BBL Seminars FY2007

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Past BBL Reports and Summaries

  • March 28, 2008

    Japan's FTA Policy: an Analysis of its Political Process

    • Speaker: SEKIZAWA Yoichi (Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: ODAKI Kazuhiko (Director, Chemicals Division Alcohol Office, Chemicals Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • March 11, 2008

    From Kyoto to Hokkaido: Radically Re-thinking Climate Policy

    • Speaker: Gwyn PRINS (Director, the LSE Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events)
    • Moderator: TAKETANI Atsushi (Director for Climate Change, Global Environmental Affairs Office, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)

  • March 04, 2008

    Viewpoints of Healthcare Service Industry Policy

    • Speaker: MATSUYAMA Yukihiro (Affiliate Professor, Graduate School of Policy Research, Chiba University of Commerce)
    • Moderator: NAKATA Daigo (Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 25, 2008

    Industrial Development Policy for Local Independence: Toward the Creative Local Areas by Internal Circulation, Reliance and Cooperation

    • Speaker: KOISO Shuji (Director of the Research Center for Regional Economics and Professor, Kushiro Public University)
    • Commentator: NAKANISHI Hodaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: YOKOTA Toshiyuki (Director, Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Division, Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Group, METI)

    Japanese

  • February 21, 2008

    Preventing Suicide to Make a Safe Community

    • Speaker: SHIMIZU Yasuyuki (President, LIFELINK Suicide Prevention Action Network Japan)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 15, 2008

    Issues and Strategies of Digital Appliances... Thin TVs, no problems?

    • Speaker: OHKI Hiromi (Senior Economist, Overseas Research Department, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO))
    • Moderator: SUMITA Takayuki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Information and Communication Electronics Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • February 14, 2008

    The Falconer Draft Text for the Doha Round WTO Negotiations on Agriculture

    • Speaker: Brett WILLIAMS (Senior Lecturer & Programme Director, Public International Economic Law, Sydney Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney)
    • Moderator: TAMURA Akihiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director (Dispute Settlement), Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Handouts [PDF:123KB]

  • February 12, 2008

    Global Environmental Issues & Hokkaido Toyako Summit

    • Speaker: TSURUOKA Koji (Ambassador, Director-General for Global Issues, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 08, 2008

    Satellite Positioning and Quasi-Zenith-Satellite-System: A Public Infrastructure Changing the Society in 21st Century

    • Speaker: ANAI Seiji (Business Development, Sales Division, ZENRIN CO., LTD)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 07, 2008

    Poor Communication Skills Spoil the National Human Power

    • Speaker: NISHIYAMA Akihiko (A Head of Nishiyama Research Institute, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. / Professor, Tokyo Jogakkan College)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 05, 2008

    Toward the Realization of Service Model Innovation of Japanese SMEs and Startups - Case Studies with a New Perspective on Business, Function, and the Global Market

    • 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 (General Manager, Policy & Industry Consulting Department, Nomura research Institute Ltd.)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • January 24, 2008

    A Question about NPO Policy in Governmental Structural Adjustment Era: Findings from 14,000 NPO Financial Data Base Analysis

    • Speaker: TANAKA Yayoi (Associate Professor, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation)
    • Moderator: YAMAMOTO Tetsuya (Director, Business Environment Promotion Division, Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Group, METI)

    Japanese

  • January 09, 2008

    American Foreign Policy after the 2008 Elections

    • Speaker: Henry R. NAU (Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of U.S.-Japan and U.S-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Programs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University)
    • Moderator: KURIHARA Jun (Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government & John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
    • Handouts [PDF:36KB]

  • December 18, 2007

    Recent Developments of International Space Law and Policy: Possibility of the Commercialization in Japanese Space Industry

    • Speaker: AOKI Setsuko (Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
    • Commentator: IIDA Yoichi (Director, Space Industry Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator & Moderator: KOTERA Akira (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)

    Japanese

  • December 07, 2007

    Building on the Past, Imagining the Future: Competency-Based Growth Strategies in an Era of the Modular Production and the Services Transformation

