No.439  March 27, 2007 
Speaker: Ron MARCHANT (Chief Executive, UK Patent Office)
Moderator: MORIYA Toshimichi (Deputy Commissioner, Japan Patent Office)
"Intellectual Property after Gowers"
Handouts [PDF:50KB]

No.438  March 19, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: OKAZAKI Kumiko (International Visiting Fellow, Center for Asia Pacific Policy, RAND)
Moderator: KURODA Atsuo (Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"Banking System Reform in China: Remaining challenges and tasks toward a market oriented economy"

No.437  March 09, 2007  12:30-13:45Japanese
Speaker: MATSUSHIMA Katsumori (Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: SAKATA Ichiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Assistant to Director General, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Global Focus on Knowledge -Sustainability"

No.436  February 28, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: IKUMA Hitoshi (Executive Officer, The Japan Research Institute, Limited / Director, Center for the Strategy of Emergence)
Moderator: TANIMOTO Toko (Web Editing Manager, RIETI)
"Present Situation and Evaluation of Japanese PFI"

No.435  February 22, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: NOMURA Shuya (Professor, Chuo Law School)
Moderator: NAKAHARA Hirohiko (Deputy Director, Economic and Industrial Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Recent Trends of M&A Laws"

No.434  February 14, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: HORIGUCHI Hideo (Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University College of International Relations / Senior Coordinator (Europe, Russia), Planning Department, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO))
Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director-General, Planning Department, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) / Former Director of Administration, RIETI)
"The Impact of the Economic Integration and Enlargement of the EU on Japanese Companies"

No.433  February 06, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: KOMATSU Masayuki (Executive Director, in charge of Marine Fisheries Research and Development Center (JAMARC), Fisheries Research Agency)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIET)
"On Urgent and Fundamental Structural Reform of the Fisheries in Japan"

New!
February 05, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Senior Researcher, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN / Visiting Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
Commentator: TAKADA Nobuaki (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.)
Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"Toward the Realization of the Service Model Innovation of the Japanese SMEs and Ventures" （Advanced Cases of New Viewpoints with Business, Function and Global Market)

No.432  February 01, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Researcher, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN / Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University)
Speaker: TAKIZAWA Go (Deputy Director, Human Resource Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Commentator: ASAKAWA Kazuhiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University)
Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"Japanese SMEs and VCs: Innovation and East Asian and Global Management (New Direction of Growth for SMEs / Venture in Goods and Service Industries)"

No.431  January 25, 2007  12:15-13:30
Speaker: Elliot E. MAXWELL (Fellow, the Communications Program, Johns Hopkins University / Distinguished Research Fellow, the eBusiness Research Center of Pennsylvania State University)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness"
Handouts [PDF:309KB]

No.430  January 22, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: TANAKA Hitoshi (Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange)
Moderator: TAKAHARA Ichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
"Japan's Diplomacy"

No.429  January 19, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: OSAWA Machiko (Professor, Department of Studies on Contemporary Society, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences, Japan Women's University)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration and Deputy Director of Research, RIETI)
"Towards Work-Life Balance Society"

No.428  January 17, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: TAKESADA Hideshi (Director, Library, The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS))
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"North Korean Nuclear Issues"

No.427  December 15, 2006 
Speaker: Richard BALDWIN (Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Multilateralising Regionalism: How to make regionalism less damaging to the multilateral trade system"
Paper [PDF:1.9MB]
Handouts [PDF:164KB]
Transcript

No.426  December 12, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: MUNAKATA Naoko (Director, Textile and Clothing Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI / Former Senior Fellow, RIETI / Former Visiting Fellow, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS), The Brookings Institution)
Moderator: KURODA Atsuo (Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"The Evolution of and Prospects for Economic Integration in East Asia"

No.425  December 04, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: MATSUMOTO Oki (President & CEO, Monex, Inc.)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Future of Asset Formation in Japan"
NOT for quotation

No.424  November 28, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: HOSHINO Asako (Corporate Vice President, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: TAKAHASHI Jun (Director, Economy and Society Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Marketing Reform at Nissan Motor"
NOT for quotation

No.423  November 09, 2006 
Speaker: Jan WOZNOWSKI (Director, Rules Division, World Trade Organization)
Commentator: HIROSE Naoshi (Director, Rules/ Director, WTO Compliance and Dispute Settlement, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
"DDA Negotiations--where are we now and what are other developments in trade remedies area"
NOT for quotation
Handouts [PDF: 68KB]
Transcript

