January 15, 2021 Result of Mutual Election of Chair and Executive Members of Information and Communications Council

Mutual round-robin voting and appointment of the Chairs and Acting Chairs of the Information and Telecommunications Council, the Department on Information and Communications Technology, the Information and Communications Policy Committee, the Telecommunications Business Policy Committee, and the Postal Policy Committee were held after the expiration of the members’ term of office (on January 5, 2017) and the reelection of new members (on January 6, 2017) by the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications. Furthermore, at each subcommittee belonging to the Department on Information and Communications Technology, Telecommunications Business Policy Committee, and Postal Policy Committee, their members, expert advisors, and chief investigators were nominated.
The details are as follows.

1. Information and Telecommunications Council

Chair: UCHIYAMADA Takeshi (Chairman of the Board of Directors of Toyota Motor Corporation)
Acting Chair: OYA Yuji (President, Kyushu Institute of Technology)

2. Department on Information and Communications Technology

Chair: OYA Yuji (President, Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Acting Chair: ANDO Makoto (Professor emeritus of Tokyo Institute of Technology)

3. Information and Communications Policy Committee

Chair: MORIKAWA Hiroyuki (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering)
Acting Chair: KOKURYO Jiro (Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)

4. Telecommunications Business Policy Committee

Chair: MORIKAWA Hiroyuki (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo)
Acting Chair: Yosuke Okada (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)

5. Postal Policy Committee

Chair: YONEYAMA Takau (Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Tokyo Keizai University)
Acting Chair: TOJO Yoshizumi(Professor, Department of International Business Law, Faculty of Law, Rikkyo University)

6. International Telecommunication Union Committee

The mutual election of the Chairs of other committees, such as the International Telecommunication Union Committee, will take place separately.