No.631  February 23, 2010   Japanese
Speaker: ASAKA Toshimasa (Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Konan University)
Commentator: WATANABE Tetsuya (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Asia and Pacific Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: ITO Koji (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Dynamically Changing Management Strategy of Asia - From China, India and ASEAN through Middle East and Africa -"

No.632  February 24, 2010   Japanese
Speaker: SHIMADA Mina (CEO, ICD Inc. / Clinical Psychologist)
Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
"How should the Manager Address Mental Health Issues: Mental health issues as a human risk"

No.633  February 26, 2010   Japanese
Speaker: SAMBOMMATSU Susumu (President, Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF))
Speaker: OGAWA Toshiaki (Engineering Manager, Space )
Speaker: KOYAMA Hiroshi (General Manager, Office for Space Utilization )
Moderator: KANEKO Shuichi (Director, Space Industry Office, Aerospace and Defense Industry Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
"Improving Competitiveness of the Japanese Satellite Industry through Innovation, Small"

No.630  February 8, 2010   Japanese
Speaker: TAKAMURA Yukari (Professor, Faculty of Law, Ryukoku University)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Legal Issues Relating to an International Climate Regime beyond 2012"

No.629  February 4, 2010  
Speaker: Andrew W. WYCKOFF (Director, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry)
Moderator: NAKAO Yasuhisa (Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"OECD's Innovation Strategy: Developing an Innovation Policy for the 21st Century"
Handout [PDF:1.18MB]

No.628  February 1, 2010   Japanese
Speaker: WAKATSUKI Hideo (Director, Board of Education, Sinagawa City)
Moderator: YAMANE Kei (Policy Evaluation and Public Relations Division, Minister's Secretariat, METI)
"Educational Reform in Shinagawa City"

No.627  January 15, 2010   Japanese
Speaker: HAYASHI Tomoko (Director for Overseas Economies, Cabinet Office)
Commentator: KATAOKA Ryuichi (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: ITO Koji (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Cabinet Office's View on the World Economic Trends: Sustainability of Recovery and Exit Strategy"

No.626  December 18, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna H. Gray Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)
Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
"Work Life Balance: Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations"

No.625  December 10, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: IWANO Kazuo (VP, Future Value Creation Team, IBM Japan, Ltd.)
Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"New World with Cloud Computing -Smarter Planet-"

No.624  December 9, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: OKUMURA Hirokazu (Project Professor, Graduate School of Public Policies, The University of Tokyo)
Speaker: MORIYA Gaku (Deputy Director, Information Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"President Obama's Open Government and its implications to Japan"

No.623  December 4, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: USHIRO Fusao (Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University)
Moderator: MATSUI Shigeki (Director, Economic and Society Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Can Japanese NPO's Deliver Public Services?"

No.622  December 3, 2009  
Speaker: Djisman S. SIMANJUNTAK (Chair, Board of Directors, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Foundation)
Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
"Triggering a Sustaining Acceleration of Indonesia's Economic Growth in a New East Asian Economic Geography"
Handout [PDF:110KB]

No.621  December 2, 2009  
Speaker: Lesley CONNORS (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
"Parliamentary Reform in the UK: lessons for Japan"

No.620  November 30, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Director for Commerce and Distribution Policy, Commerce and Distribution Policy Group, METI)
Speaker: ITOH Hideshi (Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"The Significance of Oliver Williamson's 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics: The Frontier of 'Organizational Economics' and its Possible Use in Real Organizational Analysis"

No.619  November 27, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (Executive Director, IEA)
Moderator: TOJO Yoshiaki (Director, Information Services Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
"World Energy Outlook 2009"
NOT for quotation

No.618  November 26, 2009  
Speaker: Mark Allen COHEN (Of Counsel, Intellectual Property Practice, Beijing Office, Jones Day)
Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"How Japanese Businesses Should Handle China¡Çs Emerging Approach to Antitrust and Intellectual Property"
Handout [PDF:288KB]

No.617  November 19, 2009  
Speaker: Vanessa ROSSI (Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Risk Mitigation Strategies: Deeper role for policy as globalization amplifies impact of world cycles?"
Handout [PDF:394KB]

No.616  November 16, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: HASHIMOTO Hideki (Professor, School of Public Health, the University of Tokyo)
Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
"Equity in Access to Medical / Health Care Services; Report of JSTAR 1st wave"

No.615  November 12, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: SHIMIZU Yoshikazu (Vice-Chief Editorial Writer, The Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun)
Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"China's policy towards Japanese new government and its background"

No.614  November 9, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: SUDA Miyako (Members of the Policy Board, Bank of Japan)
Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
"Japan's Economy and Monetary Policy"
NOT for quotation

