BBL Seminars FY2003

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Past BBL Reports and Summaries

  • March 29, 2004

    U.S. Presidential Election and the Future of Security and Foreign Policy

    • Speaker: WATANABE Tsuneo (Senior Fellow, Office of the Japan Chair, CSIS)
    • Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • March 25, 2004

    Thoughts on Japanese Corporate Governance

    • Speaker: Hugh PATRICK (Professor, Columbia University)
    • Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of School of Social Sciences, Waseda University)

  • March 23, 2004

    Regional Integration in East Asia: ASEAN's View

    • Speaker: Hadi SOESASTRO (Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies of Jakarta, Indonesia)
    • Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of School of Social Sciences, Waseda University)

  • March 17, 2004

    Current Situation in DPRK and its Nuclear Problems

    • Speaker: ENDO Tetsuya (Former Vice Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of Japan)
    • Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • March 16, 2004

    University-Industry Collaboration as a Driving Force of University Reform?

    • Speaker: ISOGAI Keisuke (Director, Earthquake Research Division, Research and Development Bureau, MEXT)
    • Speaker and Moderator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Tohoku University)

    Japanese

  • March 8, 2004

    Foreign Policy: Will the U.S. Change its Course?

    • Speaker: Clyde PRESTOWITZ (President, Economic Strategy Institute)
    • Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (Fellow, RIETI)

  • February 23, 2004

    British Diplomacy Today

    • Speaker: HOSOYA Yuichi (Full-time Lecturer, Faculty of International Studies, Keiai University)
    • Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 13, 2004

    Fora for the People Reviving their Communities: Challenge of '5:01 Clubs' at the Cities of Chugoku Region

    • Speaker: NISHIDE Tetsuo (Director-General, Chugoku Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI)
    • Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • February 6, 2004

    Reforming the European Higher Education and Research Sector for the Knowledge Society

    • Speaker: Luc WEBER (Professor, University of Geneva)
    • Moderator: HARAYAMA Yuko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Tohoku University)
    • Handouts [PDF: 150KB]

  • January 23, 2004

    Reform of the U.N. Security Council and Japan

    • Speaker: SATO Yukio (President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (Former Ambassador to the United Nations))
    • Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • January 15, 2004

    The Fifteen Years of China's Diplomacy and Strategy Toward the United States: The Process of Evolution, Fundamental Expriences, and Remaining Problems

    • Speaker: SHI Yinhong (Professor, Renmin University of China)
    • Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
    • Paper [PDF: 26KB]

  • January 9, 2004

    Economic Security: From Technology Policy Perspectives

    • Speaker: MURAYAMA Yuzo (Professor, Division of America, Department of Area Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
    • Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (Director of Administration, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • December 18, 2003

    The New Boom and the Potential Problems of Chinese Economy

    • Speaker: FAN Gang (Director, National Economic Research Institute, China)
    • Moderator: C. H. KWAN (RIETI Senior Fellow)

  • December 17, 2003

    Development of Strategy for Shiseido Business in China

    • Speaker: HARA Ryoichi (Chief officer, International Marketing Division, Shiseido Co., Ltd.)
    • Moderator: TOYA Riina (RIETI Research Associate)

    Japanese

  • December 9, 2003

    U.S. Energy Policy and its implication to Japan

    • Speaker: KANDA Keiji (Director, Japan Energy Policy Institute / Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University / Professor, Musashi Institute of Technology / Research Advisor, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
    • Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (RIETI Director of Administration)

    Japanese

  • December 5, 2003

    Post-Crisis Development Paradigms in Asia and the Chinese-economy

    • Speaker: YOSHITOMI Masaru (Research Fellow, JBIC Institute / Former Dean, The Asian Development Bank Institute)
    • Moderator: TANIKAWA Hiroya (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • December 3, 2003

    Transition to Market Economy and Democracy: The Success Story of Hungary

    • Speaker: Zoltan SUDY (Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary to Japan)
    • Moderator: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • November 28, 2003

    Winners and losers of ASEAN: How should Japan and the rest handle?

    • Speaker: KINOSHITA Toshihiko (Professor, School of Commerce, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: IRIE Kazutomo (RIETI Director of Administration)

    Japanese

  • November 26, 2003

    Problems with Today's Youth and the Japanese Education System from the Perspective of the Industrial World

    • Speaker: SHIMOTANI Masahisa (Vice Chairman, Special Committee of Human Resources Development, Osaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry)
    • Moderator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Vice President / Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • November 25, 2003

    The Perspective of Starting-up New Entity in Silicon Valley: on the Cutting-edge of Security Software

    • Speaker: ARAKAWA Taro (General Partner, Security Management Partners Incorporated)
    • Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy)

    Japanese

  • November 18, 2003

    The Rise of China: Should Japan be Afraid?

