No.385 March 30, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: NAGAOKA Sadao (Professor and Director, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Commentator: ETO Manabu (Director, Industrial Standards Research Office, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Competition and Collaboration for Innovation: Policy Issues for Efficient Development and Diffusion of Technical Standard"

No.384 March 28, 2006 
Speaker: Dirk PILAT (Head, Science and Technology Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"The Globalisation of Value Chains - Evidence and Policy Implications"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF:181KB]

No.383 March 24, 2006 
Speaker: Stefanie LENWAY (Dean of the College of Business Administration and Professor of Management, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Speaker: Thomas MURTHA (Professor of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Commentator: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Researcher, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN / Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University)
Moderator: ASAKAWA Kazuhiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University)
"Knowledge, Heavy Manufacturing and Competitiveness: The Case of the Flat Panel Display Industry"
Summary
Comments [PDF:53KB]
Handouts [PDF:430KB]

No.382 March 23, 2006 
Speaker: John H. JACKSON (University Professor, Georgetown University Law Center)
Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor of Law, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University)
"The Future Scope of WTO - Issues as seen in the Sutherland Report"
Transcript
References (The Future Scope of WTO)

No.381 March 22, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: KUDO Hiroki (Unit Manager, Climate Change Policy Research Group, Global Environment & Sustainable Development Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Current Discussion and View of the Post-Kyoto Regime"

No.380 March 17, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: KANEMOTO Yoshitsugu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: KAINOU Kazunari (Fellow, RIETI)
"Microeconomic Modeling"

No.379 March 8, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: AKAIKE Manabu (Director, Universal Design Intelligence Inc.)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Prospect of Eco-design"

No.378 March 6, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"Growth Potential in the Japanese Economy -The Age of Endogenous Innovation-"
Transcript (Keizai Sangyo Journal No.421, 2006)

No.377 March 2, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: XU Fangqi (Post Doctoral Fellow, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University / Director of Institute for Creative Management, Jiangsu Polytechnic University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Comparative Research on Management between Japanese and Chinese Enterprises: The Theory and Case Study"

No.376 February 23, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: YAKUSHIJI Taizo (Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy / Visiting Professor, Keio University)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Consulting Felow, RIETI / Counsellor, Overall Strategy for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office)
"Japan's Strategy on Science and Technology"

No.375 February 21, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: TOYAMA Kazuhiko (COO and Executive Managing Director, Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan)
Moderator: XU Peng (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University)
"Experience of the IRCJ - Rebuilding of Market Discipline and Corporate Governance"

No.374 February 13, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: FUJINAWA Kenichi (Managing Partner, Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Development in Take-Over Defense Discussions"

No.373 February 7, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: UEMURA Shouzo (Former Deputy Director General of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO))
Moderator: KIYOKAWA Yutaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"International Harmonization of Intellectual Property Systems - Trends and Challenges Ahead"

No.372 February 2, 2006 
Speaker: Joseph CARON (Ambassador, Embassy of Canada)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"A Canadian Perspective on Northeast Asian Relations"
NOT for quotation
Transcript

No.371 February 1, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: SAKAMOTO Yukio (President & CEO, Elpida Memory, Inc.)
Commentator: CHUMA Hiroyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research)
Moderator: YASUNAGA Yuuko (Director, Research and Development Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
""Challenge of Elpida Memory: Considering the Future of Japanese Semiconductor Industry""

No.370 January 31, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: HIDAKA Nobuhiko (President, Gartner Japan, Ltd.)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"CxOs' IT Literacy"
Speaker: MORIMOTO Satoshi (Director of Institute of World Studies and Professor, Takushoku University)

No.369 January 23, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: NIINAMI Takeshi (President and CEO, LAWSON, INC.)
Moderator: KAWAZU Tsukasa (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Lawson's Challenges in the Face of Changes"

No.368 January 18, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: MORIMOTO Satoshi (Director of Institute of World Studies and Professor, Takushoku University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"U.S. Defense Transformation and U.S.-Japan Alliance"

No.367 January 13, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: OGAWA Tsunehiro (Director General, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Outcomes of the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial and Prospect for the Negotiations"
NOT for quotation

No.366 January 12, 2006 Japanese
Speaker: YAMADA Takio (Director, Regional Policy Division, Asian and Oceanian Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The East Asia Summit and the Vision of an East Asian Community"
NOT for quotation
Transcript

