The CiP Digital National Strategic Special Zone

The CiP (Contents Innovation Program) is a project to create a special zone for digital accumulation in Takeshiba, Minato Ward, Tokyo. The incorporated body that is the nucleus, the CiP Convention, was launched last year.

I assumed position as board chairman, and am beginning to establish related businesses, organizations, communications activity, broadcasting, music, animation, games, systems, trading companies, advertisements, publications, schools, and venture capital.

The zone will open in 2020. The prime minister has already authorized this National Strategic Special Zone.

The CiP focuses on research and development, human resource cultivation, business startup support, and business matching. It intends to create technology and cultivate human potential, actualize these in industry and livelihood, and expand business globally. It will research the resulting projects. I would like to depict the shape of that cycle. It is a production cycle of research and development, human resource cultivation, business startups, and business matching.

This digital and conceptual post-2020 zone will be a compact cluster that produces business, education, and culture. Tokyo Bay will be its front door, and it will directly connect with Haneda Airport, a doorway to the sky. We want to make use of the sea and sky in creating this special zone, and make a concentrated investment in technology and design resources. In this 1.5ha (161459 sq. ft.) space we will construct a 39-floor business building area, and provision a 8,000 m² (86111 sq. ft.) joint-use facility with laboratories, studios, and more. We want to utilize the surrounding area to form a business fusion space.

We wish to become the Tokyo hub that connects every city. As we turn to and advance toward the Olympics, digital will be the redevelopment key for every place. We wish to connect these places. We intend to link Sapporo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, and Okinawa, which are putting strength into modernization. Boston and west coast universities, London research facilities, Parisian events, projects in Singapore, Seoul incubation facilities...we want to become the hub of all these.

It will be a copyright special zone, a radio wave special zone, an electronic signage special zone, a robotics special zone, and a superhuman sports special zone. We want to include visionary businesses that were not possible until now.

It is a great battle.

Many projects have already begun. Most are cooperations with the advancements of other organizations, but we also intend to ignite a chemical reaction by becoming the hub of these projects.