No.502  March 11, 2008 
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)
"From Kyoto to Hokkaido: Radically Re-thinking Climate Policy"
Transcript

No.501  March 04, 2008  Japanese
Speaker: MATSUYAMA Yukihiro (Affiliate Professor, Graduate School of Policy Research, Chiba University of Commerce)
Moderator: NAKATA Daigo (Fellow, RIETI)
"Viewpoints of Healthcare Service Industry Policy"

No.500  February 25, 2008  Japanese
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)
"Industrial Development Policy for Local Independence: Toward the Creative Local Areas by Internal Circulation, Reliance and Cooperation"

No.499  February 21, 2008  Japanese
Speaker: SHIMIZU Yasuyuki (President, LIFELINK Suicide Prevention Action Network Japan)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Preventing Suicide to Make a Safe Community"

No.498  February 15, 2008  Japanese
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)
"Issues and Strategies of Digital Appliances... Thin TVs, no problems?"

No.497  February 14, 2008 
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)
"The Falconer Draft Text for the Doha Round WTO Negotiations on Agriculture"
Handouts [PDF:123KB]
Summary

No.496  February 12, 2008  Japanese
Speaker: TSURUOKA Koji (Ambassador, Director-General for Global Issues, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
“Global Environmental Issues & Hokkaido Toyako Summit”

No.495  February 08, 2008  Japanese
Speaker: ANAI Seiji (Business Development, Sales Division, ZENRIN CO., LTD)
Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
"Satellite Positioning and Quasi-Zenith-Satellite-System: A Public Infrastructure Changing the Society in 21st Century"

No.494  February 07, 2008  Japanese
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)
"Poor Communication Skills Spoil the National Human Power"

No.493  February 05, 2008  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 (General Manager, Policy & Industry Consulting Department, Nomura research Institute Ltd.)
Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"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"

No.492  January 24, 2008  Japanese
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)
"A Question about NPO Policy in Governmental Structural Adjustment Era: Findings from 14,000 NPO Financial Data Base Analysis"

No.491  January 09, 2008 
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)
"American Foreign Policy after the 2008 Elections"
Handouts [PDF:36KB]
Summary

No.490  December 18, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Recent Developments of International Space Law and Policy: Possibility of the Commercialization in Japanese Space Industry"

No.489  December 07, 2007 
Speaker: John ZYSMAN (Professor and Co-Director, BRIE of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley)
Moderator: HAYASHI Toshihiko (Professor, The Open University of Japan)
"Building on the Past, Imagining the Future: Competency-Based Growth Strategies in an Era of the Modular Production and the Services Transformation"
Handouts [PDF:302KB]
Summary

No.488  December 05, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: MORINOBU Shigeki (Professor, Chuo Law School)
Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
"Efficiency and Equity - A New Trend in World Tax Reform"

No.487  December 04, 2007 
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)
"Climate Change: Implications, Consequences and Predictability - Plus Politics"
Handouts [PDF:232KB]
Transcript

No.486  November 28, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: DOUNOUE Takeo (Director for Diet Relations, Minister's Secretariat, METI)
Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
"Chinese Economy and Japan-China Economic Relations: A Diplomat's Experiences in China"

No.485  November 27, 2007 
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)
"Current Challenges and Future Prospects in Engaging China on IPR Protection"
NOT for quotation
Summary

No.484  November 16, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Chinese Exchange Rate Policy and Asian Currency Basket"

No.483  November 13, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Outlines of the Competition Review in the Telecommunications Industry"

No.482  November 12, 2007 
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)
"Lenders or Owners? How Surplus Countries are going to Change the Playing Field"
Transcript

No.481  November 09, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: NAKAO Takehiko (Senior Deputy Director-General, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
"Perspectives of the US Economic Policy"

No.480  November 08, 2007  Japanese
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)
"A Glimpse of Japanese Industry and Town Development"

No.479  November 02, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Risk Management and Compliance in Enterprises: On-site Risk Management, Ranging From Deceptive Food to Accounting Fraud"

No.478  November 01, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: SUZUOKI Takabumi (Senior Staff Writer, NIKKEI Hong Kong)
Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
"Changing Triangle---China, Korea and Japan"
NOT for quotation

No.477  October 29, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: ARIYOSHI Akira (Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific)
Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"IMF World Economic Outlook [Autumn 2007]"
NOT for quotation

No.476  October 25, 2007 
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)
"Competition and Regulatory Mix in the Restructuring of the European Electricity System"
Handouts [PDF:246KB]
Transcript

No.475  October 17, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Life Cycle Assessment - Current and Future -"

No.474  October 16, 2007  Japanese
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)
"'Risk Takers in London' -Industrial Financial Risk"

No.473  October 15, 2007  Japanese
*Chinese / Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)
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)
"The Major Characteristics of China's Innovation System"
NOT for quotation
Transcript

No.472  October 11, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: TAMATSUKA Genichi (Managing Partner, Revamp Corporation)
Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"Management Power Which Enables Innovations"
NOT for quotation

No.471  October 05, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Changes in Inflation Dynamics"

