Masatoshi Kaimasu- Master of Science
- Professor at Kobe Women's University
Masatoshi Kaimasu
- Master of Science
- Professor at Kobe Women's University
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Introduction
Prior to working at KWU, I worked at JICA in Colombo as a Project Formulation Advisor. I was the representative for power sector to administrative loan projects in Sri Lanka and a grant project in Maldives. So one of my interests is energy mix policy and renewable energy. I have been involved in international development projects for 13 years. This area is the second interest.
After joining KWU, I am a practitioner of PBL. Other interests are PBL practice, e-portofolio and local community.
Current institution
Education
September 2009 - September 2012
October 1995 - November 1996
April 1985 - March 1989
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Publications (17)
Many international development (ID) projects, funded by industrial countries and multilateral development banks, have been implemented to improve social and economic infrastructure in developing countries. Some of these projects are soft loan projects, and no particular project management body of knowledge exists for ID projects. Official Developme...
Disaster preparedness and mitigation in Japan
This paper focuses upon a case study of flipped classrooms implemented at a university in Japan. It also clarifies classroom design and effectiveness for learning in deep and proactive manners through a case study of a flipped classroom.
Dialogic and proactive learning has been encouraged in Japan’s higher education. One of these learning methods i...
The electricity market in Japan was liberalized in 2016. Consequently, consumers in Japan have options to choose preferred electricity retailers. Some electricity retailers specialize for environmentally friendly renewable energy (RE). RE is regarded as reliable and safe after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. In addition, in the 5th Basic E...
被服管理学の授業は従来，教員から学生への知識伝達型の一方向的な授業であった．学生の理解度や実験との関連性に関する意識は希薄であり，これらの課題を改善するため，授業の進め方を変えた．具体的には講義での説明は90分の授業のうち60分から70分程度にして，残った時間で課題を提示し，リフレクションペーパーとして書かせる．さらに，一部を宿題として授業外時間に取り組ませて，提出させる．これらの宿題の一部を試験問題とする．いわば，繰り返し学習内容の省察を行うような授業設計を行った．この中でクリッカーを使って，学習状況を把握した結果，一連の学習により，課題に取り組む時間に関して，30％を超える学生が課題を取り組むのに1時間以上授業外で学習し課題を取り組んでいた．この結果，ほとんど全ての学生が気付きをあったこ...
ADB)の事例からプロジェクトの効率性に関する考察を行い、ICT 等の一般的なプロジェクトと比較した結果、契約の形態や組織の要因が影響していると推測される。 When projects are delayed from the initial plan, in general, the cost will rise accordingly. However, most of the international development (ID) projects, specialized for infrastructure development with soft loan, are generally completed in delay, but the final costs are...
Economic growth in Southeast Asian nations has accelerated in the 21st century. To a large extent, Official Development Assistance plays significant roles in developing these nations. In particular, improvement in infrastructure through International Development (ID) projects has contributed to economic growth in the region. These projects are fund...
Purpose: The implementation of the risk management in the development of new car models can contribute to the improvement of the project management performance and project success. The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence about whether project risk management (PRM) and green supply chain management (GSCM) are positively related to project m...
Countries in Southeast Asia have developed, in recent decades, because of financial support from international donors such as the United Nations (UN), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Multilateral development banks and bilateral agencies, as donors, play a significant role in countries' economi...
The growing popularity of PBL in Japan is enabling students to learn in a more proactive manner. Despite this, PBL is still time-consuming. It is necessary to execute PBL effectively and efficiently. Recently many universities in Japan also have adopted e-portfolio, which creates a learning portfolio and improves the quality of learning. E-portfoli...
Presentation at GBS, USM
Project-Based Learning (PBL) was introduced to gain learners` knowledge and skills through their group works at the Department of Home Economics (DHE), Kobe Women’s University (KWU). There are three practices, i.e. Practice I, II and III. There were some good practices to collaborate several local partners and private firms in the past. Based on th...
Renewable energy becomes more common as one of energy sources nowadays. Consumption of fossil fuels particularly emits Green House Gas (GHG). This leads to climate change at the global level. Thus it is indispensable to reduce GHG emission. Accordingly roles of renewable energy are significant to play in reducing the emission of GHG. In order to ta...
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Question (1)
The Malaysian Government set up SEDA, Sustainable Energy Development Authority, and introduced FIT, Feed-in Tariff. FIT can be one of policy tools to promote renewable energy use in the market. In this case, TNB, an off-taker, purchase electricity from power producers. The surplus between real cost and selling cost comes from a fund that SEDA set up. The fund is collected from 1% of the total tariff that consumers pay every month. More electricity is generated and sold to TNB. Consumers must pay more than before. European countries like Germany abandoned FIT due to too high electricity tariff. FIT somehow contributes to spreading renewable energy. At the same time, there are some approaches to selling electricity to an off-taker, such as net metering. In addition, subsidies can be effective for more renewable energy use.
These are viewpoints from policy side, but I think there are more policy tools in this research.
