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Course Title Selected Topics in International Economics I Lecturer Semester Credits First 2 KOMINE TAKAO Course description Today’s Japanese economy has faced various issues, including the economic policy of Abenomics, financial reconstruction, population decline and social security reform. The same can be said for the world economy. This course looks at the latest economic issues now in progress to show how interesting it is to observe a dynamically changing economy. Course objectives Issues that the Japanese economy and world economy have faced (I) Based on the latest data, students consider the various issues that today’s Japanese economy and world economy have to cope with. The goals to be achieved are: (1) For students to gain basic knowledge of the current situations of the Japanese and world economy; (2) For students to have their own views about what economic policy should be implemented; (3) For students to understand the actual situation of the economy by using basic economics tools. Lecture plan Lecture 1: Basis of the economy and the Japanese economy Lecture 2: Learn the basis of the economy from GDP Lecture 3: How to read economic indicators Lecture 4: Understand the current state of business conditions Lecture 5: Economic growth Lecture 6: Methods of growth strategy Lecture 7: The bubble era Lecture 8: The Japanese economy after the collapse of the bubble Lecture 9: Change of commodity prices and deflation Lecture 10: Current state of employment Lecture 11: Structural changes and employment Lecture 12: Structural changes in corporate management Lecture 13: Corporate governance and CSR Lecture 14: Changes in industrial structure Lecture 15: New technologies and leading industries in the future Evaluation Examination and class attendance. Textbooks Takao KOMINE and Keiko Murata, Saishin Nihon Keizai Nyumon (The Latest Introduction to the Japanese Economy), Nippon Hyoron Sha Co., Ltd., 2012 Takao KOMINE, Nihon Keizairon no Tsumi to Batsu (Crime and Punishment of Japanese Economic Theories), Nikkei Publishing Inc., 2013 Norio Iguchi, ed., Aoyama Bunka Kenkyu (Study of Aoyama Culture), Senden Kaigi, 2011and information materials to be provided in class.