School of Human Science and Environment

Professor Miki Inui

We are researching how children from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as poverty, minorities, and developing countries, can enjoy equal educational opportunities. Together with my seminar students, I have been supporting the learning of foreign children living in Himeji and Kobe, and working to build a school in Laos, continuing to implement practices that will lead to children receiving a quality education.

School of Economics and Management

Lecturer Atsushi Osawa

Realizing sustainable societies requires that we learn from past experiences.

If we look back at the history of economic development in all countries and regions, we see that the course of industrialization has involved problems with pollution.

Currently, I am working on extracting lessons from history on the most desirable methods of economic development and business growth by ascertaining specific measures taken by local societies for problems that are difficult to solve with market solutions, such as through compensation. The focus is on the smoke pollution that had been generated in the Kazuno region in Akita Prefecture.

School of Economics and Management

Professor Takashi Tanaka

I have been conducting research centered mainly on the area of insurance phenomena related to life insurance.

In our daily lives in a capitalistic society, life security from life insurance plays an extremely important role.

Also, there is major potential in initiatives based on an approach that includes the concept of “donations (pure donations)” for ”negative externalities” that have been a broad background issue in SDGs and “negative externalities” that are an area of promotion in SDGs.