No.422  November 02, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: YAMAZAKI Masahiro (Representative Executive Managing Director, ZEON Corporation)
Moderator: YASUI Akira (Director, Fine Chemicals Office, Chemicals Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TAJIRI Takahiro (Deputy Director, Chemicals Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
"The Creation of New Businesses Led by Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration to Strengthen Japan: ZEON Corporation's New Business Development and MOT"

No.421  October 30, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: SATO Hiroki (Professor, The Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration and Deputy Director of Research, RIETI)
"Work-Life Balance and the Role of Management: Institutional design and its implementation"

No.420  October 27, 2006  Japanese
(with simultaneous interpretation)
Speaker: KITAO Zenichi (Manager, Corporate Planning Headquaters, Intellectual Property Department, OMRON Corporation)
Moderator: SUMITA Takayuki (Director, Technology Promotion Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
"OMRON's MOT -Global R&D Collaboration"

No.419  October 13, 2006  12:15-13:30Japanese
Speaker: OTAKE Fumio (Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Inequality in Japan"
NOT for quotation

No.418  October 02, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: ARIYOSHI Akira (Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific)
Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)
"World Economic Outlook"
NOT for quotation

No.417  September 25, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: MATSUOKA Mikihiro (Chief Economist, Japan, Deutsche Securities Inc.)
Commentator / Moderator: MATSUNAGA Akira (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Macro Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Premature Monetary Tightening: Economic Slowdown in 2007"

No.416  September 15, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration and Deputy Director of Research, RIETI)
"Marital Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: A View-Point Indispensable to Mitigating Fertility Decline"
Report

No.415  September 12, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: SAWADA Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)
"Market, Development, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: A Micro-Perspective"

No.414  September 07, 2006  12:15-13:30Japanese
Speaker: UEYAMA Shinichi (Professor of Public Management, Keio University (Faculty of Media and Governance))
Speaker: INOSHITA Yasutomo (Manager for Project Evaluation, Reform Promotion Division, Office of City Reforms, Osaka City Government)
Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (Former Senior Fellow, RIETI / Director, Research and Statistics Department, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
"Diagnosing Public Service Value -Learning from Osaka City Government Reform Project"

No.413  September 05, 2006 
Speaker: Per ERIKSSON (Director General, VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems))
Commentator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
Moderator: YOSHITOMI Masaru (President, RIETI)
"VINNOVA and its Role in the Swedish Innovation System: Accomplishments Since the Start in 2001 and Ambitions Forward"
Handouts [PDF: 396KB]
Transcript

No.412  August 10, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: KOMATSU Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), London / Representative, Komatsu Research & Advisory (in U.K.))
Commentator: IRIE Kazutomo (Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO))
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Potential Risks in Global Economy"

No.411  July 26, 2006 
Speaker: Roger W. RABER (President & CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors)
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"Corporate Governance in the Global Economy: Roles and Responsibilities of Corporate Directors"
Transcript

No.410  July 19, 2006 
*EnglishSpeaker: Saori N. Katada (Associate Professor School of International Relations University of Southern California)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"East Asian Regional Financial and Trade Architectures"
Handouts [PDF: 217KB]

No.409  July 13, 2006 
Speaker: AHN, Se-Young (Professor, Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, Sogang University)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Korea's FTA Policy: Focusing on the Japan-Korea FTA and US-Korea FTA"
Handouts [PDF: 1.7MB]
Transcript

No.408  July 10, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: AGATA Atsunobu (Senior Vice President, Information Technology, AEON Co., Ltd.)
Commentator: Watanabe Tetsuya (Director, Commerce and Distribution Policy Group, METI)
Moderator: KAWAZU Tsukasa (Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Aeon's Business Innovation - Making the Most of Information Technologies"
NOT for quotation

No.407  July 07, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: ANDO Yasushi ( Chief Investment Officer, Phoenix Capital Co., Ltd. / CEO, Horizon Holdings Co., Ltd.)
Commentator: ISHII Yoshiaki (Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN / Former Deputy Director, Industrial Organizetion Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI / Former Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: HOSOYA Yuji (Director of Research, RIETI)
"An Approach for the Business Turnaround and its Implication"

No.406  July 06, 2006 
Speaker: Daniel M. PRICE (Partner, Sidley Austin LLP)
Speaker: Andrew W. SHOYER (Partner, Sidley Austin LLP)
Commentator: KOTERA Akira (Former, Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: MATSUMOTO Kayo (Fellow, RIETI)
"Foreign Investment Protection under International Treaties"
Handouts [PDF: 92.3KB]
Transcript

No.405  June 29, 2006  12:15-13:30Japanese
Speaker: SHIRAISHI Shigeaki (Director, Policy Planning and Research Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2006 - Toward Sustained Potential for Growth:Enhanced Productivity through Globalization and Japan as an Investment Powerhouse"
Report

No.404  June 23, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: YASUNAGA Yuuko ( Director, Research and Development Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office)
"On the Roadmap, Off the Roadmap, or Beyond the Roadmap? That is the Question."

