KEIO SFC JOURNAL

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Future Vision of Japanese Society after the Tarning Point

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLESINVITED PAPERS The Land and Society of Japan - their Future Images and Problems Takashi Onishi Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo / President, Science Council of Japan We can identify major issues, which may bring about changes in the future of Japan towards 2050, as follows: energy problems, environmental problems to realize a low-carbon society and disaster reduction practices to seek constructing strong national land against natural hazards, as population reduction and growth of Asian countries go on. It becomes more important to tackle with the promotion of disaster reduction including the retreat from...

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Designing Environments for Learning

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLES INVITED PAPERS What is Embodied Learning? - Significance of Embodiment in Learning and Teaching Masaki Suwa Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University This paper provides a methodology of learning of which the main thrust is embodied learning. The method provided is "embodied meta-cognition" in which one tries to be self-aware of and verbalize what kind of world of things, their attributes and physical relations one interacts with, and thereby generates one's own interpretations of them. That custom in everyday life promotes embodied learning. Parroting someone else's ideas without embodied understanding lacks the attitude of...

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Japan Studies Platform Laboratory and a Globalization Strategy of Keio SFC "Theory and Practice in New 'Japan Studies'"

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLESINVITED PAPERS Review and Prospects of the Institute of Japan Studies, Kookmin University Won-deog Lee Professor, School of International and Area Studies, Kookmin University / Director, Institute of Japanese Studies Founded in 2002, the Institute of Japanese Studies at Kookmin University has set a model for area studies in ROK. After a mere span of ten years, the IJS stands today at the forefront of Japanese studies in Korea by accumulating an array of critically acclaimed projects ranging from primary source compilation to multidisciplinary analyses of Japanese society and the post war ROK-Japan relations. In celebrating the first...

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New Trends in Computing Systems

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLES/span>INVITED PAPERS Quantum Computation - Necessity of and Possibilities for a New Information Technology Rodney Van Meter Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University Shigeya Suzuki Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University Shota Nagayama Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University） Semiconductor technology has been a critical engine driving progress for half a century, but faces fundamental problems that will slow its advance. One possible route to computers with new capabilities is quantum computation. At the Keio Shonan Fujisawa Campus, the AQUA research group is working toward...

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Research Methodology Evolutions at Keio, SFC

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLESINVITED PAPERS Evidence Based Practice and Evaluation of Community Intervention - Complex Intervention and Mixed Methods Miki Akiyama Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University This article discusses methodology for evidence-based community intervention practices, which involves a number of interacting variables and components. After introducing "complex interventions" and "mixed methods", which are increasingly well known and used in the health service and public health practice, this article examines a case of large-scale community intervention studies which had taken place in an area of palliative care in Japan. Elements of each development and evaluation process are...

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