Importance and responsibility of IEICE is increasing as the hub of technology-intensive or ICT-intensive nation, Japan. To accomplish this role, IEICE should provide the members with informations, vehicles, chances and motivations for innovative and challenging research and development in ICT. The financial bases of the Society are drastically changing with the trends of open access as well as increasing number of conferences. However, monthly meetings of technical committees, publication and conferences remains three important technical activities in IEICE. I would like to remember these advantages in planning for enhancing the sustainability and the presence of IEICE. Even after the earthquake in 2011, there exist strong world-wide requests for the leadership of Japan in ICT technologies to cope with these difficulties. Two urgent issues seem to be “open archives” and “international conferences” both with the widespread publication vehicle such as IEEE Xplore as the background.

[Profile]
1982- Present Tokyo Institute of Technology where currently the Professor
1979-1982 Yokosuka Electrical Communication Laboratory, NTT
1979 Doctor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology
2012-Present Vice-president of IEICE
2011- Present Vice-President of URSI.
2009 President of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
2007-2009 Program Officer in Research Center for Science Systems, JSPS (Electrical and electronics eng.)
2007 President of Electronics Society IEICE
2004-2005, 2005-2007 Chair, Technical Committee of Electromagnetic theory and Antennas and Propagation of IEICE
2002-2005 Chair of Commission B of URSI
His interests have been Wireless communication, Antennas and Propagation and EM theory.
Fellow of IEICE and IEEE