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GSG is a course in which students take on the role of real-world actors in the international community, such as states, international organizations, civil society organizations, corporations, and the news media, and engage in simulated international negotiations to address current international issues.

The theme for 2024 is “security.”
Students had been learning in advance from April to June for the live GSG on this day, in a combination of class-by-class and joint classes.
Each actor has 5 to 8 members, and roles (e.g., president, foreign minister, etc.) are assigned within the actor to prepare for international negotiations with other actors.
The GSG is conducted in English by all second-year students of both the Japanese-standard International Relations (IR) major and the English-standard Global Studies (GS) major; thus, another significant benefit of the GSG is that it increases interactions among students beyond their majors.
The live GSG day consists of two to three sessions, representing each session as a year in the real world.Students held diverse international conferences, including the UN General Assembly, and actively participated in international negotiations to resolve real-world issues.
In addition, each actor engaged in activities that took advantage of their distinct characteristics; for example, media actors reported on what was happening in the GSG on the news.
Through their preparation for the GSG and the live GSG, the students were able to experience the difficulties and realities of "international negotiations" that they could not have learned simply by watching television or reading the news.The GSG course helps the students acquire the ability to think from multiple perspectives about why international relations events occur in the real world, as well as provides an opportunity to consider the direction of their studies in the following years and careers.