BBL Seminars FY2009

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Past BBL Reports and Summaries

  • March 23, 2010

    The Economics of Science

    • Speaker: Paula E. STEPHAN (Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University/Research Associate, The National Bureau of Economic Research)
    • Commentator: AOKI Reiko (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

  • March 17, 2010

    New Movement on Business Reporting/Corporate Communication - Australian experience from the implementation of IFRS

    • Speaker: Michael BRAY (Partner, Energy and Natural Resources, KPMG in Australia)
    • Speaker: Penny STRAGALINOS (Partner, Capital Markets Reporting Innovation Group, KPMG in Australia)
    • Moderator: HIRATSUKA Nobuyuki (Director for Corporate System, Corporate Affairs Division, Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Handout [PDF:63KB]

  • March 12, 2010

    Barriers to trade between the EU and Japan

    • Speaker: Bertin MARTENS (Deputy Chief Economist, DG Trade, European Commission)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:1.65MB]

    NOT for quotation

  • February 26, 2010

    Improving Competitiveness of the Japanese Satellite Industry through Innovation, Small&High function,and Globalization

    • Speaker: SAMBOMMATSU Susumu (President, Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF))
    • Speaker: OGAWA Toshiaki (Engineering Manager, Space & Satellite Systems Department, Space Systems Devision, NEC Corporation)
    • Speaker: KOYAMA Hiroshi (General Manager, Office for Space Utilization & Strategy Planning, Space Systems Division Electronic Systems Group, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
    • Moderator: KANEKO Shuichi (Director, Space Industry Office, Aerospace and Defense Industry Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • February 24, 2010

    How should the Manager Address Mental Health Issues: Mental health issues as a human risk

    • Speaker: SHIMADA Mina (CEO, ICD Inc. / Clinical Psychologist)
    • Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 23, 2010

    Dynamically Changing Management Strategy of Asia - From China, India and ASEAN through Middle East and Africa -

    • Speaker: ASAKA Toshimasa (Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Konan University)
    • Commentator: WATANABE Tetsuya (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Asia and Pacific Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: ITO Koji (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 08, 2010

    Legal Issues Relating to an International Climate Regime beyond 2012

    • Speaker: TAKAMURA Yukari (Professor, Faculty of Law, Ryukoku University)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 4, 2010

    OECD's Innovation Strategy: Developing an Innovation Policy for the 21st Century

    • Speaker: Andrew W. WYCKOFF (Director, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry)
    • Moderator: NAKAO Yasuhisa (Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Handout [PDF:1.18MB]

  • February 01, 2010

    Educational Reform in Shinagawa City

    • Speaker: WAKATSUKI Hideo (Director, Board of Education, Shinagawa City)
    • Moderator: YAMANE Kei (Policy Evaluation and Public Relations Division, Minister's Secretariat, METI)

    Japanese

  • January 15, 2010

    Cabinet Office's View on the World Economic Trends: Sustainability of Recovery and Exit Strategy

    • Speaker: HAYASHI Tomoko (Director for Overseas Economies, Cabinet Office)
    • Commentator: KATAOKA Ryuichi (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: ITO Koji (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
    • Summary (RIETI Report)

    Japanese

  • December 18, 2009

    Work Life Balance: Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations

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

    Japanese

  • December 10, 2009

    New World with Cloud Computing -Smarter Planet-

    • Speaker: IWANO Kazuo (VP, Future Value Creation Team, IBM Japan, Ltd.)
    • Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)
    • Time: 12:25-13:45

    Japanese

  • December 09, 2009

    President Obama's Open Government and its implications to Japan

    • Speaker: OKUMURA Hirokazu (Project Professor, Graduate School of Public Policies, The University of Tokyo)
    • Speaker: MORIYA Gaku (Deputy Director, Information Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 04, 2009

    Can Japanese NPO's Deliver Public Services?

    • Speaker: USHIRO Fusao (Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University)
    • Moderator: MATSUI Shigeki (Director, Economic and Society Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • December 03, 2009

    Triggering a Sustaining Acceleration of Indonesia's Economic Growth in a New East Asian Economic Geography

    • Speaker: Djisman SIMANDJUNTAK (Chair, Board of Directors, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Foundation)
    • Commentator & Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
    • Handout [PDF:110KB]

  • December 02, 2009

    Parliamentary Reform in the UK: lessons for Japan

    • Speaker: Lesley CONNORS (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
    • Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
    • Time: 12:30-13:45

    Japanese

    *Japanese (Q&A: basically in English)

  • November 30, 2009

    The Significance of Oliver Williamson's 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics: The Frontier of 'Organizational Economics' and its Possible Use in Real Organizational Analysis

    • Speaker: ITOH Hideshi (Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Director for Commerce and Distribution Policy, Commerce and Distribution Policy Group, METI)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 27, 2009

    World Energy Outlook 2009

    • Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (Executive Director, IEA)
    • Moderator: TOJO Yoshiaki (Director, Information Services Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • November 26, 2009

    How Japanese Businesses Should Handle China's Emerging Approach to Antitrust and Intellectual Property

    • Speaker: Mark Allen COHEN (Of Counsel, Intellectual Property Practice, Beijing Office, Jones Day)
    • Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:288KB]

  • November 19, 2009

    Risk Mitigation Strategies: Deeper role for policy as globalization amplifies impact of world cycles?

