Gallery at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus
Messages from the Deans
Faculty of Policy Management
Facing the real world beyond the field of academic disciplines
“Thinking about policy” — the Faculty of Policy Management is dedicated to education and research designed to facilitate thinking about policy since its establishment 30 years ago. The discipline of “thinking about policy” is to address challenges that exist in the real world require constant change as the order of society itself changes and values that were once seen as a matter of course are dynamically transforming. Existing solutions are not always compatible with many of the issues we now face in our society, which demand new ways of thinking.
Issues that exist in our society are transboundary in nature. Only through a scholarship that engages with interdisciplinary domains can we develop the ability to think about policy. In the past, academia primarily emphasized a deep inquiry into the subject. Of course, it is necessary to explore things deeply. However, this will not suffice even for the question of identifying a particular issue. The issue that we are focusing on now may not have been the real issue in the first place; to think about policy is to face the real world.
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Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Leading the way in uncertain times
More than 30 years have passed since the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies was founded in 1990. The Faculty has had the Internet as its infrastructure since its establishment, and this has been a driving force in the development and spread of Internet technology. But not even our forerunners could have imagined that, 30 years on, we would be living in an age where almost every person has a small computer (smartphone) to hand, and that information would instantly travel around the world via SNS.
COVID-19, which swept the world starting at the end of 2019, has drastically changed our everyday lives. The environment around us has undergone rapid changes in recent years, making predictions difficult and raising uncertainties for the future, thus bringing about a situation which has come to be referred to as VUCA (an acronym derived from the words volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). We are currently living in the age of VUCA. While global environmental problems such as drastic global warming and a decrease in biodiversity cast a dark shadow over our future, emerging technologies may enable us to do things we had never even imagined.
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Message from Chairperson
of SFC Global Committee
Resource Guide
for GIGA Parents
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FAQ
Will there be a student gathering event?
Especially for the GIGA freshmen (those who enrolled through Winter AO [for the GIGA Program]), we are planning to hold the Freshman Session in late September.
Can international students work in Japan?
To work part-time in Japan, permission must first be obtained from Immigration Bureau of Japan. Part-time jobs for international students are limited to 28 hours per week (up to 8 hours per day during summer, winter, and spring holidays). For your reference, the minimum wage in Kanagawa prefecture is JPY 1,071 per hour.
In general, the types of jobs open to international students are dependent on their Japanese-language ability. Students are not permitted to work at bars, night clubs, pachinko and mahjong parlors, adult entertainment shops and other similar venues.
What are career opportunities for SFC students like?
After graduation, about seventy percent of graduates from the Faculty of Policy Management and the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies take positions at companies. Amongst all the graduates who enter into business areas, approximately eighty percent from the Faculty of Policy Management find jobs in companies related to information and telecommunications, finance and insurance, and manufacturing and service, while approximately sixty to seventy percent from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies find positions in companies related to information and telecommunications, and manufacturing and service. Companies connected with media and advertising are also much sought after.
How to learn Japanese at SFC?
Students move through courses in three levels, Elementary, Intermediate, and Superior/Advanced. You will be assigned a level before you commence study, based on your previous Japanese experience. It is possible to start from zero and reach a very accomplished level over 4 years. Each level covers a variety of courses. Elementary courses are Basic Japanese and Basic Applied Japanese. Intermediate courses are Intensive Japanese and Superior/Advanced courses cover skills.
All GIGA students are nominated as GIGA certificate candidates on enrollment. Attaining a Japanese level equivalent to N2 of the JLPT is one of the requirements for attaining the GIGA certificate on graduation.
How is the living environment in Japan?
Japan is known as a good place to live with its low crime rate. Even if you misplace something, it will be returned to you most of the time. Japan’s public transportation system boasts of its on-time departure and arrival and helps you reach your destination safely and securely. SFC is located about 90 minutes from central Tokyo. With a well-established health insurance system, students living in Japan can receive advanced medical care when you fall ill with only a small fee.