Past BBL Reports and Summaries
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March 14, 2013
The Chinese Economy under the New Leadership
- Speaker: MENG Jianjun (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Fellow, Center for Industry Development and Environment Governance (CIDEG), Tsinghua University)
- Commentator: KWAN Chi Hung (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research)
- Moderator: TAKAGI Seiji (Director, Northeast Asia Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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March 7, 2013
Challenges in International Finance : Japan's Perspective
- Speaker: NAKAO Takehiko (Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance)
- Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
Japanese
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February 28, 2013
World's Leading Residential Fuel Cell 'ENEFARM', Its Status and Promising Future
- Speaker: SHIBATA Tsuneo (Toco President (Former Leader, FC Project, Panasonic))
- Commentator: KOMAHASHI Shizuka (Industrial Journalist)
- Moderator: ANDO Haruhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor and Director of Energy Policy PJ, Hitotsubashi University)
Japanese
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February 27, 2013
ASEAN's Future : Responsibility of Thailand and the Expectations for Myanmar
- Speaker: Surin PITSUWAN (Professor Emeritus, Thammasat University/Former Secretary-General of ASEAN)
- Commentator: NISHIMURA Hidetoshi (Executive Director of ERIA)
- Moderator: KASUGAHARA Daiki (Director, Asia and Pacific Division, METI)
- Time: 12:15-13:30 (Registration desk and seminar room open at 12:00)
(with no simultaneous interpretation)
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February 21, 2013
Japan's Economic Outlook and Inflation Targeting
- Speaker: HAYASHI Tomoko (Director of Economic, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Cabinet Office)
- Moderator: MURASE Yoshifumi (Director, Macro Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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February 12, 2013
What Are the Necessary Conditions for Overcoming Deflation?
- Speaker: WATANABE Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
- Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
Japanese
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February 6, 2013
Global Outlook - Global Economy in an Age of 'Demographic Onus' -
- Speaker: KOHNO Ryutaro (Chief Economist, BNP Paribas Securities (Japan), ltd.)
- Moderator: MURASE Yoshifumi (Director, Macro Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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January 23, 2013
U.S.-Japan Relations: Prospects and Challenges
- Speaker: FUJISAKI Ichiro (Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America)
- Moderator: TAKASHINA Jun (Director, The Headquarter for Civil Service Reform, Cabinet Secretariat)
Japanese
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January 15, 2013
Crisis, Commitment and the Corporation
- Speaker: Colin MAYER (Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford)
- Commentator & Moderator: MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University)
- Handout [PDF:178KB]
- Handout2 [PDF:452KB]
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January 11, 2013
Japan's Defense Industry at a Crossroads
- Speaker: SUZUKI Hideo (Director-General, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: IIDA Yoichi (Director, Aerospace and Defense Industries Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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January 9, 2013
The Russian Economy: Challenges Facing it and Japanese Firms' Business Prospects
- Speaker: TAKAHASHI Hiroshi (Deputy Director General, Institute for Russia & NIS Economic Studies, Japan Association for Trade with Russia & NIS (ROTOBO))
- Moderator: TSUDA Takayoshi (Director, Russia, Central Asia and Caucasus Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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December 14, 2012
The Obama Administration and U.S. International Economic Policy: Challenges, accomplishments, and prospects
- Speaker: Lee G. BRANSTETTER (Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University)
- Commentator & Moderator: WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Senior Research Adviser and Program Director, RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University / Professor Emeritus, Yokohama National University)
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December 7, 2012
Goals of University Reformation
- Speaker: HAMADA Junichi (President, The University of Tokyo)
- Moderator: YAMASHIRO Munehisa (Director of Administration, RIETI)
Japanese
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December 5, 2012
On Nonconventional Monetary Policy
- Speaker: UEDA Kazuo (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
- Moderator: UEMURA Shuichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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December 3, 2012
Future Prospect 2012-2025 -How will the World and our business change in future-
- Speaker: TANAKA Sakae (President, Chief Business Planner, Aquabit Corporation)
- Moderator: TANAKA Shogo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Director, Macro Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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November 28, 2012
Latest Trends and Challenges in Social Game Industry
- Speaker: HARUTA Makoto (Director and Chairman, DeNA Co., Ltd.)
