Program for Leading Graduate Schools
To equip excellent students with a broad perspective and originality,
and train them to be leaders who are globally successful in a wide
range of fields in industry, academia and government, we have gathered
together the best teachers and students from within and outside of
Japan. Our graduate education has been radically reformed, resulting in
consistent, cross-disciplinary doctoral degree programs that enjoy
participation from members of industry, academia and government, and
guarantee a world-class level of quality. This Program supports such
reform: its aim is to drive the formation of a graduate school fitting
of the highest level of education.
Basic Principles
Today there still exist throughout the world villages that are unable
to receive basic living services such as educational and medical
services, regions experiencing endless conflict over the right to use
water or land, and communities without an adequate supply of energy or
resources. Conversely, the mature society of Japan is currently facing
different social issues: marginal villages that do not have adequate
access to educational or medical services, and day-to-day transportation
issues in island and semi-mountainous areas that have no guaranteed
mode of transporting people or goods. Today’s global society needs to be
a flexible, enduring, and peaceful society of coexistence where such
disadvantages, positioned on the dividing line between economic growth
and maturity, are accepted as conditions for us to coexist and cohabit
this Earth.
In recent years, the use of cell phones is evident even amongst
villagers in remote villages in far outlying developing nations. Compact
solar cell panels are used to generate power, and there is increasing
use of LED light bulbs, which can convert to light a tiny amount of
power stored in a small battery. With the spread of such technology, the
monotonous, long, dangerous nights in developing nations have been
changed into meaningful time filled with energy. State-of-the-art
science and technology developed in advanced nations and supporting
today’s society now has the potential to dramatically transform not only
advanced nations but societies in developing nations as well. We will
work closely with regions facing problematic issues such as these,
develop proposals based on their needs, expand the potential of such
state-of-the-art science and technology, to implement onsite reverse
innovation that more effectively leads society in the right direction.
Onsite reverse innovation is a means to overcome the issues faced by
disadvantaged regions based on those regions’ unique societies and
cultures that have grown diversely over time and space. It is the
starting point of a cycle whereby the required advanced science and
technology is identified (developed) and nurtured (applied/implemented)
in the regions. We believe that a cycle of science and technology led by
the culture of the region concerned is the way forward for the creation
of a flexible, enduring, and peaceful society of coexistence. Based on
this concept, we will train the three types of innovators required to
ensure that the appropriate state-of-the-art science and technology is
applied and implemented in onsite innovation. It is expected that these
innovators, who may also be called multicultural coexistence
instigators, will act as leaders in the creation of a convivial society
to address mutually-created cultural, technical and social innovation
onsite, and contribute to the resolution of issues regarding
disadvantages in regional communities.
Cultural Creation Innovators
Technical Creation Innovators
Social Implementation Innovators
Trained to create culture adapted to social and environmental change as well as technical innovation
- Teachers and educational administrators who protect and nurture culture and design regional development
- Journalists and international NGO staff who communicate the identity of the region through onsite media, etc.
Trained to create science and technology to match with the issues in culture and social environments in disadvantaged regions
- Corporate engineers who generate low-cost technology that functions even under poor conditions
- Technology transfer experts and entrepreneurs who match technology develop concepts with diverse values and environmental changes
Trained to achieve the balanced implementation into society of the
diverse cultures and new science and technology that have been created
- Administrative and development consultants who identify optimal onsite solutions under difficult conditions
- Government workers, regional administration employees and international cooperation organization employees who work to reach consensus among stakeholders with differing values
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