Student's Graduation Thesis Theme

(AY 2013)

AY 2013 Excellent Thesis Presenter

Seminar name
Full name
Graduation research title
Professor
Takano’s
seminar
Hayato
Ikeda
Disaster assistance through corporate core business
Professor
Kawata's
Seminar
Natsumi
Okada
Analysis of disaster prevention education in textbooks of compulsory curriculum
Professor
Motoyoshi's
seminar
Yuji
Kubota
Development of Psychological First Aid as psychological education tool
Professor
Ozawa's
seminar
Chihiro
Tsurumi
Safety of nuclear power plants - Quenching phenomena of high temperature objects -
Professor
Kawaguchi’s
seminar
Naoki
Nakarai
Analysis of pedestrian characteristics in a straight path using numerical simulation
Professor
Koshiyama's
seminar
Yuki
Manabe
A Study on the Relationship of Public Health Nurses and the Community in the Society Damaged by a Disaster ―A Case Study of Otsuchi Town on the Great East Japan Earthquake―
Professor
Nagata's
seminar
Koji
Yamamoto
Introduction of an emergency system in Asian developing countries ~ Consideration from the emergency system of residents in Thailand ~

Professor Abe's seminar

■ LRT concept of Kyoto City ■ Current status and issues of the Japanese tobacco industry ■ Current status and the road to reconstruction of local railroads in Tohoku ■ Social effect of no Pole pillarization ■ Safety problems of air traffic control ■ Current status and issues of the electric power industry ■ Future traffic safety measures ■ Possibility of BRT in Japan ■ Future prospects and issues of the three airports in Kansai ■ Effect and prospect of the new Tomei Expressway ■ Aircraft Safety Videos and Safety Card

Professor Ozawa's seminar

■ Development and consideration of issues of automobile industry ■ Changes in occupational accidents in the construction industry ■ Safety of nuclear power plants - Quenching phenomena of high temperature objects - ■ Aircraft safety regulations ■ Research on safety of nuclear power plants - cooling characteristics of parallel pipes - ■ Study on safety management in nuclear power generation ■ Food additives and safety-oriented Japanese people

Professor Kanoshima’s seminar

■ Dependence on drug ■ Perspectives of supplements in light of life style changes ■ Inspection of mad cow disease in Japan and Western countries ■ Public-private partnership in water supply ■ Importance of public advertisement and effect on People ■ Occurrence of "bullying" and response of schools and board of education ■ Importance of fire brigade (overcoming the problem by the City of Sakai) ■ Two treatment methods of atopic dermatitis - Complementary relation between "standard treatment" and "non-steroid therapy" - ■ Alcohol addiction and countermeasures ■ Best by date and food disposal ■ Health food damage and diet therapy - supplements and medicinal snacks - ■ International measures towards eradication of hunger in Somalia

Professor Kamei’s seminar

■ Job hunting and risk management ■ Research on risk management and leadership - Case of student hockey - ■ Strategies and risks in the Aviation Industry - Influence of the entrance of low cost carriers (LCC) in the Industry ■ Strategies and risks in the financial industry ■ Theater and research on risk management - Case study of the theater “Yoroduwemaki” ■ Risk management and leadership in sports - Case of the soccer club of Kansai University Sports Association ■ Management strategies and risk management of the Oriental Land ■ Business Succession and Risk Management of Small and Medium Enterprises ■ Consideration on disaster prevention measures at individual level - Based on knowledge of risk management learned at the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences ~ ■ Risk Management and Leadership ■ Risk Management and Organization ■ Management strategy of Samsung - In comparison with Sony and Panasonic - ■ Risk Management of the Oriental Land - Spirit to Care for People ■ Strategy and Risk Management of Yasushi Akimoto in Idol Business - Case Study of AKB48 - ■ Status of the electronics market in Japan (electronic components industry) and future trends ■ Business Succession of Family companies

Professor Kawaguchi’s seminar

■ Relationship between density and pressure during crowding ■ Analysis of pedestrian characteristics in a straight path using numerical simulation

