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

  • 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

  • July 16, 2025

    How best to Leverage Foreign Capital for Enhancing Corporate Value: An Option for Further Growth Featured in the Guidebook Published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

    • Speaker: MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Executive Vice President, Waseda University / Adviser, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
    • Speaker: IWAI Takashi (Executive Manager, Professional for Industrial Policy, External Affairs Dept., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
    • Speaker: NONOMIYA Ritsuko (Managing Director Head of Corporate Finance Japan, Houlihan Lokey Corporation)
    • Speaker and Moderator: AMANO Fujiko (Director for Investment Collaboration, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 14, 2025

    Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai Series

    Exploring Education of the Future: Human-technology Symbiosis in the era of digital nature

    • Speaker: OCHIAI Yoichi (Media Artist / Associate Professor, Tsukuba University / Producer, Theme Project for Japan EXPO 2025 in Osaka and Kansai)
    • Commentator: NAKAMURO Makiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
    • Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Director-General, Commerce and Service Industry Policy Group, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 10, 2025

    Structural Challenges, Distribution Policies and the Direction of Growth for Japan’s Prosperous Development

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School, U.S.A. / 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), Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 2, 2025

    Japan's Response to U.S.-China High-Tech Friction: Insights from Comparing Innovation Systems in Three Countries

    • Speaker: MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: FUKUMOTO Takuya (Deputy Director-General for Green Transformation Policy Deputy Director-General for Innovation Policy, METI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • 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

  • 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