    • Speaker: John ZYSMAN (Professor and Co-Director, BRIE of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley)
    • Moderator: HAYASHI Toshihiko (Professor, The Open University of Japan)
    • Handouts [PDF:302KB]

  • December 05, 2007

    Efficiency and Equity - A New Trend in World Tax Reform

    • Speaker: MORINOBU Shigeki (Professor, Chuo Law School)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 04, 2007

    Climate Change: Implications, Consequences and Predictability - Plus Politics

    • Speaker: Gregg SUHLER (Co-founder and Managing Member, Dynamic Predictables LLC)
    • Commentator: Glen S. FUKUSHIMA (Senior Vice President, Airbus SAS / President & CEO, Airbus Japan KK)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF:232KB]

  • November 28, 2007

    Chinese Economy and Japan-China Economic Relations: A Diplomat's Experiences in China

    • Speaker: DOUNOUE Takeo (Director for Diet Relations, Minister's Secretariat, METI)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 27, 2007

    Current Challenges and Future Prospects in Engaging China on IPR Protection

    • Speaker: Mark Allen COHEN (Intellectual Property Attache, U.S. Embassy in Beijing)
    • Moderator: ITO Banri (Visiting Scholar, RIETI / Research Fellow, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

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  • November 16, 2007

    Chinese Exchange Rate Policy and Asian Currency Basket

    • Speaker: ITO Takatoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 13, 2007

    Outlines of the Competition Review in the Telecommunications Industry

    • Speaker: IMAGAWA Takuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Investigator, General Policy Division, Information and Communications Policy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
    • Moderator: NABESHIMA Manabu (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Director, Policy Planning Division, Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)

    Japanese

  • November 12, 2007

    Lenders or Owners? How Surplus Countries are going to Change the Playing Field

    • Speaker: Paola SUBACCHI (Head, International Economics Programme, Chatham House)
    • Speaker: Andrea GOLDSTEIN (Senior Economist, OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs)
    • Commentator: Pietro GINEFRA (Chief Representative, the Bank of Italy)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

  • November 09, 2007

    Perspectives of the US Economic Policy

    • Speaker: NAKAO Takehiko (Senior Deputy Director-General, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 08, 2007

    A Glimpse of Japanese Industry and Town Development

    • Speaker: OKADA Kunihiko (Representative Director and Chairman, Matsuzakaya Co., Ltd.)
    • Commentator: HAMABE Tetsuya (Director, Distribution and Logistics Policy Division, Commerce and Distribution Policy Group, METI)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 02, 2007

    Risk Management and Compliance in Enterprises: On-site Risk Management, Ranging From Deceptive Food to Accounting Fraud

    • Speaker: KUNIHIRO Tadashi (Attorney, T.Kunihiro & Co., Attorneys-at-Law)
    • Commentator: Koichi Eugene OKAMOTO, Ph.D. (Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Toyo Eiwa University / Expert Commissioner, Atomic Energy Committee, Government of Japan)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 01, 2007

    Changing Triangle---China, Korea and Japan

    • Speaker: SUZUOKI Takabumi (Senior Staff Writer, NIKKEI Hong Kong)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • October 29, 2007

    IMF World Economic Outlook [Autumn 2007]

    • Speaker: ARIYOSHI Akira (Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • October 25, 2007

    Competition and Regulatory Mix in the Restructuring of the European Electricity System

    • Speaker: Yves SMEERS (Tractebel Professor, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain)
    • Commentator & Moderator: KANEMOTO Yoshitsugu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
    • Handouts [PDF:246KB]

  • October 17, 2007

    Life Cycle Assessment - Current and Future -

    • Speaker: INABA Atsushi (Professor, Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, the University of Tokyo / Director, Research Center for Life Cycle Assessment, AIST)
    • Moderator: FUJII Norio (Deputy Director, Environmental Industries Office, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environmental Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • October 16, 2007