No.365 December 22, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: NAKAMURA Toshio (Secretary-General, Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition)
Moderator: MIYAMOTO Takeshi (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Former Deputy Director-General, Minister's Secretariat, (Director-General for World Expositions), METI)
"Achievements and Evaluation of EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN"

No.364 December 19, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna H. Gray Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)
Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)
"The True Relationship between Female Labor-Force Participation and Fertility Rate: An Analysis of OECD Countries"

No.363 December 8, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: WADA Yoichi (President, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD)
Commentator: ITOKAWA Masaki (Media and Content Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"New Perspective of Digital Contents Industry"
Handouts [PDF:1,346KB] (SQUARE ENIX site)

No.362 December 6, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: GOTO Akira (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
Commentator: NAKANISHI Hironori (Director, Academia-industry Cooperation Promotion Division, Industrial Science and Technology and Environment Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"How Did Measures to Promote University-Industry Collaboration Impact the Academia"
Speaker: Dominique GUELLEC (Chief Economist, European Patent Office (EPO))

No.361 December 5, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: KATAGIRI Makoto (President & CEO, Natsource Japan Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"A Challenge to Global Warming - the Kyoto Mechanisms"

No.360 November 24, 2005 

No.359 November 17, 2005 
Speaker: Aftab SETH (Former Ambassador of India to Japan / Professor, and Director of Global Security Research Institute, Keio University)
Moderator: NISHIMIZU Mieko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
"India and a Resurgent Asia"
Transcript

No.358 November 15, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: SHIRAISHI Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Vice President and Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"East Asia Community-Building and Japan-US Alliance"
Transcript

No.357 November 14, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: NAKAGAMI Hidetoshi (President, Jyukankyo Research Institute Inc.)
Speaker: MURAKOSHI Chiharu (Director, Jyukankyo Research Institute Inc.)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
Recent Activities of ESCO Industry in Japan

No.356 November 7, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: MOGI Yuzaburo (Chairman and CEO , Kikkoman Corporation)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Corporate Governance in Japan: The Role of Independent Directors"

No.355 November 1, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: TAKASHIMA Hatsuhisa (Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, MOFA)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Public Diplomacy in Japan"

No.354 October 26, 2005 
Speaker: Jeremy HOBBS (Executive Director, Oxfam International)
Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Professor of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
"Hong Kong Ministerial - Entering Dangerous Waters at the WTO"
Transcript

No.353 October 24, 2005 
Speaker: ZHANG Yunling (Director, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Future Perspective on EAFTA and China's Strategy"
Transcript
Handouts1 [PDF: 37KB]
Handouts2 [PDF: 44KB]

No.352 October 20, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Researcher, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN)
Moderator: ASAKAWA Kazuhiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University)
"Global Management and Innovation of Japanese Companies"

No.351 October 18, 2005 
Speaker: Hans VIJLBRIEF (Director-General Economic Policy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Ageing Society and Its Consequences"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 79KB]

No.350 October 17, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: OGAWA Eiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Commerce and Management)
Moderator: KUWAHARA Satoshi (Senior Fellow , RIETI)
"AMU: Toward Coordinated Exchange Rate Policies in East Asia"

No.349 October 13, 2005 
Speaker: Vladimir IVANOV (Director of Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Russian Energy Politics: Focusing on New Markets in Asia"
Handouts1 [PDF: 68KB]
Handouts2 [PDF: 155KB]
Transcript

No.348 October 6, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: EZAKI Yoshihide (Director, Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Minisuter's Secretariat, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Issue of Foreign Labor in Japan"

No.347 October 5, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: KOYAMA Ken (Senior Research Fellow and Unit Chief, Energy Strategy Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Outlook for the World Oil Market"
Speaker: MOTANI Kousuke (Senior Adviser, Planning Department for Regional Development, Development Bank of Japan)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)

No.346 September 28, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: ISHIMIZU Yoshio (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Labour Economist, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW))
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, the Research Center for Advanced Policy Studies Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
"White Paper on the Labour Economy 2005 -Labour Policy Issues in a Society with a Declining Population-"

No.345 September 22, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: MOTANI Kousuke (Senior Adviser, Planning Department for Regional Development, Development Bank of Japan)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Demographic Challenge to Japanese Economy and Society"

No.344 September 15, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: TANNAWA Keizo (Representative Director and President, Watson Wyatt K.K.)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Revolution in the Japanese Corporation - What Is the 'Japan Cool' Model for HR & Organizational Management"

No.343 September 7, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: ICHIKAWA Masakazu (Director, Industrial Finance Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: UESUGI Iichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"Shifts in Corporate Finance and Industrial Financing"
Japanese
Speaker: YANO Tomomi (Executive Managing Director, Pension Fund Association)

No.342 September 6, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: MORINOBU Shigeki (President, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"U.S Tax Reform and Pension Reform"

No.341 September 5, 2005 Japanese
YANO Tomomi (Executive Managing Director, Pension Fund Association)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in Japan"

No.340 September 1, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: KWAN Chi Hung (Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"China's Transition from Socialism to Capitalism: The Last Lap"

No.339 August 31, 2005 
Speaker: YOSHITOMI Masaru (President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Policy Recommendations on 'East Asia's Role in Resolving the New Global Imbalances' "
Handouts1 [PDF: 248KB]
Handouts2 [PDF: 100KB]

No.338 August 25, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: MAEDA Yasuhiro (Director, MONODZUKURI Policy Planning, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The White Paper of MONODZUKURI 2005"

No.337 August 24, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: UMETANI Kenji (Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, Director-General for Economic Research, Cabinet Office)
Moderator: UESUGI Iichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"On the Annual Report of the Japanese Economy and Public Finance 2004-2005"

No.336 August 23, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: Jaeho YEOM (Professor, Department of Public Administration, College of Political Science and Economics, Korea University)
Commentator: FUJIWARA Masahiko (Director, Public Relations Office, Minister's Secretariat, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Political and Economic Situation in Korea and its Implications for Japan"

No.335 August 9, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: AGAWA Naoyuki (Professor, Keio University / Professor (specially appointed), the University of Tokyo)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"U.S.-Japan Relationship: Looking through the Glasses of the Embassy of Japan and Academia"

No.334 August 3, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: SUMITA Takayuki (Director, Intellectual Property Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: KIYOKAWA Yutaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
""Intellectual Asset Based Management and Corporate""

No.333 August 2, 2005 
Speaker: Tim ABRAHAM (Director International Trade Policy, Department of Trade and Industry, UK)
Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor of Law, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University)
"The Road to the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial - a View from Europe"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 161KB]

No.332 July 28, 2005 
Speaker: Curtis MILHAUPT (Professor of Law, Columbia Law School)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Is the Poison Pill Good for Japan?: A Preliminary Analysis of the New Takeover Guidelines"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 228KB]

No.331 July 27, 2005 
Speaker: William GRIMES (Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University / Visiting Scholar, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance Japan)
Commentator: KIMURA Shigeki (Director, Research Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Japan, East Asia, and the Limits to Financial Regionalism"
Handouts [PDF:33KB] (MOF site)
Transcript

No.330 July 21, 2005 
Speaker: I. M. DESTLER (Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, USA)
Commentator: SADAMORI Keisuke (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"A New Look at American Trade Politics"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 67KB]
Handouts [PDF:352KB]

No.329 July 19, 2005 
Speaker: OKAMOTO Susumu (Former Deputy Director, Research and Analysis Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
"The Trade Structure in East Asia: Spiral Pattern of Development and Triangular Trade Structure (TTS) as a Regional Manufacturing Platform - from White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2005"
Transcript

No.328 July 15, 2005 
Speaker: Randy SCHRIVER (Partner, Armitage International LLC / Senior Associate, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The China Challenge - The Consequences and Opportunities of an Emerging China"
Transcript

No.327 July 11, 2005 
Speaker: Paul LAUDICINA (Managing Director, Global Business Policy Council, A.T. Kearney)
Moderator: Andrei HAGIU (Fellow, RIETI)
"Global Risk Management in a World Out of Balance"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF:2,872KB]

No.326 July 4, 2005 
Speaker: Mireya SOLIS (Assistant Professor, American University)
Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Political Economy of the Japan-Mexico EPA: How Does a Cross-Regional Initiative Affect the Future of Japan's Regional Integration Efforts?"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF:688KB]

No.325 June 29, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: KIMURA Shigeki (Director, Office of the Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"On Foreign Bond Investments as a Recycling Channel for Japan's Current Account Surplus"

