mindset.” 　Jerome C. Glenn, the Millennium Project ［Author］ Kazuo Mizuta Kyoto Sangyo University 　　　Professor Emeritus 　　　Comparative Culture Studies 　　　Futurist 　I am a practicing sociologist in the field of comparative culture, long-time futurist, and professor emeritus at Kyoto Sangyo University in Kyoto, one of the leading private universities in the country. I have spent years assessing and comparing traditional Japanese values and institutions with those of other countries both in Asia and the West. My research fields are comparative culture and future studies. I’ve worked all my life thinking and learning about American and Japanese ways of living. 　I received a Fulbright scholarship to study at English Department, Western Michigan University as a graduate student. After finishing the M.A. program there, I moved to Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as I received a teaching assistantship there. While I studied modern American novels and taught basic Japanese in late 1960s at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. I learned how important it was to know the ways that students live, work, engage in sport activities, and socialize in everyday life. 　I taught at Kyoto Sangyo University, Department of Cultural Studies. I have also worked for the University Affiliated Research Institute of World Affairs. 　I wrote An Introduction to Comparative Culture Studies (1996).and translated The State of the Future2016 of the Millennium Project. 　The paper, Human and Robots Interaction: When Will Robots Come of Age? (World Future Review September 2014 vol.6, issue 3: 251-260) shows my future point of view.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015, and vigorous efforts to implement them have been rapidly increasing even in Japan. This book is a collection of articles taken from the first “Japan’s SDGs White Paper” edited by the xSDG Laboratory of the Keio Research Institute at SFC in Keio University in 2019 and translated into English. The activities of various stakeholders, including the Japanese national government, municipal governments, academic institutions, businesses, civic organizations such as NPOs, young people and the media, are reported by experts in their respective fields. It also summarizes the history of the SDGs and explains the issues and prospects in Japan. This is the perfect book to learn about initiatives in Japan towards achieving the SDGs, where people in all fields work together to change the world. この本は、2019年に慶應義塾大学 SFC研究所 xSDG・ラボの編集により発行された、「SDGs白書2019」の記事を抜粋し、英訳したものです

The concept of "Communities of Practice" has attracted attention as a way to support individuals' career development in today's society, where the job market has become increasingly uncertain. This book introduces the "Social Interaction Model for Youth Career Development," which is based on the concept of communities of practice. The model is specifically designed to assist young people overcome the challenges they face in their career development. In addition, it is applicable to a wide range of readers, as it is based on research conducted in both Denmark and Japan. The primary goal of this book is to serve as a valuable resource for young people as well as career guidance practitioners who are dedicated to supporting them.

Diverse influences from abroad provide a prime field of cross-cultural research in art education. This book portrays the process of cross-cultural interpretation as a way of making sense of one’s world in relation to those of others. Cross-cultural research in art education is regarded as “a two-way street.” Chapters 1-4 provide information about art teacher training systems of Japan in 1990s, consider the introduction of European modernism into Japanese school art practice in 1920s, trace the influence of American art education literature on the historical development of Japanese art education in more than a century, and describe the story of incorporating contemporary U. S. art in Japanese school art practice in 1990s. Chapters 5-12 discuss obvious examples what Japanese art educators have learned from Europeans and Americans and provide detailed instances of what American art educators have learned from the Japanese. The cases of Akira Shirahama (1866-1927), Kanae Yamamoto (1882-1946), Seishi Shimoda (1890-1973), Arthur Dow (1857-1922), and Kenneth Beittel (1922-2003) are interesting because they illustrate the gap between what was learned from others and what was realized in modernist art education. A pilgrimage to others makes the living journeying itself that which is invaluable. Surely, “a two-way street” was needed between the American and Japanese art education to enrich each of us achieve cross-cultural understanding in art education. Without diverse influences, no country has its inherent cultural values as pearls in an oyster. Thus the two-way street between cultures in art and art education will be wide open.

