Research

Staying Ahead of the Curve with Cutting-Edge Marketing Research

Investigate cutting-edge consumer marketing through the collaboration of companies, students, and university researchers

• Management
• Marketing

Proposing Strategies in the Context of Asset Value Uncertainty

Applying experience as a financial markets professional to academic research, proposing corporate strategies and policies to address asset price volatility

• Theoretical
• economicsFinance

Integrating All Kinds of Knowledge to Explore the Science of Management

Identifying new communication theories across academic disciplines, developing "better management," and tackling the issues facing modern society

• Management
• Information Science

Employee Happiness Unlocks the Future of Hospitality

Focusing on the “inside” that supports the tourism and hospitality industry: research on employee well-being contributes to sustainable growth

• Hospitality management
• Management
• Tourism

Transforming Japan's Public Administration by Improving the Problem-Solving Skills of Civil Servants

Creating an ecosystem to enhance the problem-solving skills of public institutions and realizing innovation in public administration through the development of human resources for the civil service

• Management Informatics
• Public Policy Studies

Tackling Social Problems in Regional Japan through ICT and Wisdom

Using information and communication technology(ICT) and artificial intelligence(AI) to connect people with one another and with field expertise, and unlock new solutions to address problems surrounding regional agriculture

• Information Science
• Sociology
• Educational technology

Contributing to Future Cooperative Decision-Making by Residents and Governments

Analyzing consensus-building processes for a coastal embankment project following the Great East Japan Earthquake and establishing better cooperative decision-making models for residents and governments

• Environmental sociology
• Interdisciplinary research

Tourism and the Happiness of Local Residents: Clarifying the Relationship

This study explores community-based tourism(CBT) through the lens of social psychology, placing local residents’ identity and psychological well-being at its core

• Tourism Studies
• Social Psychology

Connecting Non-Japanese Workers and the Japanese Language to Attain an Inclusive Society

Providing recommendations and assistance with the intention of building better relationships between non-Japanese workers and the Japanese language and between non-Japanese workers and Japanese society

• Japanese language education

Changing the Future of Hotel Management with Research on Organizational Culture

Developing a concrete methodology for “Treating Employees as Customers”; Realizing the sustainable growth of hotel organization with three types of support

• Hotel Management

Challenging Value Creation to Recover from Japan’s “Lost 30 Years”

Scientifically elucidating innovation ecosystems and challenging to create new value through diversity and new combinations

• Business Management
• Social Systems Engineering

Opening New Doors for Japan by Sustaining Wartime Memories

Potential for new “memory studies” in Japan generated by perspectives from dark tourism and pop culture

• Media studies / cultural studies
• Tourism
• Asian studies
• Cultural sociology

Integrating All Kinds of Knowledge to Explore the Science of Management

Identifying new communication theories across academic disciplines, developing "better management," and tackling the issues facing modern society

• Management
• Information Science

Transforming Japan's Public Administration by Improving the Problem-Solving Skills of Civil Servants

Creating an ecosystem to enhance the problem-solving skills of public institutions and realizing innovation in public administration through the development of human resources for the civil service

• Management Informatics
• Public Policy Studies

Employee Happiness Unlocks the Future of Hospitality

Focusing on the “inside” that supports the tourism and hospitality industry: research on employee well-being contributes to sustainable growth

• Hospitality management
• Management
• Tourism

Rethinking Sustainable Tourism

Exploring sustainable tourism from a multispecies perspective, where humans and nonhumans coexist

• Tourism Studies
• Human Geography

Creating a New Inclusive Wave in University Language Education

Use Universal Design for Learning(UDL) and challenge ourselves to create classes that considers the diversity of students in university education

• Foreign Language Education
• English Language Linguistics

Using UDL to Realize Foreign Language Education that Leaves No One Behind

Applying Universal Design for Learning(UDL) to language education to maximize the potential of learners with diverse attributes

• Teaching Methodologies
• Educational Policy
• Foreign Language Education

Create a Universal Japanese that Promotes Diversity

Beyond “Simple Japanese”; Create a language environment for a society where diverse people live together

• Linguistics
• Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
• Japanese Linguistics

Aiming to Connect People through Language Education

Implementing language education centered on connections with society by complementing vertical learning with horizontal learning

• Language education
• Japanese language education
• Local disaster preparedness