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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • November 9, 2023

    What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? - Recent progress

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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