- Moderator: IBUKI Hideaki (Director, Media and Content Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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November 20, 2012
Resource Challenges : Navigating through volatility to create long-term value
- Speaker: Tom ALBANESE (Chief Executive, Rio Tinto)
- Commentator: SAKAE Toshiharu (Executive Officer, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation)
- Moderator: YASUNAGA Yuko (Director, Mineral and Natural Resources Division, Natural Resources and Fuel Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
- Handout [PDF:1.09MB]
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November 16, 2012
Service Productivity Innovation by Customer Satisfaction Based Corporate Management
- Speaker: NAITO Kou (Deputy Director, Center for Service Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))
- Moderator: KONISHI Yoko (Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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November 2, 2012
The Real Story of European Crisis and its Future Prospect
- Speaker: SUMITA Takayuki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Executive Director, Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment Brussels Office (JETRO Brussels Center))
- Moderator: KONDO Tomohiro (Director, Europe Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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November 1, 2012
Global Economy and Financial Markets: Outlook and the Challenges Ahead
- Speaker: ISHII Shogo (Director, IMF's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP))
- Moderator: AOKI Mikio (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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October 31, 2012
Entrepreneurship and Lifenet Insurance Company's Challenges
- Speaker: IWASE Daisuke (Co-Founder / Representative Director, Lifenet Insurance Company)
- Commentator: OKADA Kohei (Director, Industrial Finance Division and New Business Policy Office, Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Office of International Affairs for Security Export Control, METI)
Japanese
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October 23, 2012
Revitalization of Matured Industry
- Speaker: KAWAHARA Haruo (Representative Director & Chairman of the Board, JVC KENWOOD Corporation)
- Moderator: YOSHIMOTO Yutaka (Director, Industrial Revitalization Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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October 19, 2012
The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election in the midst of the Ideological Polarization
- Speaker: KUBO Fumiaki (Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics)
- Moderator: YAHAGI Tomoyoshi (Director, American Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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October 16, 2012
The Current Trends in the protection of Graphical User Interface designs in the United States
- Speaker: Tracy-Gene G. DURKIN (Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.)
- Moderator: SEINO Takao (Deputy Director, Legislative Affairs Office, General Affairs Department, Japan Patent Office, METI)
- Handout [PDF:671KB]
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October 15, 2012
Rural India: The Emerging Market
- Speaker: Pradeep KASHYAP (Founder & CEO, MART)
- Moderator: HATTORI Takashi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director for Climate Change, METI)
- Handout [PDF:10.1MB]
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October 12, 2012
Trade in the Current Economic Crisis
- Speaker: Pascal LAMY (Director-General, the World Trade Organization)
- Moderator: ISHIGE Hiroyuki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Chairman, the Japan External Trade Organization)
- Time: 12:00-13:00 (Registration desk and seminar room open at 11:45)
(with simultaneous interpretation)
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October 4, 2012
Background of Soaring Grain Prices and their Future Prospects : Challenges facing Japan's agricultural industry
- Speaker: SHIBATA Akio (President, Natural Resource Research Institute Inc.)
- Moderator: NOHARA Satoshi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Macro Economic Affairs Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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October 3, 2012
Latest Developments in EU-Japan Trade and Economic Issues
- Speaker: Hans Dietmar SCHWEISGUT (Ambassador of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan)
- Moderator: NAKATOMI Michitaka (Consulting Fellow, RIETI/ Senior Advisor to JETRO)
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September 26, 2012
Business Environments Surrounding the Hotel Industry and the Concept of the New Hotel
- Speaker: KOBAYASHI Takashi (President, Palace Hotel Co., Ltd.)
- Moderator: SHIRAISHI Shigeaki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Service Affairs Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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September 24, 2012
Japan's New Growth Strategy and the World Economy
- Speaker: Dale W. JORGENSON (Professor, Harvard University)
- Commentator & Moderator: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University / Research Director, Canon Institute for Global Studies / Senior Fellow, The Tokyo Foundation)
- Program
- Handout [PDF:345KB]
- Comment [PDF:304KB]
(with no simultaneous interpretation)
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September 21, 2012
JOGMEC's Quest for Continental Shelf Resources
- Speaker: FURUHATA Tetsuya (Director for General Coordination Division General Coordination Department JOGMEC (Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation) )
- Moderator: HAGIWARA Takahiro (Director, Policy Planning Division, Natural Resources and Fuel Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
Japanese
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September 14, 2012
Which STI Policy Aftermath of Economic and Financial Crisis? Investment in Knowledge-based Capital (KBC) as a Response?
