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
I was invited by the Senri Life Science Foundation to give a lecture. It was a very meaningful time for me as I had a chance to talk directly with Dr. Kishimoto, a Nobel Prize nominee in the field of drug discovery.The topic was “Large-Scale Simulation of Economy Using Large-Scale Computers. (財)千里ライフサイエンス振興財団 フォーラム千里ライフサイエンス振興財団
“Propagation of Overseas Economic Shocks through Global Supply Chains: Firm-level evidence” was presented as a discussion paper at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), an independent administrative agency under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Government.This paper analyzes the impact of international supply chain disruptions on Japan by adding information on individual firms’...