Features in Faculty of Business and Commerce

The core academic disciplines of the Faculty of Business and Commerce comprise four major fields: Management and Organization, Marketing Science, Accounting, and Economy and Industry. While cultivating expertise centered around these fields, students can independently and individually select majors and courses aligned with their intellectual interests and career aspirations. Additionally, programs are offered to enable systematic study of cross-disciplinary issues beyond field boundaries, including global studies, strategies, policies and regulations, empirical analysis methods, and histories of theories and practices.

Programs are offered to enable systematic study of cross-disciplinary issues beyond field boundaries, including global studies, strategies, policies and regulations, empirical analysis methods, and histories of theories and practices.

A resolute spirit to act according to one's own judgment and responsibility while, at the same time, respecting others as other independent individuals.

The spirit of jitsugaku, or “practical learning,” refers to the process by which an independent individual acquires the necessary knowledge to think on their own and apply that knowledge in society in a meaningful way. The School of Commerce offers a unique lineup of classes that embody and develop this spirit of jitsugaku.

Referred to in Japanese as hangaku hankyo, this is an egalitarian system in which students and teachers learn from one another through discussion. Students can get a better sense of this in the General Education Seminar in students’ first and second years and in the seminars in the third year onward.