No.305 March 28, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: TAMURA Akiko (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University)
Speaker: XU Peng (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade Patterns in China"

No.304 March 25, 2005 
Speaker: Jacques BOURGEOIS (Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP)
Should the Singapore Issues, initially on the Doha Round, be revived? If so, when ?
Speaker: Marco C.E.J. BRONCKERS (Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP)
Does Japan Need A Trade Barriers Regulation?
Moderator: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Transcript 1
Transcript 2
Q & A Session

No.303 March 22, 2005 
Speaker: Xielin LIU (Research Fellow and Professor, National Center for Science and Technology for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing, China)
Moderator: MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
"China's Development Model: An Alternative Strategy for Technological Catch-Up"
Transcript
Handouts 1 [PDF: 391KB]
Handouts 2 [PDF: 293KB]

No.302 March 15, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Moderator: UEMURA Shuichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Japan's Economic Stagnation and Policy Options: The Supply-side View"

No.301 March 3, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Mitsutsune (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Post-Kyoto Framework"

No.300 March 1, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: KAWAKAMI Naotaka (Director for Policy and Communications Division, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Financial Services Agency)
Moderator: UEMURA Shuichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Program for Further Financial Reform"

No.299 February 25, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: YASHIRO Masamoto (Chairman, President and CEO, Shinsei Bank, Limited)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Shinsei Bank's Management Reforms"

No.298 February 23, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: YAMADA Takio (Director, Regional Policy Division, Asian and Oceanian Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"An East Asian community"

No.297 February 16, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: ANDO Haruhiko (Director, Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Promotion Office, METI/ANRE; Visiting Professor, the University of Electro-Communications (UEC))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Challenge for the Hydrogen Economy: Fuel Cell and its Architecture"

No.296 February 1, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: KODAMA Fumio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"The Debate over 'Death Valley' Innovation Issues"

No.295 January 25, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: ENDO Yasuo (Director, Liaison Office in Japan, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Moderator: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"A Historical Analysis of International Agricultural Negotiations: Suggestions for Japanese Strategies on Trade and Development Assistance"

No.294 January 19, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: HASEGAWA Eiichi (Deputy Director-General for International Trade Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Future Prospects for Japanese Trade Policy"
NOT for quotation

No.293 January 17, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: UEYAMA Shinichi (Professor, Keio University)
Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Regional Revitalization and Local Government Management Reform: Structural Reform of 'People,' 'Things' and 'Money'"
NOT for quotation

No.292 January 12, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: FUKANO Hiroyuki (Deputy Director-General for Environment Affairs, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Responding to Future Global Environmental Issues"

No.291 December 22, 2004 
Speaker: Li-Gang LIU (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"China's Fiscal Problems and Regional Disparity: What is the Role for Bond Market?"
Handouts [PDF: 171KB]

No.290 December 16, 2004 
Speaker: Noe van HULST (Director, Long-Term Co-Operation and Policy Analysis Office, International Energy Agency (IEA))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"World Energy Outlook 2004"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 833KB]

No.289 December 13, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: UEDA Kazuo (Member of the Policy Board, Bank of Japan)
Moderator: UEMURA Shuichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Recent Financial and Economic Conditions and Monetary Policy Management"
NOT for quotation

No.288 December 6, 2004 
Speaker: Robin YOUNG (Permanent Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry, British Government)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI / Senior Managing Director, Fujitsu Research Institute)
"Innovation and Competitiveness: the Role of Trade and Industry Ministries"
Transcript

No.287 December 2, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: MIYAKE Kunihiko (Deputy Director-General, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Situation in Iraq"
NOT for quotation

No.286 November 30, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: YAMASAKI Tatsuo (Director, Research Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Asian Bond Market and Asian Currency"
NOT for quotation

No.285 November 26, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: OSUMI Soshiro (Professor, Kanto Gakuin University)
Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Local Government Reform Through New Public Management"

No.284 November 25, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: MURAKAMI Keisuke (Deputy Director, Information Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Commentator: MATSUDA Hisakazu (Representative Director, Japan Consumer Marketing Research Institute)
Commentator: ONO Seiichi (Group Manager, e-Net Business Headquarters, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: TAMADA Schumpeter (Fellow, RIETI)
"Enhancing the Profitability of the Digital Home Appliance Industry"
Enhancing the Profitability of the Digital Home Appliance Industry

No.283 November 18, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: NAGATA Shunichi (Governor, Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (DICJ))
Moderator: UEMURA Shuichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Changes in the Environment for Deposit Insurance and Related Issues"

