December 2019 Vol. 17 No. 12122019

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Seiji Maruyama, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT
DOCOMO

Feature Articles
Establishment of NTT Research, Inc.
toward the Strengthening and Globalizationof Research and Development
NTT Research, Inc. Launched to Strengthen andGlobalize R&D
Mission of Physics & Informatics Laboratories
Research of Cryptography & Information Security
Laboratories
Launch of the Medical & Health Informatics Laboratories
Establishing a Cryptography Research Lab in 2019

Regular Articles
Data-coding Approaches for Organizing Omni-ambient Data

Global Standardization Activities

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Seiji Maruyama, Senior Executive Vice President, NTTDOCOMO
Overview
Japan has reached the point in its advancement that it has to urgently and thoroughly
address contemporary problems such as energy consumption, deterioration ofinfrastructure, and other social issues, including a declining birthrate and aging
population. NTT DOCOMO is tackling these social issues using fifth-generation
mobile communication systems (5G). At the same time as the Rugby World Cup
2019™ held in Japan this fall, NTT DOCOMO launched a 5G pre-commercial
service, and such 5G services are expected to be applied in various scenarios. We
asked Seiji Maruyama, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT DOCOMO, about NTT
DOCOMO’s endeavor to collaboratively create new value through contributions toindustry, solutions to social issues, and expansion of its business.

Feature Articles
Establishment of NTT Research, Inc. toward the Strengthening andGlobalization of Research and Development

NTT Research, Inc. Launched to Strengthen and Globalize R&D
Abstract
A plan to establish a new company, NTTResearch, Inc., was announced in November
2018 as part of NTT Group’s Your Value
Partner 2025 medium-term management
strategy. NTT Research will conduct basic
research to lay the groundwork for new
technologies with the aim of creating new
business in five to ten years. The first threefields of basic research to be tackled—quantum
physics, mathematical information theory, andmedical informatics—form the basis of NTT’s
IOWN (Innovative Optical and WirelessNetwork) initiative announced in May 2019.
NTT Research aims to Upgrade Reality—weintend to bring an even greater transformation(Upgrade) of the real world (Reality).

Meeting Report of the 31st Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Standardization Program (ASTAP-31) andthe Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Preparatory Meeting for WTSA-20

Regular Articles

Practical Field Information about Telecommunication Technologies

Various information sensors are currently deployed togenerate data such as images, video, audio, andtemperature. The amount of such multi-modal data is
rapidly increasing compared to the development of
information and communication technology (such asstorage, transmission, and processing technology).
This means a considerable amount of importantInternet-of-Things data has to be abandoned sincesuch data cannot be stored, transmitted, orprocessed. In this article, I describe our approaches
for fully using the huge amount of multi-modal data.

Efforts in Preventing Gas Leakage Caused by Movement of Conduit-enclosed Metallic Cables inBridge Sections

Information
Opening Ceremony of NTT Research, Inc.

Data-coding Approaches for Organizing Omni-ambient Data
Abstract