Faculty Introduction（College of Economics）

Department of Economics
Department of Public and Regional Economics
Faculty Members Who Teach General Education and Foreign Language Courses

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Department of Economics

Title	Name	Main Courses Taught	Research topics	Graduate School Role
Professor	ITO, Banri	International Economics	Empirical Microanalysis of the Determinants and Impact of International Trade, Investment and Trade Policy	○
Professor	OCHIAI, Kou	Economic History of Japan; Introduction to Economic History; Introduction to Economics	Socio-economic history of modern and early modern Japan	○
Professor	KO, Junhyung	International Finance; Open Macroeconomics, Reading in Foreign Language; Introduction to Economic English	Research on spillover mechanisms of domestic fiscal and monetary policies on foreign economies	○
Professor	SHIRAI, Kunihiko	Labor Economics; Fundamentals of Labor Economics; Economics of Manufacturing; Introduction to Economics	Non-regular Employment (especially dispatched and contract labor); Industrial Relations Theory	○
Professor	SHIRASU, Yoko	Finance; Fundamentals of Finance	Finance (especially Asset Pricing Theory, empirical analysis of Corporate Finance), Risk Management	○
Professor	SERITA, Toshio	Microeconomics; Applied Microeconomics	Theoretical and empirical research on price formation in asset markets (stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, etc.)	○
Professor	TAKASHIMA, Shuichi	Modern Economic History of Japan; Introduction to Economic History	Economic History of Japan, especially urbanization in the Taisho and early Showa periods	○
Professor	NAKAMURA, Takayuki	Economic History; History of Economic Thought	Harrod’s Economic Thought and Dynamic Economics; Contemporary Significance of Keynesian Economics	○
Professor	NAKAMURA, Mazuru	Economic Policy	The Direction of Institutional Reforms in Japan Constrained by Fiscal Reconstruction and Population Decline	○
Professor	NAGAYAMA, Nodoka	Introduction to Economic History; Modern European and American Economic History	Socioeconomic History of Germany	○
Professor	BABA, Yumiko	Market Design; Industrial Organization; Introduction to Game Theory	Auctions, Contests, Behavioral economics	○
Professor	HIRAIDE, Naomichi	Introduction to Economic History; European and American Economic History	19th Century Atlantic Economy	○
Professor	MATSUO, Koichi	Social Policy Theory; Fundamentals of Social Policy; Introduction to Economic English; Special Lecture (Employment Systems and Industrial Relations)	Social policy and labor issues, especially issues related to white-collar labor and its union organization	○
Professor	MATSUMOTO, Shigeru	Environmental Economics; Agricultural Economics	Applied Welfare Economics (mainly model-based analysis and econometric evaluation of environmental policies) Personal website	○
Professor	MIZUKAMI, Hideki	Microeconomics; Game Theory; Applied Game Theory	Behavioral Mechanisms and Design	○
Professor	MOTOYAMA, Hitoshi	Economic Statistics; Economic Mathematics	Statistics, Econometrics	○
Professor	YASUI, Kengo	Japanese Economy; Empirical Labor Economics	Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics (empirical studies on labor, education, family, etc.)	○
Professor	YABUKI, Hajime	Fiscal Studies; Economics of Taxation	Economic Analysis of Taxation	○
Professor	YOSHIDA, Kenzo	Social Security; Special Lecture (Social Security and Insurance)	Trends in social security systems around the globe, with a focus on the pension systems of Japan and the United States.	○
Associate Professor	KAWAKAMI, Kei	Macroeconomics; Finance	Research on information issues and macro-allocation of resources Personal website	○
Associate Professor	KAWASAKI, Tamae	Multivariate analysis, Statistical theory		○
Associate Professor	TANAKA, Shinya	Information Processing A I and II; Information Processing B I and II; Introduction to Economic English; Seminar	Theoretical and empirical research on economic time series data	○
Associate Professor	MIYAGISHIMA, Kaname	Public Economics; Welfare Economics	Social Choice Theory; Welfare Economics (research on fair and efficient social decision-making methods) Personal website	○
Associate Professor	SHIROTA, Toyoichiro	Macroeconomics, Economic policy		○
Associate Professor	WAKI, Yuichiro	Macroeconomics; Economic Dynamics	Macroeconomics, theoretical analysis of monetary and fiscal policy	○

