BBL Seminars FY2008

Past BBL Reports and Summaries

  • March 23, 2009

    A Review of the Financial Reporting and Auditing System in Japan--Evaluations of the Reforms started in the late 1990s

    • Speaker: HASHIMOTO Takashi (Professor, Graduate School of Professional Accountancy, Aoyama Gakuin University)
    • Speaker: HATTA Shinji (Auditor, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Professional Accountancy, Aoyama Gakuin University)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • March 18, 2009

    The Global Financial-Economic Crisis and the Obama Administration's Policies towards East/Southeast Asia

    • Speaker: Richard CRONIN (Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center)
    • Commentator: KAWAKAMI Takashi (Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Takushoku University)
    • Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
    • Handout (Henry L. Stimson Center)
  • March 16, 2009

    The Old & New Shape of Asian International Politics

    • Speaker: David SHAMBAUGH (Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of China Policy Program, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University)
    • Moderator: MATSUMOTO Kayo (Fellow, RIETI)
  • March 11, 2009

    Transformation and Strategies of Japanese Firms toward the Post-'Subprime Loan Crisis' World

    • Speaker: KINOSHITA Toshihiko (Visiting Professor, the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS), Waseda University)
    • Moderator: KURODA Atsuo (Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • March 10, 2009

    Discussion on Taxpayer Identification Number--From a Taxpayer Point of View

    • Speaker: MORINOBU Shigeki (Professor, Chuo Law School / Chief Research Fellow, the Tokyo Foundation)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 26, 2009

    The Politics and Likely Trade Policies of the Obama Administration: the Doha Round, Preferential Trade Agreements, and Asian Regionalism

  • February 23, 2009

    Banking Supervision in Europe: Impact of the Financial Crisis

    • Speaker: Nicolas VERON (Research Fellow, Bruegel)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:260KB]
  • February 18, 2009

    Toward Service Model Innovation, Productivity Improvement, and Creation of New Industry for Japanese SEMs and Startups

    • Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Senior Researcher, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan)
    • Commentator: ITAYA Toshimasa (President, Property Data Bank, Inc.)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 04, 2009

    Export Credits and the OECD: Achievements and Challenges

    • Speaker: Pekka KARKOVIRTA (Vice-Chair, Working Group on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees, OECD)
    • Speaker: OKADA Kohei (Vice-Chair, Working Group on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees, OECD / Chief Representative, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), Paris)
    • Speaker: Janet WEST (Head, Export Credits Division, OECD)
    • Moderator: MATSUURA Tetsuya (Trade Finance and Economic Cooperation Division, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)
    • Handout [PDF:143KB]
  • January 28, 2009

    Chinese Economy -- Can she be an engine of the world economic growth?

    • Speaker: TSUGAMI Toshiya (President, Toa Capital Corp.)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • January 27, 2009

    Global Financial Crisis and World Economic Outlook

    • Speaker: HAYASHI Tomoko (Director for Overseas Economies, Cabinet Office)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • January 26, 2009

    Social Policy in Australia: Recent Directions and the Use of Microsimulation Models in the Policy Reform Process

    • Speaker: Ann HARDING (Director, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) / Professor, Applied Economics and Social Policy, University of Canberra)
    • Moderator: NAKATA Daigo (Fellow, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:2.17MB]
  • January 22, 2009

    Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in Goods, Services and Investment

    • Speaker: Bertin MARTENS (Deputy Chief Economist, DG Trade, European Commission)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:150KB]
  • January 21, 2009

    Future Prospects of EU Product Environmental Regulations (ex: RoHS, REACH) - Changes in Corporate Activity and Policy Decision Making

    • Speakrer: HIRATSUKA Nobuyuki (Director for Corporate System, Corporate Affairs Division, Industrial Policy Bureau, METI / Former Secretary General, Japan Business Council in Europe)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • January 16, 2009

    The Global Economic Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Responses

