Policy Making and Social Innovation(PS)
Cultivating Leaders Embodying the Principle that Knowledge Demands Action
AKIYAMA, Miki
Professor, Program Chairperson
The PS Program primarily aims to cultivate professionals who boldly face problems in society and in organizations, who use the diverse wisdom of the past to produce practical knowledge that leads to solutions, and who will be leaders of society. Nowadays, various factors and systems interact in complicated ways, so businesses and government face challenging problems at every turn.
As an example, when we look at a local community , the aging and declining population have posed serious challenges in the fabric of industry, education, nursing care, and many other areas. In the past, communities could rely on various mutual-aid groups as a means of solving problems. However, these structures based on community ties no longer function and the financial situations of local governments have grown dire. Such communities are now in a trial-and-error stage of searching for strategies to keep them afloat.
It has been said that forging connections between various elements of society and encouraging collaboration and emergence may be the key for community enhancement. But how can we do?
In the PS Program, we believe it is important to go beyond analyzing problems and to approach the solution development by questioning how things should be. We aspire to make full use of various knowledge across multiple disciplines. Fieldwork and, occasionally, action research are recommended to confront problems, and to search concrete measures that will lead to solutions from various angles.
Innovation implies the development and creation of new values by combining social, economic and technological elements. Although modern society has become complex, the spread of Internet and other information technology has directly connected people to each other. It has become increasingly important to think globally and act locally. It is also important to integrate a social and cultural perspective together with technological and economic factors.
We, as innovators, sincerely welcome you to our program. By creating the synergies between research, education, and project implementation, let's make the difference in getting the world back on a healthy path.
Affiliated Academic Projects
- Science and Technology Communication
- Public Policy
- Korean Studies
- Network Communities 1
- Network Communities 2
- Human service and Community
- Platform and Innovetion
- Legal Policy on Media and Communications
- Legal Practice etc
Faculty Members（as of October, 2021）
Note: "◎" indicates the Program chairperson. " "(Underline) indicates not Graduate School Committee Members.
| Name | Title | Research Interrest(S) |
|---|---|---|
| Fukuzo HASEGAWA | Assistant Professor | Administrative Law, Public Law |
| Fumio SHIMPO | Professor | Constitutional Law, Cyber-Law, Robot-Law |
| Gen MIYAGAKI | Professor | Sociology, Economic Sociology, Civil Society, Community, Social Network, Social Capital and Trust |
| Hajime OISO | Associate Professor | ICT policy |
| Ichiro INNAMI | Professor | Decision Making, Negotiation & Organizational Behavior, Health Policy |
| Isao YANAGIMACHI | Professor | Modern Korea Studies,Business History（Japan and Korea） |
| Jiro KOKURYO | Professor | Management Information System |
| Junya HOSHIDA | Associate Professor | Health Policy,Social Security Policy,Labor Policy |
| Kan Hiroshi SUZUKI | Professor | Policy Making Process, Education Policy, Sports Policy, Medical Inovation Policy, Information Policy, Science and Technology Policy, Caltural Policy |
| Koji MATSUI | Professor | Government Organizations |
| Kotomi SHIOTA | Associate Professor | Rehabilitation,Health Science,Physical Education,Adapted Sports,Sports Management,Special Needs Education,Social Work |
| Kunifumi SAITO | Associate Professor | New Types of Jurisprudence, Technological Innovation in Financial Services |
| Makiko NAKAMURO | Professor | Economics of education |
| Masahiro KOTOSAKA | Associate Professor | International Business, Strategy, Entrepreneurship |
| Masatoshi TAMAMURA | Professor | Public Management, Social Marketing |
| ◎Miki AKIYAMA | Professor | Health Communication, Community Health, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Policy |
| Sayuri SHIRAI | Professor | Monetary Policy, International Finance, Japanese Economy, Global Economy,Money |
| Shinichi UEYAMA | Professor | Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, Public Management, Museum Management, Area Development |
| Shugo SHINOHARA | Associate Professor | Local Governance, Behavioral Public Administration, Public Management, Research Methodology |
| Takeo KUWAHARA | Professor | Marketing, Consumer Research |
| Takumi SHIMIZU | Associate Professor | Management, Organization, Innovation, Technology Management, Computational Social Science |
| Taro OZAWA | Professor | Public Economics (Public Choice), Game Theory (Strategic Studies) |
| Tatsuma WADA | Professor | International Finance, Econometrics, Macroeconomics |
| Yasushi WATANABE | Professor | American Studies, Cultural Policy, Public Diplomacy, Cultural Anthropology |
| Yoshinori ISAGAI | Professor | Platform Design, Community Innovation, Family Business Management, Management Information System |
| Yuichiro SHIMIZU | Professor | Japanese Politics, Modern Japanese History, Politics-Administration Relationship, Oral History |
| Yuko TOUKAIRIN | Associate Professor | Life skill program coaching |
Submembers
| Name | Title | Research Interrest(S) |
|---|---|---|
| Atsushi SHINJO | Professor | Agriculture, Information Policy, Computer Science |
| Mika KUNIEDA | Assistant Professor | global health, wellbeing/me-byo, communication for development, individual and community level behavior change, health behavioral economics, Africa |
| Mitsuhiro WATANABE | Professor | Health Science, Anti-aging, Metabolic Disease, Naturopathic Medicine, Preventive Medicine |
| Takashi IBA | Professor | Art and Science of Creativity, Pattern Languages, Systems Theory, Science of Complexity |
Possibilities after Graduation
The Program directs the creative energy of students in solving social/ individual issues and helps them to develop skills to operate new resources such as IT systems, and also promotes human resources who begin venture entrepreneurship. The employment opportunities for graduates are diverse ranging from international organizations, developmental consulting firms, national civil services, regional governments, and private think tanks, to venture capitals, investment advisory groups, banking facilities, journalisms, educational circles, human resource development businesses, career support businesses, and entrepreneurs.