As global energy and environment problems draw increasing attention, Japan has set a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It has become even more important to promote the development of technology for fully utilizing hydrogen in the future, and also to explore fundamental science.However, since the foundational science related to hydrogen (hereinafter, hydrogen science) spans an extremely wide range of academic fields including engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology, sufficient opportunities have not been established for sharing cutting-edge trends and promoting joint research. Against this kind of background, the “Hydrogenomics: Creation of Innovative Materials, Devices, and Reaction Processes Using Higher-Order Hydrogen Functions” project was established under a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (FY2018 to FY2022). Through this framework, research has been promoted with the aim of creating the science for mastering the advanced use of hydrogen. We call this research area “hydrogenomics” (hydrogen + omics [system of learning]), and strive to promote joint research related to the diverse physical properties and functions of flexibly and continuously transformable hydrogen through cooperation between researchers in a wide range of academic fields including engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology. Practical, systematic joint research into hydrogen science that spans such as wide range of academic fields is unprecedented worldwide and this is the first such attempt. This book summarizes the following to provide a practical guide for obtaining new directions and widely sharing the state of activities in this new academic field, hydrogenomics. Chapter 1 “Diverse properties of hydrogen in materials” gives an overview of the “high densification ability of hydrogen”, which is related to many of energy functions; the “interfacial localizability of hydrogen”, which is important for enhancing electronic functions and mechanical properties; the “fast migration ability of hydrogen”, which includes short- and long-range migration phenomena and coupling with electrons related to new conceptual devices: and “high activation ability of hydrogen”, which is related to new material conversion processes. In order to fully utilize hydrogen based on these properties, it is essential to also perform research into analyzing and predicting hydrogen, which is difficult to detect in materials, with higher accuracy than ever before. Chapter 2 “Advanced measurements and calculations for hydrogen in materials” introduces cutting-edge hydrogen measurements driven by new methods, and the latest hydrogen calculations for “seeing” invisible hydrogen. Chapters 3 to 5 introduce some results related to fully utilizing hydrogen to explain the state of activities in “hydrogenomics”. Chapter 3 “Synthesizing new materials” explains the latest in high-pressure synthesis and thin-film synthesis technology, and then introduces hydride-ion conductors, hydrogen boride sheets, and other materials. Chapter 4 “Designing new devices” introduces new concepts for devices related to hydrogen and hydrides, such as hydride-based all-solid-state batteries, hydrogen-doped solar cells, rechargeable fuel cells, and proton-coupled electron transfer thermochemical cells. Furthermore, Chapter 5 “Providing new reaction processes and visualization technology” introduces new synthesis techniques for amino acids and ammonia, and new hydrogen visualization technologies using metal complexes. [Translation and revision from the Japanese language edition: The Science of Fully Utilizing “Hydrogen” Hydrogenomics, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd., 2022]

※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字だけを拡大することや、文字列のハイライト、検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。 ハイパフォーマンス組織を実現する方策のエッセンス！―本書では、LeanとDevOpsといった開発・運用スタイルがどのように実践されているのかを科学的に調査。こうしたスタイルが、開発組織や組織全体のパフォーマンスのほか、組織文化、リーダーシップ/マネジメントとどう関連しているかを明らかにする。　■『これはアジャイル、リーン、DevOpsの概念的根拠に関して新境地を開く本ではない。むしろもっと貴重なものを提供してくれる』― Cameron Haight, VMware南北アメリカ大陸担当バイスプレジデント兼CTO　■『現代の、何につけてもソフトウェアが中心、という未曾有の世界で生き残りを図るCEO、CFO、CIOに必須の洞察力を授けてくれる本』― Thomas Limoncelli, The Practice of Cloud System Administrationの共著者　■『本書では「速度か安定性か」という2分化の考え方に異論を投げかけるエビデンスを示す。「速度は安定性に依存する。効果的なプラクティスを実践すれば速度も安定性も高められる」と主張』― Martin Fowler, アジャイルソフトウェア開発、エクストリームプログラミングなどの提唱者　◇米Amazonのカテゴリーでベスト10！―2018/08/17時点。Software Development、Operations Research、Information Managementの3カテゴリー◇ ◎本書は『Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps』の翻訳書です。

※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字だけを拡大することや、文字列のハイライト、検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。 近年、日本式の教育慣行や研究結果が海外で紹介され、その教育方針のいくつかは、国際的にも大きな注目を集めている。 そんな中、日本の授業研究とカリキュラムマネジメントについて(主に)英語で記した本書は、そうしたニーズに応えうるものであるといえよう。主要議題である授業研究とカリキュラムマネジメントは、学校組織改善を目的とした教師のコミュニティに基づいたものであり、それは、開発途上のアクションリサーチ計画にとって、教育者の研究スタイルの公開が必要不可欠であることを意味している。 本書では、これらの概念を分析、検討し、学校改善のための教育慣行を理論付けるために、「教師による」「教師のための」アクションリサーチ方法論を確立させることを目指した。さらには、アクションリサーチによってなされる教育改革における「理論と実践の融合」についても論じる CONTENTS Introduction: A Research of Lesson Study and Curriculum Management in Japan Chapter1:Summary of Lesson Study and Curriculum Management Chapter2:Action Research of a Lesson Study in Japan Chapter3:Lens from Lesson Study and Systematic Classroom Observation Research Chapter4:Knowledge Leadership and Lesson Study Chapter5: A Study on “Project Management” a Case Study on School Integration by Board of Education Chapter6: Fostering Lesson Improvement through Leadership Practices: A Distributed Leadership Perspective Chapter7: Development of the Autonomous Learner through Blended Learning Chapter8:Findings from Case Study of Service-Learning in Japan Final Chapter Future Study Focused on Action Research （※本書は2014/10/5に発売し、2021/12/30に電子化をいたしました）