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ICT Exhibition

Exhibition on “Adoption of ICT throughout Society for 2020”

○Today, information and communications technology (ICT) plays an important role in economic and social growth, and is an indispensable part of people’s lives.

○The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is advancing study aimed at promoting the adoption of ICT throughout society, with a view to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and to Japan’s sustainable growth following the Games. MIC is also taking advantage of the 2020 Games to disseminate Japan’s state-of-art technology to the world and to push forward various measures aimed at improving the ICT infrastructure for foreign visitors.


○Recently, in time for the G7 ICT Ministers’ Meeting in Takamatsu, Kagawa, an exhibition on the various measures MIC is working on has been organized in cooperation with associated businesses and organizations. We would like to invite you to see the latest ICT for 2020.

Exhibition overview

Date:Friday & Saturday, April 29-30, 2016
Venue:Kagawa International Hall,Decks Galleria

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Policy purpose Company name Exhibition item Exhibition overview
Eliminating the language barrier Sony Corporation
ソニー株式会社
Multi-lingual Display System with Transit Card Displaying customized information by tapping a transit card on the multi-lingual digital signage
PIXELA CORPORATION
株式会社ピクセラ
TV Closed Caption Translation Set Top Box It displays the translated caption almost at the same time as the program.
Tomo-Digi Corporation
株式会社トマデジ
HTML5 enables Next Generation TV Service The moment to overcome a language barrier on broadcasting service
KDDI CORPORATION
KDDI株式会社
Translation-enabled Taxi Remove Language Barriers
Eliminating the wall of information FUJITSU LIMITED
富士通株式会社
Concept of bridge inspection support solution 3D Modeling for Infrastructure Maintenance
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
三菱電機株式会社
Ocean Surface Radar for Tsunami Surveillance ICT helps to deliver Tsunami information in an early stage.
NTT DATA Corporation
NTTデータ
Information Available Anywhere Wi-Fi station Advancement for Sightseeing/Disaster prevention
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
日本電信電話株式会社
MDRU: Movable and Deployable ICT Resource Unit MDRU for Instant Recovery of ICT Services from Disasters
Eliminate the walls of the movement/td> TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
トヨタ自動車株式会社
World’s first cooperative ITS, “ITS Connect” Safety driving support system with V2X※ communication dedicated to ITS ※V2X … V2V:vehicle-to-vehicle V2I:vehicle-to-infrastructure
Convey Japan's charm CBC TELEVISION CO.,LTD.
CBCテレビ
The Grand Shrine of Ise; The forest of Gods filled with life Find Japanese soul and nature by 4K vision
Eliminating the wall of the connection National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
国立研究開発法人 情報通信研究機構
Wi-SUN Global Standard Wi-SUN Applications to Diversified Services
Improvement of realism,Share the excitement Wearable EEG system Technology for easy-to-use EEG system in naturalistic environment.
Eliminate the anxiety of use Cyber security technology NICTER ( Network Incident analysis Center for Tactical Emergency Response
Improvement of realism,Share the excitement Japan Broadcasting Corporation
日本放送協会(NHK)
8K Super Hi-Vision Theater The evolution never stops!

Multi-lingual Display System with Transit Card

Additional utilization of a pervasive transit smart card for inbound tourists ? not only for public transportation or smart payment in town, but also for displaying customized information, such as language and character size, by simply tapping the card on the multi-lingual digital signage terminal

TV Closed Caption Translation Set Top Box

In addition to the digital terrestrial receiving, it has the translation ability of the closed caption with the assisting translation server, and this would offer to the foreign tourists the hearty hospitality.
- Easy switching of the translation On/Off.
- it supports English, Chinese and Korean.
- By the machine learning, the translation quality is improved continually.

HTML5 enables Next Generation TV Service

When going abroad , or when people from foreign countries living in Japan, there exist a language barrier on watching TV. Broadcasters are now working to eliminate this barrier in collaboration with web services. We would like to introduce one of such activities.

Translation-enabled Taxi

Realization of "Omotenashi" System for Foreign Tourists using Speech Translation and Visual Information.

Concept of bridge inspection support solution

To support efficient bridge inspection and appropriate management operation, such as maintenance program planning and damage monitoring, by ICT.

Ocean Surface Radar for Tsunami Surveillance

The information of long-range and wide-area surveillance by the radar with HF radio wave is delivered by Digital signages and ICT. This contributes to ensure more evacuation times. Tsunami Height Estimation and Flood Hazard Map Update technology are expected to provide more secure evacuation guidence.

Information Available Anywhere(NTT DATA)

Provide municipal information to a crowd of people simultaneously, in real-time
- Municipal sightseeing/disaster prevention live streams/contents
- Broadcast information to smartphone/tablets simultaneously
- Regardless of the number of people by area-limited broadcasting
(IP multicast technology)

MDRU: Movable and Deployable ICT Resource Unit

MDRU Offers both the Information Networking and Processing Functions to Meet the Explosive ICT Demand in Various Situations.

World’s first cooperative ITS, “ITS Connect”

TOYOTA launched world’s first driving support system "ITS Connect" in October, 2015. This system uses 760MHz band radio communications.
TOYOTA will promote“ITS Connect” with a view to global expansion in cooperation with industries and government agencies.

The Grand Shrine of Ise; The forest of Gods filled with life

The Grand Shrine of Ise is the pride of Ise-shima, where G7 summit will be taken place in 2016.We find fresh Isuzu River and extensive forest in this area. From ancient times, people have been feeling grateful with natural blessing, growing rice, and practicing shrine ritual. We find the origin of Japanese soul here. In this program, you can experience awesome shrine ritual and treasure animals and plants by 4K vision.

Wi-SUN Global Standard

NICT is promoting Wi-SUN global standard that supports low-energy operations and multi-hop communications. NICT?s interest includes Wi-SUN expansions that enable the future diversified services including IoT.

Wearable EEG system

Our wearable EEG system is very easy to use because our system does not need to use the conductive paste. Moreover, the EEG data is transmitted via wireless connection. Thus, we can record EEG easily in naturalistic environment by using our system.

Cyber security technology

NICTER is an integrated security system for countering cyberattacks based on a large-scale darknet monitoring, an automated malware analysis and their correlation. DAEDALUS is a cyberattack alert system based on a large-scale darknet monitoring facility of NICTER. Alert will be sent immediately when NICTER receives an attacking packet form a cooperative organization. NIRVANA-Kai is security platform for countering Advanced Persistent Threat.

8K Super Hi-Vision Theater

The world's first 8K test broadcasts will start in Aug. 2016. Visit our theater and get a taste of the true-to-life feel the 33-megapixel Ultra HD image and 22.2-channel 3D sound brings!

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