[Statement]
It has been 19 years since the Electronics Society was founded. In the meanwhile, the world has changed significantly and further globalization is required. I believe that this situation demands leading action and sustainable progress from the IEICE as well as universities and companies in Japan, Asia and the world. To accomplish this, thorough review of the society activities is necessary. I especially focus on the following tasks.

・Support for Technical Groups (Incentive plans for young researchers, etc.)
・Further globalization (Asia, etc.).
・Encouragement for inter-Society activities.
・Membership increase policy (Inviting corporate young members, etc.).
・Reinforcement of the cooperation with other scientific institutes.


[Biography]
Osamu Hashimoto received his B.E. and M.E. in applied electronics engineering from the University of Electro-Communications in 1976 and 1978. He received his doctorate from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1986. He joined Toshiba Corporation in 1978 and the Defense Technical Development Laboratory in 1981. In 1991, he moved to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics of Aoyama Gakuin University as an associate professor. He has been a professor since 1997 and a dean of College of Science and Engineering since 2012. From 1994 to 1995, he was with the University of Illinois as a guest researcher. D.Eng. Fellow of IEICE and IEEJ.

He was a secretary, vice president and president of the Technical Group on Microwave Engineering, a president of the Technical Committee of Microwave Simulator, and a president of the Technical Committee on Electronics Simulation Technology.