Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries
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November 17, 2023
RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series
An Overview of Economic Security (3): From an academic perspective (U.S. version)
- Speaker: Matthew GOODMAN (Distinguished Fellow for Global Economic Policy and Director of the Greenberg Center for Global Economic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, USA)
- Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
- Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
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November 15, 2023
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
Defense of Japan 2023 (Annual White Paper)
- Speaker: FUJITAKA Shu (Director, Defense White Paper Office, Public Affairs Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Defense)
- Commentator: TAKIZAWA Yasunori (Director for Defense Industry, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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November 9, 2023
What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? - Recent progress
- Speaker: David NEUMARK (Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine)
- Moderator: KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Program Director &Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo / Graduate School of Public Policy)
- Presentation (Dr. Neumark) [PDF:19.5MB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Q&A) (YouTube)
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November 8, 2023
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
World Economic Outlook and the Asia Pacific Region: Navigating global divergences
- 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) / Professor, Faculty of International Economic Studies, University of Niigata Prefecture)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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October 16, 2023
RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series
Economic Security and Enterprise (1) - From the Perspective of Digital Industry -
- Speaker: KOSHIBA Mitsunobu (Co-founder, Cdots LLC / Former Vice President, Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives))
- Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
- Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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October 12, 2023
RIETI-The 21st Century Public Policy Institute BBL Webinar
Hitachi's Business Transformation and Future Value Creation
- Speaker: HIGASHIHARA Toshiaki (Executive Chairman, Representative Executive Officer and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.)
- Commentator: YOSHIMURA Takashi (Director, The 21st Century Public Policy Institute)
- Commentator: SAWABE Norio (Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University)
- Commentator & Moderator: SATO Katsuhiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Business and Finance, Waseda University / Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, Kyoto University)
Japanese
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October 11, 2023
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
Energy Security and Carbon Neutrality: Messages of the Innovation Cool Earth Forum (ICEF)
- Speaker: TANAKA Nobuo (Chairman, Steering Committee of Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) / CEO, Tanaka Global, Inc. / Exective Director Emeritus, International Energy Agency (IEA))
- Commentator: ANDO Haruhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Visiting Professor, The University of Electro-Communications)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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October 5, 2023
RIETI Open BBL Webinar
Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finance 2023 - Prices and wages begin to move
- Speaker: UENO Yuko (Deputy Director-General for Economic Research, Cabinet Office)
- Moderator: INOUE Seiichiro (Deputy Director-General, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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September 29, 2023
RIETI-METI Joint Project - "New Horizons of Economic Security" Series
An Overview of Economic Security (2): The China-Taiwan Situation and Japan
- Speaker: KANEHARA Nobukatsu (Professor, Doshisha University / Executive Director, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
- Commentator: HIRAI Hirohide (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor, Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
- Moderator: FUKUOKA Noriyoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Principal Deputy Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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September 28, 2023
The Digital Divide and Business Opportunities in ASEAN – Insights from the ASEAN regional fact-finding survey
- Speaker: OIKAWA Keita (Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
- Speaker: IWASAKI Fusanori (Director for Policy Research, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese