Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries
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March 13, 2024
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
Current Trend of Chinese OEM Going Overseas
- Speaker: Harry NA (Founding partner, Transcapital)
- Commentator: ISHIZAWA Yoshiharu (Deputy Director, Corporate Finance and Tax Affairs Division, SME Agency, METI)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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March 8, 2024
DX Series
The State of the Art in Generative AI for Manga Production: Spring 2024
- Speaker: OZAWA Takahiro (Manga artist / Executive director of The Japan Cartoonists Association)
- Commentator: ETOH Minoru (Professor, Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University)
- Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) / Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics (NII))
Japanese
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March 1, 2024
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
Innovation Implemented by Public-private Co-creation: Challenges of the Regulatory Sandbox and beyond
- Speaker: NAKAHARA Hirohiko (Councillor, Cabinet Secretariat / Former Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Speaker: SHII Taihei (Chief Executive Officer, Startbahn, Inc.)
- Moderator: IKEDA Yoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Secretariat of New Form of Capitalism Realization Headquarters, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan)
Japanese
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February 22, 2024
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
Challenges and Possibilities for Japan as Seen in the IMD World Competitiveness Rankings
- Speaker: TAKATSU Naoshi (Managing Partner, Northeast Asia, IMD)
- Commentator: KAJI Naohiro (Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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February 21, 2024
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
Revitalizing the Local Economy Through Medical Tourism: Towards a high-value, high-profit model
- Speaker: SHIBUYA Kenji (CEO, Medical Excellence JAPAN (MEJ))
- Commentator: HASHIMOTO Taisuke (Director, Healthcare Industries Division, Commerce and Service Industry Policy Group, METI)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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February 15, 2024
RIETI-The 21st Century Public Policy Institute BBL Webinar
Flexible Regional Management: Delivering sustainability over growth
- Speaker: MARUTANI Tomoyasu (Chairman, Secoma Company, Ltd.)
- Commentator: YOSHIMURA Takashi (Director, The 21st Century Public Policy Institute)
- Commentator & Moderator: SATO Katsuhiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Business and Finance, Waseda University)
Japanese
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February 14, 2024
RIETI-EUJC Joint BBL Webinar
The Presence of Europe in a Global Trend of Decarbonization - Lessons from Europe, leading role in energy transition
- Speaker: NAKAJIMA Manabu (Project Director, Energy Research Division, Research and Analysis Department, Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC))
- Speaker: NODA Taichi (Director General, Business Strategy Department, Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC))
- Commentator: TANABE Yasuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Managing Director, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation)
- Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)
Japanese
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February 8, 2024
New Directions in American Economic Statecraft
- Speaker: Mireya SOLIS (Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings)
- Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman, RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
This seminar has been canceled.
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February 7, 2024
RIETI-METI Joint Project - "Economic Security Seminar" Series
Recent US Trends in Economic Security
- Speaker: James L. SCHOFF (Senior Director of the “US-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative” at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA)
- Moderator: NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Principal Director, Office of Economic Security, Minister's Secretariat, METI)
- Presentation (Dr. Schoff) [PDF:777KB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment, Q&A) (YouTube)
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January 25, 2024
DX Series
Unlocking the Voice of the Future: Innovations and Applications of AI Voice Analysis Engines
- Speaker: HASHIMOTO Taiichi (RevComm Inc. Research Director)
- Commentator: SUGINOO Daisuke (Assistant Director, Information Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) / Project Researcher, Institute for Digital Observatory, The University of Tokyo)
Japanese