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Commission E (Electromagnetic Noise and Interference) Activity Report
September 2017 - June 2018
Commission E in Japan is holding technical meetings and sub-committee activities incollaboration with the Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMCJ) of theInstitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the TechnicalCommittee on Electromagnetic Compatibility of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan(IEEJ-EMC), IEEE EMC Society Japan Joint Chapter and Sendai Chapter, and some related
technical groups.

Domestic academic activities of EMCJ and IEEJ-EMC:
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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 Electricaland Electronics Engineers (IECE) by the late Prof. Risaburo Sato of Tohoku University as thefirst committee chairman. To celebrate the anniversary year, we held a series of special lectures
by IEICE fellows of EMCJ as the following (1)-(8). The lectures were presented in the monthly
EMCJ meetings and the lecture slides were published in the 40th anniversary book of EMCJ,
together with the manuscripts of the invited papers [1][2][3] which are the publications fromIEICE for its 100th anniversary.
The series of special lectures (in Japanese)(1) “Engaged in research on electromagnetic noise across EMCJ and EMD”, July 2017,Hiroshi Inoue (Professor Emeritus, Akita University / Visiting Professor, The University ofElectro-Communications).
(2) “In the space between electric circuit theory and electromagnetism”, July 2017,
Yoshio Kami (Professor Emeritus, University of Electro-Communications).
(3) “EMC / radio technology learned through practice”, October 2017,
Yoji Kotsuka (Emeritus Professor, Tokai University).
(4) “Some trials on VHF/UHF EM-field imaging; recollections”, November 2017,
Hiroshi Echigo (Emeritus Professor, Tohoku Gakuin University).
(5) “EMC to talk to grandchildred”, January 2018,
Liuji R. Koga (Emeritus Professor, Okayama University / EM Consulting)(6) “Engaged in basic research of communication EMC and international standardization ofCISPR”, January 2018,
Fujio Amemiya (NTT Advance Technology).

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Shuichi Nitta (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology).
(8) “Looking back on my research and development - from development of optical cable to EMC
research and standardization activities -“, March 2018,
Masamitsu Tokuda (Emeritus Professor, Tokyo City University).
[1] Akira Sugiura and Katsumi Fujii, "Research and Development of EMC Measurement
Technology —Radio Disturbance Measurement—", IEICE Trans. Commun. (JapaneseEdition), Vol.J100-B, No.9, pp.593-601, Sep. 2017.
[2] Tetsuo Ikeda, "EMC education and skill-tradition for young engineers"; 100 Year History of
the IEICE "Chapter 7 Environmental Electromagnetic Engineering; ElectromagneticCompatibility", IEICE 2017.
[3] Osamu Fujiwara, "Establishment of EMC Research in Japan and its Future Prospects",
IEICE Trans. Commun. Vol.E100-B, No.9, pp.1623-1632, Sep. 2017.
2. Regular EMCJ Meetings
The EMCJ of IEICE had nine regular technical meetings in the period of September
2017 to June 2018. These regular meetings were also technically co-sponsored by IEEE
EMC Society Sendai Chapter and IEEE EMC Society Japan Joint Chapter. In the EMCJmeetings. Three of them were co-organized with Technical Committee on Electromagnetic
Compatibility of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ-EMC). In total 132
regular reports including 10 invited talks were presented.
( http://www.ieice.org/ken/program/index.php?instsoc=IEICE-B&tgid=IEICE-EMCJ )The featuring technical topic of the October meeting was “EM Simulation , EMC andMicrowaves” and co-organized with the Technical Committee on Microwaves (MW ofIEICE) and Electronics Simulation Technology (EST of IEICE). The November 2017 andJune 2018 meetings were co-organized with the Technical Committee on Wireless Power
Transfer (WPT). The second meeting in November was held as the annual “EMCJ Young
Researchers' Presentation Meeting” which is co-sponsored by the Japan Institute ofElectronics Packaging (JIEP) Electromagnetic Technology Committee. The March meeting
was co-organized by the Technical Committee on Healthcare and Medical Information
Communication Technology (MICT) of IEICE.
International Meetings and Symposiums on EMC:
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“International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Europe2017)”, September 4-8, 2017, ESEO Graduate School of Engineering, Angers, France;(www.emceurope2017.org).

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Commission E members in Japan working actively in the field of natural electromagnetic noiseare presented their research results in the following meetings and symposium.
1. International conference/workshop(1) 16th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE2018), Nara, Japan
This is the largest international conference in the field of atmospheric electricity held every 4years. In 2018, this conference was held in Nara Japan from 17 to 22 June
(http://icae2018.saej.jp), 20 years after the last ICAE in Japan (Osaka). The meeting wasorganized by International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE)(http://www.icae.jp/) and Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan (SAEJ). Some of our Ecommittee members in Japan worked as a LOC members of this conference (Professor Ushio:Co-chair, Professor Hobara: Program Chair and Prof. Morimoto: General Affair Chair).
The meeting has 10 oral sessions and associated poster sessions in addition to the four keynote
lecture in the morning. Every session has a different topic related to the atmospheric electricity
such as lightning activity and related electrical and meteorological phenomena, atmosphericions, global electric circuit etc. The meeting was quite successful and totally over 200 scientists
were participated and 252 papers (oral 71, poster 181) were presented.
Following keynote lectures were presented by experts(1) 'Meteorological Aspects of Lightning and Thunderstorm Electrification',
Dr. Donald McGorman(2) ' Continued Mysteries of Lightning Studies'
Professor Paul Krehbiel(3) 'The Geostationary Lightning Mapper: Its Design, Performance and Capabilities'
Dr. Hugh Christian(4) ' Energetic Radiation in Thunderstorms and Lightning'
Professor David Smith(2) 50th Anniversary International Workshop of Center for Space Science and RadioEngineering (SSRE) in UEC Tokyo, Japan
Center for Space Science and Radio Engineering (former Sugadaira cosmic radio waveobservatory) in the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) cerebrates 50-year
anniversary and invited scientists to present all aspects of experimental and theoretical results inrelation with measurement of natural and man-made electromagnetic signals such as space
weather and solar terrestrial environment, atmospheric electricity, climate change, severeweather, lightning damage and protection, Ionosphere, radio astronomy, electromagneticcompatibility. The meeting was held in UEC on 25~26 June. Eight guest speakers from overseas
and 9 guest speakers from Japan in addition to the SSRE and UEC speakers including two E

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committee members delivered the scientific talks. Totally over 60 people were attended the twoday workshop and enjoyed presentations by experts from different research fields andexchanged ideas and obtained new insights to understand the interdisciplinary topics.
(3) American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2017
This international conference is held every year in December in USA and the largest one in thefield of Earth and space science. This year, the meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisianafrom 10 to 14 December. More than 20,000 scientists were attended. Several URSI-E
committee members were presented the papers in the field of atmospheric electricity andseismo-electromagnetics.
2. Domestic conference/workshop(1) Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2018
This is the largest domestic meeting in the field of geoscience. The meeting was held in
Makuhari Messe Exihibition Hall, Chiba from 20 to 24 May. Over 8,000 people were attended.
Several URSI-E committee members were presented the papers in the several scientific sessions
regarding atmospheric electricity and seismo-electromagnetics.
(2) Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan (JAE) annual meeting 2018
This is an annual meeting held in January. In 2018, the meeting was held in the Tokyo
University of Science, Kagurazaka campus on 6 and 7 January and more than 70 scientificpapers were presented. Several URSI-E committee members were presented the papers.

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