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.
Select transcripts and handouts are available below.
Videos of the seminars are published on RIETI’s official YouTube channel, “rietichannel,” after each event.

Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries

  • November 6, 2025

    RIETI- CIGS Joint Open BBL Seminar

    Systems That Foster Creativity and Discontinuous Innovation

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Research Director, The Canon Institute for Global Studies / 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), RIETI / Dean, Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)

    Japanese

  • October 31, 2025

    Land Price Boom Set to Stall: Cities' true value poised to emerge

    • Speaker: MORI Tomoya (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER), Kyoto University / Visiting Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: YAMAGISHI Keisuke (Director for Planning, National Spatial Planning and Regional Policy Bureau, MLIT)
    • Moderator: SAKAI Yoshimasa (Director of PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • October 23, 2025

    US-Japan Relations for a New Japanese Government and for a New Era

  • October 2, 2025

    The Great Firewall and Knowledge Diffusion

    • Speaker: Andrew B. BERNARD (Kadas T'90 Distinguished Professor, Tuck School of Business)
    • Commentator: SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), RIETI / Dean, Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)

  • September 30, 2025

    RIETI- Tohoku University Joint Open BBL Seminar: Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai Series

    Transforming Life and Food with Future Technologies: The frontiers of quantum medicine and plasma agriculture

    • Speaker: OOGANE Mikihiko (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
    • Speaker: KANEKO Toshiro (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
    • Commentator & Moderator: SAKAI Yoshimasa (Director of PR Strategy, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • September 4, 2025

    Reconsidering Two Risk-sharing Mechanisms for Promoting Innovation

    • Speaker: SHIMIZU Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University)
    • Commentator: TAKEDA Shinjiro (Director, Innovation Policy Division, Innovation and Environment Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • August 28, 2025

    How to Understand Your Company's Gender Pay Gap: Eight key checkpoints

    • Speaker: OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
    • Commentator: SATO Hiroki (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: IKARI Hiroshi (Senior Fellow and Research Coordinator (Research), RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 31, 2025

    Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai Series

    Touching the Air, Shaping the Standard: How Japan’s interface technology is creating the future

    • Speaker: YAMAMOTO Hirotsugu (Professor, School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University)
    • Commentator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) / Visiting Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
    • Moderator: TAMURA Suguru (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Department of Data science and management, Utsunomiya University)

    Japanese

  • July 24, 2025

    White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2025

    • Speaker: MORII Kazunari (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Former Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI))
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) / Dean, Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)

    Japanese

  • July 18, 2025

    A Perspective on Supporting Noto’s Recovery and Reconstruction: Report from the June Field Survey

    • Speaker: HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University)
    • Speaker: INAGI Tsuyoshi (Executive Director, Wajima Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
    • Commentator: KONO Yoichiro (Director-General, Chubu Bureau of Economy Trade and Industry, Electricity and Gas Industry Department Hokuriku)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese