BBL Seminars FY2025

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Past BBL Reports and Summaries

  • June 26, 2025

    Industrial Policy, Economic Friction and Trade Rules: A study of the “overproduction” phenomenon in China

    • Speaker: WATANABE Mariko (Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
    • Commentator: FUKUNAGA Yoshifumi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Northeast Asia Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) / Dean, Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)

    Japanese

  • June 25, 2025

    What the Disaster Victims Database (DB) Aimed to Achieve: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake Experience

    • Speaker: EGUCHI Kiyotaka (Senior Executive Director, Council for BOSAI DX Public-Private Partnership / CIO, CDO, Kanagawa Pref.)
    • Speaker: SUGANO Taku (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Department of Human Behavioral Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University)
    • Speaker: MURAKAMI Keisuke (Director-General, Group of Service for Citizens, Digital Agency)
    • Speaker and Moderator: NISHIGAKI Atsuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 19, 2025

    White Paper on Manufacturing Industries 2025

    • Speaker: KAWAMURA Miho (Director, Manufacturing Industries Strategy Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI)
    • Commentator: IWAMOTO Koichi (Research Associate, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 18, 2025

    Energy White Paper 2025

    • Speaker: UEDA Kazumasa (Director, Energy Supply and Demand Policy Office / Research and Public Relations Office, Commissioner's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)
    • Commentator: TERAZAWA Tatsuya (Chairman and CEO, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)
    • Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 9, 2025

    Japan's Strategy: How to Respond to Tariff Policies under the Trump Administration

    • Speaker: TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow and Program Director, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
    • Commentator: HASEBE Shodai (Industrial Structure Policy Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • June 6, 2025

    The Great Trade Hack: How Trump's trade war fails and global trade moves on

  • June 5, 2025

    Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

  • May 26, 2025

    How is Japan’s Economic Policy Created? Drawing from Abenomics and the New Capitalism

    • Speaker: NIIHARA Hiroaki (Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School, U.S.A. / Former Vice-Minister, Headquarters for Realizing New Capitalism, Cabinet Secretariat)
    • Interviewer: IKEDA Yoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Competition Enhancement Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO), Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • May 23, 2025

    World Economic Outlook “A Critical Juncture amid Policy Shifts”

    • Speaker: YOSHIDA Akihiko (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, International Monetary Fund (IMF))
    • Commentator: NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
    • Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

    Japanese

  • May 22, 2025

    Reexamining Official Statistics Utilization: An insider perspective

    • Speaker: SAKAMOTO Katsuhiko (Director-General for Human Resources Policy, Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs / Former Director-General for Policy Planning (Statistical Policy), Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
    • Commentator: KAWAGUCHI Daiji (RIETI Program Director and Faculty Fellow / Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo)
    • Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • May 15, 2025

    Economic Security in a World of Disruptive Power

    • Speaker: Beatrice WEDER DI MAURO (President, CEPR & Professor, Geneva Graduate Institute)
    • Commentator: YAMAGUCHI Jin (Senior Director, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
    • Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) / Dean, Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)
    • Presentation (Prof. Weder di Mauro) [PDF:1.7KB]

  • May 14, 2025

    2025 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan / 2025 White Paper on Small Enterprises in Japan

    • Speaker: OKADA Yo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Research Office, Business Environment Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency)
    • Commentator: MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Professor, Faculty of Commerce, School of Commerce, WASEDA University)
    • Moderator: SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Director of Research and Senior Fellow, RIETI)

    Japanese

  • May 8, 2025

    Unlock the Genius that will Move the World: Japan as the global startup hub

    • Speaker: Phil WICKHAM (Executive Managing Director, Sozo Ventures / Chairman, 11KS)
    • Speaker: SAKOTA Shohei (PIVOT Project Innovation Team Mentor, METI)
    • Commentator: SHIMIZU Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University)
    • Moderator: ISHII Yoshiaki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director General, Entrepreneur and Startup Support Department, SME Support, JAPAN)

    Japanese

  • 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

  • April 17, 2025

    Nurturing Entrepreneurship: What policymakers can do

  • April 10, 2025

    Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them

  • 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