KONAN UNIVERSITY

The Faculty of Economics aims at teaching ideal ways for economic agents such as households, corporations and the government to make full use of humans, objects, money and information so that rational decisions can be made. Two economic theories, microeconomics and macroeconomics, are used for the analysis of problems in order to achieve efficient solutions. Through studying economic theories, students will be able to make active use of the philosophy of economics. Moreover, by learning how the values and organizations of a certain society or era have been established and how these affect the people's lifestyles and economic system, students will be able to get a logical understanding of how society functions and how it interacts with the economy.

With regard to the curriculum, freshmen take classes in small groups in order to obtain a detailed grasp of fundamental principles. Freshmen are required to take interactive classes such as Basic Seminar, and Elementary Micro and Macro where students learn basic tools for economics analysis, as well as Economics in English. Students then join a seminar group in their sophomore year, where they attain both a wide-ranging knowledge of economics and practical knowledge useful in society through multiple presentations and discussions. The faculty has also introduced a US-style tutor system in which students get to learn from upperclassmen who have already mastered subjects, and developed self-teaching materials with IT. In addition, the faculty provides an environment where even freshmen can study at their own pace while they master the foundations of economics.

Furthermore, the Faculty of Economics offers new styles of lectures such as long-distance learning using advanced IT and invited lectures where IT experts give lectures on the most recent topics.

Faculty History

1952	The Faculty of Economics (Department of Economics) is established
1960	The Faculty of Law (Department of Law) and the Faculty of Business Administration (Department of Business Administration) are established
1994	The Faculty of Law in the Department of Business Law is established
2002	The EBA Program is jointly established in the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Business Administration

Faculty member

Name	Title	Field of Research	Subject of Research
FUJIMOTO, Tateo	Professor	Economic Policy	Germany's Social Market Economy and Background of Thoughts.
IWASAKI, Akira	Professor	Industrial Organization	Statistical studies on the evolution of industrial structure and economic performance in Japanese manufacturing industries.
KOJIMA, Shuichi	Professor	Western Economic History	History of Russian economy and economic thought.
SUGIMURA, Yoshimi	Professor	Socio-economics	Study of modern industrial society: present and future of "work".
SATO, Harumasa	Professor	Economics of Telecommunications/ Media Strategy	Changing Regulatory Environments of Telecommunications Industry/The future of Media in a broadband world.
AOKI, Koji	Professor	International Economics	Theoretical and empirical study on international economy.
INADA, Yoshihisa	Professor	Applied Econometrics	Economic forecasting. Current quarter model forecasting. Econometric model building for social policy. CGE model for Economy, Energy, and Environment.
ARAI, Tadao	Professor	The Economy of Modern Japan	Studies on current issues of Japanese economy.
KUSANO, Masahiro	Professor	Japanese Economic History	Quantitative approach in economic history.
KOBAYASHI, Hitoshi	Professor	Public Economics, Public Finance, Tax Theory	Studies of Social Security System and Tax System in Population Decreasing, Global, and Stock Economy.
KOYAMA, Naoki	Professor	Statistics	Empirical studies of environmental policy, Environmental-Economic planning, Policy Institutions.
OKADA, Motohiro	Professor	History of Political Economy	Critical Study on the History of Labor Theory.
KO, Yong-Soo	Professor	Asian Economy	Study of the corporate and financial sectors in Asian countries.
EHIRO, Akira	Professor	Public Finance	Analysis of Dept Policy in modern Japan.
TARUI, Hideo	Professor	Tax Law	Study of tax on treasury stock. Study of tax on corporate reorganization.
OKUDA, Takashi	Professor	History of Socio-Economic Thought	Studies on the Mediterranean Tradition of Socio-Economic Thought with special regard to the Neapolitan Enlightenment.
UESHIMA, Yasuhiro	Professor	Labor Economics	Impacts of Technological Change and Globalization on wage differentials.
FURUKAWA, Akira	Professor	Finance and Banking, Monetary Policy	Contemporary Financial Analysis in Japan.
TERAO, Takeru	Professor	Macroeconomic Theory	Macroeconomic Analysis of the Japanese Economy in the 1990s.
ISHIHARA,Shinobu	Professor	TaxLaw	Study of tax on co-ownership interest. Study of tax on unit ownership.
ICHINO, Yasukazu	Associate Professor	International Commercial Policy, Applied Microeconomics	International commercial policy and behavior of firms. Political economy of commercial policy.
HAYASHI, Kenta	Associate Professor	Network Economics	Theoretical study of Internet access charge.
MORI, Takeshi	Associate Professor	Income Distribution, Statistics, Microeconomics	Analysis of economic inequality in Japan today correspondent with the change of family structure.
GOTOU, Rei	Associate Professor	Health Economics	Empirical studies of health policy and the provision of health care services.
TSUGE, Takahiro	Associate Professor	Environmental Economics	Cost-benefit analysis of environmental policy.
NAKASHIMA, Kiyotaka	Associate Professor	Applied Econometrics, Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics	Empirical Studies of the Transmission Mechanism of Credit Risks, Comparative Analysis of Japanese and the U.S Money Demand Functions in the Financial Confusion Periods.
AMAN,Hiroyuki	Associate Professor	Finance, Corporate Governance	Empirical studies of capital market and governance in Japan.