BBL Seminars FY2024

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Past BBL Reports and Summaries

  • October 8, 2024

    RIETI-ERIA Joint Project – "Perspectives on the ASEAN Economy" Series

    EV Market in ASEAN: Policies, current status & a framework of possible outlook

    • Speaker: Alloysius Joko PURWANTO (Energy Economist, ERIA (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia), Jakarta)
    • Commentator: ITO Masamichi (Director, Automobile Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University /Senior Research Fellow, ERIA (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia))

    English / Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)

  • October 2, 2024

    The 2024 US Presidential Election and the Future of the International Order

    • Speaker: KUBO Fumiaki (President, National Defense Academy of Japan, Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • September 18, 2024

    The World's Best Human Capital Management Classroom

    • Speaker: ONO Hiroshi (Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School / Co-chairman, Research Consortium on Human Capital and Corporate Value)
    • Speaker: KAMINOYAMA Nobuhiro (Senior Executive Officer, Group Chief Human Resources Officer (Group CHRO) and Group Chief Digital Officer(Group CDO), Mizuho Financial Group)
    • Moderator: HIRONO Ayako (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Editor, Nikkei Business / Distinguished Guest Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)

    Japanese

  • September 12, 2024

    Considering Japan’s future after 100 years of population decline– The future of Japan’s regions, cities and families

    • Speaker: MORI Tomoya (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER), Kyoto University / Visiting Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo)
    • Commentator: KAJI Naohiro (Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: KONDO Keisuke (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University)

    Japanese

  • September 9, 2024

    RIETI-DBJ Joint Webinar

    The Ongoing Increase in Capital Investment and its Background

    • Speaker: MIYANAGA Wataru (Executive Economist and Deputy President, Research Institute of Capital Formation, DBJ)
    • Commentator: INOUE Seiichiro (Deputy Director-General, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: IKARI Hiroshi (Consulting Fellow and Research Coordinator (Research), RIETI / Senior Economist, Research Institute of Capital Formation, DBJ)

    Japanese

  • September 5, 2024

    Research and Development in Generative AI and its Future Direction

    • Speaker: HANAZAWA Ken (General Manager, Data Science Laboratories and (concurrent) Generative AI Center, NEC Corporation)
    • Commentator: WATANABE Takuya (Director, Software and Information Service Industry Strategy Office, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • August 1, 2024

    Advancing Regional Economic Cooperation: Developments and perceptions in APEC

  • July 24, 2024

    What Companies Can Do to Eliminate the Gender Wage Gap - Information Disclosure and the Use of People Analytics

    • Speaker: OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
    • Commentator: SOMA Tomoko (Director, Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)

    Japanese

  • July 23, 2024

    White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2024

    • Speaker: AIDA Masashi (Former Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 19, 2024

    Unlocking the Future with Fungi and Mushrooms: New and future developments in microbial utilization - Mycotechnology

    • Speaker: HAYAKAWA Takuro (Director-General, Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation)
    • Speaker: INABA Shigeki (Manager, NITE Patent Microorganisms Depositary, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation)
    • Speaker: HAGIWARA Daisuke (Associate Professor, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
    • Speaker: SAKAMOTO Yuji (Director, Strategic Planning Department, Japan Bioindustry Association / Deputy General of Secretary, Japan Association of Bioindustries Executives)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • July 11, 2024

    White Paper on Manufacturing Industries 2024

    • Speaker: KAWAMURA Miho (Director, Manufacturing Industries Strategy Planning Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: HASHIMOTO Yuki (Senior Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • July 9, 2024

    Economic Security - A German perspective

    • Speaker: Clemens von GOETZE (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan)
    • Commentator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University / Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
    • Presentation (H.E. Dr. Goetze) [PDF:285KB]
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Comment, Q&A) (YouTube)

  • July 4, 2024

    New Directions in American Economic Statecraft

    • Speaker: Mireya SOLIS (Director, Center for Asia Policy Studies,Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, The Brookings Institution)
    • Moderator: URATA Shujiro (Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Professor Emeritus, Waseda University / Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA))
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Q&A) (YouTube)

  • June 28, 2024

    2024 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan / 2024 White Paper on Small Enterprises in Japan

    • Speaker: KIKUTA Ippei (Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)
    • Commentator: GOTO Yasuo (Research Associate, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 26, 2024

    Japan's Energy Policy from the Energy White Paper: The growing global risks surrounding energy, and what Japan should be aiming for

    • Speaker: HIROTA Daisuke (Director / Investment Strategist, Energy Supply and Demand Policy Office / Research and Public Relations Office, Commissioner's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • June 24, 2024

    What is a Start-up? -Some clues for economic revitalization

    • Speaker: KATO Masatoshi (Professor, School of Economics and Director, Research Center for Entrepreneurship (RECENT), Kwansei Gakuin University)
    • Commentator: NOZAWA Yasushi (Director, Innovation and Industry-University Collaboration Division, Industrial Science, Technology and Environment Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI / University Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)

    Japanese

  • June 20, 2024

    Economic Security and Geopolitics: Insights into Japan-Korea cooperation based on "Economic Security Indicators"

    • Speaker: Byung Yeon KIM (Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, Seoul National University)
    • Commentator: Hyeog Ug KWON (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University)
    • Moderator: FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI / University Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • Video (Comment, Q&A) (YouTube)

  • June 6, 2024

    The Cost of Conflict: Economic implications of a Taiwan military crisis

    • Speaker: Joris TEER (Associate Analyst for Economic Security and Technology, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS))
    • Moderator: NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Principal Director, Office of Economic Security, Minister's Secretariat, METI)

  • May 27, 2024

    Successful Case Studies Relating to the Use of Collaborations and Joint Ventures Between Japanese and Foreign Companies in Japan

    • Speaker: MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Executive Vice President, Waseda University / Adviser, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
    • Speaker: ASAI Yosuke (Director, Investment Facilitation Division, METI)
    • Speaker: KURAHASHI Kenta (PLAID, Inc. Representative Director and CEO)
    • Moderator: AMANO Fujiko (Director for Investment Collaboration, Investment Facilitation Division, Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • May 16, 2024

    World Economic Outlook “Steady but Slow: Resilience amid divergence”

    • 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), University of Niigata Prefecture)
    • Moderator: AIDA Masashi (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)

    Japanese

  • May 10, 2024

    The Power of the Yen and Currency Strategies of Japanese Firms

    • Speaker: SATO Kiyotaka (Professor of Economics, Dean, Faculty of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University)
    • Commentator: AIDA Masashi (Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, METI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • April 25, 2024

    Japan Re-Emerges? – The NEW Japan Management

    • Speaker: Ulrike SCHAEDE (Professor of Japanese Business, University of California San Diego)
    • Commentator: SEKINE Yusuke (Deputy Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: HIRONO Ayako (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Deputy Editor, Nikkei Business / Distinguished Guest Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)

    Japanese

  • April 18, 2024

    Southeast Asia & Japan – The good, the bad & the ugly

    • Speaker: CHOI Shing Kwok (Director & Chief Executive Officer, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute / Head, ASEAN Studies Centre / Head, Singapore APEC Study Centre)
    • Commentator: AIZAWA Nobuhiro (Professor, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University / Managing Director & Dean of ERIA School of Government)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), RIETI / Chief EBPM Officer / Professor, Otsuma Women's University)
    • Presentation (Mr. Choi) [PDF:2.3MB]
    • Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
    • The State of Southeast Asia 2024 Survey Report

  • April 5, 2024

    How Much of Merit is Due to Luck?

    • Speaker: KOIZUMI Hideto (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior Fellow and Director of Research, RIETI)

    Japanese