    • Speaker: Graham HUTCHINGS (Editor, The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief)
    • Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (RIETI Fellow)
    • Commentator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Vice President / Senior Fellow)
    • Handouts [PDF: 1.3MB]

  • November 12, 2003

    Reforming the Agricultural Policy - An Agricultural Strategy for Surviving WTO and FTA

    • Speaker: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (RIETI Senior Fellow)
    • Moderator: SAGARA Nozomi (RIETI Fellow)

    Japanese

  • November 11, 2003

    What Difference Does the Election Make?

    • Speaker: Gerald CURTIS (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University)
    • Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (RIETI Fellow)

    Japanese

  • October 31, 2003

    Regional Trade Agreements: A Better Approach after Cancun?

  • October 29, 2003

    Research on Japanese Excellent Companies Basis of Business Management? Six Conditions

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Information Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: OKAZAKI Tetsuji (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: TSURU Kotaro (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • October 28, 2003

    The Next Revolution in Communications and Information Technology: Its Implications for Economic Growth and Innovation

    • Speaker: Peter F. COWHEY (Dean, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies; Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; and Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy, University of California)
    • Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (RIETI Senior Fellow)
    • Handouts [PDF: 809KB]

  • October 17, 2003

    An Attempt at Business-Academia Collaboration in Kyushu University - Toward a Respected and Competitive University

    • Speaker: TANIGAWA Toru (Professor, Art, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research (KASTEC), Kyushu University / Research Fellow, Stanford Japan Center)
    • Moderator: SAKATA Ichiro (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Deputy Director, Corporate Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI / Part-time Lecturer, Kyushu University)

    Japanese

  • October 15, 2003

    Democracy Without Competition: Opposition Failure in One-Party Dominant Japan

    • Speaker: Ethan SCHEINER (Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University)
    • Moderator: MURAMATSU Michio (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Gakushuin University)
    • Handouts [PDF: 222KB]

  • October 7, 2003

    Library as a Space for Knowledge Creation -From the Case Study of New York

    • Speaker: SUGAYA Akiko (RIETI Fellow / Instructor, University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy)

    Japanese

  • October 3, 2003

    Sports Arbitration and its Development - Global Relationships and History

    • Speaker: KOTERA Akira (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: HIROSE Ichiro (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • October 1, 2003

    The Breakdown in WTO Agricultural Negotiations: Some Hidden Backgrounds and Arguments

    • Speaker: YAMASHITA Kazuhito (RIETI Senior Fellow)
    • Moderator: TANAKA Nobuo (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director-General, Multilateral Trade System Department, METI)

    Japanese

  • September 29, 2003

    Assessing the Effectiveness of S&T Policies - What can we learn from quantitative and qualitative evaluation-

    • Speaker: Bruno van POTTELSBERGHE (Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University / Professor, Solvay Business School, Brussels University)
    • Moderator: MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (RIETI Senior Fellow / Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Handouts [PDF:240KB]

  • September 17, 2003

    Japanese Frequency Policy ? What you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask

    • Speaker: TANAKA Yoshihiro (Founder and President, FuuUn & Rivals, Ltd. / Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan)
    • Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • September 16, 2003

    European Trade Policy: What's behind?

    • Speaker: Michel FOUQUIN (Deputy Director of the CEPII and Associate Professor at the University of Paris I (Pantheon- Sorbonne))
    • Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Handouts [PDF: 214KB]
    • Paper [PDF: 664KB]

  • September 11, 2003

    Institutional Reforms for Enterprise-based Welfare Provisions

    • Speaker: TACHIBANAKI Toshiaki (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Graduate School of Economics , Kyoto University)
    • Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • September 10, 2003

    Asian Security Challenges-Rising China after Six Parties Talk

    • Speaker: Peter BROOKES (Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs and Director, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation)
    • Commentator: Rebecca MACKINNON (CNN's Tokyo Bureau Chief and Correspondent)
    • Moderator: Michael YOO (RIETI Research Associate)

  • September 9, 2003

    Toward Trustworthy Computing -Security Strategy of Microsoft

    • Speaker: Scott CHARNEY (Chief Security Strategist, Microsoft)
    • Commentators: TAKAGI Hiromitsu (Team Leader, Secure Programming Team, Grid Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), INNAMI Tomohiro (Director, Office of IT Security Policy, METI)
    • Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)
    • Handouts [PDF: 764KB]

  • August 27, 2003

    What Truly Improves a Value of a Vote? - Consideration of an Impact by Easing of Regulations on Local Governments' Activities, Election Campaigning or Political Funds -

    • Speaker: KATO Hideki (President, Japan Initiative / Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
    • Moderator: NISHIYAMA Keita (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Research and Analysis Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • August 25, 2003

    The United States, China, and the North Korean issue: Why does Beijing cooperate closely with the United States over North Korea?

