東京大学公共政策大学院 | GraSPP / Graduate School of Public Policy | The university of Tokyo

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Information regarding online exam of the joint courses with School of Law and Faculty of Law, will be provided through UTAS. Please also check the bulletin board after loggin in to UTAS. As for the examinations and make-up lectures schedules of the joint courses with School of Law and Faculty of Law, please check each bulletin board and following Web sites. Especially, please check the venues for examinations and the precautions each time. Be careful about the examination venues because it may be different from usual lecture rooms. School of Law Examination (in Japanese) School of Law Make-up lectures (in Japanese) Faculty of Law Examination (in Japanese) Faculty of Law Make-up lectures (in Japanese) As for the examinations and makeup classes schedules of the joint courses with Faculty of Economics, please check the bulletin board of Faculty of Economics (on the 1st floor of Akamon General Research Bldg.) Especially, please check the venues for examinations and the precautions each time. Faculty of Economics Examination Faculty of Economics Make-up lectures

 GraSPP Policy Challenge 2021: Global Innovative Public Policy Solutions

Do you have a proposed solution to an important public policy problem? Can you apply your analytical skills to solve a policy issue? Do you want to showcase your idea during an international conference? Do you want to meet creative students from all around the world?

  GraSPP Policy Challenge (GPC) offers a unique opportunity to students from diverse background to collaborate and seek to improve their teambuilding and policy-making skills. Participants are tasked with responding to pressing real-world policy challenges as a group, and with designing policies and proposals in response to those challenges. All students from GraSPP/STIG are strongly encouraged to apply. Finalist groups will be ultimately invited to present at the GPPN Annual Conference 2022* hosted by Hertie School, Berlin in March 2022.   Challenge We are inviting students to identify an important policy challenge in any public policy field and in any regional, international or national context. Students should form teams between 4 and 5 members and work together to develop their proposals. Each school of the GPPN will send up to 20 students in total. We are looking for student presentations on public policy proposals that: Identify a an important and pressing public policy problem; Present a convincing and innovative solution and demonstrate why this proposal is appropriate to solve the policy problem identified; Explain how the solution shall be implemented and what implementation challenges will need to be overcome, taking into account available knowledge and the context in which the policy challenge occurs. The proposal should be concise but clearly argued and based on evidence from practice and/or research.   Criteria Proposals will be assessed against the following criteria. (These are the same criteria as will be used at the conference.) 25% Problem Analysis 15% Strength of Solution & Real-World Feasibility 15% Implementation Analysis 15% Long-Term Sustainability 20% Quality of Presentation   To apply: Application Guideline Course Syllabus Students should form teams of either 4 or 5 members and work together to develop their projects. The group must consist of 4-5 Master’s students who are currently enrolled in GraSPP and/or STIG and apply via: online form by 18 October (midnight, JST). You may also apply individually and leave GraSPP to find your teammates. Announcement of the groups and advisors will be made by 20 October. 　 Schedule (TBC) 18 October: Application deadline 20 October: Briefing Session - Announcement of the Advisors and groupings 21 November: Deadline for Research Proposals 22-28 November: Feedback on research proposals by professors 6-10 December: A2 Course Registration Mid December (TBC): Presentation and selection of GPPN Conference participants & Announcement of Finalists 24 January 2022: Deadline for submission of PPT slides and a final policy proposal Early February: Presentation Rehearsal (*GPPN participants only)   5-6 March: Attend the GPPN Virtual Conference 2022 in Berlin                      Credits You can register this initiative as a Case Study course “GraSPP Policy Challenge – Global Innovative Public Policy Solutions” (5140735) in A2 term. Those who complete all the requirements will earn 2 credits. (Grades: Pass/fail)  * Course registration for A2 term is required separately to earn credits. For more information, please check the course syllabus. This course can be taken repeatedly and counted as up to 4 credits.    

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GPPN Annual Conference 2022

Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 March 2022

Hosted by the Hertie School in Berlin

  The Hertie School in Berlin will host the 2022 international conference of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 March 2022. Students selected to participate will have the opportunity to compete against teams selected from seven of the most prestigious schools of public affairs and to network with students from all over the world.   Format: Teams and proposals selected by their policy school to participate in the GPPN Conference at the Hertie School will each give an “elevator pitch” presentation of up to 3 minutes on the first day, followed by questions of the jury. The Jury, composed of the Deans of the GPPN schools, will select up to 10 teams/proposals. The teams will compete against each other on the second day of the conference. The second presentation will be for up to 5 minutes, followed by questions from the Jury. The presentation should seek to answer the questions raised by the Jury and integrate the feedback provided during the first round of the competition. Participation in the second day of the Conference is mandatory for all students. All students will have the opportunity to participate in academic and social events organised by the Hertie School during the conference.   Conditions for participation: The Hertie School is planning for an in-person event but it reserves the right to switch to an online or hybrid format depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic and possible travel restrictions. We would like to make the GPPN conference a safe and enjoyable experience for all participants. Students will be required to show proof of vaccination or immunization against Covid-19 before entering the campus of the Hertie School. Students who cannot be vaccinated or whose vaccine is not recognised by the European health authorities (see list here) will be required to present a valid antigen test less than 24 hours old before entering the campus. Depending on applying regulations, students may be required to wear face coverings. Students who do not fulfil these conditions will be refused access to the event, and may be required to reimburse travel and accommodation costs. Please note that proof of vaccination may also be required by German border authorities prior to travel for geographical zones classified as high risks. You may find information on German regulations and an updated list of risk areas here.   Travel reimbursement: For the participants of the GPPN Student Conference 2022 to be held in Berlin, up to JPY 100,000 will be subsidized as travel expense by GraSPP. (*Details to be announced to the participants) -The reimbursement will be made after your return upon submission of the air ticket stubs and a report. - Accommodation in Berlin (up to 3 nights, check-in on Friday 4 March and check-out on Monday 7 March) will be paid for and arranged by the Hertie School. - Students should be responsible for all expenses and related costs in excess of these amounts. The expenses noted above are the only expenses that will be covered by GraSPP, so all applicants should plan accordingly (meals, local transportation, supplies, visas, additional travel cost related Covid-19, etc will not be covered by the program).   Inquiry Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding the course. Coordinator: Aoi Ohno (aoi.ohno@mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp)                 