- Speaker: Andrew W. WYCKOFF (Director, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry)
- Speaker: Dominique GUELLEC (Head of the Country Studies and Outlook (CSO) Division Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD)
- Moderator: KANEKO Tomohiro (Director, International Economic Affairs Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
- Handout (Mr.Wyckoff) [PDF:1.59MB]
- Handout (Mr.Guellec) [PDF:1.08MB]
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September 13, 2012
Primary Care can be a Key Solution to Manage Both Quality and Finance in Japanese Health Care
- Speaker: II Masako (Professor, School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University)
- Speaker: SAWA Noriaki (General Practitioner)
- Moderator: NASU Ryo (Deputy Director, Healthcare Industries Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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September 12, 2012
Grasping Changes in the Economic Trends and Industrial Structures in Japan and Abroad
- Speaker: YAMADA Daisuke (Executive Officer & General Manager, Industry Research Division, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.)
- Moderator: UEMURA Shuichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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September 7, 2012
The JOBS Act
- Speaker: Theodore A. PARADISE (Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP)
- Commentator: ADACHI Toshihisa (Chairman, Japan Venture Capital Association/ President and CEO, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Inc.)
- Moderator: OKADA Kohei (Director, Industrial Finance Division and New Business Policy Office, Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Handout [PDF:684KB]
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August 30, 2012
Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy
- Speaker: Patrick LOW (WTO Chief Economist)
- Moderator: NAKATOMI Michitaka (Consulting Fellow, RIETI/ Senior Advisor to JETRO)
- Handout [PDF:627KB]
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August 29, 2012
Innovation and Trade : Exploring Ways for Achieving Innovative Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Speaker: KIRIYAMA Nobuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director for Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Finance)
- Speaker & Moderator: SASAJI Ken (Director, Office for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
- Commentator: SAKATA Ichiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Japanese
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August 8, 2012
Great East Japan Earthquake : Activities and experiences of the government's victim livelihood support team
- Speaker: YAMASHITA Tetsuo (Director, the Planning and Coordination Division, Administrative Management Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
- Moderator: UENO Toru (Director of International Coordination and Public Relations & Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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August 1, 2012
Annual Report of the Japanese Economy and Public Finance 2012
- Speaker: SUGIHARA Shigeru (Deputy Director-General, Economic Assessment and Policy Analysis , Cabinet Office, Government Of Japan)
- Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
- Time: 12:00-13:15 (Registration desk and seminar room open at 11:45)
Japanese
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July 25, 2012
Perspective of International Standardization Essential in Constructing Natural Resources and Energy Policies
- Speaker: HIRANUMA Hikaru (Research Fellow & Project Manager, The Tokyo Foundation)
- Moderator: UENO Toru (Director of International Coordination and Public Relations & Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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July 18, 2012
Challenges Facing Personnel Management in Improving the Way People Work : Implications from an international comparative survey on work-life balance
- Speaker: TAKEISHI Emiko (Professor, Faculty of Life-long Learning and Career Studies, Hosei University)
- Moderator: YAMADA Masato (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director of Legislative Affairs Office, Japan Patent Office, METI)
Japanese
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July 11, 2012
Risks, Uncertainties, and Unanticipated Events
- Speaker: UEMURA Shuichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
- Moderator: NAKAZAWA Norio (Director of Research, RIETI)
Japanese
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July 6, 2012
White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2012 : Extending the Frontiers of Growth through Global Linkages
- Speaker: KIRIYAMA Nobuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
- Speaker: SEKIGUCHI Kunio (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Director, Conformity Assessment Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: SATO Hitoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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July 4, 2012
Women at the Top of Corporations
- Speaker: Georges DESVAUX (President, McKinsey & Company Inc., Japan)
- Commentator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)
- Moderator: SAKAMOTO Riwa (Director, Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Mr. Desvaux' bio [PDF:16KB]
- Dr. Yamaguchi's comment [PDF:164KB]
(with no simultaneous interpretation)
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June 27, 2012
Electricity Sector Liberalization in the U.S. and MISO's Effort
- Speaker: John R. BEAR (President & CEO, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. (MISO))
- Moderator: MITA Noriyuki (Director, Policy Planning Division, Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
- Handout [PDF:1.0MB]
(with no simultaneous interpretation)
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June 26, 2012
Electricity Saving Measures and Urban Heat Island Measures
- Speaker: GENCHI Yutaka (Group Leader, Material and Energy Sustainability Assessment Group, The Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))
- Moderator: FUKUSHIMA Hiroshi (Director, Research and Development Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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June 22, 2012
[Policy History Series] Transition of Industrial Policy Regime in Late 20th Century Japan
- Speaker: OKAZAKI Tetsuji (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo)
- Moderator: SEKIZAWA Yoichi (Research Coordinator (in charge of Policy History), RIETI)
Japanese
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June 19, 2012
Global Human Capital Strategy : How to Make Use of Diversity
- Speaker: Sakie T. FUKUSHIMA (President & Representative Director, G&S Global Advisors Inc.)
- Moderator: YOSHIDA Yasuhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Trade Control Policy Division, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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June 15, 2012
From Price Competition to the Value Creation Economy Based on Maturity and Diversity
- Speaker: KADONO Nario (Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice Chairman & Vice President, RIETI)
Japanese
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June 14, 2012
Managing Diversity -- Globalization and Strategic Human Resource Management
- Speaker: TANIGUCHI Mami (Professor, The Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University)
- Commentator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago)
- Moderator: SAKAMOTO Riwa (Director, Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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June 13, 2012
For More Realistic Model for Giant Earthquake and Tsunami by Knowledge of the Past
- Speaker: SHISHIKURA Masanobu (Leader, Subduction Zone Paleoearthquake Research Team, Active Fault and Earthquake Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))
- Moderator: WATANABE Masayoshi (Director, Office for National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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June 8, 2012
Prospects of a Transatlantic FTA : Implications for Japan and the Global Trading System?
- Speaker: Hosuk Lee-MAKIYAMA (Director, European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE))
- Moderator: NAKATOMI Michitaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
- Handout [PDF:1.2MB]
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June 5, 2012
Reforming the Management of FUJIFILM's
- Speaker: KOMORI Shigetaka (President and Chief Executive Officer, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation)
- Moderator: MIYAMOTO Akihiko (Director, Chemicals Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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May 29, 2012
Designing Corporate Governance with an Aim to Enhance Corporate Value
- Speaker: MAEDA Shinzo (Chairman, Shiseido Company, Limited)
- Moderator: ESAKI Yoshihide (Director, Bio-Industry Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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May 18, 2012
International Trade System Governance and Plurilateral Agreements
- Speaker: NAKATOMI Michitaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
- Moderator: KURODA Junichiro (Principal Director, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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May 14, 2012
Big Change in R&D by Big Data
- Speaker: HIGUCHI Tomoyuki (Director-General, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics / Exective Director, Research Organization of Information and Systems)
- Moderator: YAMASHIRO Munehisa (Director of Administration, RIETI)
Japanese
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May 10, 2012
2012 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan : Overcoming difficulties and forging ahead
- Speaker: OYAMA Kazuhisa (Director, Research Office, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI)
- Moderator: SAITO Yukiko (Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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May 9, 2012
Network and Market Management of PJM
- Speaker: Andrew OTT (Senior Vice President, Markets, PJM (US))
- Speaker: Adrien I. FORD (Director, Market Evolution, PJM (US))
- Speaker: Eric GOUTARD (Market Management System Activity Manager, Alstom Grid (France))
- Commentator: YAMADA Hikaru (President, Sprint Capital Japan Ltd.)
- Moderator: MITA Noriyuki (Director, Policy Planning Division, Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
(with no simultaneous interpretation)
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May 8, 2012
Global Economy and Financial Markets : Outlook and the Challenges Ahead
- Speaker: ISHII Shogo (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, IMF)
- Moderator: NAKAZAWA Norio (Director of Research, RIETI)
Japanese
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April 19, 2012
Looking Back, Four Years with the Appellate Body of the WTO Or 'LOST IN TRANSLATION'
- Speaker: OSHIMA Shotaro (Visiting Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo)
- Moderator: NAKATOMI Michitaka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Principal Trade Negotiator, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese
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April 17, 2012
Fifteen Years of the Private Equity Market and its Future Social Function
- Speaker: SASANUMA Taisuke (Representative Partner, Advantage Partners, LLP)
- Moderator: YOSHIDA Yasuhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Trade Control Policy Division, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry, METI)
Japanese
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April 6, 2012
Japan's Economy and the Two Lost Decades
- Speaker: FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow & Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
- Moderator: KODAMA Naomi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Statistics Planning Office, Research and Statistics Department, Minister's Secretariat, METI)
Japanese
