Past BBL Reports and Summaries
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March 28, 2002
Can Diversified Businesses Survive?
- YAMAMOTO Kazumoto (President, Asahi Kasei Corporation)
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March 27, 2002
University-Industry Collaboration-A Challenge by Hiroshima University
- Speaker: ANDO Tadao (Professor, Graduate School of Biosphere Sciences, Hiroshima University)
- Moderator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Fellow, RIETI)
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March 22, 2002
From Mold to High-detected CO sensor-If Winter Comes, Can Spring be Far Behind?
- SAKAGUCHI Masaaki (CEO, Sakaguchi Giken Co.,Ltd)
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March 15, 2002
IT Strategy and Regulatory Reform
- Speaker: SUZUKI Koichi (President, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.)
- Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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March 13, 2002
Can Embedded Liberalism Survive the Challenges of the 21st Century?-What Markets Need in Order to Work Properly.
- John H. JACKSON (Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center)
- Summary (Japanese)
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March 8, 2002
Competitiveness Originated in a Working Field
- OGASAWARA Norio (President, Ohtsuki Seiko Co.,Ltd.)
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March 6, 2002
Diversification of Female Workforce and the Falling Birth Rate
- FUJII Ryuko (Information Disclosure Review Board, Cabinet Office)
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March 1, 2002
Japan's Aging Society -From the latest Future Population Estimate-
- TAKAHASHI Shigesato (Director, Population Dynamics Research Department, National Institution of Population and Social Security Research)
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February 27, 2002
Work Sharing: Towards Structure Reform of Work and Life
- HIGUCHI Yoshio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Keio University)
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February 22, 2002
The Wave of Three Dimensions - a scenario for revival of Manufacturing Industries
- AKIYAMA Masahiro (CEO, ARMONICOS Co.,Ltd)
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February 21, 2002
Redefining Foreign Assistance and US-Japan Cooperation in Economic and Humanitarian and Development
- Patrick CRONIN (Assistant Administrator, U.S Agency for International Development)
- James CLAD (Professor, Georgetown University)
- Summary (Japanese)
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February 15, 2002
Entertainment Industry Integration Strategies
- Cynthia MEYER (Lecturer, Department of Film, Video & Broadcasting, NYU)
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February 12, 2002
The Divided China Problem
- Ramon H. MYERS (Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution)
- Summary (Japanese)
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February 8, 2002
Revisit of Smithers: Japan's Structural Demand and Debt Problem
- Andrew SMITHERS (Chairman, Smithers & Co.)
- Handouts [PDF: 49KB]
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February 7, 2002
IPv6: Myth & Reality
- Speaker: YAMADA Hajime (Professor, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan)
- Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
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February 1, 2002
Assessing Today's Supplies to Fuel Tomorrow's Growth: Implications of Global Energy Supply Outlook
- Fatih BRIOL (Economic Analysis Division Head, International Energy Agency)
- Handouts [PDF: 993KB]
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January 30, 2002
Future Direction for Banks' Independent Management --Clean up of Banks' Mess--
- KAWAMOTO Yuko (Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company, Inc Japan)
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January 29, 2002
Development of High-Tech Industry in China
- LIU Xielin (Deputy Director, Research Center for the Promotion of Science and Technology Development, The Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R China)
- ZHANG Fengtong (Deputy Director, Science and Technology Development Division (TLO), Tsinghua University)
- WANG Juanhua (Secretary-General, the Association for the Promotion of Non-Governmental Science and Technology, China)
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January 28, 2002
How to Deal with Bankrupt Banks: US-Japan Comparison
- TAKATSUKI Akitoshi (Professor, Meikai University)
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January 25, 2002
Where Do We Go from Here? -- Post-Doha Challenges for Trade Negotiators
- Amelia PORGES (Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy)
- Andrew SHOYER (Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy)
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January 24, 2002
High Technology of Wireless Communication: SDR(Wireless Software) and UWB (Ultra Wide Band)
- KOHNO Ryuji (Professor, Yokohama National University)
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January 23, 2002
Understanding Tomorrow's Japan from the Inside Out
- Speaker: Gregory F. TREVERTON (Senior Policy Analysis, RAND)
- Moderator: KITANO Mitsuru (Visiting Senior Fellow, RIETI / Director, Loan Aid Division, Economic Cooperation Bureau, MOFA)
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January 21, 2002
US-Japan Relations and 9-11: Taking Stock of US-Japan Security and Economic Relations
- Steven C. CLEMONS (Executive Vice President, New America Foundation)
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January 18, 2002
EU Enlargement, European Unification and Structure Reform - Point of View from Germany
- TEZUKA Kazuaki (Professor, Chiba University)
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January 17, 2002
Environment Facilitation for Growing NPO Activities
- Speaker: OHTAKE Kenichiro (Director-General, the Tax Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
- Commentator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
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January 15, 2002
The Information Technology Industries and the U.S. Economy
- Speaker: Dale JORGENSON (Professor, Harvard University)
- Commentator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI )
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January 11, 2002
Trade Capacity Building
- Bill DYMOND (Director, Centre for Trade Policy and Law)
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January 9, 2002
Japan in the Process of Institutional Transformation
- AOKI Masahiko (President, RIETI)
- Summary (Japanese)
- Handouts [PDF: 104KB]
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December 20, 2001
Struggling Forward: China Comes Up
- FAN Gang (National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation)
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December 12, 2001
Japan's Financial System in the Future
- HOSHI Takeo (Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego)
- Commentator: KAWAMOTO Yuko (Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company, Inc., Japan)
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December 6, 2001
Beyond Bilateralism: Japanese and U.S. Cooperation and Conflict in Multilateral Asia
- T. J. PEMPEL (Professor,University of California)
- Ellis KRAUSS (Professor,University of California)
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November 8, 2001
A Comparison of Venture and IT Industries in Korea and Japan
- Speaker: YOO Soo Hong (Research Director, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
- Commentator: FUKAGAWA Yukiko (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
- Summary [PDF: 16KB]
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November 6, 2001
Can FDI Raise Japan's Growth Rate?
