Welcome to the Hiyoshi Forest!

When you enter the Faculty of Economics, you will spend your first two years in Hiyoshi. You might not realize it just by looking from the entrance, but a vast mixed forest known as the "Hiyoshi Forest" stretches across the back of the campus. If you go down into Mamushi-dani, you can experience the rich nature of each season. Please take the time to feel the scale and depth of the Hiyoshi Forest.

Learning is also as deep as a forest. You do some research and feel like you understand a little, but an unknown world still stretches far into the distance. If you have that feeling, you can say that you have stood at the entrance to scholarship.

In Hiyoshi, you will acquire the necessary foundations for majoring in economics while also studying General Education and foreign language courses. In General Education, a rich variety of subjects is offered through a cross-faculty common curriculum. There are various formats, including lectures in large classrooms, experiments and practical training, small-group seminars centered on presentations and discussions, and classes taught in English. We hope you will enjoy a diverse range of intellectual experiences through these. Foreign language classes in the first year are conducted on a class-by-class basis and have many hours, so they serve a role similar to a homeroom. In addition to English and a second foreign language, you can also study a third foreign language. It is a good idea to approach this with a goal, such as short-term or long-term study abroad.

While studying in Hiyoshi, it is also important to look ahead and consider which fields are particularly interesting and which issues you want to tackle in earnest. To that end, please hone your ability to identify challenges by actively engaging in dialogue with people who have different perspectives and ideas from your own, both on and off campus.

We, the faculty, hope to walk through the forest with you so that your studies and student life will be fruitful.