No.324 June 21, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: KUSAKABE Satoshi (Director, Industrial Organization Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"M&A Rules in Japan - Proposal toward the Establishment of Rules for A Fair Corporate World -"

No.323 June 16, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: SUGIYAMA Yasuo (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University)
Commentator: ASAKAWA Kazuhiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University)
Moderator: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"The Dilemma of Capacity-Building at Overseas R&D Centers"

No.322 June 15, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: YAMASAKI Tatsuo (Director, Research Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Second Phase of Asian Monetary Cooperation and China-Japan Relations"

No.321 June 14, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: TANAKA Hitoshi (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, MOFA)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Challenges of Japanese diplomacy in Asia"

No.320 June 10, 2005 
Speaker: Richard G. WHITMAN (Head, European Programme, Chatham House)
Commentator: HATTORI Takashi (Deputy Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"European Integration: What Future Prospects?"
Handouts [PDF: 105KB]
Transcript

No.319 June 8, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: NISHIMIZU Mieko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Governance and Development Assistance Strategy: From the grass-roots reality of South Asia"

No.318 June 7, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: HOSODA Eiji (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"On Resource Circulation in the East Asian Region"
NOT for quotation

No.317 May 30, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: SUGITA Sadahiro (Director, Trade Finance and Economic Cooperation Division, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Advent of Public-Private Partnerships Era in Japan and Asia"
Japanese

No.316 May 23, 2005 
Speaker: Edward G. POPLAWSKI (Partner, Los Angeles Office, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP)
Moderator: TAMADA Schumpeter (Former Fellow, RIETI/Associate Professor, Institute of Business and Accounting, Kwansei Gakuin University)
"Issues and Trends in the Enforcement and Utilization of Patent and IP Rights Pools by Universities, Foundations, and Other Non-Profit Institutions"
NOT for quotation
Transcript (Please do not quote. For information only.)

No.315 May 20, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: NOMI Toshihiko (Director General for EXPO General Affairs Department, New Energy and Industrial Technology DevelopmentOrganization(NEDO))
Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (Senior Fellow, RIET)
"Innovation Policy : Efficiency of Public Funding"

No.314 May 13, 2005 
Speaker: Werner ZDOUC (Counsellor, the Appellate Body Secretariat, World Trade Organization)
Commentator: ARAKI Ichiro (Professor of Law, International Graduate School of Social Sciences,
Yokohama National University)
Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Associate Professor of Law, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University)
"Ten Years of the WTO Appellate Body: An Insider's View"

No.313 May 12, 2005 Japanese
Speaker:NAKAO Takehiko (Director, Coordination Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator:TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"New Trends in Development Assistance and Challenges to the Japan's ODA Policy"

No.312 May 11, 2005 
Speaker: Ram MUDAMBI (Associate Professor and Washburn Research Fellow, The Fox School of Business & Management, Temple University)
Commentator: ASAKAWA Kazuhiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI /Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University)
Moderator: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Analytical Differences in the Economics of Geography: The Case of the Multinational Firm"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 155KB]

No.311 April 27, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: FUKUI Hideo (Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"A Japanese Government Failure: The Law and Economics of Regulating Market Failure"

No.310 April 21, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: NOBEOKA Kentaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration of Kobe University)
Moderator: TAKIZAWA Hirokazu (Fellow, RIETI)
"The Competitiveness of Japanese Manufacturers in Modular Products: Limits of Combination Capabilities of Chinese Manufacturers in the Digital Appliances Industry"
Transcript (Keizai Sangyo Journal No.411, 2005)

No.309 April 20, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator:KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor of Law, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University)
"Problems with the Government's Newly Published 'Basic Agricultural Policy Plan'"

No.308 April 15, 2005 
Speaker: Antoine HALFF (Director, Global Energy, Eurasia Group)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The International Oil Market: Impact of China and Russia"
Transcript

No.307 April 8, 2005 
Speaker: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Professor of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Proliferation of FTAs in East Asia"
Transcript
Handouts [PDF: 188KB]

No.306 April 4, 2005 Japanese
Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (Director for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD)
Moderator: TOJO Yoshiaki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, International Economic Affairs Division, METI)
"Risk of Offshoring: How to Revitalize Service Industry. Challenge to the OECD Ministers"