BBL Seminars

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RIETI's periodic Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) seminars welcome an array of guest experts to share their research and views. The sessions encourage lively discussion that contributes to dynamic policy-related debate.
Presently, BBL Seminars are not open to the public as spaces are limited. Select transcripts are available below.

Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries

  • April 18, 2024

    Southeast Asia & Japan – The good, the bad & the ugly

    • Speaker: CHOI Shing Kwok (Director & Chief Executive Officer, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute / Head, ASEAN Studies Centre / Head, Singapore APEC Study Centre)
    • Commentator: AIZAWA Nobuhiro (Professor, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University / Managing Director & Dean of ERIA School of Government)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), RIETI / Chief EBPM Officer / Professor, Otsuma Women's University)

  • April 5, 2024

    How Much of Merit is Due to Luck?

    • Speaker: KOIZUMI Hideto (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior Fellow and Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • March 28, 2024

    China's Post-Bubble Economy

    • Speaker: KWAN Chi Hung (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research)
    • Commentator: ANDO Haruhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Visiting Professor, The University of Electro-Communications)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • March 26, 2024

    RIETI-ERIA Joint Project – "Perspectives on the ASEAN Economy" Series

    ASEAN Prospects from ERIA's Perspective: What role should ERIA and Japan play

    • Speaker: WATANABE Tetsuya (President, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
    • Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman, RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • March 22, 2024

    Occupational Skills and Gender Inequality, and a New RIETI Project on Gender Inequality in Workplaces and Labor Markets

    • Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)
    • Moderator: SOMA Tomoko (Director, Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • March 13, 2024

    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

  • 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

  • March 1, 2024

    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

  • February 22, 2024

    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

  • February 21, 2024

    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