February 2023

No.0036
ITS Radiocommunication Experts Meeting in TokyoITS Info-communications Forum (ITS-Forum) where ARIB works as a secretariat held theevent "ITS Radiocommunication Experts Meeting" on 14 October 2022 in Tokyo.
• Date: 14 October 2022

• Venue: Akasaka, Tokyo• Organizer: International Relations Committee, ITS-Forum• Participants : About 40 participants(This meeting was held for members of ITS-Forum.)
Mr. MASHIKO Takanori, Director of the New-Generation Mobile Communications Office,MIC, gave opening remarks. He expressed expectation for valuable discussions towards
new frequency allocations for Japan's V2X systems, where some use cases require abandwidth of more than 20MHz according to the study of the technical requirement forcooperative automated driving.
The seminar consisted of short presentations and discussions, and was moderated by Mr.
YAMAMOTO Takeshi, chairperson of the ITS-Forum's International Relations Committee.
The program was as follows.
SessionTitle / Outline
Short Presentations
C-ITS Infrastructure deployments in(1)EuropeC-ITS in Europe
(2)
(3)

(4)

Importance of Collective Perception,
V2X spectrum needs, expectation on
Euro NCAP
C-V2X trends around the world, CV2X roadmap envisioned by 5GAA

1Speaker
Mr. Martin Böhm
Austria Tech.(C-Roads)
Mr. Niels Peter Skov Andersen
CAR 2 CAR CommunicationConsortium
Ms. Bettina Erdem
Continental AG
Mr. Maxime Flament
5G Automotive Association(5)Status of V2X in the United States

Mr. John Kenney
Toyota InfoTech Labs

Discussions[Moderator]
Mr. OYAMA Satoshi
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology[Theme of the discussion]
Theme 1 : Review of V2X deployment activities: Achievement,Challenges and Lessons learned
Theme 2 : Expectations to the next step: Challenges, New activities,
Possible cooperation works
Theme 3 : Findings in the discussions today, Questions or Expectations
to Japan"5G Special Day IV" in CEATEC 2022
CEATEC 2022 was held in-person at Makuhari Messe located in the suburbs of Tokyo in
October for the first time in three years, as well as online. During CEATEC 2022, online
workshop titled "5G Special Day IV" was delivered on October 19th.
More than 300 people viewed the online broadcast which was distributed from the studiolocated in the city of Tokyo. Its archive had been provided until the end of October.
1. Outline of the EventSchedule
19 October 2022
VenueOnline[AM] The Local 5G Utilization 2022 Workshop- Local 5G Promotion Public-Private Coordination Committee- Communications and Information Network Association of Japan(CIAJ)- Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB)
Organizer- 5th Generation Mobile Promotion Forum (5GMF)[PM] 5G Latest Trends 2022 International Workshop- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)- 5GMF- ARIB
Numbers of192 (AM), 132 (PM)Viewers
2. Program
At the beginning, Prof. YOSHIDA Susumu, Chairman of 5GMF (Professor Emeritus ofKyoto University), gave an opening address on behalf of the organizers, followed by aspeech by Mr. TOYOSHIMA Motonobu, Director-General of the Radio Department, MIC
as a guest of honor.

2(1) The Local 5G Utilization 2022 Workshop (AM)
Main Subject: Expansion of utilization, challenges, and future prospects
Title / Outline
Opening Remarks
Local 5G Promotion Initiatives byMIC
The activities of regional wirelessbusiness and the future vision
Local 5G Initiatives in Industrial
Use cases
Panel Discussion:“Talking frankly about the current
status and prospects of Local 5G”