No.613  November 2, 2009  
Speaker: Patrick BOLTON (Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Columbia Business School)
Moderator: SHISHIDO Zenichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
"Regulating Shadow Banking"
Handout [PDF:373KB]
Paper 1 (The Credit Ratings Game: NBER Working Paper)[PDF:296KB]
Paper 2 (Outside and Inside Liquidity: NBER Working Paper)
Summary

No.612  October 29, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: ICHIMURA Hidehiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo)
Speaker: SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
"Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement --JSTAR First Results"

No.611  October 27, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: KYOGOKU Takanobu (Director-General, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
"Direction for New Industrial Structure in the Aged Society with Population Decrease"

No.610  October 20, 2009  
Speaker: Thierry APOTEKER (Managing Director, TAC)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"The World Economic Recovery: Navigating between the Positives and Pitfalls"
Handout [PDF:856KB]
TAC's website
Summary

No.609  October 19, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Strategies for Economic Growth of Japan: Implications from Growth Theory and Firm-Level Empirics"

No.608  October 16, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: ARIYOSHI Akira (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, IMF)
Moderator: TOMITA Hideyoshi (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"IMF World Economic Outlook [Autumn 2009]"
NOT for quotation

No.607  September 11, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: TAKAHASHI Toshiki (Director, Overseas Research Department, International Economic Research Division, Japan External Trade Organization, IAA)
Speaker: HIGASHINO Dai (Deputy Director, Overseas Research Department, International Economic Research Division, Japan External Trade Organization, IAA)
Speaker: MIZUNO Ryo (Overseas Research Department, International Economic Research Division, Japan External Trade Organization, IAA)
Moderator: ITO Koji (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"2009 JETRO White Paper on International Trade and Investment--A Global Strategy for Japanese Companies Seeking New Growth in the Green Economy"

No.606  September 9, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Is the Minimum Wage Effective Anti-Poverty Policy?"

No.605  August 21, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: YAGI Nobuyuki (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"WTO Doha Round Negotiation and Sustainability on Fisheries Resources"

No.604  August 18, 2009  
Speaker: Rene BELDERBOS (Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Does Excellence in Academic Research Attract Foreign R"
Handout [PDF:358KB]
Summary

No.603  August 13, 2009  
Speaker: Biswa BHATTACHARYAY (Special Adviser to Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))
Speaker: Prabir DE (Visiting Researcher, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Global Financial and Economic Crisis and Asia's Trade Potential"
Summary

No.602  August 4, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: NAKAO Takehiko (Director-General, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
"International Financial Crisis and Global Responses: Implications on Theories of Economic Policies"

No.601  August 3, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: HOSOYA Yuji (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Analyst for Regional Policy, Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Group, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Commentator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Professor, Management Science )
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (Managing Executive Officer, Micro Business and Individual Unit, Japan Finance Corporation)
"Future Challenges in Industrial Cluster Policy - Drawing upon trends in Europe"

No.600  July 29, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Yasuhisa (President and CEO, Intellectual Properties Development )
Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"IP Fund: Evaluation, Development and Investment of Intellectual Properties in Japan"

No.599  July 24, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: IMAGAWA Takuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director for Information Economics, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC))
Speaker: SAEKI Chigusa (Deputy Director for Information Economics, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC))
Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"WHITE PAPER 2009 - Information and Communications in Japan"

No.598  July 23, 2009  
Speaker: Rob STEELE (ISO Secretary-General)
Moderator: NAGANO Juichi (Director, International Standards Strategy, Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity Assessment Policy Unit, METI)
"ISO, Its Current and Future Work and Examples of Where Standards Assist Trade and Sustainable Development"
Handout [PDF:2.85MB]
Summary

No.597  July 13, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: MATSUI Takeshi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
Speaker: MIHARA Ryotaro (Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"The Case Analysis of Japanese Comics (Manga) and Anime Market in North America"

No.596  July 10, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: NAKAGAWA Keiichi (Associate Professor, Department of Radiology / Director, Department of Palliative Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital)
Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
"Secrets of Cancer -How to avoid cancer death-"

No.595  July 7, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Director, Corporate System Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Speaker: OSAKI Sadakazu (Head of Research Center for Knowledge Exchange )
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"TOB Rule in UK and Implication for Japanese TOB Rule"

No.594  July 6, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: Saori N. KATADA (Associate Professor, School of International Relations, University of Southern California)
Commentator & Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
"Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim"

No.593  June 30, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: SABURI Masataka (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Speaker: ITO Koji (Deputy Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI / Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
Speaker: TAKASHIO Yoshiyuk (Deputy Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2009"

