No.174 March 27, 2003 Japanese
FUJIHARA Kazuhiro (Former Fellow, Recruit Co., Ltd. / Senior Counselor, Suginami)
"The Future of Education as Revealed Through 'Yononaka' Study"

No.173 March 20, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: SAKAI Keiko (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)
Moderator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Vice President / Senior Fellow)
"Current Iraq Situation"
Summary

No.172 March 19, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: YUMOTO Yukiko (Sun Microsystems)
Moderator: IZUMIDA Hirohiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow)
Commentator: MURAKAMI Keisuke (Deputy Director, Information Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
SATO Ichiro (National Institute of Informatics)
"The Outline of Auto-ID and the Recent Development of Auto-ID Center"

No.171 March 17, 2003 
Andrew W. SHOYER (Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP)
Amelia PORGES (Counsel, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP)
"WTO Trade Negotiations in the 'Doha Round' - Key Decisions Ahead"
Summary
Paper [PDF: 1.1MB]

No.170 March 13, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: AZUMA Hiroki (Part-time Lecturer, Keio University)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"A Post-modern View of Social Order in the Information Age"

No.169 March 11, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: TANAKA Yoshihiro (Founder and President, FuuUn & Rivals, Ltd. / Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"U.S. and Japanese Communications Policy: A Turning Point"

No.168 February 28, 2003 
Fatih BIROL (Head, Economic Analysis Division, IEA)
"World Energy Outlook-2002: Key Strategic Challenges"
Summary
Handouts [PDF: 1.8MB]

No.167 February 26, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: KOSHI Junichiro (President, Sigma Solutions / Venture Capitalist)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)
"Common Challenge across Private Equity Investment and Corporate Tunaround; A Message to new Decade of Revitalizing Japan"

No.166 February 25, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: IGARASHI Shingo (General Manager, UFJ High-Tech Venture Development Foundation)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)
"Cutting-edge of Zero-stage Venture Start-ups in Japan"

No.165 February 18, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: HIRAO Seiji (General Manager, Rugby Football Club "Steerlers", Kobe Steel, Ltd. / Former Coach, Rugby All Japan Team)
Moderator: HIROSE Ichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Commentator: SANO Tadakatsu (Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
""Limitation of Japanese-style Management from an Athlete's Perspective - Developing New Human Capital and Institutions""

No.164 February 6, 2003 
Speaker: Robert BOYER (Professor, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives d'Economie Mathematique Appliquees a la Planification)
Moderator: KATSUNO Masahiro (Manager, International Affairs, RIETI)
"Asian Integration: What can be learnt from the European Union?"
Summary
Summary (Japanese translation)

No.163 January 31, 2003 
Richard BALDWIN (Professor, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva)
"Prospects and Problems for East Asian Regionalism: A comparison with Europe"
Summary

No.162 January 24, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, The University of Shimane)
Moderator: SUNAMI Atsushi (Fellow, RIETI)
"The Current State of Industry-University-Government Collaboration in Asia, and the Response of Japanese Local Communities"

No.161 January 22, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: TARUMI Hideo (Secretary-General, Interchange Association in Taipei)
Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Cross-Straits Issues between China and Chinese Taipei"

No.160 January 20, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: C. H. KWAN (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator / Commentator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Will the Chinese Yuan Appreciate?"

No.159 January 17, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: FUJIKI Toru (Director / Manager, Human Resources Department, Shimadzu Corporation)
Moderator: FUJIMOTO Masayo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Lecturer, Faculty of letters, Doshisha University)
"Business Environment and Managing Issues of Shimadzu Corporation"

No.158 December 25, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: YASUMOTO Akinobu (Senior Counselor, Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute)
Moderator: KONNO Hidehiro (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
"Considering the Second Commitment Period of Kyoto Protocol - Institutional Design for Climate Change Mitigation"

No.157 December 20, 2002 
Speaker: Richard A. CHRISTENSON (Charge' d'Affaires ad interim, Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy Tokyo)
TAKANARITA Toru (Editorial Writer, Asahi Shimbun)
Scott SNYDER (Korea Representative, The Asia Foundation)
Moderator: Michael YOO (RIETI Research Associate)
"New President of ROK and the future of North Korea"

No.156 December 13, 2002 
Speaker: Lawrence LESSIG (Professor, Stanford Law School)
Robert BERGER (Visiting Research Fellow, GLOCOM, International University of Japan)
MURAI Jun (Professor, Keio University)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Open Spectrum"
Summary

No.154 December 3, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: YOSHIDA Nozomu (President, nozomu.net)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"What's Going to Happen to the Japan's Digital TV Policy?"

