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

  • January 16, 2025

    Uncertainty and Japan’s Economy

    • Speaker: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University / President, Economic Research Institute, Japan Society for the Promotion of Machine Industry)
    • Commentator: INOUE Seiichiro (Deputy Director-General, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: SENGA Tatsuro (Fellow (Specially Appointed),RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)

    Japanese

  • December 18, 2024

    The Unexpected Consequences of GenAI for Globalization

  • December 13, 2024

    Business Transformation: Implementing AI in society

    • Speaker: MOURI Masataka (General Manager, AI Creative Div., AI Business Division, CyberAgent Inc.)
    • Commentator: WATANABE Takuya (Director, Software and Information Service Industry Strategy Office, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) / Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics (NII))

    Japanese

  • December 11, 2024

    Security of Energy Transitions

    • Speaker: SADAMORI Keisuke (Director, Energy Markets and Security, IEA (International Energy Agency))
    • Commentator: KIHARA Shinichi (Director General for International Policy on Carbon Neutrality, METI)
    • Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 9, 2024

    Female Students Entering the Sciences: What is Japan’s Strategy? An exhaustive survey of all prefectures and analysis

    • Speaker: YOKOYAMA Hiromi (Professor, Deputy director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: OSUMI Noriko (Vice President for Public Relations and Promotion of Diversity Director, Tohoku University Library, Professor Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
    • Moderator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)

    Japanese

  • December 6, 2024

    Foreign and Security Policy of the Trump 2.0 and Japan's Strategy

    • Speaker: WATANABE Tsuneo (Senior Fellow, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
    • Commentator: FUJII Ryosuke (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • November 29, 2024

    World Economic Outlook “Global Prospects and Policies: Policy pivot, rising threats”

    • Speaker: YOSHIDA Akihiko (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, International Monetary Fund (IMF))
    • Commentator: NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Social Research Institute of Northeast Asia (ERINA-UNP), University of Niigata Prefecture)
    • Moderator: MORII Kazunari (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • November 27, 2024

    NVIDIA, the Accelerated Computing Platform Company

    • Speaker: IZAKI Takeshi (NVIDIA, Enterprise, Senior Director)
    • Commentator: WATANABE Takuya (Director, Software and Information Service Industry Strategy Office, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) / Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics (NII))

    Japanese

  • November 20, 2024

    Japan and the Second Trump Administration

  • November 14, 2024

    Innovation Capability of Japanese Industry from an International Perspective

    • Speaker: NAGAOKA Sadao (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Commentator: KIKUKAWA Jingo (Director-General, Innovation and Environment Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese