Student report
Four students from our laboratory attended the Hokkaido Symposium on Information Processing 2025 at Muroran Institute of Technology in Muroran, Hokkaido, on October 18, 2025: first-year master’s student Rikuto Ito and second-year master’s students Rintaro Karashima, Misato Fukui, and Junhyon Chae.
Our laboratory held a summer gathering to mark the end of the spring semester.
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.
Our laboratory held a farewell gathering for Katsumi Tamaki, a second-year master’s student.
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.
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.