No.153 November 27, 2002 
Curtis J. MILHAUPT (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Fuyo Professor of Law, Columbia Law School)
"Is the Japanese Bureaucracy Hollowing Out?"
Handouts [PDF: 742KB]

No.152 November 26, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: ISHIWATARI Shinsuke (Attorney at Law)
Moderator: SHIBUKAWA Shuichi (RIETI Staff)
"A Viewpoint of the Sports Lawyer from the Field"

No.151 November 22, 2002 
Henry R.NAU (Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University)
"Can America Feel at Home in Asia?"
Summary
Summary (Japanese translation)
Handouts [PDF: 18.4KB]

No.150 November 15, 2002 Japanese
FUJIWARA Mikiko (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
"Japan's Declining Birthrate and its Effect on the Economy"

No.149 November 12, 2002 
Speaker: Robert DUJARRIC (Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"The future of the balance of power in East Asia: Will Japan rise and China decline?"
Summary
Handouts [PDF: 48KB]

No.148 November 11, 2002 
Brink LINDSEY (CATO)
"Antidumping Negotiations in the 'Doha Round': Strategy and Tactics"
Summary

No.147 November 6, 2002 Japanese
NONOMIYA Hiroshi (Managing Director, Ripplewood Japan, Inc)
"The Reform of Japanese Companies and Private Equity Fund"

No.146 November 5, 2002 Japanese
TAJIMA Masami (President, Franchise Advantage Inc.)
"The Future Possibilities and Challenges of the Franchise Paradigm Shift"

No.145 October 31, 2002 
Gregory F. TREVERTON (Senior Fellow, Pacific Council on International Policy)
Andrew OROS (Japan Task Force manager, Pacific Council on International Policy)
"Can Japan Come Back?"
Summary

No.144 October 30, 2002 
Speaker: Karen SHIRE (Professor of Sociology, Gerhard-Mercator Universitaet Duisburg, Germany / Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo)
Moderator: Gregory JACKSON (Fellow, RIETI)
"The Transformation of Work Organization, Skill Formation and Employment Relations in Knowledge-intensive Work: a Comparative View"
Summary

No.143 October 29, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: OGAWA Mitsuo (Director, IBM Business Consulting Service)
Moderator: HOSOKAWA Masahiko (Director, Trade Control Department, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI / Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
"Title: TBA"

No.142 October 25, 2002 
Speaker: Bradford L. SMITH (Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft)
Lawrence LESSIG (Professor, Stanford Law School)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Intellectual Property Rights of Software and Open Source"
Summary
Handouts [PDF: 470KB]

No.141 October 22, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: C. H. KWAN (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Commentator: SHEN Caibin (Director, China Center for Economy, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute)
Moderator: SUNAMI Atsushi (Fellow, RIETI)
"A New Introduction to the Chinese Economy for Japanese"

No.140 October 21, 2002 Japanese
KAWAMOTO Yuko (Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company, Inc.)
"Financial Conditions of Four Public Roads Administrations"

No.139 October 18, 2002 
Speaker: Tom ROBERTSON (Associate General Counsel, Law and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation)
Moderator: SAGARA Nozomi (Fellow, RIETI)
"Intellectual Property Rights Protection in China: Progress and Challenges"
Handouts [PDF: 52KB]

No.138 October 17, 2002 
Speaker: Ed LINCOLN (Senior Research Fellow, Brookings Institute)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"The Possible War on Iraq and U.S.-Japan Relations"
Summary

No.137 October 15, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
FUJIWARA Hirotaka (Attorney at Law)
EZAKI Yoshihide (Deputy Director, Information Policy Division, METI)
Moderator: YASUNOBE Shin (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
"Privacy-Protection Bill and the Internet"

No.136 October 11, 2002 
William F. MILLER (Professor, Stanford University)
"Globalism, Regionalism, and the New Economic Geography"
Summary
Handouts [PDF: 2MB]

No.135 October 10, 2002 
Ian BREMMER (President, Eurasia Group)
"US Foreign Policy After 11 September"
Summary

No.134 October 8, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: HIROSE Ichiro (Sports Producer)
Moderator: SHIBUKAWA Shuichi (Research Staff, RIETI)
"DO Sports Promotion: Solutions through IT to social needs and problem solving"

No.133 October 7, 2002 Japanese
HARAYAMA Shigeaki (Chief Scientific Adviser, Biotechnology Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation)
"Technical Development and Technology Transfer in Biotechnology: Points at Issue"

No.132 October 2, 2002 Japanese
TAKANARITA Toru (Editorial Writer, Asahi Shimbun)
"The United States and the Rest of the World, One Year on from the Simultaneous Terrorist Attacks"

