OSHIO Kohei (ISHIKAWA Masato Laboratory), a second-year student on the doctoral course at the Graduate School of Information and Communication, won the 12th FOST Newcomer Award at the 18th FOST Award Ceremony (Thursday, March 6, 2025) held by the Foundation for the Fusion Of Science and Technology (abbreviated as FOST), for which Koei Tecmo Holdings President and CEO ERIKAWA Yoichi serves as Chairman.
OSHIO’s comment
This award was given in recognition of the research results of the survey study, Method and Survey of Legal Mind Development Game: Toward the Foundation of New Legal Education in the DX Era to Become a Rational Rule Maker, which I started in 2022 when I was a student on the master’s course at the Graduate School of Law and continue to work on now. In addition, the efforts of my co-researcher, HORIGUCHI Agasa, a graduate of the master’s course at the Graduate School of Law, in relation to legal education, and the guidance and support of Professor OTA Shozo of the School of Law at Meiji University were also comprehensively evaluated, leading to the award.
This research developed and evaluated an educational game based on the DRAAW+C format for the purpose of fostering the legal mind required for young people. This format is based on Thinking Like A Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students (written by Colin Seale, supervised by OTA Shozo, translated by HORIGUCHI Agasa and OSHIO Kohei) and is designed to cultivate legal judgment from multiple perspectives.
In this research, a scenario based on the theme of labor conflict was used, and it was designed to foster a legal mind through experiential and creative development through the process in which players construct coordination proposals. In particular, it was highly evaluated for its transformation of law, which was traditionally viewed as a backward-looking discipline, into a field where students can learn in a forward-looking manner, and for presenting a new form of legal education suitable for the DX era.