  • November 16, 2009

    Equity in Access to Medical / Health Care Services; Report of JSTAR 1st wave

    • Speaker: HASHIMOTO Hideki (Professor, School of Public Health, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 12, 2009

    China's policy towards Japanese new government and its background

    • Speaker: SHIMIZU Yoshikazu (Vice-Chief Editorial Writer, The Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun)
    • Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))

    Japanese

  • November 09, 2009

    Japan's Economy and Monetary Policy

    • Speaker: SUDA Miyako (Members of the Policy Board, Bank of Japan)
    • Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • November 02, 2009

    Regulating Shadow Banking

  • October 29, 2009

    Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement --JSTAR First Results

    • Speaker: ICHIMURA Hidehiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo)
    • Speaker: SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS))
    • Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • October 27, 2009

    Direction for New Industrial Structure in the Aged Society with Population Decrease

    • Speaker: KYOGOKU Takanobu (Director-General, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
    • Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • October 20, 2009

    The World Economic Recovery: Navigating between the Positives and Pitfalls

  • October 19, 2009

    Strategies for Economic Growth of Japan: Implications from Growth Theory and Firm-Level Empirics

    • Speaker: TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • October 16, 2009

    IMF World Economic Outlook [Autumn 2009]

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • September 11, 2009

    2009 JETRO White Paper on International Trade and Investment--A Global Strategy for Japanese Companies Seeking New Growth in the Green Economy

    • Speaker: TAKAHASHI Toshiki (Director, Overseas Research Department, International Economic Research Division, Japan External Trade Organization, IAA)
    • Speaker: HIGASHINO Dai (Deputy Director, Overseas Research Department, International Economic Research Division, Japan External Trade Organization, IAA)
    • Speaker: MIZUNO Ryo (Overseas Research Department, International Economic Research Division, Japan External Trade Organization, IAA)
    • Moderator: ITO Koji (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • September 09, 2009

    Is the Minimum Wage Effective Anti-Poverty Policy?

    • Speaker: KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • August 21, 2009

    WTO Doha Round Negotiation and Sustainability on Fisheries Resources

    • Speaker: YAGI Nobuyuki (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • August 18, 2009

    Does Excellence in Academic Research Attract Foreign R&D?

    • Speaker: Rene BELDERBOS (Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:358KB]

  • August 13, 2009

    Global Financial and Economic Crisis and Asia's Trade Potential

    • Speaker: Biswa BHATTACHARYAY (Special Adviser to Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))
    • Speaker: Prabir DE (Visiting Researcher, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

  • August 04, 2009

    International Financial Crisis and Global Responses: Implications on Theories of Economic Policies

    • Speaker: NAKAO Takehiko (Director-General, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
    • Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • August 03, 2009

    Future Challenges in Industrial Cluster Policy - Drawing upon trends in Europe

    • Speaker: HOSOYA Yuji (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Analyst for Regional Policy, Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Group, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Professor, Management Science & Technology, Tohoku University / The Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management)
    • Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (Managing Executive Officer, Micro Business and Individual Unit, Japan Finance Corporation)

    Japanese

  • July 29, 2009

    IP Fund: Evaluation, Development and Investment of Intellectual Properties in Japan

    • Speaker: YAMAGUCHI Yasuhisa (President and CEO, Intellectual Properties Development & Investment, Inc.)
    • Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 24, 2009

    WHITE PAPER 2009 - Information and Communications in Japan

    • Speaker: IMAGAWA Takuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Planning Officer, Terrestrial Broadcasting Division, Information and Communications Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC))
    • Speaker: SAEKI Chigusa (Deputy Director for Information Economics, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC))
    • Moderator: YURA Hideo (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 23, 2009

    ISO, Its Current and Future Work and Examples of Where Standards Assist Trade and Sustainable Development

    • Speaker: Rob STEELE (ISO Secretary-General)
    • Moderator: NAGANO Juichi (Director, International Standards Strategy, Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity Assessment Policy Unit, METI)
    • Handout [PDF:2.85MB]

  • July 13, 2009

    The Case Analysis of Japanese Comics (Manga) and Anime Market in North America

    • Speaker: MATSUI Takeshi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Speaker: MIHARA Ryotaro (Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 10, 2009

    Secrets of Cancer -How to avoid cancer death-

    • Speaker: NAKAGAWA Keiichi (Associate Professor, Department of Radiology / Director, Department of Palliative Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital)
    • Moderator: SATO Kiichiro (Vice President, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 07, 2009

    TOB Rule in UK and Implication for Japanese TOB Rule

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Director, Corporate System Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Speaker: OSAKI Sadakazu (Head of Research Center for Knowledge Exchange & Creation, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 06, 2009

    Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim

    • Speaker: Saori N. KATADA (Associate Professor, School of International Relations, University of Southern California)
    • Commentator / Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)

    Japanese

  • June 30, 2009

    White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2009

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

    Japanese

  • June 25, 2009

    The Creation Strategy of Academic startups in Japan -Focused on AIST Startups-

    • Speaker: KIMURA Yukio (Manager, Innovation Architect, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
    • Speaker: OHNO Kazuo (Director, Research Planning and Management, International Media Research Foundation)
    • Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 24, 2009

    Whatever Happened to Japan's Energy Deregulation?

