No.244 March 29, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: WATANABE Tsuneo (Senior Fellow, Office of the Japan Chair, CSIS)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"U.S. Presidential Election and the Future of Security and Foreign Policy"

No.243 March 25, 2004 
Speaker: Hugh PATRICK (Professor, Columbia University)
Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of School of Social Sciences, Waseda University)
"Thoughts on Japanese Corporate Governance"

No.242 March 23, 2004 
Speaker: Hadi SOESASTRO (Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies of Jakarta, Indonesia)
Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of School of Social Sciences, Waseda University)
"Regional Integration in East Asia: ASEAN's View"

No.241 March 17, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: ENDO Tetsuya (Former Vice Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of Japan)
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Current Situation in DPRK and its Nuclear Problems"
Transcript

No.240 March 16, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: ISOGAI Keisuke (Director, Earthquake Research Division, Research and Development Bureau, MEXT)
Speaker and Moderator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Tohoku University)
"University-Industry Collaboration as a Driving Force of University Reform?"

No.239 March 8, 2004 
Speaker: Clyde PRESTOWITZ (President, Economic Strategy Institute)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"Foreign Policy: Will the U.S. Change its Course?"

No.238 February 23, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: HOSOYA Yuichi (Full-time Lecturer, Faculty of International Studies, Keiai University)
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"British Diplomacy Today"

No.237 February 13, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: NISHIDE Tetsuo (Director-General, Chugoku Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI)
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Fora for the People Reviving their Communities: Challenge of '5:01 Clubs' at the Cities of Chugoku Region"

No.236 February 6, 2004 
Speaker: Luc WEBER (Professor, University of Geneva)
Moderator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Tohoku University)
"Reforming the European Higher Education and Research Sector for the Knowledge Society"
Handouts [PDF: 150KB]

No.235 January 23, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: SATO Yukio (President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (Former Ambassador to the United Nations))
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Reform of the U.N. Security Council and Japan"

No.234 January 15, 2004 
Speaker: SHI Yinhong (Professor, Renmin University of China)
Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"The Fifteen Years of China's Diplomacy and Strategy Toward the United States: The Process of Evolution, Fundamental Expriences, and Remaining Problems"
Paper [PDF: 26KB]

No.233 January 9, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: MURAYAMA Yuzo (Professor, Division of America, Department of Area Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Economic Security: From Technology Policy Perspectives"
Transcript

No.232 December 18, 2003 
Speaker: FAN Gang (Director, National Economic Research Institute, China)
Moderator: C. H. KWAN (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"The New Boom and the Potential Problems of Chinese Economy"

No.231 December 17, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: HARA Ryoichi (Chief officer, International Marketing Division, Shiseido Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: TOYA Riina (RIETI Research Associate)
"Development of Strategy for Shiseido Business in China"

No.230 December 9, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: KANDA Keiji (Director, Japan Energy Policy Institute / Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University / Professor, Musashi Institute of Technology / Research Advisor, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (RIETI Director of Administration)
"U.S. Energy Policy and its implication to Japan"

No.229 December 5, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: YOSHITOMI Masaru (Research Fellow, JBIC Institute / Former Dean, The Asian Development Bank Institute)
Moderator: TANIKAWA Hiroya (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Post-Crisis Development Paradigms in Asia and the Chinese-economy"

No.228 December 3, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: Zoltan SUDY (Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to Japan)
Moderator: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Transition to Market Economy and Democracy: The Success Story of Hungary"

No.227 November 28, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: KINOSHITA Toshihiko (Professor, School of Commerce, Waseda University)
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (RIETI Director of Administration)
"Winners and losers of ASEAN: How should Japan and the rest handle?"

