World-leading Innovative Graduate Study Program

Co-designing Future Society (WINGS-CFS)or (未来に向けた課題指向型⽂理協創プログラム)(Issue-Oriented Arts and Science Synergetic Program for the Future)【Target】 Although common globally, we face many complex and compounded issues
that must be solved based on the historical, political, and socio-economic contexts
specific to each region, and there is an urgent need to develop cross-disciplinary humanresources who can co-design future society.
••••Declining population and birthrate, and aging population
Intergenerational, gender and minority disparities
Ethics of life and death in the context of increasing longevity
Regional unevenness and disparities in socioeconomic
resources, etc.

Current Status and Issues
in Graduate Education
Conventional graduate school education
has focused mainly on fostering
successors but do not have envisions to
educate highly intelligent humanresources who will be active in society tosolve practical issues.
Good practice in interdisciplinary
education are very limited, because "joint
research" or "academic fusion" between
multiple disciplines has become a goal initself.

• We should develop human resources who canchange and advance their careers in response toacademic progress and social needs.
• In addition to "acquisition of specialized
knowledge", "acquisition of problem-solving
skills (advanced learning skills)" is required.
• Methodologies from various fields of expertiseshould be brought together to create novel
approaches and social innovations.
• The issues are compounded and complex.
Therefore, we should take up the challenge ofsystematic cross-disciplinary education with afocus on the synergies of arts and science.

1Capacity Development in Arts and Science Synergistically, andintegrated promotion of graduate school reform
Supporting to build a global commons

Arts and Science Synergistic Talents

Target Talent• Excellence in the field of expertise and the flexibility not tostick to it.
• Aim for long-term global optimization rather than shortterm local optimization.
• Designs synergistic co-design to solve problems that aredifficult to achieve alone.

3 capabilities• Resilient social imagination to discover social issues• Ability to understand others and empathize withdifferent fields and experts• Future-oriented public empathy, not resigned toaffirming the status quo

integrated promotion of graduate school reform

Promote faculty awareness and academic renewal, anddrive the reform of the graduate school into a place for
fostering knowledge professionals who create diverse
values and systems as a global commons.

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Issue-oriented education to nurture human resources for thesynergistic co-design of arts and science• The social imagination requires field experience.
• Self-relativization is necessary for the ability to understand others.
• Public empathy requires an intrinsic motivation.
Traditional graduate education has not provided the opportunity toface real-life issues head-on, and has failed to instill social
imagination, understanding of others, and public empathy.

Issue-oriented education throughsynergistic work in the arts and science
Cross-disciplinarysynergistic work

Issue
setting

Identify what needs to be done to realize thevision for the future and present it as a clear
issue.

Issue
analysis

Choosing an appropriate analytical method
to determine the nature of the issue andreveal the background mechanism.

Developing Conceptualize the process that leads to thesolution of the issue, and link it to the next
the issue
policydevelopment
implementation.

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Standard Curriculum of Issue-oriented Education
M1SpecificResearch
Issue
Setting

Issue
AnalysisIssue
setting andanalysis

Issue
development

M2

Masterʼs Research

D1

Master Thesis

Special Lectures on Issue Setting I-Ⅴ（elective mandatory course:2 classes 4 credits）
Special Lectures on Issue AnalysisⅠ-Ⅴ（elective mandatory course:2 classes 4 credits）

Doctoral Research

D3Ph.D Thesis• Intersectional lecture with multiple faculty members in thehumanities and sciences at the same time• Five lectures (ethics x AI, ideology x robotics, history x
energy, disability x city planning, longevity x big data, etc.)• Multi-disciplinary lecture on problem analysis methods across thehumanities and sciences• Five lecture courses (ideological analysis, historical analysis,
institutional analysis, spatial analysis, information analysis, numericalanalysis, etc.)

