It is often argued that students' attitudes and motivation on studying is related to their educational environment. The purpose of this research is to find out whether the International Course Program (ICP) at Seikei University has an effect on its students' attitudes and motivation. From my research, it could be said that ICP has a positive effect on students' attitudes and motivation.

Nowadays, many Japanese people work in foreign countries. Then their children may spend their time abroad. This study focuses on them. In this paper, I argue that an experience in a foreign country in childhood influences their lives and how experience in a foreign country connects to their ways of thinking toward their lives. Firstly, I do this by trying to answer the following questions: How the experience of living long-term in a foreign country affect their lives (attitudes about marriage, career and belief about childrearing)? I built upon the work of others. I first look at how returnees adapt back to the life of Japan. I then look at the change of status of returnees, before looking specially at the consciousness of returnees toward foreigners and foreign countries. Finally, I conducted my own fieldwork by questionnaire and interview. This gives me the data I needed to draw some conclusions about the relation between the experiences and their ways of thinking. In the end, I was able to show that the returnees are influenced positively by their international experiences in childhood to varying degrees nonetheless their situations abroad were different.

These days, a lot of foreign tourists visit Japan and we can see them at stations, stores and so on. In particular, the number of Chinese people who visit Japan is increasing rapidly and they have a big effect on the Japanese economy. However, this phenomenon affects only large cities such as Tokyo and Osaka. Chinese tourists tend to concentrate on large cities and they rarely visit provincial cities. I think that the gaps between large cities and regional cities has to be closed. I did this primarily by trying to answer following question: Where do Chinese tourists visit in Japan? Are Chinese people interested in traveling regional cities? I tried to answer these questions focusing on Toyama prefecture because Toyama is a regional city and Toyama gets attention recently owing to the Hokuriku Shinkansen. I built upon the work of others in two areas. I first looked at the effect of Chinese tourists from an international and domestic point of view, which give me a sense of how the number is changing. And then, I looked at how Toyama prefecture grapples with inbound business. Finally, I conducted my own research by questionnaire about Toyama. This research will give me the data about developments and trends in Chinese people and I will discover any possibility to promote Toyama.

It will be able to be said that the way of thinking to university in Japan has changed because of the change of the society. In Japan, some students have the explicit priority that they think studying is the most important at school, but other students prefer to play than to study in spite of they go to university. In general, the people who want to enter university have to take and pass the entrance exam. Moreover, some departments along the students' curiosities or dreams are usually installed in universities. This shows the common understanding that "university is the place where to study" among the people, especially high school students who want to go there. China or Taiwan, where are in Asia as the same area with Japan, is famous for the enthusiastic countries for studying. Thus, I will suggest and finally try to answer this research question: What are the causes of conflict between studying priorities and playing priorities among university students in Japan? I will investigate the backgrounds and the problems of each side, studying priority and playing priority. By revealing them, I will catch the information of Japanese social history of studying and university. This will somewhat give me the answer to research questions. I will also interview some Japanese students and foreign students. Finally, I will compare Japanese university students with the other countries I will ask my questions and check against the results with information from my investigation. This will give me the outlook of the conflict in the future.

This paper investigates the English skills and perception of English learning among students in a private university in Tokyo in order to identify the feasibility of the new MEXT education plan, which was launched in 2015. The most remarkable outcome was that the freshmen scored higher in the TOEIC test than the MEXT average. The survey results showed the differences between the students who have experienced the new education plan and the old one.

This paper proposes to investigate the reasons for longevity in Nagano from the viewpoint of its food culture. A remarkable result to emerge from the data is that there are many healthy foods in Nagano and people eat vegetables the most in Japan.

The present paper aims to investigate the influence of TV commercials and the most influential commercial among university students. A paper questionnaire was distributed to 110 university students in Japan. The survey found that the majority of students are affected by advertisements but there are differences between male and female students. Also, the most influential commercial featured female talents and focused on an ideal high school life.

The purpose of this study is to explore how Japanese university students recognize themselves, what images Japanese students have for beauty and body and how these two images are related with media. This study was conducted through questionnaire. Its goal is to find out about university students' self awareness and to know what kind of beauty and body images they have and how these two images are related with media.

