HIAS Bridges NEXT - Past Members

Mioko Sudo

Research field:Developmental psychology, with a particular focus on children’s social cognition and socialization processes

●What are your current research interests?

I am currently broadly interested in young children’s social cognition, including their ability to stand in other people’s shoes and their ability to empathize with others from diverse backgrounds, as well as how the development of such social-cognitive abilities could be influenced by children’s unique social and cultural environment.

●What do you enjoy most about research?

What I enjoy most about research is the opportunity to pursue answers to questions that pique my interest, and through that pursuit, being able to contribute a piece (no matter how tiny) to the puzzle of understanding human development.

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

To me, research is like a continuous learning journey, involving seeking answers to questions, acquiring new knowledge and skills, and evolving as a thinker.

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

During my undergraduate studies, I had the opportunity to be involved in projects focusing on the language and cognitive development of foreign national children in Japan and Japanese children in the United States. I felt like learning about the unique struggles of such children was like learning about my childhood self since I grew up in multiple cultural contexts myself. My interest in learning about how such children’s struggles could potentially be alleviated served as the trigger for my interest in research.

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

I hope to be able to contribute to the advancement of knowledge on children’s social cognition, and to become able to guide the next generation of researchers in their academic pursuits.

Tetsuya Aoki

Research field:platform strategy

●What are your current research interests?

Platform, Marketing, Metaverse

●What do you enjoy most about research?

Finding and Meeting creative people

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

Creative exploration

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

Goslings lead the geese to water

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

boundary spanner of academia and industry

Yuta Kittaka

Research field:Industrial Organization

●What are your current research interests?

Consumer search / platform economics / experimental economics

●What do you enjoy most about research?

そんなもの ウチにはないよ

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

紆余曲折

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

紆余曲折

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

師匠のような

Kohei Matsumoto

Research field:My research fields cover the intersection of marketing, strategy, and public policy.

●What are your current research interests?

I am analyzing the relationship between firm competition and innovation. My current research topic includes the competitive response of national brand manufacturers to private labels.

●What do you enjoy most about research?

The most enjoyable moments are when I come up with a new research idea to extend current research findings and share such ideas with my colleagues.

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

I would say accumulating research findings.

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

I enjoyed studying firms’ rise and fall at a management strategy seminar as a bachelor’s student, which led me to become a researcher.

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

By analyzing companies, I would like to provide important managerial implications.

Erika Igarashi

Research field:Economic History

●What are your current research interests?

Cliometrics, Family Economics, Demography

●What do you enjoy most about research?

不合理でよく分からなったことを理解できるようになった時

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

生活

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

昔からあれこれ考えることが好きでそれを仕事に出来そうだったから

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

業界を引っ張っていく！

Satoshi Tsuda

Research field:Civil Law / Financial Law

●What are your current research interests?

Legal Status of Customers Depositing Assets with Financial Institutions

●What do you enjoy most about research?

Refining and Formulating My Ideas

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

A Purely Immersive Pursuit, Free from Position or Pretense

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

Encountering a Theme That Captivated Me

●What are your future goals as a researcher?

I would like to develop my research with a focus on interdisciplinary crossover.

Shigemoto Suzuki

●What are your current research interests?

●What do you enjoy most about research?

● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)

●What inspired you to become a researcher?

●What are your future goals as a researcher?