Cross-disciplinary collaborative
seminar Ⅰ-Ⅱ（elective mandatory course:
1 classes 2 credits）• Practical exercises that allow students to gain
hands-on experience in solving actual problems
in collaboration with practitioners and experts
during a short-term stay at the site of theproblem• 2 practicum subjects in different forms(multidisciplinary exchange practicum, domestic
and international internship)

D2• Field exercises to deepen understanding and skills in
issue setting and analysis through interviews withresidents and community surveys (two exercises withdifferent assignments)• A series of collaborative work: discovering issues,
crossing new multidisciplines, embodying issues,
selecting and analyzing analytical methods, considering
them, sharing multidisciplines, and explaining them toothers

Global Commons PracticeⅠ-Ⅱ（elective mandatory course:
1 classes 2 credits）• 12 or more credits from lectures, exercises, and practical training courses are systematicallytaken.
• Interactive sessions (about once a month) for mutual discussions between a diverse groupof outstanding students and faculties.
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Completion Requirements
Arts and Science
SynergisticTalents
Final Exam.

Requirements

D3• Meet the completion requirements of themajor.
• A minimum of 12 credits from lectures,exercises, and practical courses aresystematically taken.
• Has the major and minor, and issupervised by a major and minor
supervisors.
• Pass the mid-term, QE, and finalexaminations.

Ph.D Thesis,Course Status

D2

D1

Evaluation Points• Are students learning in a issueoriented and synergistic manner
through lectures, exercises, andpractical training?
• Does he or she incorporate disciplinethat is not in his or her area ofexpertise?
• Is the review of the past and thevision for the future described in theresearch paper in a synergisticmanner?
• Have they had experiences that leadto their social imagination?

Document Review
Interimexam.
Ph.D Thesis,Course Status

Qualifying exam.

M2

Masterʼs Thesis,Course Status

Interim exam.

Interview
Presentation
Internal and external judges• faculty member in charge• Directors, etc.
• Faculty members ofoverseas universities• experts in internationalorganizations• corporate practitioners

Masterʼs Thesis, Course Status

M1
Entrance toGraduate
School(Only students who are suitable for the artsand science synergistic talents will bepromoted as program students.)

Entrance exam.

Motivation, activities, andability to carry out research5Collaboration with external organizations
Collaboration withTop Universities

Collaboration withInternational
Organizations

Collaboration with
global enterprizes• Special seminars and lectures by • Special practical seminars and• Special practical seminars andlectures by internationally-active
top-notch faculty members fromlectures by experienced experts
experts on issue-solving
top foreign universities based onon the process of issue solving•Jointimplementationofdomestic
cutting-edge researches.
• Joint implementation ofand international internships that multidisciplinary exchange• Promotion of excellent
address international social
international research throughtraining that develops
issues in a practical manneroverseas research surveys
manufacturing and policy• Joint implementation of overseas • Double degree program with thediscussions to solve issues
United Nations University, etc.
internships and summer schools• Joint implementation of domestic• Personnel exchange and training
and international internships to• Japan International Cooperation
for young faculty and researchers
learn methodologies for solving
Agency (JICA)
through sabbaticals, etc.
issues in industry• United Nations University Institute• Deeper communication between
for Advanced Studies in• Princeton University
students and business people
Sustainability (UNU-IAS)• Massachusetts Institute of• United Nations Industrial
through recurrent education, etc.
TechnologyDevelopment Organization (UNIDO)• Yale University• Asian Development Bank Institute• Imperial College London.
(ADBI)• Ecole des Ponts Parisiques(Coordinator Oki is also the Senior• Technical University of Munich
Vice Rector of the United Nations• Swiss Federal Institute ofUniversity)
Technology Zurich• Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden• Stockholm University• Tsinghua University• Australian National University • National Taiwan• National University ofUniversitySingapore• Seoul National University• Vietnam National University, • University of Cape Town
Hanoi
• University of Nairobi• Padjadjaran University• University of Sao Paulo• SDGs Civil Society Network• EBARA Corporation• Suntory Global Innovation Center• Shimizu Corporation• Daikin Industries, Ltd.
• Toshiba (company)• Toyota Central R&D Labs.
• IBM Japan• Hitachi, Ltd.
• Fast Retailing• Honda Motor Co.

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