In these days, a lot of students join the volunteer works. The start of doing the volunteer activities were different but they get something by doing the activities. Volunteering is a spontaneous action so if people join the societal related activities, they will do without getting money. This research analyzed the feeling or the thoughts that students got from their experience. The images of success or impression, development of themselves and conducting that volunteer works gave the students confidence of themselves through the receiving of thanks from others. The image of pleasure about volunteer works leads students to participate in volunteer activities again. By doing the volunteer works, students not only give someone the kindness and are helpful but also become full of sensitivity or grow up. In other words, the volunteer activities bring about the interaction between the person who perform a volunteer work and the person made a volunteer. The experience leads them to want to do the volunteering again and brings them the chance to add to their knowledge.

It is well known that studying foreign language provide us many opportunities such as communication with people from different countries, reading and writing even more make a chance to work another country. There are many ideas when start to lean second language and how to make use of it. This time, I examine how foreign language learning effect the future and how affect their ideas. This case the target was Thai university students who studying Japanese or major in. Since there are many Japanese companies in Thailand, and economic connect is strong so I think that there is an environment that Japanese learner can easily make you use of what they studied in workplaces. Because by this research we can understand the situation of oversea, and by comparing it will easy to understand the situation in Japan too.

Anyways, let me get straight to the point. As a result, I found that almost of all students of Seikei University were satisfied with facilities of Seikei University and its campus itself as I expected. But they don't like some of facilities or features of Seikei University. Basically, they don't like 3 thing. Distance from Kichjoji Station (which is the nearest station), Cafeterias and CC Wi-Fi. But at the same time, they legit like some of facilities and functions of it like its cleanliness, the amount of greenery, its exterior and the fact that Seikei University is in Kichjoji. Also I got some raw opinions from the real insights. I would say it's kind of hard to resolve those problems I found this time, but it's so easy to make CC Wi-Fi better.

I researched the relationship between music and social movements in the 1960s Japan and modern Japan, and the difference between music and social movement in 1960s USA and modern USA. Then, I completed surveys of 98 young students to identify the influence of music or artist on university students and the promotion of modern social movements. Suggestions for the best way to promote modern social movements to young students are discussed.

Globalization is one of the key words representing the 20th century and behind the scenes, internet technology expansion pushes globalization, which means connecting to the world. In this study, I focused on one of the biggest globalized platforms called YouTube. First, I explained the importance of the YouTube video study and stated the role of YouTube as new marketing method. Second, I studied the research papers relate to YouTube video advertising and seek the effectiveness of YouTube video towards people in consumption activities. Mainly I looked these three sections; looking at statics of YouTube and SNS to understand the position and role in the society, learning business marketing method and effects to understand how business-marketing method has met with YouTube features and finding the example of business using advantages of YouTube from some success stories. Based on paper work result, I conducted my fieldwork in Seikei University by using survey question. Finally, I investigated that the influence of YouTube video did not show in the youth in Japan. Research papers and my own data let me reach to my own conclusion about YouTube advertisements that is although many researchers state that YouTube video advertisement is a new influential marketing method, their advertisement is not influential towards university students in Japan today. In addition, the sensitiveness to internet advertising and selection of internet information among the youth in Japan is related to the statement.

This paper investigated Japanese customer service in restaurant to reveal good aspects of Japanese customer service in restaurant. I conducted a survey and collected the data by using questionnaire. The respondents were 101 Japanese Seikei University students. From my research, I found the similarities and differences between customers' needs and employees' consciousness. As a result, both attached importance to attitude/manners, attention/consideration, and smile, and these are good points of Japanese customer service. Customers regarded politeness than the way of language, on the other hand, politeness was less important for employees than the way of language.

In Japanese society's tendency, women should select their work career or their life event like marriage and birth. Japanese women percentage of working decrease rapidly age 20th to 35th cause marriage and birth. In this research, we make it clear what will be our society in terms of women working style in next 10 years. We survey 100 university students, and the answer was shown. In the next 10 years, the dual income style family will increase students tend to have enthusiasm in working. And then, childcare leave will be taken not only women but also men because of increasing of dual income. In the next 10 years, women and men will be more equal in working place and life style.

Disney Princesses have been regarded as particularly popular characters around the world. This paper investigated the popularity of Disney Princess movies and researched the popular characters among girls in Japan. The result suggests that Disney Princesses may not be so popular as characters in Japan, while their movies are still popular.

