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Graduate School of Economics

Our goal is to produce human resources with specialized knowledge, analytical powers, and the ability to make contributions to the betterment of humankind.

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About the Graduate School of Economics

The Graduate School of Economics implemented a new curriculum in the 2004 academic year. In brief, the goal is to equip our students with analytical and applied skills supported by the professional expertise to adapt effectively with globalization through the 21st century and the trend toward an increasingly information-intensive society. In this age of acceleration and uncertainty, it is imperative that society have human resources that are capable of acting in the interest of humankind with careful judgment and a strong command of advanced systems of knowledge.

The writings of the late P.F. Drucker still have an enormous influence on the business world. In his book, Managing in the Next Society (Japanese translation published by Diamond, 2002), Drucker wrote that the next society would be a knowledge-based society with knowledge the prime resource and knowledge workers the core of the workforce. Among the salient features of that society will be borderlessness, because knowledge flows more readily than capital and everyone will have the freedom of upward mobility because they have access to opportunities for education. Accordingly, Drucker predicted that this will be a highly competitive society for individuals and organizations alike. Suffice it to say that this society has already arrived.

Guaranteeing a minimum level of scholastic ability and expanding the scale and diversity of liberal arts education have been the principal goals of undergraduate education reform to date. Now that these goals have been largely met, the university system has come face to face with demands and expectations of an altogether different dimension. In effect, the general public, the corporate sector, and even students themselves have demonstrated a pronounced appetite for higher levels of specialized knowledge. University science and engineering schools were the first to experience and strive to accommodate the early signs of this desire. Now though, the same trend has become evident even among schools in the social sciences and humanities. To satisfy the expectations driving that trend, the Graduate School of Economics has revamped its own curriculum and implemented systemic reforms.

Sponsorship System

The Faculty and Graduate School of Economics has established a student sponsorship framework with the aim of fostering an integrated track to graduate school education. This is a new course framework for economics majors that want to pursue higher levels of specialized knowledge in graduate school. Students for sponsorship are selected from enrolled undergraduate economics-degree students that apply in the fall term of their third year. These students may enroll in graduate-level courses while still in their fourth undergraduate year. Those that complete their undergraduate study and continue to graduate school will be able to complete the master's program in one year.

How are sponsored students selected? Eligibility for sponsorship is limited to those who have satisfied the following requirements at the time of application.

  1. Have completed at least five semesters of undergraduate economics degree coursework at Doshisha University. (In principle, the sponsorship program targets third-year students who have been enrolled in a Faculty of Economics undergraduate degree program from their first year.)
  2. Desire to enroll in the Doshisha Graduate School of Economics.
  3. Rank in the top 20 percent under the GPA system in major-specific coursework through to the spring semester of the third year.
  4. Be expected to satisfy the credit total required for graduation upon completion of the fall term of the third year.

* Applications will be accepted from a maximum of 30 students. Qualifying applicants will be selected based on an examination of their stated reasons for seeking sponsorship.
The goal is to have sponsored students participate in small classes offering more advanced levels of discussion while remaining enrolled in their undergraduate programs and find inspiration through exposure to controversial topics in advanced subjects as well as the latest trends in economic theory.

Doctoral Program Reforms

The doctoral program adopted a new curriculum in the 2006 academic year and a credit-based system has also been implemented. These steps were taken to facilitate study in special fields for doctoral degree acquisition and, through enrollment in credit-based electives, to cultivate higher levels of scholarship and research ability in economics and related fields. Further, in addition to the researcher training program we have offered for some time, as a new endeavor we launched a special course program for businesspersons. This is designed to help working professionals with a certain level of occupational and research background acquire doctoral degrees. Enrolled students that demonstrate excellent research performance will be able to complete this program and earn their degrees in less than three years.

Faculty Research (2009)

Yoshiaki Azuma Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Production, Distribution and Cousumption
Motomasa Daigo Natural enviromental and human activity
Masahiro Furugawa Research on the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in Great Britain
Yoshio Itaba To Analyse Synthetically tax System, Social Security System and Local Public Finance System.
Osamu Kawagoe Comparative Studies of modern society
Nobutaka Kawai Detailed Comparison of Income, Consumption and Expenditure Tax
Nobuko Kawashima Cultural Policy and Management, The Creative Industries and Law
Masaaki Kitagawa Japanese Economy and Macroeconomics : Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Japan
Shinichi Kitasaka Japanese Economy, Econometrics, Macro-economic Theory.
Yoshitomo Kiyokawa Theoretical Foundation of Macroeconomic Policy
Chiharu Kobayashi Industrial Organization
Hiroki Kofuji Regional Science and Urban Economics
Tokujiro Kubo Study of Numerical Methods for Pricing Derivatives
Kou Miyazaki Information Systems
Kazutoshi Miyazawa Research on the macroeconomic effect of population aging
Takashi Momi General equilibrium analysis of incomplete market models
Takeshi Murota Economics of Natural Resources and Environment, Community Currency, Environmental Question of Eastern Russia
Kazumi Nakamura Monetary Theory
Takeo Nakao The Analysis of an Oligopolistic Firm
Osamu Nishimura Culture as Social Common Capital
Hiroshi Nishimura City & Village in Modern Japan
Mikio Nishioka Social Capital and Political Economy of Institutional Designs
Hitoshi Ochiai Topological Theology
Yoshimitsu Onozuka Global Changes and the International Political Economy: Studies of International Migration and International Monetary System
Yoshiaki Shikano Money and Banking in Japan
Soichi Shinohara International Economics
Kunitoshi Suenaga Study of Japanese Management Ideas as a Source in CSR
Ikki Suge Economic and social history and urban history of modern Britain
Toshiaki Tachibanaki Difference in Economic Conditions between Central Regims and Country Regimes in Japan
Yasuhito Tanaka Social choice theory and mathematical structure of Economic theory
Tomoki Tanimura Political Economy of Modern Capitalism : Industrial Cycle and Grobalization.
Kazuyuki Tokuoka Urbanization and the changes in Urban Traffic
Yoko Ueda FDI and the formation of Chinese capital in Thailand
Yoshihiko Wada Ecological Economics, Sustainability indicators, Ecological Footprint, Enviromental impacts of nuclear fuel cycles and military activities
Tadashi Yagi Public Economics ( especially, in the field of cultural economics, education policy, inequality of income and wealth )
Toru Yamamori Social Policy, especially Basic Income, and the Welfare State and Multiculturalism: Economics as Social Theory, especially Need and Capability, Feminist Economics, and Critical Realism:
Kazuhiko Yokoi China's Socialist Market Economy and the Reconstitution of State-Owned Enterprises
Teruki Yokoyama Studies on the Economic Theory of T.R.Malthus

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