Professor Kawata’s seminar

■ Study on quantification of qualitative damage of disaster using collective intelligence ■ Prediction of Building Damage according to Occurrence of Different Times of Nankai Trough Giant Earthquake ■ Analysis of disaster prevention education in textbooks of compulsory curriculum ■ Study on optimization of operation resumption from the Nankai Trough earthquake ■ Consideration of supply of drinking water to evacuees in the wards of Tokyo when an earthquake centered directly under the capital occurs. ■ Study of the risk of inundation in underground large commercial facilities ■ Research on techniques to control the occurrence of anxiety purchasing ■ How to respond to flood disaster in Takatsuki City - With a focus on the flow of damage information ■ Issues of the Union of Kansai Governments ■ Research on how to continue artificial dialysis operation when a Nankai Trough giant earthquake occurs. ■ Prediction of liquefaction of thermal power stations when an earthquake centered directly under the capital occurs. ■ Rescue system and problems in the Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Research on crisis management when holding an event - Case study of pedestrian bridge accident at the Akashi Fireworks Festival ■ Improved efficiency in distribution of emergency medicines through color coding ■ Logistics support of the Shikoku region when a Nankai Trough giant earthquake occurs.

Professor Takatorige’s seminar

■ Current issues and prospects of food education activities - Ideal food education - ■ Social marketing for societal safety in companies ■ Why aids cannot be eliminated? - Comparison between Japan and Thailand - ■ Problems of Hansen's Disease and what can be done to prevent recurrence of the problem ■ Consideration of a new relationship between companies and the society through the J-league ■ Role of public health nurses following changes in the social environment surrounding mothers and children ■ Emergency care system in the secondary medical care areas of Sakai City and Senshu in view of a Nankai Trough giant earthquake ■ Learn compliance from scandals of food companies ■ Diffusion of HACCP in Japan ■ Risk communication of tobacco - Importance to display warning - ■ Why did famous hotel groups and restaurants provide false representation of menus and ingredients?

Professor Takano’s seminar

■ A consideration of compliance interpretation in contemporary companies. ■ Disaster assistance through corporate core business ■ A consideration for achieving compliance ■ Recommendation of measures to enable small and medium enterprises to build BCP ■ Disaster prevention cooperation between companies and communities - Necessity of District Continuity Plan (DCP) - ■ Possibilities of Japanese companies in BOP business ■ Ideal compliance program and measures to build it in small and medium enterprises ■ Necessity of compliance system for small and medium enterprises ■ Gender issues and effects of CSR in companies ■ Building an organization to prevent scandals in family business management in food industry ■ Necessity of practical compliance education for on-site workers ■ How to display CSR report ■ Ideal internal reporting system in large companies ■ A consideration on effective internal control to prevent scandals ■ Recommendations on CSR efforts for small and medium enterprises ■ CSR from the management perspective ■ Compliance system in small and medium enterprises ■ Actual situation of complimentary overtime work

Professor Takahashi’s seminar

■ Development of AR disaster prevention information application for disaster prevention education ■ Hydraulic experiment on unsteady state of sediment transport by tsunami ■ Development of stands for fixing and settling corals to promote coral regeneration using weak current

Professor Tsuchida's Seminar

■ People's behaviors and their psychology motivated by rumors after the Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Feeling of psychological debt at the occurrence of a disaster ■ Effect of self-esteem on stress on interpersonal relationships and social support ■ Reliability on risk management organizations - Main Salient Value Similarity models and traditional reliability model ■ Influence of the sense of being an indifferent person and desire for recognition on wild rumors ■ Overestimated poverty assessment and aid - Review using scene assumption method - ■ Persuasive effect brought by feelings of anger, terror and sorrow ■ Relationship between fan psychology and mental health ■ Factors stipulating disaster prevention awareness ■ Effect of the feeling of relaxation and positive social behavior on environment-conscious behavior ■ Response to a bereavement experience of close relatives ■ Effect of aggressiveness and anxiety on accidents and infractions in bicycle riding ■ Violence animation videos and aggressive behavior: Effect of empathy

Professor Nakamura’s seminar

■ Current status and future prospects of health safety management in the University ■ Comparative study of safety culture and CSR in a power company ■ Relationship between communication and safety climate at work site ■ Current status of safety activities and safety measures in small and medium-sized construction companies ■ Relationship between car driving and the sense of direction ■ A consideration on institutional safety measures in the manufacturing industry ■ Organizational factors affecting railway accidents ■ Influence of occupants conversation on a young driver when driving a car ■ Crisis management in overseas travel from Japan ■ Research on the application of Crew Resource Management ■ Proposals for solving the problem of shortage of personnel by improving the special characteristics of seafarers' labor ■ Relationship between early evacuation behavior and visibility of evacuees in the event of a disaster in urban underground facilities ■ Safety efforts at construction sites ■ Actual status of safety measures against occupational accidents in small and medium sized construction industry ■ Recent demonstration activities and social networking services of young people ■ Consideration of an organizational structure of amusement facilities in the future ■ Current status of safety education and educational effect - In the case of hands-on learning -