What are Japanese young people interested in? SNS, studying, hanging out and so on. However, they are not interested in their politics. This study is why they are not interested in it and to think the consciousness of Japanese politics. In this paper, it mentioned it has changed the system of election in 2016, so it is able to vote from 18. I argue that why the changing election was carried out. In these back grounds is aging population. Therefore, Japanese government should increase the percentage of voting population. Moreover, I argued that Japanese young people cannot explain their feeling directly, because Japanese education does not include the class of expiation。So, I suggest that Japanese education should include citizenship class such as the U.K. It brings Japanese young people more attractive and they can explain their feeling eve if that topics is politics. Finally, I conduced my own work by interview about Japanese politics. This data gives me some conclusion and interesting answers. In the end, I suggest Japanese education should involve the citizenship education and then, young people can explain their feeling more directly.

This study analyzed the influence of positive and negative emotions on how Japanese college students spend money. Two experiments controlled participants' emotions and compared the effect of emotion on the prices that participants were willing to pay. A control group without treatment was also utilized. The results show that when Japanese college students feel positive emotions, they spend more money than when they feel negative emotions.

The declining birthrate is recognized as one of the problems in Japan and the problem seems to be influenced by people's attitudes. The aim of this study is to study what attitudes Seikei University students have on marriage and having children and what effect the attitudes may bring to society. They seem to have a positive attitude and some issues may be resolved in the future.

This study examined "Kaitensushi" eating trends in Japan. The results found that in Japan young Japanese go to "Kaitensushi" to eat the dinner with their family. Furthermore, this study identified that there are a lot of people who think "Kaitensushi" is expensive or high- class food. Good points of "Kaitensushi" industry were found to be cheap, fast and safety. However, the image of safety is not widely spread. Not only cheap and fast, but also if the industry can strengthen the image of "safety", it can help to promote "Kaitensushi".

Recently there is a tendency to realize the equality in the division of labour. Even in Japan where gender rules are historically important, research suggests that it is no longer natural that women stay home and do housekeeping while men work. This study reveals Japanese sense of gender rule in a house through the questionnaire of 100 Japanese college age students. It identifies Japanese students' ideal balance between working and housework in a family, and demonstrates that young Japanese still have the idea of best women's position, and the expectation of traditional rules within the home is remaining.

This paper is about difference between Japanese job hunting and American job hunting. I conducted questionnaire survey to Japanese and American. Many differences and some similarities were discovered from this survey. Main findings is that the difference between two countries is uniformity and diversity. The way to job hunting is settled uniformly in Japan but compared to this, there is diversity in America.

This paper focuses on why "Your Name" could be a big hit from views of audience. Applying the experimental marketing model and using questionnaire, this research suggests that today's audience wants something beyond of picture and sound, such as deep-felt emotion or implication.

Various foreign things or culture are a matter of course in Japan now as changing to Japanese style little by little. But especially, Japanese people seem to like doing and enjoying Christian seasonal events such as Saint Valentine, Easter, Halloween and Christmas. This project started from this question; why Japanese people enjoy the Christian seasonal events so much because commonly it is said that there are Buddhist than Christian people. This project investigates the character of Japanese people using the other people's studies and the reasons why Japanese people enjoying the Christian seasonal events so much using the questionnaire.

This paper investigated how to get more volunteer in Tokyo Olympics by using an interview and a questionnaire. One of the important problems for Tokyo Olympics is more than half of people do not want to join as a volunteer in spite the government try to recruit so many people. In the questionnaire, lack of information was the most serious factors. In addition, for the people who do not want to join, the expectation for Olympics was very low. Therefore, to solve this issue, improving advertisement and raising expectation for Olympics are effective ways.

This survey attempt to find the thinking that how young generations think about consist their works and childcare after they married. Data were gathered from questionnaires for 18 to 25 years old. Moreover, it approaches the aspect how has changed the meaning of marriage in Japan through the time. There are some relation between works and marriage. The meaning of marriage has changed, their belief of work changed. The report concludes that students feel hard to consist their works and childcare because of the Japanese social system especially businessmen.