No.226 November 26, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: SHIMOTANI Masahisa (Vice Chairman, Special Committee of Human Resources Development, Osaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry)
Moderator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Vice President / Senior Fellow)
"Problems with Today's Youth and the Japanese Education System from the Perspective of the Industrial World"

No.225 November 25, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: ARAKAWA Taro (General Partner, Security Management Partners Incorporated)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy)
"The Perspective of Starting-up New Entity in Silicon Valley: on the Cutting-edge of Security Software"

No.224 November 18, 2003 
Speaker: Graham HUTCHINGS (Editor, The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief)
Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (RIETI Fellow)
Commentator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Vice President / Senior Fellow)
"The Rise of China: Should Japan be Afraid?"
Handouts [PDF: 1.3MB]

No.223 November 12, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (RIETI Senior Fellow)
Moderator: SAGARA Nozomi (RIETI Fellow)
"Reforming the Agricultural Policy - An Agricultural Strategy for Surviving WTO and FTA"

No.222 November 11, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: Gerald CURTIS (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (RIETI Fellow)
What Difference Does the Election Make?

No.221 October 31, 2003 
Speaker: William J. DAVEY (Professor of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law)
Moderator: ARAKI Ichiro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Associate Professor of Yokohama National University)
"Regional Trade Agreements: A Better Approach after Cancun?"
Paper (This is a draft paper composed for the Japan Association of International Economic Law's International Symposium.) [PDF: 299KB]

No.220 October 29, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Information Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Commentator: OKAZAKI Tetsuji (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Research on Japanese Excellent Companies Basis of Business Management? Six Conditions"

No.219 October 28, 2003 
Speaker: Peter F. COWHEY (Dean, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies; Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; and Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy, University of California)
Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"The Next Revolution in Communications and Information Technology: Its Implications for Economic Growth and Innovation"
Handouts [PDF: 809KB]

No.218 October 17, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: TANIGAWA Toru (Professor, Art, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research (KASTEC), Kyushu University / Research Fellow, Stanford Japan Center)
Moderator: SAKATA Ichiro (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Deputy Director, Corporate Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI / Part-time Lecturer, Kyushu University)
"An Attempt at Business-Academia Collaboration in Kyushu University - Toward a Respected and Competitive University"

No.217 October 15, 2003 
Speaker: Ethan SCHEINER (Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University)
Moderator: MURAMATSU Michio (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Gakushuin University)
"Democracy Without Competition: Opposition Failure in One-Party Dominant Japan"
Handouts [PDF: 222KB]

No.216 October 7, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: SUGAYA Akiko (RIETI Fellow / Instructor, University of Tokyo)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy)
"Library as a Space for Knowledge Creation -From the Case Study of New York"

No.215 October 3, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: KOTERA Akira (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
Moderator: HIROSE Ichiro (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Sports Arbitration and its Development - Global Relationships and History"

No.214 October 1, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (RIETI Senior Fellow)
Moderator: TANAKA Nobuo (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director-General, Multilateral Trade System Department, METI)
"The Breakdown in WTO Agricultural Negotiations: Some Hidden Backgrounds and Arguments"

No.213 September 29, 2003 
Speaker: Bruno van POTTELSBERGHE (Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University / Professor, Solvay Business School, Brussels University)
Moderator: MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (RIETI Senior Fellow / Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
"Assessing the Effectiveness of S&T Policies - What can we learn from quantitative and qualitative evaluation-"
Handouts [PDF:240KB]

No.212 September 17, 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)
"Japanese Frequency Policy ? What you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask"

No.211 September 16, 2003 
Speaker: Michel FOUQUIN (Deputy Director of the CEPII and Associate Professor at the University of Paris I (Pantheon- Sorbonne))
Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
"European Trade Policy: What's behind?"
Question and Answer Session
Handouts [PDF: 214KB]
Paper [PDF: 664KB]

No.210 September 11, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: TACHIBANAKI Toshiaki (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Graduate School of Economics , Kyoto University)
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Institutional Reforms for Enterprise-based Welfare Provisions"

No.209 September 10, 2003 
Speaker: Peter BROOKES (Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs and Director, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation)
Commentator: Rebecca MACKINNON (CNN's Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent)
Moderator: Michael YOO (RIETI Research Associate)
"Asian Security Challenges-Rising China after Six Parties Talk"

No.208 September 9, 2003 
Speaker: Scott CHARNEY (Chief Security Strategist, Microsoft)
Commentators: TAKAGI Hiromitsu (Team Leader, Secure Programming Team, Grid Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), INNAMI Tomohiro (Director, Office of IT Security Policy, METI)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Toward Trustworthy Computing -Security Strategy of Microsoft"
Commentary and Q & A
Handouts [PDF: 764KB]