Professor Nishimura’s seminar

■ Recommendation of bicycle ■ Subway and disaster ■ Inbound business in Kansai and future prospects ■ Relationship between the use of mobile phone during driving and traffic accidents ■ Safety performance at the Kishiwada Danjiri Festival ■ For the subsistence of motorized society ■ Convenience stores to serve as lifelines of local communities ■ New possibilities of roadside stations ■ Necessity of Linear Central Shinkansen ■ Building of a bicycle society in Japan

Professor Hirose’s seminar

■ Effectiveness of writing therapy to reduce anger outburst ■ Which does affect the intention of aid, statistical information, or a personal episode? ■ Why do people oppose to accept delivery of earthquake debris? ■ Psychological factors of unsafe behavior in traffic situations ■ Effect of social support from the spouse on childrearing burnout ■ Factors on the acceptance of citizen's discussion meeting ■ Influence of risk response action by a leader on members: Gaming experiment using virtual world game ■ People's attitude towards nuclear power generation and natural energy: Why are people divided on nuclear power generation? ■ Determining factors of the attitude of young people towards the measures to correct economic disparities ■ Relationship between procrastination and self-efficacy of college students ■ Effect of voice attributes on impression formation ■ Questionnaire survey on the motivations of college students for study ■ Effect of the reliability of the contributor on the twitter on rumor’s suppression

Professor Koshiyama's seminar

■ Comparison between the response to the earthquake and evacuation plan of the aquariums in the Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Comparison of disaster response and restoration of the three convenience stores ■ Study on crimes committed using neglected bicycles ■ Study on psychological impact of disaster-affected space on outsiders ■ Relationship between local environment and crime occurrence ■ Analysis of the evacuation plan when a World Heritage in Japan is affected by a disaster ■ Consideration on donation collection when a disaster occurs in Japan ■ History of horse racing and disaster reconstruction ■ Study on the reconstruction plan of Totsukawa-mura village damaged by the Great Flood Disaster of the Kii peninsula in 2011 ■ Effect of wall paintings on temporary housing ■ Problems for using the disaster prevention parks along coastal areas in the Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Study on the relationship between public health nurses and communities in disaster-stricken areas - Case study of Otsuchi-cho, Iwate prefecture - ■ Study on the competency in having the food stockpile for disasters ■ Research on the space design after the earthquake, and space recognition and use of the reconstructed towns

Professor Suga's seminar

■ Disaster prevention plan and town development of historical urban areas ■ Support activities for the Great East Japan Earthquake by international cooperation NGOs - Possibility of cooperation and coordination - ■ Safe living for the elderly - Being connected to people - ■ Significance of donations for NPO corporations - Research on factors that encourage donations ■ Volunteer activities in disaster affected areas - A better support structure between support-receivers and support-givers ■ Forming connections through space creation - Future town development based on past cases - ■ Social Safety Studies from the perspective of the establishment of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences and Graduate School of Societal Safety Sciences ■ Study on the support of disaster victims in temporary housing - Approach to temporary housing to meet the “significance of existence” - ■ Dreams and the reality surrounding the youth - Obstacles for achieving dreams ■ Necessity of a community in regional disaster prevention ■ Gaps between giving support and receiving support due to lack of understanding - Have a better look at disaster victims for providing better support - ■ Regeneration and activation of marginal villages - Future marginal villages from the perspective of aging society in Japan

Professor Nagata's seminar

■ Research on the introduction of civil defense in Japan ■ Historical study of firefighting administration in Japan ■ Research on the formulation of a disaster prevention plan for Nationally-selected Preservation Districts for Groups of Historic Buildings ■ Study of Japanese version NSC ■ Research on donation income of NPO corporations - Current status of the certified NPO system and donation taxation system - ■ Research on private firefighting organization ■ Research on internet election and cyber risk ■ Study of PMSCs ■ Study on the possibility of introduction of first aid by residents in Japan ■ A consideration on the current status and development of the “percentage system” ■ Study on crime prevention system by residents ■ Research on the Coast Guard as a "paramilitary organization" and national security ■ Research on firefighting and emergency rescue systems in remote island areas ■ Research on resident organization for disaster prevention (firefighters and voluntary organization for disaster prevention) ■ Study on metropolitan disaster prevention ■ Study on firefighters in disaster-stricken areas in the Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Study on societal safety in administrative boundaries ■ Osaka Metropolis plan according to the Large City system and effect on disaster prevention ■ Research on issues related to vacant houses ■ Research on firefighting facilities along coasts ■ Introduction of emergency rescue systems in developing Asian countries - Consideration from the emergency rescue systems by residents in Thailand - ■ Life-saving research in Japan