No.282 November 16, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: KUBO Masakazu (Chief Creative Director, Character Business Center, Shogakukan Inc.)
Moderator: TOYA Riina (Research Associate, RIETI)
"International Strategy of Japanese Anime and Manga"
NOT for quotation

No.281 November 11, 2004 
Speaker: Barry M. HAGER (President, Hager Associates)
Lead Discussant: Paige COTTINGHAM-STREATER (Deputy Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"Assessing the U.S. Elections: Changes in U.S. Policy toward Japan and Asia"
Transcript

No.280 November 10, 2004 
Speaker: Paola SUBACCHI (Head, International Economics Programme, Chatham House)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Catching up with the rest of Europe: Challenges and Opportunities from the EU Enlargement"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 133KB]

No.279 November 8, 2004 
Speaker: Craig A. MARSH (Professor, HR and Organisational Behaviour, Theseus International Management Institute, Sophia Antipolis)
Moderator: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Getting the Best from Knowledge Workers: How does Human Resources Management contribute?"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 305KB]

No.278 November 5, 2004 
Speaker: Jacques ATTALI (President, PlaNet Finance)
Moderator: Andrei HAGIU (Fellw, RIETI)
"European Point of View on Globalisation"
Handouts [PDF: 1MB]

No.276 November 2, 2004 
Speaker: Thomas A. COLE (Chairman, Executive Committee, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP)
Moderator: HOSOYA Yuji (Director of Research, RIETI)
"The Continuing Evolution of Corporate Governance in the United States"
Transcript
Handouts 1 [PDF: 775KB]
Handouts 2 [PDF: 171KB]

No.275 November 1, 2004 
Speaker: Pierre SAUVE (Consultant, World Bank Institute in Paris)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Counsellor, Overall Strategy for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office)
"Promise and Pitfalls of the WTO and FTAs : investment and trade in services"
Transcript
Handouts 1 [PDF: 154KB]
Handouts 2 [PDF: 53KB]

No.274 October 28, 2004 
Speaker: Peter COWHEY (Dean, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Impact of the US Presidential Election on United States Trade Policy"
Transcript

No.273 October 26, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: HIROSE Ichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Commentator: HONMA Kosuke (Director, Y's Sports Inc.)
Moderator: HIGUCHI Yoshio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
"Realignment of Professional Baseball Teams and Design of Institutional Arrangements"

No.272 October 21, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: Reinhard DRIFTE (Visiting Professor, Okuma School of Public Management, Waseda University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Outlook for Japanese-Chinese Relations"

No.271 October 6, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: NEMOTO Yoichi (Director, Regional Financial Cooperation Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Currency and Monetary Cooperation in East Asia"
NOT for quotation

No.270 September 30, 2004 
Speaker: Robert A. MADSEN (Senior Fellow, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Japan's Incipient Transformation"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 217KB]
Paper [PDF: 16.5KB]

No.269 September 9, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Current Challenges faced by Japanese Enterprises and their Responses - Japanese Corporate Theory in a Knowledge Based Economy"

No.268 September 8, 2004 
Speaker: Ronald DORE (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Japanese-Style-Management. Has It Survived? Will It Survive?"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 369KB]

No.267 September 2, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: AKAISHI Koichi (Director, General Policy Division, Director-General's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Energy Supply-Demand Outlook in 2030 and Possible Scenario for Japan"

No.266 August 27, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: UMETANI Kenji (Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, Director-General for Economic Research, Cabinet Office)
Moderator: YOSHITOMI Masaru (President and CRO, RIETI)
"Fiscal 2004 Annual Report on Japanese Economy and Pubulic Finance"

No.265 August 24, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Evaluation of WTO's Framework for Establishing Modalities in Agriculture and of the Report on Agricultural Policy Reform by the Council of Food, Agriculture and Rural Area PoliciesNo.264"
Japanese
Speaker: ARAKI Ichiro (Associate Professor, Yokohama National University)
Moderator and Speaker: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Fellow, RIETI)

No.264 August 18, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: ARAKI Ichiro (Associate Professor, Yokohama National University)
Moderator and Speaker: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
"Safeguards under the WTO Agreement"

No.263 August 10, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: OGAWA Tsunehiro (Director-General, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Outline of WTO Framework Agreement"

No.262 August 5, 2004 
Speaker: Michael LYNCH (President, Strategic Energy & Economic Research Inc. (SEER))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"International Oil Market: Politics and Economics"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 131KB]

