No.827  May 30, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: SHIMIZU Eiji (Professor, Department of Cognitive Behavioral Physiology and Director, Research Center for Child Mental Development, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine)
Moderator: SEKIZAWA Yoichi (Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator (in charge of Policy History), RIETI)
"Promoting the Mental Health Industry with a Focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy"

New
No.828  June 5, 2013   (with no simultaneous interpretation)
Speaker: Bruce STOKES (Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center)
Moderator: KATASE Hirofumi (Director-General for Trade Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"A Tale of Three Economies: How advanced, emerging and developing markets view the global economy"

New
No.829  June 6, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Yohei (Fellow, RIETI)
"Economic Education: The most powerful growth strategy"

No.830  June 12, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: KINOSHITA Nobuyuki (Executive Director, Bank of Japan)
Moderator: FUKAO Mitsuhiro (Faculty Fellow & Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
"Legal Background to the Low Profitability"

New
No.831  June 14, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow and Program Director, RIETI / Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Speaker: TOKUI Joji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Dean and Professor, Faculty of Economics, Shinshu University)
Moderator: MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
"Did Regional Productivity Differences Shrink in Japan? : An analysis based on the Regional-Level Japan Industrial Productivity Database"

New
No.832  June 20, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: KAGAMI Shigeo (Professor and General Manager, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Division of University Corporate Relations, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: YAMASHIRO Munehisa (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem: Creation of a new open innovation platform"
NOT for quotation

No.826  May 22, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: TATSUMI Takuro (Actor / Advisor to the Commissioner of Japan Tourism Agency / Visiting Professor at Kinki University, Literature and Cultural Studies / Advisor to Japan Association for the United Nations World Food Programme)
Moderator: UENO Toru (Director of International Coordination and Public Relations & Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Does Japan Really Have a Fundamental Strength?"
NOT for quotation

No.825  May 21, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: ISAYAMA Gen (Partner, DCM)
Moderator: MATSUDA Naoko (Fellow, RIETI)
"New Form of Innovation and Venture Ecosystem"

No.824  May 16, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: OYAMA Kazuhisa (Director, Research Office, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Yohei (Fellow, RIETI)
"2013 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan: Dynamic and self-transformative SMEs and micro enterprises"

No.823  May 10, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: TAKAMIZAWA, Nobushige (President, The National Institute for Defense Studies)
Moderator: GOTO Hisanori (Director, Security Export Control Policy Division, Trade Control Department, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)
"Heightened Tension in the East Asian Security Situation and Regional Challenges: Analyses from the East Asian Strategic Review 2013"
NOT for quotation

No.822  May 9, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: ISHII Shogo (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP), International Monetary Fund)
Moderator: KATAOKA Ryuichi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Counsellor, Cabinet Secretariat)
"Global Economy and Financial Markets: Outlook and the challenges ahead"
NOT for quotation

No.821  May 8, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: NISHIDA Hiroshi (Director of Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice)
Moderator: YAMASHIRO Munehisa (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Possibility of Reforming Public Services via Public-Private Partnerships: Outsourcing management of prisons to the private sector as case studies"

No.820  April 25, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: KAMA Kazuaki (Chairman of the Board, IHI Corporation)
Moderator: TAKADA Shuzo (Director, Manufacturing Industries Policy, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
"Recent Business Reform of IHI Corporation and Request for the Government"

No.819  April 18, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Moderator: NASUNO Futoshi (Director for Human Resources Policy, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Changing Japanese Labor Market and Desired Policy Responses"

No.818  April 12, 2013   (with no simultaneous interpretation)
Speaker: MU Rongping (Director, Institute of Policy and Management, The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS))
Moderator: WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Senior Research Adviser and Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Gakushuin University / Adjunct Professor, Yokohama National University / Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
"Innovation-driven Development in China: Strategy, Policy and Practices"

No.817  April 11, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: MORINOBU Shigeki (Professor, Chuo Law School / Senior Research Fellow, the Tokyo Foundation)
Moderator: FUJIKI Toshimitsu (Director, Corporate Affairs Division, METI)
"Japanese Debate on Reduced Consumption Tax Rate"

No.816  April 10, 2013   Japanese
Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)
Moderator: HOSAKA Shin (Director, General Policy Division, Director-General's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
"The Shale Gas Revolution and Energy Security: Message to METI"