No.470  September 27, 2007 
Speaker: Peter TURNER (Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
Commentator: KOTERA Akira (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
Moderator: MATSUMOTO Kayo (Fellow, RIETI)
"Developments in Arbitration in Europe and the Active Use of Arbitration by Japanese Companies"
Handouts [PDF:108KB]
Comments [PDF:40KB]
Summary
Summary (Japanese)

No.469  September 26, 2007 
Speaker: Ambassador Ira S. SHAPIRO (Attorney, Greenberg Traurig LLP)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Recent Developments and Future Direction of U.S. Trade Policy, with Particular Reference to Japan and China"
Transcript

No.468  September 21, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: MIZUTANI Kenji (Professor, Graduate School of Business Innovation, Chukyo University)
Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
"Towards an Inflationary Economy"

No.467  September 18, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Rationality and Japan"

No.466  September 03, 2007  Japanese
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)
"A Study on Improving Venture Capital Returns in Japan -Hypothesis Formulation Concerning Alignment of Interests between Venture Business and Venture Capital-"

No.465  August 30, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Which Was More Important During the Showa Depression: Fiscal Policy or Monetary Policy?"

No.464  August 24, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: ISHII Hiroaki (Director-General, Planning Department, JETRO)
Moderator: MITA Noriyuki (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
"Japan-US Economic Relationship and Actions for the Future"
NOT for quotation

No.463  August 01, 2007  Japanese
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)
"The Winner in the Financial Markets"

No.462  July 30, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: TAYA Teizo (Special Counselor, Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"Monetary Policy and Prices"

No.461  July 27, 2007 
Speaker: Stephen S. COHEN (Professor of Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley / Co-Director, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE))
Commentator & Moderator: TAMAI Katsuya (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo)
"Funding and Governing a Great Public University: the Case of Berkeley"
Transcript
Handout [PDF: 466KB] (courtesy of the University of California at Berkeley)

No.460  July 25, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: KIHARA Yoshitake (Deputy Director-General, Second Patent Examination Department, Japan Patent Office)
Moderator: KIYOKAWA Yutaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
"The Current State and Challenges of Industrial Property Rights: Improving Intellectual Property Strategy of Japanese Company"

No.459  July 24, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Design-Based Comparative Advantage: An Exploratory Analysis"

No.458  July 13, 2007  Japanese
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)
"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-"

No.457  July 12, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: YONEKURA Hiromasa (President, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.)
Moderator: YAMANE Kei (Director, Chemicals Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
"The Further Development of Sumitomo Chemical's Petrochemical Business Overseas Toward Completion of the Rabigh Project"

No.456  July 09, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Behavioral Biases of Institutional Investors and Incentive Structure of Fund Managers"

No.455  July 06, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: MIYAGAWA Tadao (President, the Institute of Statistical Research / Emeritus Professor, Hitotsubashi University)
Moderator: OZAKI Masashiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
"Say it with Figures: Uses and Misuses of Figures and Statistics"

No.454  July 03, 2007 
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)
"The Commitment to Development Index: Ranking the Rich on Helping the Poor"
Transcript and Handouts

No.453  June 26, 2007 
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)
"The US-Korea FTA: Its Geopolitical Implications and its Lessons for Japan-Korea FTA"
Handouts [PDF:626KB]
Transcript

No.452  June 18, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Japan Market Outlook: 'Waiting for Catalyst'"
NOT for quotation

No.451  June 15, 2007  12:15-13:30
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)
"Hikikomori and Other Pathologies: A new approach to understanding Japan's competitiveness challenge"
Summary

No.450  June 13, 2007  12:30-14:00
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)
"The Public Enforcement of Securities Laws"
Handouts [PDF:527KB]
Summary

No.449  June 08, 2007  Japanese
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)
"Production Innovation in Process Industry"

No.448  May 17, 2007 
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)
"U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda"
NOT for quotation
Handouts [PDF:23KB]
Handouts [PDF:34KB]
CFR Report
Transcript

No.447  May 10, 2007 
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)
"Navigating Global Antitrust Rules for Japanese Firms"
Handouts [PDF:69KB]
Summary

No.446  May 07, 2007  Japanese
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)
"White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in 2007"

No.445  April 25, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: ARIYOSHI Akira (Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific)
Moderator: KIMURA Hidemi (Fellow, RIETI)
"IMF World Economic Outlook [Spring 2007]"
NOT for quotation

No.444  April 23, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: JIMBO Ken (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Fellow, RIETI)
"Japan's New Diplomatic Horizon?: Prospects of the Arc of Freedom and Prosperity, Japan-Aus / India / NATO Relations"

No.443  April 17, 2007  Japanese
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)
"The Age of Global Productivity Competition: Is Japan Falling Behind?"
Handouts [PDF:148KB]

No.442  April 12, 2007  Japanese
Speaker: KOBAYASHI Hideo (Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Director of Research, RIETI)
"The History of so called 'Japanese Inc.'"

No.441  April 09, 2007 
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)
"Demographic Change: How the U.S. is Coping with Aging, Immigration and Other Challenges"
Handouts [PDF:1.2MB]
Summary

No.440  April 04, 2007  Japanese
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)
"IEA and Four Challenges"
NOT for quotation
Handouts [PDF:330KB]