    • Speaker: Jay ROSENGARD (Lecturer in Public Policy / Director, Financial Sector Program, J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
    • Moderator: KURIHARA Jun (Liaison Officer, RIETI / Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government & John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
  • January 15, 2009

    The U.S. Iran Embargo: Which Japanese companies must comply? Some new challenges for Japanese companies

    • Speaker: Harald HOHMANN (Attorney / Senior Partner, Hohmann & Partner Rechtsanwalte)
    • Commentator / Moderator: TAIRA Satoru (Professor of Law, Graduate School of Law, Osaka City University)
    • Handout [PDF:22KB]
  • January 14, 2009

    The Descent and Current Situation of Islamic Finance and Japan

    • Speaker: KITAMURA Toshiharu (Professor, Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University / Member of Public Interest Oversight Board)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masahiko (Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • January 13, 2009

    How to Spread Electric Vehicles

    • Speaker: TATEUCHI Tadashi (Motor Journalist / Representative, Japan Electric Vehicle Club)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 22, 2008

    From Oil Based Economy to Sun Based Economy

    • Speaker: YAMAZAKI Yasuyo (Representative, Yamazaki Associates, Think Tank)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 15, 2008

    Over-Employment: The Structure, Determinants, and Policy Measures for Time-Related Involuntary Employment

    • Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna H. Gray Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)
    • Commentator: SATO Hiroki (Professor, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies)

    Japanese

  • December 12, 2008

    Technology Strategy in the Era of Open Innovation

    • Speaker: HASEGAWA Katsuya (Professor, Strategic Management Laboratory, ASMeW, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masahiko (Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 11, 2008

    The U.S., APEC, and East Asian Integration: Policy trends and options

    • Speaker: Vinod AGGARWAL (Director and Professor, Berkeley APEC Study Center / University of California, Berkeley)
    • Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: FUKUNAGA Tetsuro (Director, Office for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
  • December 05, 2008

    Labour Productivity: Are Diverging Trends between Developed Countries Durable?

    • Speaker: Michel FOUQUIN (Deputy Director, the CEPII / Associate Professor, the University of Paris I (Pantheon- Sorbonne))
    • Commentator / Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Handout [PDF:350KB]
    • Comment [PDF:246KB]
  • November 20, 2008

    International Accounting Update: Achieving Convergence in Accounting Standards with Eventual Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs)

    • Speaker: HASHIMOTO Takashi (Professor, Graduate School of Professional Accountancy, Aoyama Gakuin University)
    • Commentator: FUJINUMA Tsuguoki (Trustee, International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation / Former Chairman and President, Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants / Former President, IFAC / Chairman of Trustees, the Financial Accounting Standards Foundation of Japan)
    • Moderator: HATTA Shinji (Auditor, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Professional Accountancy, Aoyama Gakuin University)
  • November 19, 2008

    The Doha Development Agenda--Why is it taking all this long?

    • Speaker: Johann HUMAN (Director, Rules Division, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland)
    • Moderator: FUJII Toshihiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director of Rules and Director of WTO Compliance and Dispute Settlement, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Handout [PDF:141.6KB]

    NOT for quotation

  • November 17, 2008

    Organizational Climate and Essence of Top Leadership

    • Speaker: Koichi Eugene OKAMOTO (Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Toyo Eiwa University / Expert Commissioner, Atomic Energy Committee, Government of Japan)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 11, 2008

    Ranking the Gulf in the Global Financial League

    • Speaker: Vanessa ROSSI (Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF:80KB]
  • November 10, 2008

    Future of Japanese Social Security System--Final Report by National Council for Social Security

    • Speaker: YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Chair, Ministerial Council on Public Pension System / Research Counselor and Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: KAWAMOTO Akira (Counsellor, Cabinet Secretariat / Former Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 05, 2008

    The Restructuring and Competitiveness of Korean Steel Industry: Implications for Japan-Korea Trade Deficit Problem

    • Speaker: ABE Makoto (Director, Technological Innovation and Economic Growth Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO))
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • October 23, 2008