No.131 September 30, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: HIRAIWA Shunji (Associate Professor, University of Shizuoka)
Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"How to Perceive the First Summit Meeting between Japan and North Korea and the Future Plan"

No.130 September 18, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: Robert F. GRONDINE (ACCJ Chairman, WHITE & CASE LLP Partner)
Moderator: AKAISHI Koichi (Fellow, RIETI)
"What We All Can Learn from Enron"
Summary

No.129 September 13, 2002 Japanese
ASANUMA Susumu (President, Asanuma Giken Co., Ltd.)
"Ways of Prosperity: Measuring Business"

No.128 September 11, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: OTAKI Yoshihiro (President, Biofrontier Partners, Inc.)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)
"The Cutting Edge in Value Creation of Bio-tech Ventures in Japan"

No.127 September 10, 2002 
Andrew PINDER (e-Envoy, Office of e-Envoy, British Government)
"UK: From e.government to e.transformation"
Handouts [PDF: 123KB]

No.126 September 6, 2002 
Speaker: Kenneth QUINONES (Korean Peninsula Program Director, American Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific)
Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Is Kim Jong Il Becoming a Dove?"
Summary

No.125 September 6, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: HAYASHI Hiroaki (President, Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: KISHIMOTO Shuhei (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Treasury Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
"Comedy Business of the 21st Century"

No.124 September 5, 2002 
Robert FAUVER (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / President, Fauver Associates)
"Shock Therapy: How Closer US-Japan Ties can Help the Japanese Economy"
Question and Answer Session
Handouts [PDF: 43KB]

No.123 September 3, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: YOKOE Kumi (President, VOTE Japan)
Moderator: SAGARA Nosomi (Fellow, RIETI)
"Challenge for e-Democracy"

No.122 July 31, 2002 Japanese
Speakers: NAKAMACHI Akihito (Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati)
TANAHASHI Hajime (Partner, Mori Sogo Law Offices)
HATA Nobuyuki (Professor, Kokugakuin University / Former Visiting Professor, Stanford University)
FUKUGAWA Tetsuya (Warburg Pincus Japan)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Cabinet Office)
"Special BBL "Current Status and Prospects of Venture Financing in Japan-US""

No.121 July 30, 2002 Japanese
MORINOBU Shigeki (Exective Vice President, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance)
"Current Situation and Issues Surrounding the Japanese Tax System"

No.120 July 29, 2002 Japanese
YOKOYAMA Yoshinori (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Affluent Decline of Japan"

No.119 July 24, 2002 Japanese
Speaker: TSUKAGOSHI Masanobu (Representative Director, incTANK Japan, Inc.)
Moderator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Tohoku University)
"Entrepreneurship and Venture Start up for Science and Engineering Students"

No.118 July 23, 2002 
Speaker: SHIGEHARA Kumiharu (Head, International Economic Policy Studies Group / Former Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"Developments in International Economic Policy Co-operation and Japan's Tasks"
Summary
Summary (Japanese)
Handouts [PDF: 56.5KB]

No.117 July 19, 2002 Japanese
KODAMA Toshihiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Industry-University Cooperation at TAMA (Technology Advanced Metropolitan Area) -- A Practical Case of Regional Industry-University Cooperation"

No.116 July 17, 2002 
Speaker: KITAZAWA Yoko ( President, Japan Network on Debt and Poverty)
Moderator: WATANABE Hiroyoshi (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Current Situation of Anti-globalization: From Seattle to Porto Alegre"

No.115 July 12, 2002 
Speaker: E. Anthony ZALOOM (Senior Counsel, Mori Sogo Law Offices)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"Japanese Corporate Governance: Moving in the Right Direction or Dead in the Water?"
Summary

No.114 July 9, 2002 
TORIYA Hiroshi (President, Lattice Technology, Inc.)
"The Reality of an IT Venture Establishment"

No.113 July 5, 2002 
Speaker: KOBATA Hiroshi (President, Atabok)
Moderator: AKAISHI Koichi (Fellow, RIETI)
"A Japanese Businessman 'Reverse Imports' a Venture Company"

No.112 July 2, 2002 
Speaker: TANABE Eiji (President, AET Japan)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko(Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)
"Community and Entrepreneurialship -Another Point of View: Learn from Silicon Valley-"

No.111 June 27, 2002 
Speaker: Dewayne HENDRICKS (FCC Technical Advisory Committee)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Are the Tools the Rules?: The Future of the Digital Commons"
Handouts [PDF: 506KB]

No.110 June 26, 2002 
SAWA Akihiro (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Environmental Policy Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
"Kyoto Protocol Ratification and the Future"

