What is RIETI?
The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) is a policy think tank established in 2001. Its mission is to conduct theoretical and empirical research, maximize synergies with those engaged in policymaking, and to make policy proposals based on evidence derived from such research activities. The institute is highly regarded both in Japan and abroad for its activity.
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“Involutional Competition” Leading to Oversupply in China
―Policy responses based on causes and impacts―October 31, 2025 [China in Transition]
Chi Hung KWAN (Consulting Fellow, RIETI
Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research)
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US-Japan Relations for a New Japanese Government and for a New Era (Handout and Video)
October 30, 2025 [Symposiums]
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Fragmented “Turnberry System” Marks a Transitional Era in Trade Order
October 27, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
MUNAKATA Naoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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Reconsidering the Essence of Independence
October 23, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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40 Years after the Plaza Accord: Trade performance has become bright for Germany and dark for Japan under different currency environments
October 22, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
SHIMIZU Junko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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Economic Insight: Is the provisional gasoline tax abolition a correct decision?
October 15, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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How firms respond to import competition: Labour force reduction, product/industry switching, and off-shoring
October 10, 2025 [VoxEU Column]
ITO Tadashi (Professor, Faculty of International Social Sciences at Gakushuin University) / MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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How real-time data misled policymakers during the post-COVID recovery
October 6, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]
Domenico GIANNONE (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University) / Giorgio PRIMICERI (Professor of Economics at Northwestern University)
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How Asia Can Reduce Its Dollar Dependence
October 3, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
WATANABE Yasuto (Director of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO)) / ITO Hiroyuki (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)
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Infrastructure diplomacy in the shadow of the Belt and Road: Lessons from Japan’s experience
October 3, 2025 [VoxEU Column]
NISHITATENO Shuhei (Research Associate, RIETI) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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Economic Security
Our society, as an international community, is at a historical turning point, as the modern era of globalization that began with the end of the Cold War comes to a close. Economic security has become an important theme as geopolitical risks increase. The security environment surrounding Japan is also becoming particularly severe. In this international context, The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) is expected to have a deep understanding of the impacts of these geopolitical risks and economic security considerations on the economy and industry through various types of economic analysis, including data-based empirical analysis, and to make recommendations for economic, trade, and industrial policies from its academic insights. For this reason, we have compiled and “visualized” the research conducted at RIETI which is relevant to these topics as a special feature.
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RIETI-ANU Symposium series
RIETI and Australian National University (ANU) have been jointly holding symposiums. Experts from the Asia-Pacific region gather to discuss various issues that are piling up in the increasingly uncertain global economy.
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Global Intelligence Series
We invite leading experts from Japan, the United States, Europe, and other Asian countries to give lectures about various global issues including economic security and regional affairs such as the U.S.-China conflict, the situation in the Middle East, the prospects of the Chinese economy, climate change, environmental and energy issues, the post-corona global trade system, supply chain risks, SDGs, etc. Many policy proposals are derived from information collected and discussed in these lectures.
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October 31, 2025 [China in Transition]
“Involutional Competition” Leading to Oversupply in China
―Policy responses based on causes and impacts―Chi Hung KWAN (Consulting Fellow, RIETI
Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research)
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October 30, 2025 [Symposiums]
US-Japan Relations for a New Japanese Government and for a New Era (Handout and Video)
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October 30, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]
Theoretical Model and Data for Projections of Japan’s Industrial Structure in 2040
FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI) / ARAI Sonoe (RIETI) / ITAKURA Ken (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KITAO Sagiri (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / NAKATA Daigo (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / MAEDA Saeko (University of Tokyo / Cabinet Office) / MATSUO Takemasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / YOSHINO Akihiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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October 29, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Health Effects of Retirement Policy Changes: Evidence from Japan
XIE Mingjia (Liaoning University) / YIN Ting (Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI) / USUI Emiko (Hitotsubashi University) / ZHANG Yi (Central University of Finance and Economics)
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October 27, 2025 [Symposiums]
Promoting New Quality Productive Forces in China: The Development of Private Enterprises and the Return of Talent from Abroad as Key Factors
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October 23, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Actual Hospital Bed Utilization by Institutional Ownership during the COVID-19 Omicron Variant Epidemic in Japan
MASUHARA Hiroaki (Shinshu University) / HOSOYA Kei (Kokugakuin University)
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October 23, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
Reconsidering the Essence of Independence
TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 23, 2025 [Column]
Eulogy: In memory of Professor Takatoshi Ito’s great achievements
SHIMIZU Junko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 22, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Who Pays for the Minimum Wage in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector?
