Misato Fukui, a second-year master’s student, received the Academic Research Award from the Hokkaido Branch of the Information Processing Society of Japan at the Hokkaido Symposium on Information Processing 2025, held on October 18, 2025. This was the highest distinction among the symposium’s awards, recognizing the quality of her research. Congratulations!
After the spring semester ended, our laboratory held a summer gathering and welcomed two students who had been admitted through the recommendation-based admissions process for the 2025 academic year.
Our laboratory began the 2024 academic year on April 4, welcoming new students. With more members joining us, the laboratory is becoming an even livelier place.
Hiroyasu Inoue appeared on BS TV Tokyo’s Nikkei News Plus 9 on March 11, 2024. He discussed his research estimating the economic effects of a Nankai Trough earthquake.
Rintaro Karashima, a fourth-year undergraduate student, presented at the 19th Network Ecology Symposium. His presentation examined the evaluation of Japanese corporations using a knowledge complexity index. Presenting research outside the university while still an undergraduate is a commendable achievement.
Comments by Hiroyasu Inoue appeared on the front page of Nikkei, discussing the economic damage caused by disasters and ways to reduce it. Related article / information
A paper coauthored by Hiroyasu Inoue and Yasuyuki Todo has been published in PLOS ONE. Entitled “Disruption of international trade and its propagation through firm-level domestic supply chains: A case of Japan,” the paper examines how shocks to international trade propagate through supply chains and considers effective ways to mitigate their effects. Read the paper