Closing Remarks

SpeakerMr. NISHIOKA Seiji
Executive Director- of ARIB
Mr. UCHIDA Yuichiro
Director of the Digital Economy Promotion
Office, MIC
Mr. NAKAMURA Mitsunori
Manager of Information andCommunication department, Hanshin
Electric Railway Co. Ltd.
Mr. KADONO Takaaki
Director of Advanced Technology Group,
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East
Corporation
Ms. OHYAMA Rika(Moderator)
Director of Advanced Technology Group,
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East
Corporation
Prof. MORIKAWA Hiroyuki
Chairman of Strategy&Planning
Committee, 5GMF (Professor of The
University of Tokyo)
Mr. OHYA Yasuo
Chairman of 5G/Beyond5GSystem
Committee, CIAJ (TOSHIBACORPORATION)
Mr. UCHIDA Yuichiro
Mr. NAKAMURA Mitsunori
Mr. KADONO Takaaki
Mr. ISHII Yoshinori
Executive Vice President of CIAJ

Prof. YOSHIDA

Mr. TOYOSHIMA

Mr. NISHIOKA

Mr. UCHIDA

Mr. NAKAMURA

Mr. SEKINO3Panel Discussion
Ms. OHYAMA, Prof. MORIKAWA, Mr. UCHIDA, Mr. NAKAMURA, Mr. KADONO, Mr. OHYA
(from the Left)

Mr. ISHII(2) 5G Latest Trends 2022 International Workshop (PM)Title / Outline
Opening Remarks
Keynote Speech
5G Commercial Situation andTechnology Development Trend ofChina
5G Status and Plan for 6G inKorea
Initiatives for 5G
Commercialization and Example
Cases in ThailandSpeaker
Prof. YOSHIDA Susumu
Mr. NAKAMURA Yuji
Director of Land Mobile Communications
Division, MIC
Mr. Deng Wei
Deputy Director of Department of Wireless&Terminal Technology, China Mobile
Research InstituteProf. Hyeon Woo LEE
Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee,
5G Forum (Professor at DanKookUniversity)
Mr. Saneh Saiwong
Principal Engineering Expert of Office ofNBTC

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Panel Discussion:“Japan's Digital Strategy for 5G
Utilization”

Closing Remarks

Mr. SEKIGUCHI Waichi(Moderator)
President of MM Research Institute (former
editorial writer and columnist for Nikkei
Inc.)
Prof. NAKAO Akihiro
Chairman of Network ArchitectureCommittee, 5GMF (Professor of The
University of Tokyo)
Mr. IWANAMI Gota
Chairman of Service and Application
Committee, 5GMF (President of INFOCITY,Inc.)
Mr. TANI Naoki
Executive Vice President of NTT DOCOMO
Mr. KAWAMURA Atsuo
Executive Vice President, President of
Network Services Business Unit, NECCorporation
Mr. FUJIOKA Masanobu
CTO of Ericsson Japan K.K.
Mr. OHMURA Yoshinori
Secretary General of 5GMF

Mr. MAKAMURA

Mr. Deng Wei

Prof. Hyeon Woo LEE

Mr. Saneh Saiwong

Panel Discussion
Mr. SEKIGUCHI, Prof. NAKAO, Mr. IWANAMI, Mr. TANI, Mr. KAWAMURA, Mr. FUJIOKA(from the Left)

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Mr. OHMURA

Exhibition in Inter BEE 2022 by ARIB/DiBEG
The 58th Inter BEE (International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition) 2022 was held at theMakuhari Messe in the suburbs of Tokyo, where ARIB/DiBEG participated.
1.

Event outline
Inter BEE is Japan’s largest broadcasting equipment exhibition, and this year was the58th time held. According to the organizer's announcement, face-to-face conferenceswere held for the first time in three years at the international conference hall and theopen stage, with 810 exhibitors, 1,349 booths, and 26,901 visitors based on theregistration. The number of exhibitors and visitors has recovered to 60-70% of the precorona crisis (2019).
Schedule:•Real exhibition: from 16 to 18 November 2022

at Makuhari Messe (in the suburbs of Tokyo)•Online exhibition : from 1 November to 23 December 2022
Comparison of the scale of Inter BEE over the past three years
Year
Number of
Number of
Number of(Exhibition form)
exhibitors
boothsvisitors
2022
810
1,391
26,901(Real, Online)
2021
495
749
18,308(Real, Online)
2020
140――(Online)
2019
1,158
2,125
40,375(Real)

2.

