Seminar Outline

The Research Seminar is a small class in which each faculty member in charge of Major Subjects Courses provides supervision in their respective areas of expertise. In principle, students study under the same faculty member for two years and write a graduation thesis. In addition to classroom readings and research presentations, there are also seminars that involve off-campus research and study camps. Research Seminar has the longest tradition of the three pillars of the major subject curriculum (Research Seminar, PCP, and Independent Research Project) offered at Mita, and the ability to think logically and express oneself, as well as the connections with seniors, juniors, and peers, developed over the two years, will be an asset in their future.

Excellent Graduation Theses

The authors and titles of the “Excellent Graduation Theses,” nominated by their respective faculty members from the 46 graduation theses accepted in 2022, are as follows.

2022 Academic Year Faculty of Economics List of Excellent Graduation Theses

Supervisor	Name	Title
FUJIWARA, Ippei	Risako Arai	The Impact of Civil Partnership on Fertility Rate
IBUKA, Yoko	Tianyi Wei	Pandemic and Declaration of State of Emergency on Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction
KAJI, Sahoko	Tong Li	Revisiting the Resource Curse Theory: An Empirical Analysis from the OPEC Case
KIMURA, Fukunari	Alisa Blanc	Exploring Digital Transformation: Equality and Sustainability
MCKENZIE, Colin	Saint Hnin Mon	Factors that Influence Life Satisfaction of Married Couples in Japan
NAKATSUMA, Teruo	Renyi Qu	Examining Large-scale Variational Autoencoders in Non-English Dialogue Response Generation
ONUMA, Ayumi	Hayato Komatsu	インドネシアにおけるゴミ問題解決に向けて〜他国の資金援助によるゴミ処理施設導入の検討〜
SASAHARA, Akira	Minori Kurokami	The Socioeconomic Determinants of Suicide Rate in Japan: A Prefectural-level Analysis
SASAHARA, Akira	Anushree Goyal	Direction and Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation: A Country-level Panel Data Analysis