Furthermore, a number of research seminars and workshops in specific fields of law and political science are held regularly. These include seminars on topics relating to public law, civil law, labor law, economic law, criminal law, jurisprudence, and political science. Graduate students and research associates play a significant role in these seminars. The number of undergraduate students enrolled in 1998 was 1,109, including five foreign students. Most graduates enter either major private companies or the public service at the national or local level.
Some students proceed to the legal profession and a number go on to graduate schools.
Also, by the School of Law's International Exchange Fund, special scholarships are available for a few undergraduate students who plan to study at Taiwan National University or Jirin University in China, and for a graduate student who plans to study at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Seventy graduate students were enrolled as of July 1998 in the master's program, and 46 in the doctoral program. There were eighteen foreign graduate students and researchers. The School of Law has a good library, with about 82,000 volumes in Japanese, and about 145,000 in foreign languages. Periodicals, including law reports and other important journals, which the Faculty subscribes to include more than 600 titles issued in Japan and more than 400 from foreign countries.