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 24, 2024

    What Companies Can Do to Eliminate the Gender Wage Gap - Information Disclosure and the Use of People Analytics

    • Speaker: OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
    • Commentator: SOMA Tomoko (Director, Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)

    Japanese

  • July 23, 2024

    White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2024

    • Speaker: AIDA Masashi (Former Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 19, 2024

    Unlocking the Future with Fungi and Mushrooms: New and future developments in microbial utilization - Mycotechnology

    • Speaker: HAYAKAWA Takuro (Director-General, Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation)
    • Speaker: INABA Shigeki (Manager, NITE Patent Microorganisms Depositary, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation)
    • Speaker: HAGIWARA Daisuke (Associate Professor, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
    • Speaker: SAKAMOTO Yuji (Director, Strategic Planning Department, Japan Bioindustry Association / Deputy General of Secretary, Japan Association of Bioindustries Executives)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 11, 2024

    White Paper on Manufacturing Industries 2024

    • Speaker: KAWAMURA Miho (Director, Manufacturing Industries Strategy Planning Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: HASHIMOTO Yuki (Senior Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 9, 2024

    Economic Security - A German perspective

    • Speaker: Clemens von GOETZE (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan)
    • Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University / Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
    • Presentation (H.E. Dr. Goetze) [PDF:285KB]
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Comment, Q&A) (YouTube)

  • July 4, 2024

    New Directions in American Economic Statecraft

    • Speaker: Mireya SOLIS (Director, Center for Asia Policy Studies,Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, The Brookings Institution)
    • Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University / Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Q&A) (YouTube)

  • June 28, 2024

    2024 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan / 2024 White Paper on Small Enterprises in Japan

    • Speaker: KIKUTA Ippei (Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)
    • Commentator: GOTO Yasuo (Research Associate, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 26, 2024

    Japan's Energy Policy from the Energy White Paper: The growing global risks surrounding energy, and what Japan should be aiming for

    • Speaker: HIROTA Daisuke (Director / Investment Strategist, Energy Supply and Demand Policy Office / Research and Public Relations Office, Commissioner's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • June 24, 2024

    What is a Start-up? -Some clues for economic revitalization

    • Speaker: KATO Masatoshi (Professor, School of Economics and Director, Research Center for Entrepreneurship (RECENT), Kwansei Gakuin University)
    • Commentator: NOZAWA Yasushi (Director, Innovation and Industry-University Collaboration Division, Industrial Science, Technology and Environment Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI / University Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)

    Japanese

  • June 20, 2024

    Economic Security and Geopolitics: Insights into Japan-Korea cooperation based on "Economic Security Indicators"

    • Speaker: Byung Yeon KIM (Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, Seoul National University)
    • Commentator: Hyeog Ug KWON (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University)
    • Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI / University Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Comment, Q&A) (YouTube)