On September 1, 2023,  Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law commented on the Asahi Shimbun article “Despite Higher World Ranking, Kyoto University Fails to be Selected for International University of Research Excellence.” The article states that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced the results of the first selection […]

On September 14, 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted a joint SMU/GGR talk session, “AI Governance and Regulation: Global and Asian Perspectives.” We invited Professor Nydia Remolina Leon (Head of the Industry Relations Centre for AI and Data Governance (CAIDG), Singapore Management University). The session began with an overview of global challenges […]

On August 31, 2023, Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law commented on the Asahi Shimbun article “Sevenfold Increase in Tax Donations to Iwaki: ‘Let Me Support Iwaki City by Eating Fish’, One After Another.” The article reported that tax payments to Iwaki city of Fukushima prefecture, following the discharge of treated water […]

We will be holding following Final Events of JST-UKRI funded Project “Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence” in December 2023.   Date & Time: December 18 – 20, 2023 Venue: Hitotsubashi Hall (Hybrid Live Streaming with 10-day missed-program webcast) National Center of Sciences Building 2F 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi,Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 101-8439 https://www.hit-u.ac.jp/hall/accessjp.html More details on this event can be […]

GGR will hold the 23rd GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below: Title Disinformation, Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, and Present Digital Influence Operations. Speakers Kazuki Ichida (Visiting Researcher, Cyber Security Research Institute, Meiji University) Date December 1st, 2023 (Fri.) Time 12:30-13:30 Place Kunitachi Campus, Hitotsubashi University  (Venue will be notified after pre-registration) […]