Past BBL Reports and Summaries
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April 25, 2025
DX Series
AI Development for the Benefit of Mankind – The Challenge for Microsoft Research Asia Tokyo
- Speaker: MATSUSHITA Yasuyuki (Senior Director, Microsoft Research Asia - Tokyo)
- Commentator: UCHIDA Ryoji (Director, IT Innovation Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
Japanese
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April 17, 2025
Nurturing Entrepreneurship: What policymakers can do
- Speaker: Richard KATZ (Former Carnegie Council Senior Fellow / Toyo Keizai Online / Blog: Japan Economy Watch)
- Commentator: Tatsuya TERAZAWA (Chairman and CEO, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
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April 10, 2025
Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them
- Speaker: Colin MAYER (Emeritus Professor, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
- Commentator: TAKEI Kazuhiro (Partner, Nishimura & Asahi (GKJ))
- Moderator: MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Executive Vice President, Waseda University / Adviser, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
- Presentation (Prof. Mayer) [PDF:2.1MB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)
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April 4, 2025
Trump 2.0 and the Chinese Dream
- Speaker: MUNAKATA Naoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)
- Commentator: MATSUO Takehiko (Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI)
- Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)
Japanese