    • Speaker: Paul SCALISE (Fellow, Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (Temple University Japan Campus) / Adjunct Professor, Sophia University)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

  • June 22, 2009

    Understanding the final report of the Council on Social Security

    • Speaker: YASHIRO Naohiro (Professor of Economics, the College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University)
    • Commentator: NAKATA Daigo (Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 19, 2009

    Death of the Common Good and the Changing Role of Leadership

    • Speaker: David R. YOUNG (Founder and Chairman, Oxford Analytica)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)

  • June 18, 2009

    The Japanese Consumer Finance Industry: A study in re-regulation

    • Speaker: Yuki Allyson HONJO (Japanese Equity Analyst / Senior Vice President, Fox-Pitt Kelton (Asia))
    • Moderator: OKUMURA Jun (Counselor, Eurasia Group)

  • June 16, 2009

    International Framework beyond the Kyoto Protocol

    • Speaker: HAMASAKI Hiroshi (Senior Associate, Economic Research Centre, Fujitsu Research Institute (FRI) / Visiting Fellow, Centre for International Public Policy Studies (CIPPS))
    • Moderator: NEZU Risaburo (Director, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 12, 2009

    The Challenge of Codification in English Legal History

    • Speaker: David LIEBERMAN (Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, School of Law, U.C. Berkeley)
    • Commentator: SHISHIDO Zenichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:83KB]

  • June 11, 2009

    International Bribery: Lessons from Siemens cases

    • Speaker: MAEDA Yoji (Partner, O'Melveny & Myers Gaikokuho Kyodojigyo Horitsujimusho)
    • Speaker: KUROSAWA Yukie (Counsel, O'Melveny & Myers Gaikokuho Kyodojigyo Horitsujimusho)
    • Speaker: ISHIKAWA Kazuhiro (Director, Legal Group, Planning and Administration Department, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance)
    • Moderator: KONNO Hidehiro (Chairman and CEO, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance)
    • Time: 12:15-14:00

    Japanese

  • June 08, 2009

    A New Model of Labor and Employment Law Reform

    • Speaker: MIZUMACHI Yuichiro (Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 05, 2009

    Regional Response to a Global Recession -- What we can learn from the case of Umea

    • Speaker: Dan HJALMARSSON (Director General, Growth Analysis (Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis))
    • Moderator: HOSHINO Mitsuhide (Director of Research, RIETI)
    • Handout [PDF:771KB]

  • May 29, 2009

    IMF World Economic Outlook [Spring 2009]

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

    Japanese

    NOT for quotation

  • May 26, 2009

    The Financial Crisis and Corporate Governance

    • Speaker: Franklin ALLEN (Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
    • Moderator: SUGA Chizuru (Deputy Director, Trade and Investment Facilitation Division, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)
    • Handout[PDF:339KB]

  • May 19, 2009

    The Impact of the Crisis on Innovation and Long-term Growth: Evidence, Implications and Policy Responses

  • May 13, 2009

    White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises 2009

    • Speaker: INOUE Seiichiro (Deputy Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • May 12, 2009

    3 Years of Surprises at Todai: Strategic PR without PR Strategy

    • Speaker: ISHIKAWA Jun (Planning Director, Research Networking Department, Research Planning & Development Office, Dentsu INC.)
    • Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Deputy Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • May 08, 2009

    US 2008 Farm Bill - The Congress Stance and the Administration's Stance -"

    • Speaker: HATTORI Shinji (Visiting Fellow, the Nippon Agricultural Research Institute)
    • Commentator & Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Department of Law, Sophia University)

    Japanese

  • May 07, 2009

    Why are Japanese Firms Not Good at Inter-firm Collaboration?: An Introduction to Partnership, Old-and-New or the Fourth Economic Entity

    • Speaker: SAITO Jun (Research Fellow, RCAST, the University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: CHUMA Hiroyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Hitotsubashi University Institute of Innovation Research)
    • Moderator: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 28, 2009

    The Foundation and Outlines of the Faculty of Tourism in Wakayama University

    • Speaker: ODA Akira (President, the National University Corporation Wakayama University)
    • Moderator: KISHIMOTO Yoshio (Director, Business Support Division, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)

    Japanese

  • April 22, 2009

    'The Third American Revolution' and Its International Consequences

    • Speaker: Jacques MISTRAL (Head, Economic Research, the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI))
    • Moderator: AKAHOSHI Yasushi (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    NOT for quotation

  • April 17, 2009

    Japan Industrial Productivity (JIP) Database 2009

    • 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: TOMITA Hideaki (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

    Japanese