BBL Seminars

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RIETI's periodic Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) seminars welcome an array of guest experts to share their research and views. The sessions encourage lively discussion that contributes to dynamic policy-related debate.
Presently, BBL Seminars are not open to the public as spaces are limited. Select transcripts are available below.

Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries

  • July 30, 2020

    The Value of Data from Business Cards: Revealing the hidden sides of Japan

    • Speaker: JORAKU Satoru (Director, CISO, Head of DSOC, Sansan, Inc.)
    • Commentator: IZUMI Noriaki (Director, IT Innovation Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher，Division of Management, Management of Innovation and Intrapreneurship (MII), Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo / Project Assistant Professor, Research Strategy Office, National Institute of Informatics (NII) / Specially Appointed Fellow, The Japan Center for Economics Research (JCER) / Guest Associate Professor, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering)

    Japanese

  • July 28, 2020

    Small Business under the COVID-19 Crisis: Expected short- and medium-term effects of anti-contagion and economic policies

    • Speaker: KODAMA Naomi (Professor, Nihon University / Research Associate, RIETI)
    • Speaker: KAWAGUCHI Kohei (Assistant Professor in Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 22, 2020

    Macroeconomic Prospects and Policy Coordination in Asia to Overcome the Challenge of COVID-19

    • Speaker: M. Ayhan KOSE (Director, Prospects Group, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, World Bank Group)
    • Commentator: KIMURA Fukunari (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University / Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) / Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: ONODERA Osamu (Deputy Director General for Trade Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Handout [PDF:238KB]
    • Comment [PDF:279KB]
    • Video (YouTube)

  • July 20, 2020

    The Role that LINE Plays in the COVID-19 Era

    • Speaker: EGUCHI Kiyotaka (Executive Officer, Public Policy and CSR, LINE Corporation)
    • Commentator: IZUMI Noriaki (Director, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher，Division of Management, Management of Innovation and Intrapreneurship (MII), Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo / Project Assistant Professor, Research Strategy Office, National Institute of Informatics (NII) / Specially Appointed Fellow, The Japan Center for Economics Research (JCER) / Guest Associate Professor, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering)

    Japanese

  • July 17, 2020

    "Working" in a World that is Changing Drastically with DX: What are you working for?

    • Speaker: TANAKA Kunihiro (Founder, CEO & President, SAKURA internet Inc.)
    • Commentator: MATSUMOTO Rie (Deputy Director, IT Innovation Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher，Division of Management, Management of Innovation and Intrapreneurship (MII), Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo / Project Assistant Professor, Research Strategy Office, National Institute of Informatics (NII) / Specially Appointed Fellow, The Japan Center for Economics Research (JCER) / Guest Associate Professor, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering)

    Japanese

  • July 16, 2020

    White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2020 -- The corona crisis and globalization: supply chains, human interaction, international cooperation and interdependence

    • Speaker: TASHIRO Takeshi (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI / Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 10, 2020

    Management in the Software Engineering Age

    • Speaker: MATSUMOTO Yuki (CTO, DMM.com / Director, CTO Association)
    • Commentator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher，Division of Management, Management of Innovation and Intrapreneurship (MII), Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo / Project Assistant Professor, Research Strategy Office, National Institute of Informatics (NII) / Specially Appointed Fellow, The Japan Center for Economics Research (JCER) / Guest Associate Professor, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 3, 2020

    Energy, Climate Change and Gender After COVID-19

    • Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (CEO, Tanaka Global, Inc. / Former Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA))
    • Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Deputy Commissioner, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 29, 2020

    The Deception of the Third Party Committee

    • Speaker: HATTA Shinji (Auditor, RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Aoyama Gakuin University / Professor of Accounting, OHARA Graduate School of Accounting)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 25, 2020

    Next-generation Human Resource Development -- The development of truly global HR leaders

    • Speaker: GENDA Yasuyuki (VP, HR Division, SoftBank corp., VP, Head of the secretariat, Masason foundation., HR Advisor, DEEPCORE corp.)
    • Commentator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher，Division of Management, Management of Innovation and Intrapreneurship (MII), Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo / Project Assistant Professor, Research Strategy Office, National Institute of Informatics (NII) / Specially Appointed Fellow, The Japan Center for Economics Research (JCER) / Guest Associate Professor, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

    *This BBL Seminar is NOT for Quotation.