  • July 31, 2003

    North Korea Crisis-End Game & Endless Game

    • Speaker: FUNABASHI Yoichi (Senior Columnist, Asahi Shimbun)
    • Commentator: KUBO Fumiaki (Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: Michael YOO (RIETI Research Associate)

  • July 30, 2003

    Japan and the GATT/WTO Regime

    • Speaker: ARAKI Ichiro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Associate Professor of Yokohama National University)
    • Moderator: KAWASE Tsuyoshi (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Deputy Director, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 29, 2003

    Outlook for the Coming LDP Presidential Election and the Next General Election

    • OKUBO Yoshio (Director, The Yomiuri Shimbun)
    • IIO Jun (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Government, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)

    Japanese

  • July 23, 2003

    University Reform Under the New Law (Kokuritsu Daigaku Hojin-Ho)

    • Speaker: SAWA Akihiro (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Policy Planning Division, Natural Resources and Fuel Department, ANRE)
    • Moderator: HISATAKE Masato (RIETI Director of Research and Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • July 22, 2003

    The WTO Agricultural Negotiations and the Essence of Agricultural Issues

    • Speaker: HONMA Masayoshi (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Graduate school of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: ARAKI Ichiro (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Associate Professor of Yokohama National University)

    Japanese

  • July 18, 2003

    The Japanese Government's Policy Making System: What Is The Problem?

    • Speaker: Gerald CURTIS (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University)
    • Moderator: KATO Sota (RIETI Faculty Fellow)

    Japanese

  • July 14, 2003

    Strategic Measures for Revitalizing Japan's Manufacturing Industry

    • Speaker: TOYODA Masakazu (Director-General for Manufacturing Industries Policy, METI)
    • Moderator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Vice President and Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • July 4, 2003

    Achievements and Challenges of Trinity Re-forms

    • Speaker: DOI Takero (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Senior Economist, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
    • Moderator: KITAMI Tomitaro (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Deputy Director, Industrial Organization Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 2, 2003

    The 2nd US-North Korea Nuclear Crisis - Negotiations or War?

    • Speaker: Kenneth QUINONES (Director of Korean Peninsula Programs, International Center in Washington, D.C.)
    • Moderator: SOEYA Yoshihide (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University)
    • Summary (Japanese translation)

  • June 24, 2003

    Employment Safety-net in a Society based on Self-responsibility and Self-selectivity: About the Unemployment Insurance Reform

    • Speaker: HIGUCHI Yoshio (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Keio University)
    • Moderator: KODAMA Toshihiro (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • June 20, 2003

    What is University-Industry Co-operation as Innovation's Inducting Agent?

    • HARAYAMA Yuko (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Tohoku University)
    • SUNAMI Atsushi (RIETI Fellow / Visiting Researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo)
    • FUJIMOTO Masayo (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Lecturer, Faculty of letters, Doshisha University)
    • NAKAMURA Yoshiaki (Director, General Affairs Division, Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI)
    • WAGA Miwako (Managing Director, GETI / Visiting Fellow, AIST)
    • HOSHINO Yu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

    Japanese

  • June 18, 2003

    Open Source vs. Intellectual Property Law

    • Speaker: Bruce PERENS (President & Open Source Consultant, Perens LLC)
    • Commentator: SADO Shuji (General Manager, OSDN Japan)
    • Moderator: Nobuo Ikeda (RIETI Senior Fellow)
    • Handouts [PDF: 76KB]
    • Paper [PDF: 62KB]

  • June 13, 2003

    Private Equity in Japan

    • Speaker: FUKAGAWA Tetsuya (Managing Director, Warburg Pincus Japan)
    • Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)

    Japanese

  • June 12, 2003

    After the Bubble: Is Japan's Recent Past America's Future?

