JGDP
Japan-Global Development Program (JGDP)
The Japan-Global Development Program (JGDP) is a two-year master’s program offered jointly by the GSIR and GSIM to provide students the opportunity to learn universal development and growth logic in the fields of politics, economy, and management, using Japan’s experiences in economic development and corporate growth as basic case materials.
The JGDP is not intended as a program to train Japan specialists. The logic and lessons from Japan’s experience, both successes and failures, from the 19th Century to date will help future leaders from abroad when they have to think about their strategy for development back home. Thus, the logic behind Japan’s experience can be applied to various global scenarios. That is why we call this program the Japan-Global Development Program. The JGDP enables Japanese students to explain their country’s development logically when they go abroad and helps them to play an active role as global leaders.
Non-Occidental Development Model
The JGDP offers a model of Japan’s nation building in the 19th Century through its continuous development in the 20th Century and its efforts towards sustainable growth in the 21st Century. There is particular emphasis on its approach , management style, and culture, and how they contrast with European countries’ cases.
Practical Knowledge
JGDP students benefit from obtaining skills and knowledge applicable to their respective futures based on Japan’s past experience in various areas including policy making, economic development, and public and business management.
Phases of Development
As Japan grew and changed at an extremely rapid pace from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to now, its path includes almost every phase of development, which students can relate to their home countries based on their own states of development.
Program Director’s Message
Professor and Program Director of JGDP
In the process of modernization over the past 150 years, Japan has experienced a variety of economic and social conditions and has gone through a process of trial and error in considering what is necessary for its development.
Each country and region in the world today is at a different stage of development and knowing what Japan and other countries are doing now is not enough to provide suggestions for what to do next.
Through JGDP, we hope that by linking Japan's experiences at different stages of development with knowledge in your own area of expertise, you will acquire the ability to think about strategies to take from situations you may encounter in the future.
JGDP Courses (GSIR)
- Modern Japan in the World
- International Relations and Foreign Policy of Japan
- Japanese Development Cooperation: Implementation and Practice
- Postwar Japanese Politics
- Japanese Government and Politics
- Japan’s Education System
- Japanese International Development Cooperation
- Politico-economic History of Japan’s Modernization
JGDP Courses (GSIM)
- Agriculture Business and Policy in Japan
- Energy Policy and Business Leadership
- Japanese Style Management and Corporate Governance
- Japan’s Major industries and Human Resource Practices
- Monozukuri (Manufacturing) Management in Japan
- Small to Medium-sized Firms in Japan
Along with the JGDP courses listed above, JGDP students are required to take courses based on respective requirements for their concentration.