FACULTY INFORMATION

ACKARADEJRUANGSRI P.

Associate Professor

Message to undergraduate students: Sail away from your comfort zone, explore new things along the way, push yourself to exceed limits, and by the end of four years, you will be surprised how close you are to your dreams! Message to graduate school students: Be ready to learn, unlearn, and relearn, and enjoy every moment of your graduate life!

ASGARI Behrooz

Professor

Hopefully you can enjoy the multicultural, multilingual APU environment and try to learn living with people from other cultures in harmony and peace. We all are entitled to peace and freedom.

BARAI Munim Kumar

Professor

APU is a place where one can develop a wider outlook to understand the world better. That is also the need of the hour.

BEISE-ZEE Marian

Professor

Message to undergraduate students: A main part of your courses will be projects. I embrace the diversity and creativity of students. Managerial knowledge is often facilitated by challenging conventional wisdom and not by rote learning. Message to graduate school students: I strive to create a professional environment in the classroom that provides students with an opportunity to acquire the kind of managerial knowledge that cannot easily be learned ‘on the job’.

CHEN Shu-Ching

Professor

Message to undergraduate students: Enjoy every moment at APU and create your personal value from it. You can then confidently head out to the world and towards what you are interested in. Message to graduate school students: Impossible is nothing. But be sure you are well equipped.

FUJII Seiichi

Professor

Message to undergraduate students: New products have become a familiar part of our everyday lives. In order for companies to develop these new products, they have to draw on the strengths of many different departments such as manufacturing, development, marketing and more. The success or failure of the product rests on how well these different aspects can be worked together. Message to graduate school students: In order to succeed in developing new products, greater cross-functional integration across departments, integration of strategies between executives and managers, and the integration of products for consumers and industrial firms are required. This is an extensive and interesting field of research.

FUJIMOTO Takeshi

Professor

Two subjects that I am interested in are marketing and supply chain management strategy. I look forward to meeting students who are interested in marketing and the future-oriented strategic thinking skills it can give you. It is a great joy for me to be able to share my research with you and to make leaning a fun experience for everyone.

FUJITA Masanori

Professor

Spend quality time and enjoy your precious student life with your friends from various countries and with your experiences in various cultures.

FUKUYAMA Kimihiro

Associate Professor

Welcome aboard to the School of Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University! Let's enjoy APU life together! Oita has a lot of beautiful places and exciting business environment.

GUNARTO Hary

Professor

The best way to build a promising future is by learning and doing enthusiastically extra and more, despite the Metaverse generation where physical and virtual worlds metamorphose excitedly.

KAMEI Noriaki

Professor

As a member of an advertising agency, I had worked hard to increase the profits of client companies. As a result, I was rewarded with knowledge and practical experience in consumer, brand and media strategy. Now, as a member of APU, I would like to share this reward with you in a way befitting APU and help you achieve your career plans.

KAWAZOE Satoshi

Professor

Cross border relations will probably intensify further even if there is backlash against globalization. I look forward to exploring our future with students at this culturally diverse university.

KIM Young Sun

Associate Professor

"Carpediem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary!" - Dead Poets Society. Please do not waste your time. Instead, focus on making positive changes in your life.

KOZUMA Rintaro

Associate Professor

The secret to success is to actively take on new challenges.

LEE Geunhee

Professor

Your four years at university are very important and have the potential to determine your later life. In addition to studying hard, I hope that you meet different people and experience as much as you can.

NAKAJIMA Katsushi

Associate Professor

Your future is what you make it. Good Luck!

OKUYAMA Ryo

Professor

多文化の環境を楽しみながら、一緒に学び、考える力を養いましょう。

OTAKE Toshitsugu

Professor

Message to undergraduate students: Recently, a knowledge of mathematics and statistics is increasingly required even in the liberal arts subjects. Statistics is especially indispensable in the business field. I invite you to develop your ability to use MATLAB and SPSS data analysis tools and learn how to apply them to financial and risk management scenarios. Message to graduate school students: My research interest is in quantitative risk management and my research centers on risk management techniques of financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and non-banks. I’m also investigating the construction of mathematical-statistics risk models, and the risk management role of a credit information bureau.

OZAWA Tomoyuki

Associate Professor

Study for Your Own Comfortable Life

PARDO Phillip Dean

Professor

Message to undergraduate students: My role as an Accounting teacher is to help students understand the purpose, theories, methods and practical applications of the Language of Business in an active classroom. Message to graduate school students: Communication, management and verification are the goals of accounting. Humanity and business have long relied on the information generated by the language of accounting to make sense of their activities.

RUIZ-NAVAS Santiago

Assistant Professor

Enjoy, have fun, experiment, explore, and learn while in university.
But more than anything, remember that your time at the university will be over at some point.
I suggest doing all those things but always keeping the big picture in mind (What comes next? How can you use the time at the university to foster and better prepare for your next step?)

SAITO Hiroaki

Associate Professor

Message to undergraduate students: It is no one but you who create your future. APU provides you a great opportunity to develop your perspectives, skills, and networks for your future. Let’s create a great learning experience together. Look forward to embarking on the journey with you! Message to graduate school students: APU has many rich resources to help you develop your research skills. Use them cleverly and develop your future perspectives in academic research.

SHINOHARA Yoshiki

Associate Professor

Companies are expected to bring benefits to society in addition to only focus on making a profit . My research seeks to answer important questions that need to be answered in society, such as what kind of companies have a positive impact on society, why do companies commit scandals, and how can we create an inclusive work environment? I hope that you will not only study at university, but also conduct "research" in which you set your own questions and answer them.

YANG Jeongwoo

Associate Professor

How you live today determines how you live tomorrow. The most important thing is to find out your own answers to the meaningful questions including the reason why you study today and what today means for realizing your dreams in the future.

YOO Bosul

Associate Professor

4年間の努力と経験が貴重な財産として残るように、自ら目標を探し、達成していく大学生活にしてください。

ZHANG Wei-Bin.

Professor

Message to undergraduate students: Life is long but the golden time we have for learning is short. Use your time at APU wisely. A solid learning equips you for uncertain futures; pleasant experiences make life meaningful. Message to graduate school students: Studying management also means learning how to manage one’s own life. I hope that you have a fruitful and pleasant academic time and enjoy Beppu’s calm beauty, relaxing hot spring, and Japanese food.