    Contract Innovation and Collaborative Contract Design

    • Speaker: George TRIANTIS (Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)
    • Commentator: SHISHIDO Zenichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Seikei Law School, Seikei University)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
  • October 20, 2008

    IMF World Economic Outlook [Autumn 2008]

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

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • October 17, 2008

    Competition among Mega-Regions

    • Speaker: HOSOKAWA Masahiko (Professor, School of Economics, Chukyo University)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • October 03, 2008

    Current World Energy Situation and the IEA's Contribution to the Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit

    • Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (Executive Director, IEA)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)
    • Time: 18:30-20:00

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • October 03, 2008

    Climate Change and WTO Rules--Guidance for Legislative Design

  • October 01, 2008

    Public Governance in the Network Society

    • Speaker: OKUMURA Hirokazu (Project Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • September 16, 2008

    Economic Analyses of Vertical Relationships

    • Speaker: MORITA Hodaka (Associate Professor, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales)
    • Moderator: NAKAHARA Hirohiko (Director, Intellectual Property Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • September 12, 2008

    Russia's Economic History--A Comparison with Japan

    • Speaker: KAWATO Akio (Affiliate Professor, Graduate School, Division of Commerce, Waseda University / Senior Research Fellow, Tokyo Foundation)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • September 01, 2008

    Reconfiguration of Knowledge--Essence of Modern Industrial Dynamics

    • Speaker: NISHIYAMA Keita (Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • August 28, 2008

    Trends in the U.S. Intellectual Property System 'Progress of the Patent Reform'

    • Speaker: SAWAI Tomoki (Director, Information Technology Planning Office, General Affairs Division, Japan Patent Office)
    • Commentator: UEMURA Shozo (Patent Attorney, Vice President and Tokyo Office Manager of Aoyama & Partners / Visiting Professor, Tohoku University / Former Deputy Director General of WIPO)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • August 22, 2008

    Telework as the Solution of Social Problems

    • Speaker: TAZAWA Yuri (Representative Director, Y's STAFF Corporation)
    • Commentator: NAKANISHI Hodaka (Counselor, Cabinet Secretariat)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • August 13, 2008

    Understanding the Relationship between Institutions and Economic Development: Some Key Theoretical Issues

    • Speaker: Ha-Joon CHANG (Reader, Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)
    • Moderator: Youn Hee CHOI (Visiting Scholar, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF:20KB]
  • August 08, 2008

    Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finance 2008

    • Speaker: SHINODA Yukio (Deputy Director of Macroeconomic Analysis, Cabinet Office)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • August 05, 2008

    Choose and Focus: The Transformation of Japan's Industrial Architecture

  • July 31, 2008

    Communications Strategies for Tackling Social Challenges at the Community Level: Lessons from recent citizens' movements

    • Speaker: FUNAKI Shigenori (Account Director, Business Planning Department Business Producing Division, HAKUHODO INC. / Counselor, Gender Equality Bureau & Office for Policies on Work-Life Balance, Cabinet Office)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 24, 2008

    Strategies of Investors in Conflict with Host Governments

  • July 23, 2008

    Report of 'Takeover Defense Measures in view of Recent Environmental Changes'

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Director, Corporate System Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 18, 2008

    White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2008

    • Speaker: ITO Koji (Deputy Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI / Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 17, 2008

    Toward Revitalizing Japan's Economy 'Hurry to Become a Major Country for World Exhibitions'

    • Speaker: Tad ISHIZUMI (President, Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd.)
    • Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Counsellor [Science, Technology and Innovation], Cabinet Office)

    Japanese

  • July 15, 2008

    How do the innovation systems of US and Japan differ? What are the potential implications? Evidence from the RIETI-GT inventor surveys

    • Speaker: John WALSH (Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology)
    • Speaker and Moderator: NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
  • July 11, 2008

