The following article was written as an assignment for the Exploring Music class.

Kioi Hall

I went to a classical concert on November 18, 2012 that was held at the Kioi Hall in Yotsuya, Tokyo. It was designed for classical music beginners including teens and young children who were not …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Classical Japanese Cinema class.

Kinugasa Teinosuke‘s A Page of Madness (1926) is now known as the first avant-garde silent film made in Japan. Besides its unique cinematographic style (no intertitles) and strange story (about a family at a lunatic …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Theater: The Collaborative Art class.

Bunraku is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre founded in 1684. Its style had developed and finally completed in the 1730s. The plays have been performed exactly in the same way since then. Because …

The following article was written as a group assignment for the Introduction to Public Relations class.

Abstract Investigation report (FGDI)

This paper explores what the Japanese government had done for public relations right after a huge earthquake that hit the northeastern part of Japan in 2011. More specifically, its media …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Theater: The Collaborative Art class.

A man in the power always plays a big and tragic role in Greek tragedies. Especially in Antigone, the play written by one of the great Greek playwrights Sophocles around 440 B.C., the main…

The following article was written as an assignment for the Math for a Digital World class.

1. Introduction
Sending information through emails, chat, and short messages becomes an essential skill for everyone who lives in the digital world today. On the other hand, social networking services (SNS) such as Facebook…

The following article was written as an assignment for the World Regions and Culture class.

Introduction

My Freshman Year

A university is a place where a student isolates oneself from the ‘real world’ and cultivates oneself for an academic purpose. At the same time, one can see competition and power …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Business of Media class.

Introduction Investigation report

What people can do after a huge disaster is limited. One of the most important things left to do for them is to record what happened, analyze it, learn what they could have …

The following article was written as an assignment for the World Regions and Culture class.

Today, I’d like to talk a little about online identity in this presentation.

Identity policy of Facebook
Regarding the online representation of oneself, there are interesting comments in the anthropological paper  titled “Facework on …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Newsroom Management class.

Introduction Vocaloid Hatsune Miku

The Internet has dramatically changed subculture scenes worldwide in the last decade. Even in the last five years, after various social networking websites have played an important role in networking people and establishing …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Analytical Reading and Writing class.

Often people buy a book at a bookstore after reading the first few pages to make sure that the book is interesting enough to continue reading at home. That is why Amazon has a “Click …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Analytical Reading and Writing class.

After Eric Schlosser‘s Fast Food Nation was published in 2001 and became a New York Times bestseller, the movie with the same title and other food-related documentaries such as “Super Size Me” …

The following article was written as an assignment for the Analytical Reading and Writing class.

Food products of giant multinational corporations such as McDonald’s have huge impacts on people’s food preference since fast food became so popular and is familiar all over the world that people’s food preferences are often …