Waseda University (President Katsuhiko Shirai) was selected as the site for three centers for the 2008 Global COE Programs in the two academic fields listed below. After being subjected to a selection process, these centers were designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
These programs are based on the 21st COE Program established in 2002 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and were aimed at improving and strengthening overall graduate education and research. Research bases, under the direction and sponsorship of the foremost of world standards, help to create a pioneering, educational environment that will nurture talented human resources who are expected to become world leaders. Assistance will target creative excellence in education and research from an international perspective. Begun in Fiscal Year 2007, this program seeks to promote the advancement of international competitiveness of the university.
List of Waseda COE Research Education Centers
Field : Mechanical-, civil-, architectural-, and other fields of engineering
Center : Global Robot Academia
Core Department : Faculty of the Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering
(Major: Modern Mechanical Engineering)
Name of Leader : Masakatsu G. Fujie (Faculty of the Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Professor)
Field : Social sciences
Center : Political Economy of Institutional Construction: Toward an Expectation-Realizing Society
Core Department : Faculty of the Graduate School of Economics
(Major: Applied Economics)
Name of Leader : Aiji Tanaka
(Faculty of the Graduate School of Political Science, Professor)
Center : Creating a New Corporate Legal Framework for a Mature Civil Society:
Restructuring Corporate, Financial, and Capital Market Laws and Asia’s Challenges to the World
Core Department : Faculty of the Graduate School of Law
(Major: Civil Law)
Name of Leader : Tatsuo Uemura
(Faculty of the Graduate School of Law, Professor)