No.261 July 27, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: LI Zhidong (Associate Professor, Department of Management and Information Systems Science, Nagaoka University of Technology)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"China's Energy and Environmental Issues"

No.260 July 14, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: HAYASHI Ryozo (Advisor, Japan Industrial Policy Research Institute)
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"New Currents in the United States"

No.259 July 9, 2004 
Speaker: Peter RUTLAND (Professor, Government Department, Wesleyan University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Alternative Scenarios for Russian Economic Development"
Transcript

No.258 July 1, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: ISHIGURO Norihiko (Director, Industrial Revitalization Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI/ ex-Director, Industrial Revitalization Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: KAINO Kazunari (Fellow, RIETI)
"Nakagawa Report - Toward a Sustainable and Competitive Industrial Structure"
Handouts [PDF: 1.6MB]

No.257 June 30, 2004 
Speaker: Bradford A. BERENSON (Partner, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP)
Moderator: Robert DUJARRIC (Visiting Scholar, RIETI)
"Legal Decision-Making in the Bush White House: Enron, the War on Terror, and Homeland Security"
Transcript

No.256 June 11, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: OGAWA Hideki (Director-General for Consumer Policy Department, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TOYA Riina (Research Associate, RIETI)
"Background of Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Italy - The Case of the Textile and Fashion Industries"

No.255 June 9, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: YOSHIDA Yasuhiko (Special Assistant to Director-General, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
Moderator: KAINOU Kazunari (Fellow, RIETI)
"New Challenges for Japanese Manufacturing Industry Gearing up for the Improved Competitiveness - White Paper on Manufacturing Industries of 2004"

No.254 June 3, 2004 
Speaker: Kenneth QUINONES (Director, Korean Peninsula Program, International Action)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal - Is a Libyan Solution Possible?"
Transcript

No.253 May 26, 2004 
Speaker: Edward LINCOLN (Senior Fellow, Asia and Economic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations)
Moderator: Robert DUJARRIC (Visiting Scholar, RIETI)
"The 2004 Presidential Campaign and What It Means for U.S.-Japan Relations"
Summary (Japanese Translation)
Summary

No.252 May 19, 2004 
Speaker: David BASKERVILLE (President, Baskerville International Limited)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI / Senior Executive Fellow, Economic Research Center, Fujitsu Research Institute)
"Leadership Characteristics for Global Executives"

No.251 May 18, 2004 
Speaker: Karla W. SIMON (Professor and Co-Director, Center for International Social Development, Catholic University of America)
Speaker: Leon E. IRISH (Visiting Professor, Catholic University of America / President, International Center for Civil Society Law)
Commentator: DEGUCHI Masayuki (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
Moderator: HAMABE Tetsuya (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Comparing Institutional Reform of NPO in Japan and China"
Comparing Institutional Reform of NPO in Japan and China
Transcript

No.250 May 12, 2004 
Speaker: Curtis Milhaupt (Professor of Law, Columbia Law School)
Moderator: Gregory Jackson (RIETI Fellow)
"Choice as Regulatory Reform: The Case of Japanese Corporate Governance"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 125KB]

No.249 April 26, 2004 Japanese
Speaker: Lee BRANSTETTER (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School)
Moderator: TAMADA Schumpeter (Fellow, RIETI)
"What is the Impact of Academic Science on Industrial R&D in Japan? New Evidence From Co-publication and Patent Citation Data"
Transcript

No.248 April 22, 2004 
Speaker: John GERO (Canadian Chief Trade Negotiator, WTO / Assistant Deputy Minister, Trade and Economic Policy, Department of International Trade)
Commentator: ARAKI Ichiro (Associate Professor, International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama National University)
Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
"Canadian Views on the Doha Round and Perspectives on Building a National Trade Policy Consensus"
Transcript

No.247 April 20, 2004 
Speaker: Peter McCAWLEY (Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute)
Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)
"The Washington Consensus and Current Approaches to Development in Asia"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 93KB]

No.246 April 14, 2004 
Speaker: Robert DUJARRIC (Visiting Scholar, RIETI)
Moderator: Andrei HAGIU (Fellow, RIETI)
"Is President Bush Destroying the American Empire? An Update on America's Inadvertent Empire"
Transcript

No.245 April 8, 2004 
Speaker: Marcus NOLAND (Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics)
Moderator: Robert DUJARRIC (Visiting Scholar, RIETI)
"Economic Reform in North Korea"
Handouts [PDF: 12KB]