No.109 June 25, 2002 
Chris BOWMAN (Executive Director, Serco Group)
"Applying Overseas Competition Models to the Public Sector in Japan--Private Risk for Public Service"
Summary

No.108 June 19, 2002 
IBUKA Makoto (President, TAMA TLO)
"Industry-University-Government Cooperation and the role of TLO"

No.107 June 18, 2002 
OKAMOTO Tsuyoshi (President & CEO, Okamoto Glass Co., Ltd.)
"A Back-Street Factory: Strategies of World Domination"

No.106 June 14, 2002 
NAKABAYSHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"Introduction of US Budget Formation Process by Congress --Including Latest Trend--"

No.105 June 12, 2002 
Eugene A. MATTHEWS (Senior Fellow, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations)
"Why Japan will Excel in the Financial Services Industry"
Summary

No.104 June 11, 2002 
Marcus NOLAND (Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics)
"Korea: Challenge and Opportunity for Japan"
Summary
Handout 1 [PDF: 28KB]
Handout 2 [PDF: 17KB]

No.103 June 6, 2002 
Rudolph PENNER (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute)
Eugene STEUERLE (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute)
"Public Finance Lessons from the US"
Summary
Summary (Japanese)

No.102 June 5, 2002 
Speaker: WANG Luolin (Vice President, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Commentator: YU Yonding (Director, Institute of World Economics & Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Moderator: AOKI Masahiko (President, RIETI / Professor, Stanford University)
"Analyses of and Prospects for Chinese Macro-Economic affairs"

No.101 June 4, 2002 
Speaker: David FARBER (Professor, University of Pennsylvania)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"A Technologist View of Washington DC and the FCC"
Summary

No.100 June 3, 2002 
Richard CABORN (Minister of Sport, United Kingdom)
Tim MORRIS (Trade Policy Counsellor, British Embassy)
"Politicians and Government Officials in the UK: How They Work Together"

No.99 May 29, 2002 
Speaker: HAYASHI Koichiro (Professor, Institute for Media and Communications Research, Keio University/Senior Research Fellow, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Suihei Bunri Issue in Network/Telecom Industries"

No.98 May 28, 2002 
KOMIYA Kazuyoshi (President, Komiya Consultants)
"Can Japan's Small and Medium Enterprises be Salvaged?"

No.97 May 27, 2002 
Richard KATZ (Senior Editor, The oriental Economic Report)
"Japanese Phoenix -- The Long Road to Economic Revival"
Summary
Ref.1 [PDF: 45KB]
Ref.2 [PDF: 36KB]

No.96 May 24, 2002 
Steve CLIFT (Minnesota e-democracy)
"What is e-democracy?: Learn from the US Case"
Summary

No.95 May 24, 2002 
HORI Nobuo (President, Sanjo Seiki Co. Ltd.)
"What is Happening to the Japanese Mold Industry"

No.94 May 17, 2002 
Speaker: MURAGUCHI Kazutaka (Top Venture Capitalist)
Speaker: HAYASHI Motonori (CEO, Trinity Communication Inc)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)
"Current Status of and Prospects for Japanese Ventures - Value Creation by Spin off from Large Manufacturers"

No.93 May 15, 2002 
ISOGAI Keisuke (Director, Office of Technology Transfer Promotion, MEXT)
HARAYAMA Yuko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Professor, Tohoku University)
"Strategy on University-Industry (Government) Cooperation"

No.92 May 14, 2002 
YASUDA Takehiko (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Research Office, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
"White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan, Year 2002"

No.91 May 9, 2002 
Speaker: SONG Ruhua (CEO, Top Group)
Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Northeast Asia Office, Trade Policy Bureau METI)
"Emerging IT Industry and Business Opportunities in China"

No.90 May 8, 2002 
Norman MYERS (Honorary Visiting Fellow, Green College, Oxford University)
"Our Environmental Prospects: Problems and Opportunities"
Material [PDF: 810KB]

No.89 April 12, 2002 
FUKAGAWA Yukiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
"Economic Integration in North-East Asia: Strategic Interest and Remaining Tasks for Japan"

No.88 April 5, 2002 
Speaker: MENG Jianjun (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Senior Fellow, Qing Hua University Center for China Studies)
Moderator: C. H. KWAN (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"The Challenge of China--Employment and Unemployment"
Summary

No.87 April 3, 2002 
Frederic JENNY (Vice Chairman, Conseil de la concurrence)
"Will There Be an Explicit Consensus?-WTO and the Competition Rules"
Summary

No.86 April 2, 2002 
YANAI Shunji (The Former Japanese Ambassador to the United States)
"Japan and the U.S. after 9.11 -- Security and Economic Development"