Faculty Members

Marine Policy

• LOU XiaoboMarine Economic Policy
• The goal of this lecture is to understand the economic phenomenon of marine industry and master the economic theory, especially to learn the economic policy. Since this course will be a seminar, students must make a presentation and discussion in this course.
• OKOCHI MikaInternational Institution of Ocean Management
• The purpose of this course is to learn what the law of the sea is, how the law of the sea was historically made and functions in the modern international community.
  The law of the sea also establishes rules for exploration and exploitation of the continental shelves, ownership and management of the territorial waters and right of transit through the international straits.
  However, the history of maritime disputes illustrates not only the effective dispute settlement but also the limitations of UNCLOS, and Customary International Law.
  In this course, we will study the law of the sea as a part of the international legal order.
• SASAKI TsuyoshiOcean LiteracyPractical ESD Training
• The purpose of this lecture is to study how to develop the potential of sustainable utilization of ocean resource by enhancing ocean literacy. This lecture will provide theory of educational practice and how to develop and research marine educational program based on each student’s technical knowledge, and study about concrete practice example at the NPOs, schools, other University, and over sea's Institutes.
• KUDO TakafumiMethodology for Wise Use of Coastal Area
• Human beings participate in managing and taking care of the ecological system (the interrelated nature of the marine ecosystem; water, fish and people), The material products of fisheries should be understood as by-products of ecological industries. We deal with many aspects of current problems in fisheries and recent movement towards the shifts to ecological industries.
• NAKAHARA NaotomoMarine Economic Policy
• The goal of this lecture is to understand the economic phenomenon of marine industry and master the economic theory, especially to learn the economic policy. Since this course will be a seminar, students must make a presentation and discussion in this course.
• TAKAHASHI ChikashiEconomic History of the Sea
• In this class, we read historical document about economic issue of the sea, and to be able to understand it in the history of Japanese economy.
• HIDEO inomataInternational Marine Policy
• From various perspectives such as international law and international relations theory, research and education are made on the activities of international organizations related to oceans, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• WAKAMATSU MihokoMarine Environmental Policy
• In this course, students will learn the policies related to ocean and environmental issues and evaluate them using basic economic concepts and quantitative methods.
• LIAO KaiMarine Environmental Policy
• In this course, students will learn the policies related to ocean and environmental issues and evaluate them using basic economic concepts and quantitative methods.
• OISHI TaroCoastal Regional Development
• The goal of this lecture is to understand the history and problems of regional development on coastal area.　This class will be conducted by reading a book in turn.
• MATUI TakahiroInstitution of Marine Resource Utilization
• Students are lectured about the regime of coastal water utilization of Japan and foreign countries and comparisons between those regimes are presented.
• HARADA SachikoInternational cooperation
• The purpose of this course is to consider Japan's contribution to the international community and the trade in marine products for the development of Japan's fisheries industry.

Marine Management

• 　　　　　　Fish Population Dynamics
• We learn the basic models that indicate the fluctuations in fish population under the fishing pressure. We also learn the virtual population analysis (VPA), which is a typical method to estimate the number of fish. We learn how to manage largely fluctuating fish resources through the simulation studies showing the cases of actual approaches.
• IWATA ShigehideFisheries Stock Management
• Students learn the definition of the fishery stock, the objectives of the management, the history of fish stock management, the methods of stock management, the legal aspect of management, the economic policy, the actual stock management of the domestic fisheries and the international ones.
• KAWABE MidoriCoastal Zone ConservationPractical ESD Training
• Participants are expected to discuss cases related to ocean and coastal environment and resources management. This class will be held to learn basic concepts for coastal zone management by using the collaborative approach.
• SUZUKI NaokiMarine Ecosystem Management
• The quantitative analysis of the integrated system of the population dynamics is necessary for conservation and management of ecosystem. Students will learn the population dynamics and its quantitative analysis methods.
• KITAKADO ToshihideFisheries Stock Assessment
• Students will learn statistical methods used in fisheries stock assessment and management. The course will also cover the basics of programming in R.
• TSURUGA KayokoStudy on Seabed Resources
• The main purpose of this lecture is to understand the basic knowledge of the seabed resources. We start the lecture about general earth science, and then learn the basics about the energy resources such as oil, gas, and methane hydrate, and several important mineral resources under the seabed such as hydrothermal deposit.
  We also introduce some topics about explorations and utilities of seabed resources.