No.207 August 27, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: KATO Hideki (President, Japan Initiative / Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
Moderator: NISHIYAMA Keita (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Research and Analysis Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"What Truly Improves a Value of a Vote? - Consideration of an Impact by Easing of Regulations on Local Governments' Activities, Election Campaigning or Political Funds -"

No.206 August 25, 2003 
Robert G. SUTTER (Visiting Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University)
"The United States, China, and the North Korean issue: Why does Beijing cooperate closely with the United States over North Korea?"
Summary
Talking points [PDF: 78KB]

No.205 July 31, 2003 
Speaker: FUNABASHI Yoichi (Senior Columnist, Asahi Shimbun)
Commentator: KUBO Fumiaki (Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: Michael YOO (RIETI Research Associate)
"North Korea Crisis-End Game & Endless Game"

No.204 July 30, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: ARAKI Ichiro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Associate Professor of Yokohama National University)
Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Deputy Director, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"Japan and the GATT/WTO Regime"

No.203 July 29, 2003 Japanese
OKUBO Yoshio (Director, The Yomiuri Shimbun)
IIO Jun (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Government, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
"Outlook for the Coming LDP Presidential Election and the Next General Election"

No.202 July 23, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: SAWA Akihiro (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Policy Planning Division, Natural Resources and Fuel Department, ANRE)
Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (RIETI Director of Research and Senior Fellow)
"University Reform Under the New Law (Kokuritsu Daigaku Hojin-Ho)"

No.201 July 22, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: HONMA Masayoshi (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Graduate school of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: ARAKI Ichiro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Associate Professor of Yokohama National University)
"The WTO Agricultural Negotiations and the Essence of Agricultural Issues"

No.200 July 18, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: Gerald CURTIS (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University)
Moderator: KATO Sota (RIETI Faculty Fellow)
"The Japanese Government's Policy Making System: What Is The Problem?"

No.199 July 14, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: TOYODA Masakazu (Director-General for Manufacturing Industries Policy, METI)
Moderator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Vice President and Senior Fellow)
"Strategic Measures for Revitalizing Japan's Manufacturing Industry"

No.198 July 4, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: DOI Takero (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Senior Economist, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
Moderator: KITAMI Tomitaro (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Deputy Director, Industrial Organization Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Achievements and Challenges of Trinity Re-forms"

No.197 July 2, 2003 
Speaker: Kenneth QUINONES (Director of Korean Peninsula Programs, International Center in Washington, D.C.)
Moderator: SOEYA Yoshihide (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University)
"The 2nd US-North Korea Nuclear Crisis - Negotiations or War?"
Summary
Summary (Japanese translation)

No.196 June 24, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: HIGUCHI Yoshio (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Keio University)
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Employment Safety-net in a Society based on Self-responsibility and Self-selectivity: About the Unemployment Insurance Reform"

No.195 June 20, 2003 Japanese
HARAYAMA Yuko (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Tohoku University), SUNAMI Atsushi (RIETI Fellow / Visiting Researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo), FUJIMOTO Masayo (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Lecturer, Faculty of letters, Doshisha University), NAKAMURA Yoshiaki (Director, General Affairs Division, Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI), WAGA Miwako (Managing Director, GETI / Visiting Fellow, AIST), and HOSHINO Yu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"What is University-Industry Co-operation as Innovation's Inducting Agent?"

No.194 June 18, 2003 
Speaker: Bruce PERENS (President & Open Source Consultant, Perens LLC)
Commentator: SADO Shuji (General Manager, OSDN Japan)
Moderator: Nobuo Ikeda (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Open Source vs. Intellectual Property Law"
Question and Answer Session
Handouts [PDF: 76KB]
Paper [PDF: 62KB]

No.093 June 13, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: FUKAGAWA Tetsuya (Managing Director, Warburg Pincus Japan)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)
"Private Equity in Japan"