Real exhibition of ARIB/DiBEG
At the ARIB/DiBEG booth, explanations of the recent state of standardization in thebroadcasting field, efforts toward next-generation broadcasting technology, and theinternational expansion of ISDB-T by DiBEG were provided.
Visitors to the booth expressed interest in the fact that the number of countries thathave adopted ISDB-T had reached 20, and the development trends of digital terrestrial
television broadcasting overseas.

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SeminarAt the IP Pavilion Relay Seminar, Mr. TAKIGUCHI Yoshiro (NHK Science &Technology Research Laboratories), Chairman of the Studio equipment interface
working group, Technical committee of ARIB, gave a lecture on domestic
standardization and future prospects for the program production IP interface
standardization at ARIB.

Exhibition booth of ARIB/DiBEG

Vehicle Safety Communications Seminar 2022
ITS-Forum for which ARIB works as a secretariat held "Vehicle Safety Communications(VSC) Seminar 2022 - The results of the international conference concerning VSC and theactivity report of the Forum -" at Meiji Kinenkan hall in Tokyo on 22 December 2022. About
70 participants from ITS-related ministries/organizations and member companies of ITSForum attended the Seminar.
The program of the Seminar was as follows.
SessionTitleSpeaker
Mr. YAMAMOTO Takeshi
Chairman of International
Relations Committee, ITSForum (Autotalks Ltd.)
Opening Remarks
MASHIKO Takanori
Director of the New-Generation
Mobile Communications Office,MIC[Report 1] Global Trends surrounding ITS Wireless Systems(Moderator)(1)

Report on ITS World Congress 2022
Los Angeles

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Mr. AZUMA Yoshiki
Assistant Director of the NewGeneration Mobile
Communications Office, MIC

Mr. HOSHI Yoshinori
Chairman ofITS Standardization
Committee(Japan)/TechnicalCommittee/WG16 :Communications (OkiConsulting Solutions Co., Ltd.)International Standardization Trends
Mr. YOKOYAMA Takahiro(3)
Chairman of Internationalin ITS/Automated Driving in the ITUStandardization Promotion TG,R
ITS-Forum (ARIB)[Report 2] Domestic and International Initiatives for Automated Drivingand Safe Driving AssistanceDomestic and International Trends
Mr. SHIRATO Ryota(1)
toward the Implementation of Level 4
Senior Vice President of ITS
Mobility ServiceJapan
Dr. Henry Meng
Collision Warning System for Saving(2)
Senior Deputy Director General
Youth Livesof Software Technology
Institute, Institute forInformation Industry
Overview of SIP 2nd Phase FOTs inMr. TSUDA Yoshiaki(3)
the Tokyo Waterfront Area
Representative for the SIP 2ndPhase FOTs in the Tokyo
Waterfront Area Consortium(Mitsubishi ElectricCorporation)[Report 3] Study on Next Generation Wireless Communication System in ITS-Forum
(2)

(1)

(2)

Standardization of ITS
Communications in ISO TC204

Study on Wireless Communication
System for Automated Driving System- Progress Report for SIP Cooperative
Automated Driving Use Case Experimental Guideline for
BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN Accident
Prevention and Automated Driving
Support System including the use ofsmart poles
Closing Remarks

ARIB SEASON
Publishing

Mr. HAMAGUCHI Masaharu
Chairman of Radio System
Technology TG, ITS-Forum(Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.)Mr. DOI Yoshiharu
Chairman of 700MHz BANDITS Implementation
Committee, ITS-Forum (ToyotaMotor Corporation)
Prof. OBANA Sadao
Chairman,
Executive Committee, ITSForum (Member of the Board ofDirectors, The University ofElectro-Communications)

1-4-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013 JAPANhttps://www.arib.or.jp/english/8