    'Risk Takers in London' -Industrial Financial Risk

    • Speaker: SANO Keisaku (Group Chairman, Japan England Insurance Group)
    • Moderator: KATSUNO Ryuhei (Director-General for Regional Economic and Industrial Policy, Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Group, METI)

    Japanese

  • October 15, 2007

    The Major Characteristics of China's Innovation System

    • Speaker: LU Wei (Director General, Techno-economic Research Department, Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council of P.R.C)
    • Commentator: MARUKAWA Tomoo (Professor, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor and Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Director and Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)

    Japanese

    *Chinese / Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)

    NOT for quotation

  • October 11, 2007

    Management Power Which Enables Innovations

    • Speaker: TAMATSUKA Genichi (Managing Partner, Revamp Corporation)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • October 05, 2007

    Changes in Inflation Dynamics

    • Speaker: WATANABE Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research and Research Center for Price Dynamics, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Moderator: MAMIYA Toshio (Director, Macro Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • September 27, 2007

    Developments in Arbitration in Europe and the Active Use of Arbitration by Japanese Companies

  • September 26, 2007

    Recent Developments and Future Direction of U.S. Trade Policy, with Particular Reference to Japan and China

    • Speaker: Ambassador Ira S. SHAPIRO (Attorney, Greenberg Traurig LLP)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)

  • September 21, 2007

    Towards an Inflationary Economy

    • Speaker: MIZUTANI Kenji (Professor, Graduate School of Business Innovation, Chukyo University)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • September 18, 2007

    Rationality and Japan

    • Speaker: HAYASHI Susumu (Professor, Humanistic Informatics, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University)
    • Commentator: CHUMA Hiroyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • September 03, 2007

    A Study on Improving Venture Capital Returns in Japan -Hypothesis Formulation Concerning Alignment of Interests between Venture Business and Venture Capital-

    • Speaker: HASEGAWA Hirokazu (Managing Partner, Global Venture Capital Inc.)
    • Moderator: ISHII Yoshiaki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Director, Fund Planning Division, Fund Program Department, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN)

    Japanese

  • August 30, 2007

    Which Was More Important During the Showa Depression: Fiscal Policy or Monetary Policy?

    • Speaker: SATO Ayano (Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Niigata Sangyo University)
    • Speaker: HARADA Yutaka (Chief Economist, Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.)
    • Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • August 24, 2007

    Japan-US Economic Relationship and Actions for the Future

    • Speaker: ISHII Hiroaki (Director-General, Planning Department, JETRO)
    • Moderator: MITA Noriyuki (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • August 01, 2007

    The Winner in the Financial Markets

    • Speaker: TAKATA Hajime (Head of Research / Chief Strategist, Senior General Manager, Fixed Income Group, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.)
    • Speaker: SHIBASAKI Takeshi (Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Market Research Dept., Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 30, 2007

    Monetary Policy and Prices

    • Speaker: TAYA Teizo (Special Counselor, Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 27, 2007

    Funding and Governing a Great Public University: the Case of Berkeley

  • July 25, 2007

    The Current State and Challenges of Industrial Property Rights: Improving Intellectual Property Strategy of Japanese Company

    • Speaker: KIHARA Yoshitake (Deputy Director-General, Second Patent Examination Department, Japan Patent Office)
    • Moderator: KIYOKAWA Yutaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 24, 2007

    Design-Based Comparative Advantage: An Exploratory Analysis

    • Speaker: FUJIMOTO Takahiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo / Executive Director, Manufacturing Management Research Center / Senior Research Associate, Harvard Business School)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 13, 2007

    White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2007: Japan's Trade Strategy on Improving Industrial Productivity and Accelerating Economic Growth -Dynamic Growth of East Asia and Globalization of Service Industries-

    • Speaker: YOSHIDA Yasuhiko (Former Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 12, 2007

    The Further Development of Sumitomo Chemical's Petrochemical Business Overseas Toward Completion of the Rabigh Project

    • Speaker: YONEKURA Hiromasa (President, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.)
    • Moderator: YAMANE Kei (Director, Chemicals Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 09, 2007