Department of Public and Regional Economics

Title	Name	Main Courses Taught	Research topics	Graduate School Role
Professor	INOUE, Takashi	Regional Demography; Population Issues A, B	Identifying patterns by observing where people migrate and where they settle	○
Professor	SUDA, Masaya	Regional Economics; Urban Economics; Transportation Economics	Economic considerations and economic geographical substantiation pertaining to the location of company headquarters	○
Professor	TAKAHASHI, Shigeo	Economic Geography; Economic Topography; Suburban Regionalism	Urban research (suburbanization and other changes in urban structure, redevelopment in European and U.S. cities, etc.)	○
Professor	TAKAHASHI, Tomokazu	GIS-based Spatial Analysis; Economic Information; Introductory Statistics	Spatial analysis and simulation using GIS	○
Professor	NISHIKAWA, Masashi	Microeconomics; Public Economics; Advanced　Course on Public Management	Quantitative analysis of national and local government decision-making	○
Professor	FUJIMURA, Manabu	Development Economics; Advanced Course on Asian Economy: Policy and Evaluation	Development policy and project evaluation; economic impact of cross-border transportation infrastructure	○
Professor	MIYAHARA, Shoichi	Macroeconomics; Economics of Public Regulation	Theoretical and empirical research on macroeconomic policies, public services	○
Professor	YOSHIOKA, Yuji	Game Theory as a Tool; Public Economics; Welfare Economics; Microeconomics	Theoretical or institutional considerations pertaining to the taxation system, with a focus on income tax	○
Associate Professor	YAZAKI, Yukihiro	Economics of Local Government Finance I and II; Applied Microeconomics	Theoretical and empirical research on government inefficiency	○
Associate Professor	TANAKA, Ayumu	Global Economy: Public and Regional Policy (International); Economic and Financial Affairs (International); World Economy	International Economics; Cultural Economics; Economics of Natural Disasters	○

Faculty Members Who Teach General Education and Foreign Language Courses

Title	Name	Main Courses Taught	Research topics	Graduate School Role
Professor	ENDO, Mitsuaki	Chinese, Freshers’ Seminar	Chinese Phonetic History, Dialectology, and Relationships between Languages of East and Southeast Asia
Professor	FURUYA, Kohei	American Literature
Professor	KISHIDA, Ittaka	The History of Technology; Scientific and Technological Perspective	Theory of Civilization and Science Communication Based on Science, Technology, and Social Design
Professor	SANJO, Kazuhiro	Scientific and Technological Perspective, Environmental Science, Introduction to GIS	Development of Global Environmental Observation Methods Using Remote Sensing, GIS
Professor	HORI, Mariko	Language and Culture of the English-Speaking World; Reading Comprehension	Comparative Art Theory with a focus on Anglo-American and Irish literature and culture, especially theater, film, and media
Professor	MENISH, Marc	Language and Culture of the English-Speaking World; Written Communication; Reading Comprehension	In the field of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies with a focus on the cinematic traditions, films and filmmakers of Japan, America, and France.
Professor	SCHIEDER, Chelsea S.	Language and Culture of the English-Speaking World; Fundamental English; Reading and Discussion	In the field of contemporary history, with a global and transnational focus on postwar social movements and gender dynamics in Japan.
Professor	YAMAMOTO, Shinji	Minority Societies and Cultures; Writing and Communication; Reading and Comprehension	A Comprehensive Study of the Cultural and Social Influence of Protestant Immigrants on Early Modern English Literature
Associate Professor	SATAKE, Yosiho	Studies in Society and Humanities (in English), Undergraduate English Courses	Corpus linguistics, English language education
Associate Professor	YAGI, Takayuki	Church history, Historical theology
Assistant Professor	SHIMIZU, Ryosuke	Macroeconomics	Macroeconomics; Theoretical Study of Asset Price Bubbles
Assistant Professor	YU, Kijun	Introduction to Economics; Economic English; Economic Theory	Empirical Studies on Economies of Agglomeration; Distance decay effect