IB Inter-College is a national competition for research reports in which students present research results from undergraduate seminars in the form of academic papers and compete against each other to win the championship. In this tournament, 16 teams from 19 seminars from 29 universities across the country participated. The two teams from Koyama's seminar submitted research papers in advance titled ``The Effects of University Students' Study Abroad Experiences on CQ'' and ``Supervisor Support for Working Fathers: For Women's Advancement in Society Around the World.'' They gave presentations on the day of the competition, and both teams received high scores for their essays.

　Associate Professor Kenta Koyama, who teaches the seminar, says, ``In the Koyama seminar, we aim to conduct high-level research that is useful in the real world, with the theme of ``researching the psychology of people working in an international environment.''We will present our research results. I am participating in the IB inter-college competition because I want seminar students from other universities to learn from each other.This time, I was able to win the best Japanese paper award for the first time as a Koyama seminar. I think my juniors also gained confidence in the high standard of the research activities they engage in on a daily basis in the seminar."

　In addition, starting from 2022, the Faculty of Communication at Tokyo Keizai University will have two departments: the Department of International Communication and the Department of Media Sociology, and the Department of International Communication is developing new education, including its own overseas training programs. Applications for the first half of the general selection and the first half of the common test selection will begin on Friday, January 2, 2024.

Reference: [Tokyo Keizai University] Koyama seminar of the Faculty of Communication won the "Best Japanese Paper Award" at the International Business Research Conference