No.592  June 25, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: KIMURA Yukio (Manager, Innovation Architect, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Speaker: OHNO Kazuo (Director, Research Planning and Management, International Media Research Foundation)
Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"The Creation Strategy of Academic startups in Japan -Focused on AIST Startups-"

No.591  June 24, 2009  
Speaker: Paul SCALISE (Fellow, Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (Temple University Japan Campus) / Adjunct Professor, Sophia University)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Whatever Happened to Japan's Energy Deregulation?"
Summary

No.590  June 22, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: YASHIRO Naohiro (Professor of Economics, the College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University)
Commentator: NAKATA Daigo (Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Understanding the final report of the Council on Social Security"

No.589  June 19, 2009  
Speaker: David R. YOUNG (Founder and Chairman, Oxford Analytica)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Death of the Common Good and the Changing Role of Leadership"
Summary

No.588  June 18, 2009  
Speaker: Yuki Allyson HONJO (Japanese Equity Analyst / Senior Vice President, Fox-Pitt Kelton (Asia))
Moderator: OKUMURA Jun (Counselor, Eurasia Group)
"The Japanese Consumer Finance Industry: A study in re-regulation"
NOT for quotation
Summary

No.587  June 16, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: HAMASAKI Hiroshi (Senior Associate, Economic Research Centre, Fujitsu Research Institute (FRI) / Visiting Fellow, Centre for International Public Policy Studies (CIPPS))
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"International Framework beyond the Kyoto Protocol"

No.586  June 12, 2009  
Speaker: David LIEBERMAN (Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley)
Commentator: SHISHIDO Zenichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University)
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"The Challenge of Codification in English Legal History"
Handout [PDF:83KB]
Summary

No.585  June 11, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: MAEDA Yoji (Partner, O'Melveny )
Speaker: KUROSAWA Yukie (Counsel, O'Melveny )
Speaker: ISHIKAWA Kazuhiro (Director, Legal Group, Planning and Administration Department, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance)
Moderator: KONNO Hidehiro (Chairman and CEO, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance)
"International Bribery: Lessons from Siemens cases"

No.584  June 8, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: MIZUMACHI Yuichiro (Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"A New Model of Labor and Employment Law Reform"

No.583  June 5, 2009  
Speaker: Dan HJALMARSSON (Director General, Growth Analysis (Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis))
Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Regional Response to a Global Recession -- What we can learn from the case of Umea"
Handout [PDF:771KB]

No.582  May 29, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: ARIYOSHI Akira (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, IMF)
Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"IMF World Economic Outlook [Spring 2009]"
NOT for quotation

No.581  May 26, 2009  
Speaker: Franklin ALLEN (Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
Moderator: SUGA Chizuru (Deputy Director, Trade and Investment Facilitation Division, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)
"The Financial Crisis and Corporate Governance"
Handout[PDF:339KB]
Summary

No.580  May 19, 2009  
Speaker: Dirk PILAT (Head, Structural Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology )
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"The Impact of the Crisis on Innovation and Long-term Growth: Evidence, Implications and Policy Responses"
Handout [PDF:418KB]
Presentation [PDF:221KB]
Summary

No.579  May 13, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: INOUE Seiichiro (Deputy Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises 2009"

No.578  May 12, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: ISHIKAWA Jun (Planning Director, Research Networking Department, Research Planning )
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"3 Years of Surprises at Todai: Strategic PR without PR Strategy"

No.577  May 8, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: HATTORI Shinji (Visiting Fellow, the Nippon Agricultural Research Institute)
Commentator & Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Department of Law, Sophia University)
"US 2008 Farm Bill - The Congress Stance and the Administration's Stance -\""

No.576  May 7, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: SAITO Jun (Research Fellow, RCAST, the University of Tokyo)
Commentator: CHUMA Hiroyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research)
Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"Why are Japanese Firms Not Good at Inter-firm Collaboration?: An Introduction to Partnership, Old-and-New or the Fourth Economic Entity"

No.575  April 28, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: ODA Akira (President, the National University Corporation Wakayama University)
Moderator: KISHIMOTO Yoshio (Director, Business Support Division, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
"The Foundation and Outlines of the Faculty of Tourism in Wakayama University"

No.574  April 22, 2009  
Speaker: Jacques MISTRAL (Head, Economic Research, the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI))
Moderator: AKAHOSHI Yasushi (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"'The Third American Revolution' and Its International Consequences"
NOT for quotation
Summary

No.573  April 17, 2009   Japanese
Speaker: FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Speaker: MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"Japan Industrial Productivity (JIP) Database 2009"