YAMANOUCHI Kenta (Kagawa University) / OKUDAIRA Hiroko (Doshisha University) / TAKIZAWA Miho (Gakushuin University) / HOSONO Kaoru (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 22, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
40 Years after the Plaza Accord: Trade performance has become bright for Germany and dark for Japan under different currency environments
SHIMIZU Junko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 21, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Service Sector Globalization and the Restructuring of Regional Employment
KAZEKAMI Sachiko (Keio University)
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October 20, 2025 [Symposiums]
Systems That Foster Creativity and Discontinuous Innovation
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October 17, 2025 [Symposiums]
Land Price Boom Set to Stall: Cities' true value poised to emerge
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October 17, 2025 [RIETI Report]
Classroom heat widens the achievement gap
AKESAKA Mika (Associate Professor of Economics at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University) / SHIGEOKA Hitoshi (Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) / Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University / Professor at The University of Tokyo)
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October 15, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
Economic Insight: Is the provisional gasoline tax abolition a correct decision?
SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 30, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]
Theoretical Model and Data for Projections of Japan’s Industrial Structure in 2040
FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI) / ARAI Sonoe (RIETI) / ITAKURA Ken (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KITAO Sagiri (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / NAKATA Daigo (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / MAEDA Saeko (University of Tokyo / Cabinet Office) / MATSUO Takemasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / YOSHINO Akihiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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October 29, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Health Effects of Retirement Policy Changes: Evidence from Japan
XIE Mingjia (Liaoning University) / YIN Ting (Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI) / USUI Emiko (Hitotsubashi University) / ZHANG Yi (Central University of Finance and Economics)
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October 23, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Actual Hospital Bed Utilization by Institutional Ownership during the COVID-19 Omicron Variant Epidemic in Japan
MASUHARA Hiroaki (Shinshu University) / HOSOYA Kei (Kokugakuin University)
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October 22, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Who Pays for the Minimum Wage in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector?
YAMANOUCHI Kenta (Kagawa University) / OKUDAIRA Hiroko (Doshisha University) / TAKIZAWA Miho (Gakushuin University) / HOSONO Kaoru (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 21, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Service Sector Globalization and the Restructuring of Regional Employment
KAZEKAMI Sachiko (Keio University)
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October 14, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Supervisor Accuracy in Subjective Evaluations and Employee Careers
KANAYAMA Hayato (Waseda University) / KAWATA Yuji (Waseda University) / KITAGAWA Ritsu (Columbia University)
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October 10, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]
Does the Productivity J-curve Explain Korea’s Economic Slowdown?
INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KIM YoungGak (Senshu University)
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October 7, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]
AI and Robotics Technology and Changes in Production Structure: A formulation using the production function
FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI) / MATSUO Takemasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / YOSHINO Akihiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
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October 2, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]
Empirical Analysis of AI Use and Iits Business Impact Focusing on the Role of Complementary Assets
KIM Younggak (Senshu University) / MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 1, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Patent Information Disclosure and Market Reactions: Empirical investigation by using text-based novelty and impact indicators
DANG Jianwei (Tongji University) / MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / ZHAO Quihan (University of Tokyo)
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October 1, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Population Aging and Business Successions: A Macroeconomic Perspective
MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Waseda University) / OIKAWA Koki (Waseda University) / UEDA Kozo (Waseda University)
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September 30, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]
Overseas Expansion of Japanese Firms and Domestic Women’s Empowerment
NI Bin (Hosei University) / OBASHI Ayako (Keio University) / YIN Ting (Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)
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September 30, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]
Are Productivity and Wages Decoupling in Japan? Divergence between macro and micro relationships
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)
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September 30, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Fiscal Reform, Government Debt and Female Labor Supply in Japan
CUI Naiyue (Kobe University) / HSU Minchung (GRIPS) / HU Yunfang (Kobe University)
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September 30, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]
Social Capital, Retirement and Cognitive Aging: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal study
ZHAO Meng (Gakushuin University) / YIN Ting (Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)
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October 30, 2025 [Symposiums]