No.403  June 22, 2006 
(with simultaneous interpretation)
Speaker: Harry HARDING (Eurasia Group)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"China Risks and Implications for the Global Community"
Transcript

No.402  June 13, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: OTSUKA Keijiro (Professorial Fellow, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development)
Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)
"Cluster-Based Industrial Development: Evidence from Wenzhou and Chongqing"

No.401  June 09, 2006 
(with simultaneous interpretation)
Speaker: Jane E. FOUNTAIN (Director of National Center for Digital Government and Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"Current Issues in the Development of Cross-Agency Governance"
Handouts [PDF: 640KB]

No.400  May 31, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: MATSUSHIMA Shigeru (Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Hosei University)
Moderator: MIYAMOTO Takeshi (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Director, The History of Japan's Trade and Industry Policy (HJTIP))
"IT Strategy for Revitalization of SMEs"

No.399  May 24, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: SHIBATA Akio (Chief Economist and Director, Marubeni Research Institute)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Resources Inflation and Japan's Response"

No.398  May 23, 2006 
Speaker: Ishtiaq MAHMOOD (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore Business School)
Moderator: ASAKAWA Kazuhiro (Faculty Fellow / Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University)
"The Structure of Intra-Group Ties: Innovation in Taiwanese Business Groups"
Handouts [PDF: 288KB]
Transcript

No.397  May 15, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: HANAKI Izuru (Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI))
Moderator: UESUGI Iichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"The 2006 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan: Japanese Small and Medium Enterprises at a Turning Point of Deepening Crossborder Economic Interdependence and Decreasing Domestic Population"

No.369  May 12, 2006 
Speaker: George MOLENKAMP (Chairman, KPMG Global Sustainability Services)
Moderator: FUJII Toshihiko (Former Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Office for Trade Remedy Investigations, METI)
"Global Developments in Corporate Responsibility from a European Perspective"
Handouts [PDF: 2.41MB]
Transcript (read-only format)[PDF: 69KB]

No.395  May 11, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: NOBEOKA Kentaro (Former Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration of Kobe University)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Difficulties in Value Capture due to Commoditization: Case of Digital Appliances"

No.394  May 08, 2006  12:15-13:30
Speaker: Leo P. DROLLAS (Deputy Executive Director & Chief Economist, CGES (Centre for Global Energy Studies))
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Are High Oil Prices Here to Stay?"
Handouts [PDF: 5.09MB]
Transcript

No.393  April 28, 2006  12:30-13:45Japanese
Speaker: DOI Takero (Former Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"Fiscal Sustainability and Japan's Fiscal Reconstruction with Tax Increase: Reconsidering Broda and Weinstein's Estimate"

No.392  April 21, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: KOTERA Akira (Former Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Olympic Arbitration and Contemporary Sports World"

No.391  April 18, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: KASHIBA Hirotsugu (Secretary-General, The Committee Japanesque Modern)
Commentator: YOSHIKAWA Hisashi (Director, Service Affairs Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Moderator: TANABE Yashuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"The Outline of the Committee, Japanesque-modern Actions"
NOT for quotation

No.390  April 14, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: AKAI Nobuo (Former Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Hyogo)
Commentator: KATAYAMA Hiromu (Former Director, Council for Decentralization Reform, Cabinet Office)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"Optimal Division of Roles between the Public and Private Sectors under a Decentralized Regime"

No.389  April 12, 2006 
Speaker: Thomas ANDERSSON (President, Joenkoeping University)
Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)
"The Nordic Countries Leaders in the New Economy? ICT, Innovation and Economic Performance"(originally announced as "Innovation and Growth: Challenges for Nordic and other European Countries")
Handtout [PDF: 1.2MB]
Transcript

No.388  April 10, 2006  Japanese
Speaker: TADA Yukio (Chairman, Center for Professional Exchange(CEPEX))
Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)
"U.S.-Japan Relationship: the View at Washington DC"
Handout [PDF:896KB]
Report

No.387  April 07, 2006  Japanese

No.386  April 06, 2006 
(with simultaneous interpretation)
Speaker: SAITO Keisuke (Director, Industrial Revitalization Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Speaker: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Former Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Commentator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Vice-President, RIETI)
"New Economic Growth Strategy"