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Commission K (Electromagnetics in Biology & Medicine) Activity Report
October 2020 – July 2021
July 30, 2021
Soichi Watanabe
1 Core members of the Japanese URSI-Commission K for the 25th term of the Science Councilof Japan
Chair: Soichi Watanabe (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Vice chair: Satoshi Nakasono (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
Secretaries: Kazuyuki Saito (Chiba University), Masaki Sekino (The University of Tokyo), Tomoaki
Nagaoka (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Sachiko Yoshie(Railway Technical Research Institute), Ikuyo Miwa (National Institute of Information andCommunications Technology), Atsushi Saito (Central Research Institute of Electric PowerIndustry)
2 Activities
Preparatory meeting for the Japanese URSI-Commission K for the 25th term of the Science
Council of Japan
Date: January 13, 2021
Place: Online
Topics: 1) Allocation of roles between core members.
2) Prospectus for the next Japanese URSI-Commission K.
3) List of members of the next Japanese URSI-Commission K.
4) Planning the next scientific symposium.
5) URSI GASS 2021 at Rome.
6) Hosting the 2022 Annual Meeting of BioEM in Japan.
1st Meeting of the Japanese URSI-Commission K for the 25th term of the Science Council ofJapan
Date: April 22, 2021
Place: Online
Topics:1) Result of election of the commission chair.
2) Self introductions of the commission members.
3) Finalizing the minute by the commission chair.
4) Objectives and operation policy of the commission.

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5) Information on the Japan National Committee of URSI.
6) URSI GASS 2021 and flagship meetings.
7) Hosting the 2022 Annual Meeting of BioEM in Japan.
8) Associated conferences.
Scientific symposium (Co-operated by Japanese Society for Electromagnetics in Biology andMedicine)
Date: April 22, 2021
Place: Online
Number of participants: 38
Six oral presentations and one special lecture were given to the participants.
1) “Development of a phantom for detecting the human body at 5.7 GHz” by K. Sato et al. (ChibaUniversity)
2) “Fundamental studies on phantoms for modeling the skin tissues at terahertz bands” by T. Tomizawa
et al. (Aoyama Gakuin University)
3) “Estimation of frequency dependence of the increased specific absorption rate associated withimplanted mandibular plate with screw holes” by A. Ohtsuka et al. (Hokkaido University)4) “Measurement of exposure to electromagnetic waves at broadcast band” by K. Tobita et al.
(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
5) “Adaptive time domain average stochastic resonance method for magnetocardiographic detection
at room temperature” by Z. Liao (The University of Tokyo)
6) “Imaging dielectric properties of biological tissues using MRI” by M. Fushimi (The University ofTokyo)
Special Lecture) Wide band body area communication for wearable and implant robot control by J.
Wang (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Core member meeting of the Japanese Commission K
Date: October 2, 2020, February 25, June 21, 2021,
Place: Online
Topic: Hosting the 2022 Annual Meeting of BioEM in Japan.
Hosting the 2022 Annual Meeting of BioEM in Japan
BioEM is the world's largest and most highly recognized bioelectromagnetics conference attracting
academic and industrial participants at all career stages from all over the world. The core members ofJapanese Commission K are preparing to host the BioEM 2022 in Nagoya.
https://www.bioem2022.org/

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3 Awards
Young Scientist Award at URSI GASS 2021
Dr. Sen Liu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) won the Young
Scientist Award for his paper entitled “Incident power density assessment of smart surfaces forexposure compliance.”

A young research excellent presentation award at the Scientific Symposium of the JapaneseSociety for Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine
Dr. Motofumi Fushimi (The University of Tokyo) won the young research excellent presentation
award for his presentation entitled “Imaging dielectric properties of biological tissues using MRI.”

4 Associated meetings
4.1 Past meeting
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BioEM, Oxford, UK, 21 - 26 June 2020, canceled < https://www.bioem2020.org/ >4.2 Future meetings
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BioEM, Ghent, Belgium, 26 September - 1 October 2021, < https://www.bioem2021.org/ >2.

URSI GASS, Rome, Italy, 28 August - 4 September 2021, < http://www.ursi2021.org/ >