Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries
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July 16, 2025
How best to Leverage Foreign Capital for Enhancing Corporate Value: An Option for Further Growth Featured in the Guidebook Published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Speaker: MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Executive Vice President, Waseda University / Adviser, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
- Speaker: IWAI Takashi (Executive Manager, Professional for Industrial Policy, External Affairs Dept., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
- Speaker: NONOMIYA Ritsuko (Managing Director Head of Corporate Finance Japan, Houlihan Lokey Corporation)
- Speaker and Moderator: AMANO Fujiko (Director for Investment Collaboration, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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July 14, 2025
Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai Series
Exploring Education of the Future: Human-technology Symbiosis in the era of digital nature
- Speaker: OCHIAI Yoichi (Media Artist / Associate Professor, Tsukuba University / Producer, Theme Project for Japan EXPO 2025 in Osaka and Kansai)
- Commentator: NAKAMURO Makiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
- Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Director-General, Commerce and Service Industry Policy Group, METI)
Japanese
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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June 6, 2025
The Great Trade Hack: How Trump's trade war fails and global trade moves on
- Speaker: Richard BALDWIN (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI / Professor of International Economics, IMD Lausanne)
- Commentator: OKUBO Toshihiro (Fuculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Keio University)
- Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) / Dean, Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)
- Presentation (Dr. Baldwin) [PDF:1.2MB]
- Comment (Dr. OKUBO) [PDF:404KB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)