Marine Environment and Culture

• KAWASHITA ShinjiroEnvironmental Education
• Students will get various knowledge or skills for environmental education.
• KOGURE ShuzoMulticultural Studies
• This course provides theoretical and empirical research from a sociological perspective on the organic linkage of the following three issues in a local community: 1) economic issues, such as the circulation of people, goods, and money (revitalization of regional economies), 2) cultural issues, such as the inheritance of traditional culture (inheritance of regional culture), and 3) ecological issues, such as the conservation of the natural environment (conservation of the marine environment).
• IMAMURA KeisukeContact Linguistics
• This course aims to develop students' understanding of language contact and cultural exchange focusing on specific areas such as the Micronesian islands.
• ONO MisaMarine Ecoliterature
• This course aims to help students (1) study environmental literature and thought in America by reading literary works and discussing the theme of the sea, nature and environment, (2) acquire knowledge of the keywords such as Sense of Place, Bioregionalism, and Environmental Justice, which is necessary to apply Ecocriticism (a critical approach toward literature and culture from the point of view of ecology), and (3) decide on their theme and complete a paper on the relationship among literature, culture, and environment.
• HIDAI HarukoScience and Literature
• Students will study the influence of science on environment and human relationships and the influence of humans and culture on the development of science through consideration of literary works.
• HAGIWARA YukiApplied Ethics
• Main issues of applied ethics such as bioethics and environmental ethics will be considered from various angles in this course. What was the impact of the appearance of problems of science and technology concerning life and environment on ethics? As a result, what kind of tasks is ethics faced with? We would like to seek for the future of ethics by considering these matters.
• KAKIHARA YasushiScience, Technology and Society
• We will study social problems including environmental and health issues from the viewpoint of history and sociology of science and technology.
• CHIASHI KoichiMarine Sport Sciences
• The purpose of this lecture is to study exercise of water sports by means of sport sciences.
  １） The present situation of water sports
  ２） The effect of environment on the human body
  ３） Sciences for swimming, diving, rowing etc.
  ４） The relationship between physical resources and performance of water sports
• TAMURA YujiMarine Health Sciences
• The purpose of this course is to learn how our health is affected by activities in marine　environments such as maritime labor or thalassotherapy, and to explore ways of life-long health promotion that marine environments can offer.
  1) The effects of maritime labor on health
  2) The effects of marine/aqua activities on health

Marine Policy

• IWABUCHI AkifumiCoastal Society and Culture
• Aquatic societies are fishing communities by nature, but their livelihoods are occasionally trading or piracy as well. Nowadays some serve a hotbed of international maritime terrorists. These societies have been studied, in particular, by folklorists in Japan and by cultural anthropologists in foreign countries. The famous folklorists who used to research on Japanese fishery are, for example, S. Sakurada or T. Miyamoto; two classics of fishing villages from the viewpoint of marine anthropology are “Malay Fishermen” written by R. Firth and “Rusembilan” by T. M. Fraser, both of which treat of Malay aquatic society in southeast Asia. Since the two books were printed, numerous excellent maritime ethnographies such as “Fishermen No More?” by O.
  "Ruohomäki" (Thailand), “People of the Sea” by R. Astuti (Madagascar), “The Performance of Gender” by C. Busby (India), or “Sea Hunters of Indonesia” by R. H. Barnes (Indonesia) have been published in succession. On the other, sea nomads, maritime populations without fishing villages, have also been focused recently upon in academic works such as “Bajau Laut” by C. Sather or "Fließende Grenzen" by L.
  Lenhart. In this class, by interpretation of anthropological ethnographies on aquatic societies, aquatic environment managements, customary laws around coastal zones, NGO activities such as a mangrove reforestation project, in the third world, and so on shall be discussed with students.

Marine Management

• OKAYASU AkioCoastal Protection and Management
• For the management of coastal areas, it is needed to protect those areas from natural disasters brought by high waves, storm surges and tsunamis, and man-made problems like water pollution, coastal erosion and environmental problems. The knowledge on the characteristics and mechanisms, and techniques to prevent those problems are important to avoid conflicts between the disaster preventions and the nature or the social environments. Lectures will be therefore given on physical aspects of the following topics.
  (1) Major coastal disasters in Japan, (2) Major coastal disasters in the world, (3) Causes and mechanisms of natural coastal disasters, (4) Measures for natural disasters and prevention methods of man-made problems, (5) Technical aspects on making consensus for coastal utilization, disaster prevention and environmental preservation, (6) The global climate change and increasing risks of disasters.