Seminar Activities
Seminar Activities

Foster creativity and leadership in a Practical learning seminar

Most of the seminars in the Faculty of Economics emphasize "Practical learning" with the theme of the current state of the Japanese economy and the actual situation of corporate management. In the process of digging deeper into the theme through fieldwork and data analysis, you will develop creativity, presentation ability, and leadership in addition to the specialized knowledge of economics, and acquire solid and useful power in society.

Economics

Eiji Horiuchi Seminar

Eiji Horiuchi Seminar "Learn how Japanese companies should be and cultivate their ability to contribute to the team"
How can Japanese companies, which have recently been in trouble due to economic globalization, be revived? At Horiuchi Seminar, you will learn about the theme deeply using a few textbooks on international management. We focus on acqiring the ability, which is required in society, to contribute to the team in this seminer. Seminer students will compete the presentation skill against each team. Therefore, seminar students are studying hard at the library many times every week until late at night. While seriously cooperating and competing, seminar students will also learn how to build relationships of trust with people and leadership. Recently, seminer students have more opportunities to hear various experiences from seniors who have finished job hunting. The other day, an alumni association with OBs and OGs was held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the seminar, and communication across grades are expanding more and more. ..

Eiji Horiuchi Associate Professor

International Economy

Yuko Hisa Seminar "Honey / Sansho Project"
In this seminer, students proactively work on the things such as acquiring knowledge of honey and sansho, visiting and participating in international food and cosmetics exhibition halls, learnig about product production process, budget, fund acquisition, product development, design, advertising or sales channels. Furthermore, we are also looking to broaden our horizons to the natural environment and understand the changes in the natural environment of familiar cities through the nature of the satoyama in the Tama area where the university is located and local production for local consumption.

Professor Yuko Hisa

Regional Economics

Takashi Uchi Seminar

Takashi Uchizemi "Thinking about Japan's Local Autonomy from Differences from Britain"
In the seminar of Professor Uchitaka, who was awarded with the title of Honorary Fellow by the University of Birmingham, UK, you will think about the ideal way of local autonomy and decentralization while learning about the differences in politics and systems between Japan and the UK. The purpose is to develop human resources who will revitalize the city and hometown taking advantage of learning from the origin of Britain, the birthplace of democracy.

Professor Shigeru Uchi

Seminar of the Department of Regional Economics

Business Administration

Yosuke Iizuka Seminar

Yosuke Iizuka Seminar "Integrating Management Theory and Practice to Elucidate Factors of Hits and Corporate Strategy"
The theme of the seminar is business strategy theory. The feature is the integration of theory and practice. In the business game "MESE" (provided by Junior Achievement Japan), which seminer students will play in the previous term, they will divide into groups and manage virtual companies on computers. Based on the financial statements, the seminar students devise the strategy. The theory and knowledge learned in class are integrated in practice.

Yosuke Iizuka Associate Professor

Tourism Management

Shigeru Oshita Seminar

Shigeru Ohshita Seminar "Proposing Town Development and accumulating Various Experiences in the Field"
The theme is to revitalize the area with the power of tourism. Therefore, We research not in famous tourist destinations but in areas where citizen are trying to improve by tourism. The themes are "Tourism Town Development," "Tourism Business Promotion," and "Reconstruction Tourism." While each group make proposals for community development, seminer students will accumulate various on-site experiences.
In the 2013 seminar, we considered an event to promote the reconstruction tourism of Kesennuma City at Shimousa Nakayama (Hokekyoji Monzen Shopping Street) in Funabashi City, in the special project on campus, and in the Hachioji Icho Festival. When seminer students put the plan into practice,they may have trouble attracting customers, or they may not be profitable due to lack of needs. However, by making many mistakes, they can gradually see what is management. There is no progress in fear of failure. It is important to learn from mistakes. We believe that seminer students, through tese expreiences, will come to think about the importance of being close to people's feelings, which is the basis of tourism and attracting customers.

Professor Shigeru Ohshita