Research Support Program of Chiba University Institute For Advanced Academic Research
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April, 2026 Springer
Our book, Taishinin’s Judicial Behaviour in Corruption Cases (April, 2026), written by our Affiliated Researcher, Dr. Kam Bill Wong and Research Fellow, Dr. Steve Liang Fang has been released by Springer.
This book applies robust judicial behaviour concept to analyze how Taishinin’s judicial behaviour of such factors rationalized its rulings on corruption cases, and also presents the intersection of judicial behaviour studies and fair society studies.
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August 29,2025 NHK Publishing
A book by Prof. Jiro Mizushima of Chiba University has been published by NHK Publishing.
Was the country where a Jewish girl, seeking “freedom”, moved from Germany truly a “land of freedom”? Starting from 5 August 1944, when Anne Frank was taken away, we look back at the modern history of the Netherlands and consider “freedom built upon lack of freedom”.
May 22,2025 Iwanami shoten
A book edited by Chiba University Prof. Jiro Mizushima has been published by Iwanami Shoten.
This is a must-read book for understanding contemporary politics, in which leading scholars of politics in various countries depict the “picture” of outsider politics that is shaking the world.
August,2023 Palgrave
Chiba University Institute for Advanced Academic Rreseach･New Frontiers of Studies on Fair Society has published H.Ishido, J.Mizushima, M.Kobayashi and X.Zhang (eds.), Social Fairness in a Post-Pandemic World. - Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
The book is the result of an international collaborative research project on measures to build a society in the post-colonial era based on the concept of fairness.
■English Press Release: HERE
Editor Jiro Mizushima
Language Japanese
Publisher Misuzu Syobo
Publication date June 16,2023
Pages 256
ISBN 978-4-622-09558-3
From Anne Frank to the philosopher Spinoza, Amsterdam's Jewish immigrants have left an important imprint on world history. 400 years of welcoming immigrants and refugees, this is a study of Amsterdam, a city of tolerance, read from its "hiding places and squares.
April 2023 Sankeisha
D. dissertation, which Assistant Professor Xiaofang Zhang of Chiba University submitted to the Graduate School of Humanities and Public Administration of Chiba University in April 2021 and received his degree, has been added and revised and is now published as a book.
The purpose of this project is to summarize the basic situation and trends of pilot projects in China, and from the perspective of suggestions from overseas experience, to take up Japan and the EU, to conduct comparative research on emissions trading schemes in China, Japan, and Europe from two perspectives: reduction effects and efficiency of trading markets, and to make policy recommendations toward the formation of healthier national schemes.
Februaly 2023 Keiso Shobo
A new translation of the alarming book by Walter Lippmann, one of the most influential American journalists of the 20th century, has been published.
Why have Western democratic societies failed to prevent despotism and world wars? It is a book of prophetic warnings, the first to use the term "The Public Philosophy" (The Public Philosophy) and present its archetype.
Editors
Jiro Mizushima
Hikari Ishido
Xiaofang Zhang
Authors
Takayuki Kawase
Iwao Fujisawa
Jiro Mizushima
Hikari Ishido
Masaya Kobayashi
Lindsay Oades
Afsana Begum
Kuihua Han
Xiaofang Zhang
Yongqiao Zhang
Language Japanese
Publisher Akashi Shoten
Publication date March 31,2022
Pages 200
ISBN 9784750353890
Editors
Jiro Mizushima
Chiyo Yonemura
Masaya Kobayashi
Authors
Takayuki Kawase
Masaya Kobayashi
Yusuke Kanazawa
Jiro Mizushima
Eriko Hamada
Chiyo Yonemura
Seiichi Igarashi
Xiang Li
Yumi Hinohara
Hikari Ishido
Iwao Fujisawa
Language Japanese
Publisher Akashi Shoten
Publication date April 15,2021
Pages 412
ISBN 9784750351599
This book represents the collective efforts of 11 researchers who introduce their findings on “Fairness” from various angles, such as law, politics, economics, and sociology.
June 6, 2025, an English paper co-authored by Prof. Masaya Kobayashi (first author), Prof. Hikari Ishido, Prof. Jiro Mizushima, and Hirotaka Ishikawa, Social, Economic, and Ethico-Political Determinants of Psychosomatic Health Disparities: Equity and Fairness Under COVID-19 in Japan was published in Healthcare
■Healthcare： HERE
■English paper：HERE
Authors: Prof.Masaya Kobayashi
Prof.Hikari Ishido
Prof.Jiro Mizushima
Mr.Hirotaka Ishikawa
Published: 8 December 2022
This article addresses citizens’ psychological health disparities in pandemic-stricken Japan from the perspective of positive psychology with a collective/political perspective.
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Author: Masaya Kobayashi
Published: 28 February 2022
This paper examines assumptions concerning the relationship between citizenship, justice, and well-being, based on representative political philosophies,including egoism, utilitarianism,libertarianism,liberalism,and communitarianism. A previous paper raised the possibility of an inter-disciplinary framework for collaboration between psychology and political philosophy. This study picks up that thread and attempts to actualize a collaborative research effort based on a framework grounded in positive political psychology.
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Author: Masaya Kobayashi
Published: 13 December 2021
This manuscript will explore “Psychology for the Common Good” by examining the association between psychology and philosophy, more concretely, positive psychology in the context of political philosophies. Positive psychology investigates the good life scientifically. On the other hand, philosophy examines ideal ways of living and suggests ways to improve our society. Combining philosophical inquiries with contemporary science can assist us in exploring new ideas and practices related to personal and public well-being. This article seeks to accomplish this task by extending the recent developments of positive psychology.
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