US-Japan Relations for a New Japanese Government and for a New Era (Handout and Video)
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October 27, 2025 [Symposiums]
Promoting New Quality Productive Forces in China: The Development of Private Enterprises and the Return of Talent from Abroad as Key Factors
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October 20, 2025 [Symposiums]
Systems That Foster Creativity and Discontinuous Innovation
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October 17, 2025 [Symposiums]
Land Price Boom Set to Stall: Cities' true value poised to emerge
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October 14, 2025 [Symposiums]
US-Japan Relations for a New Japanese Government and for a New Era
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October 3, 2025 [Workshops]
The Future of Globalisation
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September 19, 2025 [Symposiums]
Asia’s Response to Great Power Disruption and Global Economic Disorder
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September 12, 2025 [Symposiums]
The Great Firewall and Knowledge Diffusion
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September 12, 2025 [Symposiums]
Transforming Life and Food with Future Technologies: The frontiers of quantum medicine and plasma agriculture
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August 21, 2025 [Symposiums]
Reconsidering Two Risk-sharing Mechanisms for Promoting Innovation
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August 7, 2025 [Symposiums]
How to Understand Your Company's Gender Pay Gap: Eight key checkpoints
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August 1, 2025 [Symposiums]
Economic Disparity between Men and Women in Japan and Korea: Exploring commonalities and differences (Handouts and video are available in Korean)
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July 17, 2025 [Symposiums]
Touching the Air, Shaping the Standard: How Japan’s interface technology is creating the future
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July 9, 2025 [Symposiums]
White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2025
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July 8, 2025 [Symposiums]
A Perspective on Supporting Noto’s Recovery and Reconstruction: Report from the June Field Survey
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October 31, 2025 [China in Transition]
“Involutional Competition” Leading to Oversupply in China
―Policy responses based on causes and impacts―Chi Hung KWAN (Consulting Fellow, RIETI
Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research)
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October 23, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
Reconsidering the Essence of Independence
TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 23, 2025 [Column]
Eulogy: In memory of Professor Takatoshi Ito’s great achievements
SHIMIZU Junko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 22, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
40 Years after the Plaza Accord: Trade performance has become bright for Germany and dark for Japan under different currency environments
SHIMIZU Junko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 17, 2025 [RIETI Report]
Classroom heat widens the achievement gap
AKESAKA Mika (Associate Professor of Economics at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University) / SHIGEOKA Hitoshi (Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) / Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University / Professor at The University of Tokyo)
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October 15, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
Economic Insight: Is the provisional gasoline tax abolition a correct decision?
SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 10, 2025 [VoxEU Column]
How firms respond to import competition: Labour force reduction, product/industry switching, and off-shoring
ITO Tadashi (Professor, Faculty of International Social Sciences at Gakushuin University) / MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 6, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]
How real-time data misled policymakers during the post-COVID recovery
Domenico GIANNONE (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University) / Giorgio PRIMICERI (Professor of Economics at Northwestern University)
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October 3, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
How Asia Can Reduce Its Dollar Dependence
WATANABE Yasuto (Director of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO)) / ITO Hiroyuki (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)
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October 3, 2025 [RIETI Report]
Economic Impact of U.S. Tariff Hikes: Significance of trade diversion effects
KAWASAKI Kenichi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, GRIPS Alliance, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS))
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October 3, 2025 [VoxEU Column]
Infrastructure diplomacy in the shadow of the Belt and Road: Lessons from Japan’s experience
NISHITATENO Shuhei (Research Associate, RIETI) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
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October 3, 2025 [From IZA]
Intersectionality and labor market outcomes
Putting the lens on the interaction of gender, race, and other social identities since this creates unique experiences of advantage and disadvantageOlga ALONSO-VILLAR (ECOBAS, Universidade de Vigo, Spain) / Coral del RIO OTERO (ECOBAS, Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
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October 2, 2025 [Column]
Impact of the Trump Tariffs and Disparity in Responses as Indicated by a Survey of Japanese Firms
ITO Banri (Research Associate, RIETI) / JINJI Naoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / NAOI Megumi (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)
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October 1, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
Trump Tariffs and Risk of Collapse for the Global Trading System
URATA Shujiro (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)
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September 30, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]
80 Years after the End of WWII: Lost efforts to improve productivity
FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI)
