Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries
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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)
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June 5, 2025
Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation
- Speaker: Kent E. CALDER (Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University)
- Commentator: NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Senior Director, Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Trade and Economic Security Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: INOSE Yu (Deputy Director, Support Team for Residents Affected by Nuclear Incidents, Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters, Cabinet Office)
- Presentation (Prof. Calder) [PDF:1.9MB]
- New book information (Prof. Calder) [PDF:430KB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)
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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
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May 23, 2025
World Economic Outlook “A Critical Juncture amid Policy Shifts”
- Speaker: YOSHIDA Akihiko (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, International Monetary Fund (IMF))
- Commentator: NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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May 22, 2025
Reexamining Official Statistics Utilization: An insider perspective
- Speaker: SAKAMOTO Katsuhiko (Director-General for Human Resources Policy, Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs / Former Director-General for Policy Planning (Statistical Policy), Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
- Commentator: KAWAGUCHI Daiji (RIETI Program Director and Faculty Fellow / Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo)
- Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)
Japanese