In this globalizing generation, studying abroad is not that unusual thing to do compare to the past generation. This research focuses on people who had studied in another country while they were university students. The main research question is "does the experience of studying abroad and the experience of living in other culture affect university students' way of thinking or personality?" because I was curious whether there is the relation between students' inner changes and the experiences in another country, and also I wanted to know what kind of situation the students had experienced. The statement in this research paper is based on the data from the primary researches and the data from my original open-answer questionnaire which was responded by 22 people who had studied abroad. Through the comments from the respondents, it is revealed that the educational differences and the culture differences between the host country and Japan are the two main factors which has an influence on the respondents' way of thinking. This paper will focus on these two factors and will introduce what the respondents experienced.

The aim of this study is to find the perception of immigrants in Japan and the U. S. Results show that Japanese people have a more negative image of immigrants than American people. It is possible to say that immigration policy is an important issue for the U.S. government, so American citizens have a better understanding of immigrant issues than Japanese citizens.

The aim of this study was to determine why Hawaii is a popular travel destination to Japanese people. The survey results showed that people have an image of Hawaii as a resort and they are attracted to this image. Some common reasons for traveling to Hawaii are discussed in this paper.

This research concentrated on attitudes towards work life balance for university students. It is said that we need to improve work life balance to solve less child problem. I research about which factor of work life balance is required by university students with questionnaires. The results found that university students want day off and no overwork rather than other factors. We can make use of this result for policy.

Nowadays, women's empowerment and gender equality internationally catch the attention of the people in the world. However, Japan is said to be behind in both of them. This study focuses on the difficulty of women's empowerment and gender equality in Japan. In fact, there are many factors of the difficulty of women's empowerment and gender equality regarding Japanese social system. However, assumptions that Japanese people naturally have toward gender are more considerable problems than Japanese social system itself. In this paper, I will argue that traditional assumption deeply rooted in Japanese society are appearing in the difficulty of women's empowerment in Japan. I will try to find answers to the following questions regarding individuals' assumptions: How do traditional assumptions remain in Japanese society? What are the solutions for changing the current situations regarding gender? I conducted my primary research by using questionnaire, and investigated people's assumptions. The result of my primary research shows that gender assumptions seem to be appearing in choosing careers, occupations, and working styles in Japan. In conclusion, noticing the existence of gender assumptions in Japanese society would be the first step for changing the society. It might take decades to change our assumptions as well as Japanese society, yet, it is important to recognize the hidden assumptions which we naturally have and try to be acceptable toward new values and changes. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

This paper examines the effectiveness of informal learning in second language acquisition. Through interviewing four students who have an above average TOEIC score in Japan, this paper has led to conclude that informal learning is effective for second language acquisition. However, formal learning is also necessary to fully acquire the target language. The study also discusses four elements in second language acquisition failure.

This paper shows what aspect Japanese university students care about the most when they choose a menu for lunch. There were significant differences between weekdays and holidays, and also between male and female students. The results from this study suggest that Japanese university students have an intention to eat well-balanced diets for lunch.

This study focuses on the influences of the Olympic Games to a local community. I researched particularly the Saitama boat course. This course was used for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. I interviewed three persons who know the boat course well, and analyzed the data. Finally, I concluded that the Olympics have mainly good influence, but they also have some problems.

This thesis is about how commuting by crowded train affects getting illness. As a result, the times of getting ill does not differ from that of people who commute by other way, like bicycle, walking etc. There are two main reasons. A person who commutes by train every day and are exposed to train that is full of pathogens. They create great immunity. Another reasons is that viruses in train are very common for person.

This paper examined the trend of coffee drinking and kissaten in Japan. Using a questionnaire, it investigates young people's thinking of drinking coffee and going to coffee shops. Results of the study found that young people do not view the Internet condition as important. However, there were other conditions that were identified to be important. Application of these findings can help to revitalize kissaten.

This study focuses on the relationship between attitudes on Japan and students' experiences of studying abroad. This qualitative study interviewed 6 students who studied abroad and analyzed what kind of reverse culture shock they felt, and how their experiences influenced their attitude towards Japan. From the data, there is a significant finding that how they came to think about Japan is strongly related to their reverse culture shock and the kind of experiences they had overseas.

Is there a difference between scholarships for international students at Monash University and Seikei University? This study introduces differences of inbound, outbound and flagship scholarships for international students at Monash University and Seikei University by using data that I got by interviewing staff members and students, and it reveals educational policies of the universities by analyzing the flagship scholarships.

Some people have thought about once in their life time why we have to study mathematic, history, language and so on. I would like to know what university student's purposes and goals to study English in life. The reason why I would like to research this topic is that this study came from my curiosity. Also, I believe that this study may become useful information in the future. This study's hypothesis is many students are studying English with no purpose and goal. To prove this hypothesis, I collected a lot of data for research by doing survey. I was able to find some good result from research. According to result of survey, that are many people are interested in foreign countries, and not only women but also many men are interested in English and foreign countries. Current university students are really active about English and they are setting their goals and future life properly.

This study's aim is researching what feelings make post on each SNS and comparing with each site's result. These days, People use multiple kinds of Social Network Services (hereafter, this is called SNSs) . Researcher noticed that each site's posts has some character and made hypothesis. "People change the post by SNS". The study pay attention to popular SNS, Twitter Instagram and Facebook. The way of collecting date was doing questionnaire by Internet form. The way of categorizing feelings used study of Kitamura(2016) as reference. As a result, it has features between feelings that induce posts and kinds of SNSs. The study found that people change the post's contents between Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Recently attackers are able to steal private information from electronic devices by a variety of methods. This study examines the effect of having knowledge and experiences of Internet security on prevention against cyber-attacks in Japanese university students. The data in this study was collected by semi-structured questionnaire of Japanese college aged students. The results indicate that there is a tendency between the experience of unauthorized use and the students' major. Moreover, the findings suggest that only some Japanese respondents can increase their security level by getting more knowledge. This framework can be used to determine the best education for Internet literacy and to improve the future security issues.

Globalization is a huge topic of interest in today's society and more and more Japanese companies are being globalized. According to this circumstance, university students have to consider the need of globalized companies on job-hunting. This study analyzes university students' consciousness to Japanese globalized companies. It questions how much Japanese university students are concerned about Japanese globalized companies. The study conducted through the use of questionnaire survey. Its goal is to find the answer of the research question and predict the future situation from the result. This study clearly demonstrates that university students generally have high interest in Japanese globalized companies. However, they do not have much confidence to their English ability. Therefore, It becomes evident that there is a gap between their interest in and confidence about globalized companies.

This paper investigated the Japanese young adult's attitudes toward their emperor in some aspects, such as affinity and their hopes. The purposes are clarifying what Japanese young adults, as people who hold the future of our country, should do about the imperial family and contributing to society. This research is collected the data by interviewing respectively. As a result, this disclosed how they do not know enough about their emperor enough even if they have a little interest in him. This is attributed to our passive stance toward the imperial family and mass media.

The aim of this study is to clarify what female university students think about marriage. Recently, there are a lot of news about "marriage postponement" and there are many reasons why this phenomenon happens. For example, changing of thought on the marriage and relationship between men and women and women's social advancement may influence the trend. I conducted to hand out the questionnaire about the marriage, children, partner who become to her husband, and working. Result suggested that over 80 percent of participant desire to marriage and want to have children. In addition, most people expected to keep working after they get married and become a mother. Moreover, the way of marriage also have been changed. Some decades ago, an arranged marriage with the person who is recommended by their each parents is very popular but the number of people who conducted this is decreasing. Instead of this, love matching marriage is popular, especially the young people. In order to do so, many young people think about marriage and their partner by themselves. Especially, it is very important thing to consider the person who can be husband for female. They often worry whether he is destiny person for her and focus on many elements such as, looks or character.

This research investigates the relationship between women's consciousness of housework and the actual state, and how university students think about this, because they are the potential factor of the tide in the future. Some decades ago, it was natural for women in Japan to get married in their young days, and they devoted themselves to housework after they got married. However, nowadays many women even who have children often work outside the home. For this reason, it is difficult for some of them to take responsibility of housework, so the sharing of housework between husband and wife has gradually been in some places these days.

Very few 3rd grade students take Spanish class in Seikei University even though keeping studying is more important than learning efficiently. Also, Learning positively is a key to learn language successfully and to learn for a long period. In this study, I had questionnaire and interview to reveal the learning situation of Spanish in the 3rd grade in Seikei University and their attitude toward the Spanish classes. As a result, 3rd grade students have positive attitude toward the Spanish class, but the second foreign language course system in Seikei University can be improved and Seikei University should review their policy of second foreign language education.