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Ruby Chen, exchange student from New Zealand in AY2009

I am a exchange student from New Zealand and I thoroughly enjoyed Professor Yoshino's Japanese Financial Markets and Institutions lectures. The Professor is humorous and has his own unique way of teaching. I learnt much about the past 50 years of the Japanese economy with many thanks to the Professor's notes and personal publications. Guest lecturers were likewise very worthwhile. I would recommend this course to any business exchange student as it provides a broad knowledge on the economical circumstances of Japan.

Terry Liang, Master Course student at the Graduate School of Economics in AY2009-2010

I enrolled into Keio University in April last year. Until now, the PCP classes I took include Professor Kaji's "open economy macroeconomics" of spring semester, professor Yoshino's Saturday lecture of this semester and two lecture series sponsored by UBS and monbukagakusho respectively. When it comes to lecture series, we have guest speakers come here to make presentations, mostly about their papers. There are also some guest speakers who gave presentations in professor Yoshino's Saturday lecture. I would evaluate that all the classes I took are of high quality. Although a few guest speakers are not that good, most others, as well as Professor Kaji and Professor Yoshino of course, are remarkable people with outstanding knowledge, experiences and expertise. It is enlightening and enjoyable to attend their lectures. I learnt a lot from them in the past 9 months and have a lot of respect and gratitude for them. I am pretty sure that most other students share my positive view.

Nuchjaree Makmaisin, Master Course student at the Graduate School of Economics in AY2008-09

My name is Nuchjaree Makmaisin, M2 of Economics faculty. I would like to write some comments on PCP course. I used to attend some subjects of PCP course for example: Environmental Law and Economy, Introduction to Law and Economics, Finance Policy and the Global Economy and Kinyu-ron (Financial economics). I found PCP course is a good course to study because we can have the class with
Professor who really has long working experience in the specific field; not only knowledge but also experiences that we can learn from them. This year I decided to take Professor Yoshino's Kinyu-ron class again. It is the only one class of PCP that I decided to repeat. The reason is Professor Yoshino always conducting the class in clear and concise way with full of his knowledge and long time experience.
Professor Yoshino 's explanation is always easy to understand and the most important thing is it is up to date one . I feel like Professor Yoshino gives the gist summary of financial knowledge in just one time class. I would like to say, I think PCP is good course, among them I like Professor Yoshino Kinkyu-ron the most.

Omair Qazi, University of California, San Diego, Keio International Program AY2009

Professor Yoshino's course was one of few truly unique and instructive courses that I have taken in my undergraduate career. As an exchange student from the University of California - San Diego, I was incredibly impressed by the depth and knowledge that Professor Yoshino conducted his lecture with, and I subsequently found that my time was well spent under his tutelage. Professor Yoshino's class provided a firm and concise introduction to the key market players in the Japanese economy from an institutional perspective, but also was presented in a very direct and fluent matter. Professor Yoshino's extensive knowledge with the key players in the field and history was readily apparent, however what truly made the class worthwhile was the calm and sophisticated manner in which very complex concepts in economics were presented and explained to the class. The lecture not only explained concepts that I previously understood once more in more direct and clear terms, but introduced difficult subjects with a clarity that I have found rarely present in the teachers that I have had at Keio University as well as my home institution.
The course also supplied ample access to leading thinkers and heads of institutions that were relevant to the course material and allowed the course material to be presented in new and refreshing ways. The access to these kinds of people is rare and truly the direct consequence of Professor Yoshino's extensive involvement in the economic community at large. Furthermore his knowledge and presence in large scale economic situations such as the Japanese Banking Crisis and Subprime Mortgage Crisis lends to excellent presentations on the rational behind the movements and decisions that key players in both the Japanese and other major economies made. Professor Yoshino's course was an excellent discussion on the role of Japanese financial institutions and much of it is due to his own personal teaching style and access to knowledge as a result of his participation in the field. It was a pleasure to take his course, and I look forward to his continued teaching.

Eirika Katayama, University of California, San Diego, Keio International Program AY2009

I'm an international student coming from the University of California, San Diego with a major in International Studies - Economics at my home university. I've lived in the U.S. all my life and so I'm fluent in English, so I thought that since I need classes to transfer to my home university, and because the PCP courses are conducted in English, attending these courses it would be perfect. After taking these courses, while not all the professors of PCP may be fluent in English, I can still see the quality of their work and the time and effort they put into teaching their students well. I attended three PCP courses: Environmental Economic Theory taught by Professor Hosoda, Environmental Economic Policy taught by Professor Managi, and Japanese Financial Markets and Institutions taught by Professor Yoshino. All three of those classes taught me a lot about the fields they were concerning, but Professor Yoshino's class in particular was one that I absolutely loved to attend. One aspect of Professor Yoshino's lectures that really helped me was that the level of rigor and the pace at which he taught his lessons was the same or similar to that of the economics classes at my home university, which really impressed me. While in some of my International or Japanese Language classes I could skate by without putting in too much effort during class, while attending Professor Yoshino's course I had to keep on my toes in order to completely follow the lecture, otherwise I'd be left behind.
Not only this, but one could tell how much he loved his area of focus as well as how much he loved working with and teaching his students (though he couldn't always be there to teach us because of other commitments he had, which is understandable considering the other work that he does). His sense of humor that he was able to incorporate into his lectures as well as the openness with which he talked to anyone who had a question really impressed me as one of his students. I'm very proud to say I taken one of his courses and next semester, time permitting, I'd love to take another one taught by him. He's definitely one of the best professors that I've ever had.