Professor Nagamatsu’s seminar

■ Relationship between the adverse effects of Pachinko in Japan and the Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Study on business continuity in a disaster by local governments and private companies ■ Is it possible to reconstruct disaster-stricken areas through reconstruction finance ■ Is it necessary for evacuees from nuclear disasters to return home? ■ Influence of administrative initial evacuation response on resident evacuation - Analysis of screening examination at Fukushima nuclear power plant accident - ■ Why does a disparity occur in fishing reconstruction? - Comparison of the reconstruction policies between Iwate Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture from the Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Is it possible for disaster-stricken areas in Great East Japan Earthquake to reestablish as tourist spots? ■ Is the polarization of the labor market corrected through the amendment of Labor Contract Act? ■ A consideration on disaster-victim support services in light of a questionnaire survey conducted to disaster victims on disaster-victim support services in Tagajo City in Miyagi Prefecture - Understanding based on free description survey - ■ Will the release of the fishery rights serve as a force to reconstruct the fishing industry in disaster-stricken areas? ■ Why is it said that the redevelopment of Shin Nagata is a failure? ■ Poverty problems and irregularly employed workers ■ Issues related to the dispatch of human assistance in Great East Japan Earthquake ■ Is it possible to evacuate in a car for evacuating from a tsunami? - A simulation targeted at Nishi-Yodogawa ward and Nishi Ward in Osaka during Nankai Trough earthquake ■ Human assistance between local governments in wide area disaster

Professor Hayashi’s seminar

■ Study on the possibility of occurrence of a gigantic earthquake in the subduction zone in the world based on a reassessment of the seismic coupling ■ Weather condition analysis to improve forecast accuracy of SO2 concentration in Miyakejima volcano ■ Research on the possibility of landslide disasters in devastated artificial forest by combining on-site measurement and satellite remote sensing ■ Study on railway conditions for providing riding comfort of the train ■ Issues related to breeding animals in zoos when a disaster occurs ■ Research on the possibility of expansion of thermal energy use in urban areas - Case study in Amagasaki city ■ Evaluation of the ground properties of land-filled irrigation ponds based on microtremor measurements ■ Evaluation of ground vibration based on microtremor measurements in all of Takatsuki city ■ Research on low sickness tolerance in pendulum type vehicles by comparative vibration measurement ■ Construction of a solar power generation model for diffusion considering regional conditions ■ Study on method to estimate weak points of residential areas built on hilly areas ■ Study on ride comfort assessment of trains based on vibration measurement

Professor Motoyoshi’s seminar

■ Relationship between the fluidity of students and bullying ■ Development of Psychological First Aid as a psychological education tool ■ Factors influencing interpersonal stress coping ■ Relationship between the embankment height and disaster prevention consciousness for university students ■ Relationship between self-help behavior ,administration and media ■ Relationship between the factors that restrain assistance request actions against bullying and method to respond ■ Factors to obtain community understanding and cooperation in juvenile delinquency rehabilitation programs ■ Relationship between corporal punishment and results thereof ■ Relationship between the feeling of resignation, time anxiety and depression ■ Relationship between the ratio of self-help, cooperation and assistance by public bodies recognized by college students - Comparison between the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences and other faculties -

Professor Kaneko’s seminar

■ Mental changes in disaster victims between the aftermath of the earthquake and today ■ Treatment methods of social anxiety disorder and anthrophobia ■ Current status and future issues of DV and date DV ■ Review of lifestyles of university students and mental health ■ Trends and issues of mental conditions of job-seeking students considered from diversified points of view ■ Process of metal recovery after the Great East Japan earthquake

Professor Kono’s seminar

■ Analysis of personal interests on information security through a portal site and a micro blog ■ Development of information security education tool using smartphone terminal ■ On-campus safety confirmation system using non-contact IC card ■ Current status and problems of information security education viewed from the textbook "Society and Information"

Professor Shiroshita’s seminar

■ Research on the necessity of understanding and support for pregnant women from society ■ Study on lead evacuees to improve tsunami evacuation rate ■ Information and isolation of foreign victims in the event of a disaster ■ Study on disaster prevention education between experts and citizens using disaster prevention learning facilities ■ Study on disaster prevention education using disaster prevention map ■ Proposal of a temporary staying facility on the assumption that commuters unable to get home will return home in anticipation of Nankai Trough large earthquake