In the famous speech Steve Jobs delivered at Stanford University, there is the phrase “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” When I look back on myself, I’m certainly able to say that who I am today composed of what I experienced during the 2 and a half years in GraSPP and at the Australian National University (ANU), where I studied as a Double Degree student. And what I always ask myself when I work as an official of the Ibaraki Prefectural Government is, whether or not I have wasted these two and a half years, whether I am able to be engaged in tasks that only I can perform, and whether I am living my life with no regrets. [caption id="attachment_31968" align="alignright" width="300"] Signed a MOU with the central government of Vietnam. The man exchanging the memorandum is the author[/caption] Currently, I’m working on promotion of the acceptance of foreign labor into my prefecture in the Labor Affairs Division. Needless to say, Japanese industries have not been working without foreign workers. Ibaraki Prefecture is no exception. Its total population is around 2,900,000 and nearly 40,000 employees are from abroad. They support a wide range of industries such as agriculture and manufacturing, and this number of foreign workers has doubled to reach 40,000 within the past 10 years. As the Japanese Government created the new residential status of “Specified Skilled Workers” for foreigners in April 2019, it is accelerating the acceptance of foreign workers. At the same time, the Ibaraki Prefectural Government established the Ibaraki Foreign Worker Support Center ahead of the rest of the country, and also decided to strongly promote such acceptance. I enrolled in GraSPP with 5 years working experience in the Ibaraki Prefectural Government. After graduating from GraSPP, I vaguely came to feel that I would like to engage in internationally related affairs. Then, after I applied via an in-house recruitment system (some divisions recruit staff who hope to be assigned in the section), I came to the current Labor Affairs Division in the first year our government started to promote the acceptance of foreign labor. The reason why I chose this division was that I could communicate with foreigners more comfortably than other officials since I had studied with lots of foreign classmates and discussed the differences between public administration systems, politics, and culture in our home countries. In addition, I thought I could make use of my English skills gained at ANU. I believed that this division had tasks which only I could achieve in the government. [caption id="attachment_31967" align="alignleft" width="300"] Concluded a MOU with the Vietnamese local government. The author is on the far right, and on the left is the governor of Ibaraki Prefecture, Oigawa[/caption] My responsibilities for promoting acceptance of foreign labor are much more challenging than I expected. At first, I needed to negotiate with central and local governments abroad, education organizations, and foreign embassies in Japan. This was because we have to find reliable counterparts, and conclude Memorandums of Understanding (MOU), in order for companies in Ibaraki to accept skilled foreigners with Japanese language ability through proper channels. It is not uncommon for malicious brokers, which do business placing foreign workers with companies, offer disguised resumes of foreign candidates or introduce workers who do not match the required residential status in Japan. Another issue is whether the foreign workers choose Ibaraki from 47 prefectures in Japan, even if our government hopes to accept foreign workers. We have to be ahead of other local governments by appealing to all our advantages including working and living environments such as salaries, treatment, and support for foreign nationals. Ibaraki targets 4 countries, including Vietnam and Indonesia, and I have taken the responsibilities of all the negotiation upon myself. To find reliable counterparts, communicating with foreign central governments through foreign embassies in Japan is a plausible approach, so I asked classmates at GraSPP and ANU for help. These classmates were studying how to make public policies, so many of my classmates were sent from central ministries from their home countries. I requested my friends coming from ministries such as Finance and Internal Affairs to introduce officials working at embassies in Japan. Through this channel, I approached their national government. Though I omit detailed negotiation processes, I was able to successfully conclude MOUs with several countries, and start concrete projects. News for the conclusion of MOUs with central and local governments in Vietnam https://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/shokorodo/rosei/rodo/gaikokujin/mou/vietnam.html News for the conclusion of an MOU with a university in Indonesia https://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/shokorodo/rosei/rodo/gaikokujin/indonesiauniversity.html [caption id="attachment_31969" align="alignright" width="300"] Attended the Senegalese delegation at the G20 Trade and Digital Economy Ministers' Meeting held in Ibaraki Prefecture[/caption] When I look back, I had never imagined the current situation, but I believe that it is the result of connecting what I did and learned in my periods as a graduate student. Before enrolling at GraSPP, I had no idea about internationally related work as I do now. If I had not studied at ANU and experienced a circumstance where I was the only Japanese in my class, I may not have wanted to engage in promoting acceptance of foreign labor. In addition, experience in having studied crazily until 2 to 3 am every day at ANU library with no days off, and in having passed through classes without failing, though that was really difficult for me as my English was the worst in the class, made me tough. All of these challenges helped me a lot to survive and reap a harvest in negotiation with foreign governments, even under difficult situations where I cannot rely on anyone because these negotiations are truly new to almost all prefectures in Japan, not only to my prefecture. Before I graduated from the GraSPP, some of my classmates asked me if I could make use of what I gained in the graduate schools after restarting my job at the prefectural government. Other friends kindly offered to refer their companies to me. However, I wanted to contribute to our society by doing something that only I can do, so I decided to continue working for my prefectural government. Trying to justify my determination and feel no regrets about my decision seems to be like a kind of “curse” to me. Achieving something in international fields requires trying all the things I can come up with, and if I can feel even a bit of hope from one of these attempts, I cannot help doing it. There are divisions in my government which are related to China such as exports, tapping new airlines, and international tourism, so I have started studying Chinese in order to continue engaging internationally even after moving to different departments. In addition, to not forget my English skills, I have talked with my Australian friend every two weeks online. Whenever I look back, I would like to say that I have been spending my life with no regrets, and successfully connected all the challenges, experience, and life of 2 and a half years in GraSPP and ANU.   (This English version was grammatically checked by my dear friend, Alex Pan.)

Registration correction period for courses offered at A1A2 and A1 term has started from October 11th. Please reconfirm Page 36-37 of “Course Summaries” and make sure you register necessary courses during the period.  Registration Correction Period From Monday, October 11th to Wednesday, October 13th.  Course Summaries https://www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/education/courses/  Please pay special attention to the following points: -During “Course registration correction period” you can add, change or remove A1A2 and A1 term courses. You CANNOT add, change or remove courses after the period. -You need to register your courses through UTAS. Course registration through ITC-LMS or bookmarking syllabus on UTAS is different from “Course Registration” on UTAS. To earn credits, you must register courses through UTAS. -Maximum amount of credits that students can register in one academic year is 38. Autumn enrolled student’s academic year will be counted from September. -If you have any trouble or difficulties with registration on UTAS, please contact GraSPP Office by the end of course registration correction period. We can not respond to any request after the period.