No.192 June 12, 2003 
Speaker: Allan I. MENDELOWITZ (Director, Federal Housing Finance Board)
Moderator: KATSUNO Masahiro (RIETI Manager, International Affairs)
"After the Bubble: Is Japan's Recent Past America's Future? "
Talking Points

No.191 June 10, 2003 
Speaker: Nachoem WIJNBERG (Professor of Industrial Economics and Organization at the Faculty of Organization and Management, University of Groningen)
Moderator: Gregory JACKSON (Fellow, RIETI)
"From Resources to Value and Back: Normal and Complementary Assets in 20th Century Popular Music"
Handouts [PDF: 106KB]

No.190 June 5, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: Kent E. CALDER (Reischauer Professor of East Asian Studies Director, Japan and Korea Studies / Director of the Princeton University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.)
Moderator: KISHIMOTO Shuhei (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Treasury Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Commentator: Michael YOO (RIETI Research Associate)
"The North Korean End Game: Prospects for Northeast Asian Regional Integration"

No.189 June 4, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: MATSUSHIMA Katsumori (Professor, Institute of Engineering Innovation, University of Tokyo)
Moderator: SAKATA Ichiro (RIETI Consulting Fellow)
"The Report of 'Innovation Japan'"

No.188 May 28, 2003 
Speaker: Dale W. JORGENSON (Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University)
Moderator: MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (RIETI Senior Fellow / Associate Professor,Institute of Innovation Research,Hitotsubashi University )
"Lessons for Japan from the U.S. Growth Resurgence"
Summary
Handouts [PDF: 121KB]

No.187 May 21, 2003 Japanese
YASUDA Takehiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Research Office, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)
"Road to Revival and 'Entrepreneur Society'"

No.186 May 16, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, The University of Shimane)
Moderator: SUNAMI Atsushi (RIETI Fellow)
"Progress in Chinese IT Development and its International Division of Labor"

No.185 May 14, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (RIETI Fellow)
"Dot Communism"

No.184 May 13, 2003 
Speaker: Sven STEINMO (Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado)
Moderator: Gregory JACKSON (RIETI Fellow)
"Taxation, Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State"
Summary
Handouts [PDF: 2MB]

No.183 May 9, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: TSUGAMI Toshiya (RIETI Senior Fellow)
Moderator: FUKAGAWA Yukiko (RIETI Faculty Fellow)
"The Rise of China and What Japan Should Do"

No.182 April 25, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: Clyde UNNO (Partner, Accenture Corporation)
Commentator: USHIROMATSU Norinosuke (President CEO, Agile Consulting Corporation)
Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Government Procurement following the IT Bubble"

No.181 April 23, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: YASUDA Takao (President, Don Quijote Co., Ltd.)
Speaker: TSUKIIZUMI Hiroshi (President, Seeds Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)
Don Quijote: A New and Unique Model for Innovative and Promising Venture Business, Flouting Conventional Chain Store Theory

No.180 April 15, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: NONAKA Ikujiro (Professor at Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotubashi University)
Moderator: IZUMIDA Hirohiko (Senior Coordinator for Advanced Cargo Transport Systems Promotion, Ministry of Land, Infrastracture and Transport)
"Concept of the Knowledge-based Country Theory"

No. April 11, 2003 
Marcus NOLAND (Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics)
"Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia"

No.179 April 9, 2003 
Speaker: Dominic LIEVEN (Professor of Russian Government, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (RIETI Fellow / Guest Editorial Writer, The Asahi Shimbun)
"American Empire?"
Summary

No.178 April 8, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: MENG Jianjun (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Tsinghua University)
Moderator: C.H. KWAN (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"Population Migration and Economic Development in China"

No.177 April 4, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: TAKAHASHI Yoichi (RIETI Consulting Fellow)
Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Japanese Postal Service: Focusing on the Future of Postal Savings"

No.176 April 2, 2003 Japanese
Speaker: ATODA Naosumi (Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
Moderator: MEKATA Motoko (RIETI Fellow)
"Creating a Market for NPO Donations"

No.175 April 1, 2003 
Speaker: Paul BEIJER (Ambassador, Swedish Embassy at DPRK)
Moderator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Senior Fellow)
"The Future and Current Situation of North Korea Seen from Pyongyang."