    • Speaker: Allan I. MENDELOWITZ (Director, Federal Housing Finance Board)
    • Moderator: KATSUNO Masahiro (RIETI Manager, International Affairs)

  • June 10, 2003

    From Resources to Value and Back: Normal and Complementary Assets in 20th Century Popular Music

    • Speaker: Nachoem WIJNBERG (Professor of Industrial Economics and Organization at the Faculty of Organization and Management, University of Groningen)
    • Moderator: Gregory JACKSON (Fellow, RIETI)
    • Handouts [PDF: 106KB]

  • June 5, 2003

    The North Korean End Game: Prospects for Northeast Asian Regional Integration

    • Speaker: Kent E. CALDER (Reischauer Professor of East Asian Studies Director, Japan and Korea Studies / Director of the Princeton University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.)
    • Moderator: KISHIMOTO Shuhei (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Treasury Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
    • Commentator: Michael YOO (RIETI Research Associate)

    Japanese

  • June 4, 2003

    The Report of 'Innovation Japan'

    • Speaker: MATSUSHIMA Katsumori (Professor, Institute of Engineering Innovation, University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: SAKATA Ichiro (RIETI Consulting Fellow)

    Japanese

  • May 28, 2003

    Lessons for Japan from the U.S. Growth Resurgence

    • Speaker: Dale W. JORGENSON (Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University)
    • Moderator: MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (RIETI Senior Fellow / Associate Professor,Institute of Innovation Research,Hitotsubashi University )
    • Handouts [PDF: 121KB]

  • May 21, 2003

    Road to Revival and 'Entrepreneur Society'

    • YASUDA Takehiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Research Office, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)

    Japanese

  • May 16, 2003

    Progress in Chinese IT Development and its International Division of Labor

    • Speaker: SANBONMATSU Susumu (Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, The University of Shimane)
    • Moderator: SUNAMI Atsushi (RIETI Fellow)

    Japanese

  • May 14, 2003

    Dot Communism

    • Speaker: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)
    • Moderator: NAKABAYASHI Mieko (RIETI Fellow)

    Japanese

  • May 13, 2003

    Taxation, Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State

    • Speaker: Sven STEINMO (Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado)
    • Moderator: Gregory JACKSON (RIETI Fellow)
    • Handouts [PDF: 2MB]

  • May 9, 2003

    The Rise of China and What Japan Should Do

    • Speaker: TSUGAMI Toshiya (RIETI Senior Fellow)
    • Moderator: FUKAGAWA Yukiko (RIETI Faculty Fellow)

    Japanese

  • April 25, 2003

    Government Procurement following the IT Bubble

    • Speaker: Clyde UNNO (Partner, Accenture Corporation)
    • Commentator: USHIROMATSU Norinosuke (President CEO, Agile Consulting Corporation)
    • Moderator: IKEDA Nobuo (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • April 23, 2003

    Don Quijote: A New and Unique Model for Innovative and Promising Venture Business, Flouting Conventional Chain Store Theory

    • Speaker: YASUDA Takao (President, Don Quijote Co., Ltd.)
    • Speaker: TSUKIIZUMI Hiroshi (President, Seeds Co., Ltd.)
    • Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (RIETI Consulting Fellow / Director, Economic and Fiscal Management, Cabinet Office)

    Japanese

  • April 15, 2003

    Concept of the Knowledge-based Country Theory

    • Speaker: NONAKA Ikujiro (Professor at Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotubashi University)
    • Moderator: IZUMIDA Hirohiko (Senior Coordinator for Advanced Cargo Transport Systems Promotion, Ministry of Land, Infrastracture and Transport)

    Japanese

  • April 11, 2003

    Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia

    • Marcus NOLAND (Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics)

  • April 9, 2003

    American Empire?

    • Speaker: Dominic LIEVEN (Professor of Russian Government, London School of Economics and Political Science)
    • Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (RIETI Fellow / Guest Editorial Writer, The Asahi Shimbun)

  • April 8, 2003

    Population Migration and Economic Development in China

    • Speaker: MENG Jianjun (RIETI Faculty Fellow / Professor, Tsinghua University)
    • Moderator: C.H. KWAN (RIETI Senior Fellow)

    Japanese

  • April 4, 2003

    Japanese Postal Service: Focusing on the Future of Postal Savings

    • Speaker: TAKAHASHI Yoichi (RIETI Consulting Fellow)
    • Moderator: TSUGAMI Toshiya (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 2, 2003

    Creating a Market for NPO Donations

    • Speaker: ATODA Naosumi (Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
    • Moderator: MEKATA Motoko (RIETI Fellow)

    Japanese

  • April 1, 2003

    The Future and Current Situation of North Korea Seen from Pyongyang.

    • Speaker: Paul BEIJER (Ambassador, Swedish Embassy at DPRK)
    • Moderator: SAEKI Hidetaka (RIETI Senior Fellow)