Past BBL Reports and Summaries
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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