    White Paper on Manufacturing Infrastructure, 2008

    • Speaker: HONDO Kazuki (Special Assistant to Director-General, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • July 09, 2008

    The Trial of the Regional Promotion through the EXPO2005

    • Speaker: SAKATA Minoru (Executive Producer, Shinto Tsushin Co.,Ltd.)
    • Moderator: NAKANISHI Hodaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 25, 2008

    Reflecting upon Osaka's Politics and Government

    • Speaker: OHTA Fusae (Affiliate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 23, 2008

    Annual Energy Report (FY2007)

    • Speaker: JIKE Katsumasa (Director, Communications Office, General Policy Division, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 20, 2008

    Changing World and Japan's Response

    • Speaker: TANAKA Hitoshi (Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange / Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 16, 2008

    How to Escape from Long Time Working Behavior?

    • Speaker: KATSUMA Kazuyo (CPA, Economist)
    • Moderator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna Holborn Grey Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)

    Japanese

  • June 11, 2008

    Early Childhood Education and Care Policy: Learning from Experiences in Other Countries

    • Speaker: IKEMOTO Mika (Senior Researcher, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.)
    • Commentator: ASAKAWA Tomoaki (Director, Birthrate Affairs Planning Office, General Affairs Division, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
    • Moderator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna Holborn Grey Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)

    Japanese

  • May 27, 2008

    Strategic Thinking in Japan's Foreign Policy

    • Speaker: TAKEUCHI Yukio (Adviser to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • May 23, 2008

    Strategies for Elimination of Gender Inequality in Wages: Theoretical and Empirical Bases for the Irrationality of Statistical Discrimination

    • Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna Holborn Grey Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)
    • Commentator: SASAJIMA Yoshio (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Meiji Gakuin University)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • May 22, 2008

    Emissions Trading Developments across the world - lessons for Japan?

    • Speaker: Henry DERWENT (President & CEO, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA))
    • Commentator: YAMAGUCHI Mitsutsune (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF:845KB]
    • Comments [PDF:230KB]
  • May 16, 2008

    White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises 2008

    • Speaker: INOUE Seiichiro (Deputy Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 24, 2008

    Key Issues in US-China Economic Relations

    • Speaker: Eric ALTBACH (Vice President for Economic and Trade Affairs, The National Bureau of Asian Research)
    • Moderator: MITA Noriyuki (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
  • April 23, 2008

    IMF World Economic Outlook [Spring 2008]

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

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • April 22, 2008

    Integration of Pension, Assistance and Taxation

    • Speaker: TANAKA Hideaki (Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Commentator & Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 21, 2008

    The Tokaido Shinkansen Bypass Project

    • Speaker: KASAI Yoshiyuki (Chairman and Representative Director, Central Japan Railway Company)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • April 18, 2008

    Is Japan's TFP Growth Reviving? New Estimates Based on the JIP Database

    • 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: OZAKI Masahiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 15, 2008

    Research and Analysis on AIST Startups by Research Team for Business & Innovation of the AIST Innovation Center for startups, for the FY2007.

    • Speaker: KIMURA Yukio (Chief, Research Team for Business and Innovation, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
    • Speaker: AOKI Shigeki (Chief Economist, Research Division,Value Management Institute, Inc.)
    • Moderator: OZAKI Masahiko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 11, 2008

    Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity

    • Speaker: Dietmar HARHOFF (Director of the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich)
    • Moderator: NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor, RIETI / Director and Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Handouts [PDF:407KB]

    NOT for quotation

  • April 10, 2008

    Light Rail Transit (LRT) Systems for Creating Compact Cities

    • Speaker: MORI Masashi (Mayor, Toyama City)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 07, 2008

    How Alliance-based Business Model Impact on Corporate and Pricing Strategy - What we can learn from i-mode, Google, Rakuten etc

    • Speaker: HIRANO Atsushi (Co-Founder, President & CEO, NetStrategy, Inc.)
    • Moderator: MAMIYA Toshio (Director, Macro Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese