COMMISSION E: Electromagnetic Noise and Interference(November 2016 – October 2020)
Edited by Tomoo Ushio (Osaka University)
1. Summary
URSI Commission E (Electromagnetic Noise and Interference) in Japan has been holding
technical meetings and sub-committee activities in collaboration with the Technical Committee on
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMCJ) of the Institute of Electronics, Information andCommunication Engineers (IEICE), the Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility of
the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ-EMC), IEEE EMC Society Japan Joint Chapter
and Sendai Chapter, Society of Atmospheric Electricity Japan and some related technical groups. The
workshops, conferences and meetings at domestic and international level for this term are summarized
as follows.
New committee members
Fifteen new committee members for Commission E of Japan National Committee (25th) wereapproved during the committee meeting held on 11 June 2021 on line due to the covid 19 virus
spreading. New chair, vice chair and secretaries were selected as follows:
Chair: Tomoo Ushio (Osaka University)
Vice Chair: Ken Kawamata (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Secretaries: Takeshi Morimoto (Kindai University) and Kaoru Gotoh (NICT)
Academic activities in the field of man-made electromagnetic noise1.

The 40th Anniversary of the EMCJ Technical Committee
The year 2017 was the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Technical Committee on

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMCJ), which was founded in 1977 in the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers (IECE) by the late Prof. Risaburo Sato of Tohoku University as the firstcommittee chairman. To celebrate the anniversary year, we held a series of special lectures by IEICE
fellows of EMCJ
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Regular EMCJ Meetings
The EMCJ of IEICE had several regular technical meetings every year and IEEJ-EMC had two

technical meetings in the period of October 2016 to February 2017, nine regular technical meetings in
the period of September 2017 to June 2018, 6 regular technical meetings in the period of July 2018 toMarch 2019, and 10 regular technical meetings in the period of September 2020 to July 2021.

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Also every year committee members are regularly attending the several international
conferences and meetings related to man-made noise including EMC Europe, IEEE EMC andso on.

Domestic academic activities in the field of natural electromagnetic noise:
1. Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2017 – 2019
2. Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2020 (On line)
3. Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan (JAE) annual meeting 2018 - 2020
4. Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan (SAEJ) annual meeting 2021 (On line)
International academic activities in the field of natural electromagnetic noise:
1.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2016

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American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 20173.

16th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE2018), Nara, Japan

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50th Anniversary International Workshop of Center for Space Science and Radio Engineering(SSRE) in UEC Tokyo, Japan

5.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 20186.

2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference
The keynote lecture was delivered by Prof. Tomoo Ushio (Tokyo Metropolitan University andcurrent commission E chair in Japan).
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American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 20198.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020

2. Activity Report
See attached Commission E Activity Report each year.

3. References2