    Behavioral Biases of Institutional Investors and Incentive Structure of Fund Managers

    • Speaker: SUTO Megumi (Professor, Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: KOMIYA Yoshinori (Director, Industrial Finance Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 06, 2007

    Say it with Figures: Uses and Misuses of Figures and Statistics

    • Speaker: MIYAGAWA Tadao (President, the Institute of Statistical Research / Emeritus Professor, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 03, 2007

    The Commitment to Development Index: Ranking the Rich on Helping the Poor

    • Speaker: David ROODMAN (Research Fellow, Center for Global Development)
    • Commentator: SAWADA Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)

  • June 26, 2007

    The US-Korea FTA: Its Geopolitical Implications and its Lessons for Japan-Korea FTA

    • Speaker: AHN Se-Young (Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Sogang University / Visiting Scholar, Waseda University)
    • Commentator & Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
    • Handouts [PDF:626KB]

  • June 18, 2007

    Japan Market Outlook: 'Waiting for Catalyst'

    • Speaker: Kathy MATSUI (Managing Director and Chief Japan Strategist, Co-Director of Pan Asian Investment Research, Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • June 15, 2007

    Hikikomori and Other Pathologies: A new approach to understanding Japan's competitiveness challenge

    • Speaker: Michael ZIELENZIGER (Research Scholar, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
    • Moderator: HARAOKA Naoyuki (Director-General, Training Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI)
    • Time: 12:15-13:30

  • June 13, 2007

    The Public Enforcement of Securities Laws

    • Speaker: Howell E. JACKSON (James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)
    • Commentator & Moderator: SHISHIDO Zenichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Seikei Law School, Seikei University)
    • Time: 12:30-14:00
    • Handouts [PDF:527KB]

  • June 08, 2007

    Production Innovation in Process Industry

    • Speaker: OGAWA Yoshimi (Executive Officer and Plant Manager Harima Plant, Aerospace & Defense Systems / Safety Systems Company, Daicel Chemical Industries, LTD.)
    • Moderator: YAMANE Kei (Director, Chemicals Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • May 17, 2007

    U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda

    • Speaker: Frank Sampson JANNUZI (Hitachi International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations / Visiting Researcher, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
    • Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Research Fellow, IIPS)
    • Handouts [PDF:23KB]
    • Handouts [PDF:34KB]
    • CFR Report

    NOT for quotation

  • May 10, 2007

    Navigating Global Antitrust Rules for Japanese Firms

    • Speaker: Einer ELHAUGE (Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law, Harvard Law School / Senior Expert, Criterion Economics)
    • Speaker: Damien GERADIN (Partner, Howrey LLP / Professor of Competition Law and Economics, Tilburg University)
    • Commentator: OHASHI Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF:69KB]

  • May 07, 2007

    White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in 2007

    • Speaker: UESUGI Iichiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
    • Commentator & Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 25, 2007

    IMF World Economic Outlook [Spring 2007]

    • Speaker: ARIYOSHI Akira (Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific)
    • Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • April 23, 2007

    Japan's New Diplomatic Horizon?: Prospects of the Arc of Freedom and Prosperity, Japan-Aus / India / NATO Relations

    • Speaker: JIMBO Ken (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
    • Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 17, 2007

    The Age of Global Productivity Competition: Is Japan Falling Behind?

    • Speaker: FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Speaker: MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
    • Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Handouts [PDF:148KB]

    Japanese

  • April 12, 2007

    The History of so called 'Japanese Inc.'

    • Speaker: KOBAYASHI Hideo (Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 09, 2007

    Demographic Change: How the U.S. is Coping with Aging, Immigration and Other Challenges

    • Speaker: William H. FREY (Research Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan / Senior Fellow, Demographic Studies, Milken Institute / Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution)
    • Moderator: NAKATA Daigo (Fellow, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF:1.2MB]

  • April 04, 2007

    IEA and Four Challenges

    • Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (Director for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD / Executive Director elect, IEA / Former Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: TANABE Yasuo (Deputy Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau, MOFA / Former Vice-President, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF:330KB]

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation