Graduate School of Disaster Resilience and Governance

Associate Professor Anna Matsukawa

Disasters cause more damage to those who are vulnerable in society, such as the elderly, people with disabilities, women, children, and foreign nationals. We are conducting research with the aim of creating a fair society in which social vulnerability is minimized before a disaster strikes, and in which all victims can receive appropriate support.

Graduate School of Disaster Resilience and Governance

Associate Professor Takashi Hirai

To create a society that is not devastated by earthquakes, we must first have a comprehensive understanding of earthquake hazards. To this end, we conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research on the analysis and prediction of earthquake ground motions, subsurface structural exploration, and observation and measurement techniques. In addition, by investigating historical records remaining in the region, we are clarifying the damage caused by past disasters and the process of reconstruction, and we are continuing to train personnel to decipher historical documents.

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.

Graduate School of Social Science

Associate Professor Naoki Matsuyama

The history of economics is the study of various issues in economic society based on the wisdom of the past. In October 2023, the 400th anniversary of William Petty\\\'s birth was celebrated at University of Hyogo, and we reflected on Petty\\\\\\\'s economics and his views on war against the backdrop of the current international situation. and his views on war against the backdrop of the current international situation. We peruse the classics and search for the ideal economic state.

Special lecture and exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Petty\\\'s birth (from the University\\\'s publication, “Kendai Tsuushin”)

School of Economics and Management

Professor Akihiko Tomono, School of Economics and Management

There is tremendous value in the history, traditions, and culture that have roots in regions. When people visit regions in search of such features, it can create a positive economic effect for the region.

In my academic research, I select a specific field every year and visit it with my students. There, we conduct questionnaires. We use the travel cost method to assess the historical, traditional, and cultural values of assets specific to the region. We also measure the economic ripple effects by performing analyses in cooperation with industries based on the expenditures of tourists to the area,

Institute for Nature and Environment

Full-time Lecturer Shinya Narusawa

Human beings, who have evolved while overcoming limitless odds, have an extremely precious existence. The human race must not perish, even with environment destruction, singularity, or war.

Can the human race continue on existing? Hints to this question exist within the number of civilizations in the universe.

This is because it is proportional to the average number of years a civilization has continued to exist. Conversely, we think about our future from speculation on the number of civilizations by SETI (search extra-terrestrial intelligence). “The future of humanity is in space”

Graduate School of Science

Professor Hiroki Wadati

Conventional microscopes are expensive and large, and everyday microscopic measurements are difficult.

We are developing an inexpensive and small microscope using a 3D printer. We hope that these portable microscopes would create major changes at research and education sites.

In particular, I believe that looking at the magnetic domain structure of magnets will lead to the development of new types of computer memory using domain wall displacement.