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 10, 2025

    Structural Challenges, Distribution Policies and the Direction of Growth for Japan’s Prosperous Development

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School, U.S.A. / Former Vice-Minister, Headquarters for Realizing New Capitalism, Cabinet Secretariat)
    • Commentator: IKEDA Yoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Competition Enhancement Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 2, 2025

    Japan's Response to U.S.-China High-Tech Friction: Insights from Comparing Innovation Systems in Three Countries

    • Speaker: MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: FUKUMOTO Takuya (Deputy Director-General for Green Transformation Policy Deputy Director-General for Innovation Policy, METI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 26, 2025

    Industrial Policy, Economic Friction and Trade Rules: A study of the “overproduction” phenomenon in China

    • Speaker: WATANABE Mariko (Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
    • Commentator: FUKUNAGA Yoshifumi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Northeast Asia Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) / Dean, Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)

    Japanese

  • June 25, 2025

    What the Disaster Victims Database (DB) Aimed to Achieve: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake Experience

    • Speaker: EGUCHI Kiyotaka (Senior Executive Director, Council for BOSAI DX Public-Private Partnership / CIO, CDO, Kanagawa Pref.)
    • Speaker: SUGANO Taku (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Department of Human Behavioral Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University)
    • Speaker: MURAKAMI Keisuke (Director-General, Group of Service for Citizens, Digital Agency)
    • Speaker and Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 19, 2025

    White Paper on Manufacturing Industries 2025

    • Speaker: KAWAMURA Miho (Director, Manufacturing Industries Strategy Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: IWAMOTO Koichi (Research Associate, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 18, 2025

    Energy White Paper 2025

    • Speaker: UEDA Kazumasa (Director, Energy Supply and Demand Policy Office / Research and Public Relations Office, Commissioner's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
    • Commentator: TERAZAWA Tatsuya (Chairman and CEO, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)
    • Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 9, 2025

    Japan's Strategy: How to Respond to Tariff Policies under the Trump Administration

    • Speaker: TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow and Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
    • Commentator: HASEBE Shodai (Industrial Structure Policy Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 6, 2025

    The Great Trade Hack: How Trump's trade war fails and global trade moves on

  • June 5, 2025

    Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

  • May 26, 2025

    How is Japan’s Economic Policy Created? Drawing from Abenomics and the New Capitalism

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School, U.S.A. / Former Vice-Minister, Headquarters for Realizing New Capitalism, Cabinet Secretariat)
    • Interviewer: IKEDA Yoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Competition Enhancement Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)

    Japanese