KEIO SFC JOURNAL

年別ニュース一覧

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Issues on Environmental Studies

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS A Study on the Modern Sukiya Architecture − An analysis on the works by the "Sukiya Architect": Sotoji Nakamura Wakako Sawada Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University When Japan opened its' country to the Western culture after the Meiji Restoration, the architecture industry was already highly systemized and qualified in terms of wooden construction and manufacturing of timber. In Japan, together with the main stream of the "architecture" industry in Western terms, there has always been another stream of architecture industry which survived through "modernization". The long search for their national identity, and...

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New Paradigms in Climate Change and Environment

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLESINVITED PAPERS Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: International Response Hironori Hamanaka Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University Masataka Watanabe Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University International community has been taking actions to address climate change under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol. In order to avoid serious impact of climate change, it was recognized that mitigation and adaptation actions, as well as the support by developed countries to developing countries in terms of finance, technology development and transfer, and capacity building, would need to be...

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Expanse of Communication Theory and Practice

INVITED REVIEW PAPERS Communication and Interaction Michiaki Yasumura Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University From the beginning, communication is an action or process conducted by human to human. Recently these relations have been broadened not only to machines but also to media. In such situations, communication should be discussed from the view point of human interface or human-computer interactions. This article first describes the three models of communication, then argues what is "understanding" in communication. Next, it focuses on the characteristics of communication, such as situation dependency, attractor, multi-modality and non-verbalization. As for the relationship between media and communication,...

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Governance: Theory and Practice

ARTICLES Legal Characteristics of Religious Obligations in Islam − An Approach to Construction of Theory of Governance Atsushi Okuda Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University Religious rituals in Islam, such as prayers, paying of alms and fasting, may well be regarded as private actions in accordance with the traditions of muslims. However, these rituals are performed voluntarily by every muslim as basic, prescribed obligations of a very social and public nature, as they provide the society with the foundation of its existence. The obligations shared among all muslims regardless of differences of individual races, nations, nationalities, social strata...

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Higher Education

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLES INVITED PAPERS University Education and Journalistic Discourse Kiyoshi Ishii Trustee/Vice President (Educational and Attached Schools Affairs), Shizuoka University With the rapid expansion of universities since the late 1950s, 'intellectuals' in the street have been absorbed into part of university professors as 'specialists'. Due to this fundamental transformation, 'journalistic discourse' which has integrated special knowledge with our 'journal (which etymologically means daily) matters' has given way to 'specialism' focusing on narrowly closed research fields. Both university teachers and students should overcome this kind of 'specialism' and share the ability to explain about their own special fields with concrete...

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