Richard Higgins, exchange student from New Zealand in AY2009

I cannot say enough that the Japanese Financial Markets and Institutions class was a highlight of my exchange to Keio University. Any criticism of the course is very misplaced. In coming to Japan to study economics in the Fall Semester of 2009, I had hoped to learn first-hand and in-depth about the intricacies of the Japanese economy and the challenges facing it today. Professor Yoshino's class met my desire perfectly! I thoroughly enjoyed the class, and importantly, the class broadened my view regarding ways to analyse not only the Japanese economy, but my home New Zealand economy as well. For this reason, I have kept all the class notes and analyses for use at my home University in 2010. Once again, may I express sincere gratitude to Professor Yoshino. I hope to have the privilege to be in contact again in the near future. In being back in New Zealand now I'm already missing the class and the students from PCP, so, if only for my sake, hopefully it won't be too long before we all meet again!

Maurizio Kaiser, exchange student from Austria in AY2009

Please let me begin by saying that I enjoyed all PCP classes very much and that they were a big part of what made my semester at Keio so memorable. As to the Japanese Financial Markets class in particular, the class itself was very challenging but never overwhelming. Professor Yoshino always made time for questions and helped us understand difficult topics as well as explain anything that remained unclear. The frequent guest lectures were also very interesting and tied nicely into the overall topic of the class. The class made me research many topics more in-depth after discussing them in class and Professor Yoshino was always very interested in our opinions and views, which made the class very interesting. Although the pace of the class was very fast and the material was challenging, the level was more than suitable for a PCP class and the final exam was very fair. All in all, I enjoyed this class very much and I hope that more classes at my home university will offer similar classes. Thank you for giving me the time to express my views on this excellent class.

Keisuke Jonathan Yanagawa, exchange student in AY2009

I am writing to express my thoughts on the course given by Professor Yoshino on Japanese Financial Markets and Institutions. The course was stimulating and interesting in the sense that the course offered relatively fast-paced lectures, something of which classes at Keio often lack and should strive towards. I appreciated how the professor brought a wealth of knowledge into the classes. Lectures were supplemented by quantitative data, some of which I believe the professor himself had researched throughout his academic life, and class content included both historic events and up-to-date topics such as contemporary global issues and present-day problems. Despite being an Economics course, it was also highly interdisciplinary: the professor wisely incorporated the history and politics of Japan in his lectures. It was obvious that the class enjoyed the insights the professor shared--after class, my classmates and I would often praise his accomplishments, qualifications, and personal encounters with top economists from around the world he talked about. If I were to provide any suggestions at all, I would ask for increased opportunities to learn from him even more.
Overall, through the course I learned a lot about many aspects of Japan. Despite not taking the course officially, it was exciting to such an extent that I was motivated to attend his lectures every Saturday to sit in and audit them. It would be a major disappointment if such classes were not offered in the future. In order to keep up the level of rigor of the PCP curriculum and of the University, I believe the professor and his course should be given the appropriate recognition for the quality of his instruction and what he has provided to the foreign exchange students' community.

Taro Koshiba, undergraduate student in economics at Keio, AY2009-2010

The lecture "Japanese Financial Market and Institution" is one of the best lectures in Keio university. You can learn the problem of Japanese financial market and institution's inefficiency through this lecture and can get the basic idea of economics. Furthermore, you can touch the various points of view toward "Japan" in the lecture because not only Professor Yoshino gives us a lecture, but also some
world-wide famous professors give us. It must be a great experience for you to attend such a great class. However, it sometimes requires us to have a fundamental knowledge on Japanese financial market
because the lecture covers some detail points. You need to study it by yourself, otherwise you may not understand the contents. Though we should study hard to understand the contents, it should be the
students' duty and I believe this lecture gives us the knowledge which we cannot study on books.

From a student in Keio graduate school of economics since 2008

I am writing to express my gratitude towards Doctor Yoshino, who as everyone knows, is one of the most appreciated and most acclaimed professor not only in Keio University, but at international academic and professional levels.
I think I speak on behalf of most of my classmates, when I say that we fully enjoyed and appreciated the structure as well as the content of Dr Yoshino's lecture during this class, not to mention his human skills, that made the class even more fulfilling.
I am speaking real honestly when I say that some students (for instance, a student from Sweden) and myself, who were taking the class, were literally impatiently waiting for Dr Yoshino's class every week, and since I am under his supervision, the students were asking me questions, eager to know more about the genius of the professor (in "student" language: "How can he be so knowledgeable about everything?", "How does he have time to do all what he does?", "I saw him on TV, we're so lucky to be taking a class with him!" ...) .

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