- Robert FAUVER (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
- Summary [PDF: 18KB]
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October 15, 2001
No More Bashing: Building a New Japan-United States Economic Relationship
- C. Fred BERGSTEN (Director, Institute for International Economics)
- Marcus NOLAND (Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics)
- ITO Takatoshi (Professor, Hitotsubashi University)
- Summary [PDF: 23KB]
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October 10, 2001
The Next Billion
- James MORGAN (Chairman and CEO, Applied Materials)
- Summary [PDF: 15KB]
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October 5, 2001
The Global Strategy of Saint Gobain: Experiences of a French Global Company
- Jean-Louis BEFFA (Chairman and CEO, the Saint-Gobain Group)
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September 6, 2001
Singapore's RTA Strategy
- Linda LOW (Associate Professor of National University of Singapore)
- Summary [PDF: 13KB]
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August 30, 2001
Into the Response Quadrant: Koizumi and the CRIC Cycle
- Robert Alan FELDMAN (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Japan)
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August 27, 2001
Japan's Structural Demand and Debt Problem
- Andrew SMITHERS (Chairman, Smithers & Co.)
- Summary [PDF: 15KB]
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July 17, 2001
Challenges for the US and Japan in the Regional Economy
- Jane SKANDERUP (Pacific Forum CSIS)
- Summary [PDF: 21KB]
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July 10, 2001
The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance
- SOEYA Yoshihide (Faculty Fellow, RIETI; Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University)
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July 4, 2001
Comments on Our Experience in Japan
- Jean-Christophe GOARIN (CEO, Carrefour Japan)
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June 25, 2001
The Place of India in the Reconfiguring of US Policy in Asia
- James CLAD (Professor, Georgetown University)
- Summary [PDF: 23KB]
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June 18, 2001
The Role of Graduate Schools in American Innovation System
- Speaker: Nathan ROSENBERG (Professor, Stanford University)
- Commentator: KODAMA Fumio (University of Tokyo, Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
- Summary [PDF: 36KB]
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June 8, 2001
The Secret to Uniqlo's Overwhelming Success and Japan's Textile Industry
- Speaker: YANAI Tadashi (Fast Retailing Co.)
- Commentator: TSUKIIZUMI Hiroshi (Seeds Co., Ltd.)
- Summary [PDF: 31KB]
- Speaker: YANAI Tadashi (Fast Retailing Co.)
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June 1, 2001
Bush Administration's Asia policy
- OKIMOTO Dan (Professor, Stanford University)
- Summary [PDF: 24KB]
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May 30, 2001
Ethical Investment for Pension Funds---Overview of the Swiss Market and of the Evaluation Methods of Zurcher Kantonalbank
- Sabine DOEBELI (Head of Environmental and Social Research, Zurich Kantonalbank)
- Summary [PDF: 22KB]
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May 24, 2001
The New US-Japan Relationship: Security and Economy.
- Ralph A. COSSA (President, Pacific Forum, CSIS)
- Jane Skanderup (Assistant Director for Programs and Development, Pacific Forum, CSIS)
- Summary [PDF: 31KB]
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May 21, 2001
FDI: INDISPENSABLE ALLY OF REFORM
- Richard KATZ (Senior Editor, The Oriental Economist)
- Summary [PDF: 39KB]
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May 14, 2001
US Foreign Policy toward East Asia
- MOCHIZUKI Mike (Professor, George Washington University)
- Summary [PDF: 34KB]
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April 20, 2001
Innovation and Reward Conributing to a Healthy Economy
- Antony A. BUTLER (PhRMA)
- Summary [PDF: 15KB]
- Material
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April 6, 2001
Survey Results on the Influence of University Research on Industrial R&D
- John WALSH (Associate Professor, Illinois University)
- Summary [PDF: 22KB]
