tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22367155698268926912024-03-14T14:36:02.732+09:00BLOG Ichiya NakamuraIchiya Nakamura_enhirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.comBlogger443125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-76222461064211525242023-12-31T23:00:00.003+09:002023-12-31T23:00:00.131+09:00Celebrating Japan Digital Days.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ Celebrating Japan Digital Days.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">October 10th.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Digital Day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The DIGITAL DAYS SUMMIT was held.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">100,000 people viewed the event on Nico Live, Youtube, and other platforms.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you very much.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In conjunction with the Digital Agency’s “Digital Days ONLINE EVENT,” the CiP Council, of which I am a representative, explored the future of “entertainment x digital.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Kyary Pamyu, Hachioji P, Ichiro Yamaguchi of Sakanaction, and Magical Lovely sent their messages of support.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The opening session was a discussion of the Digital Agency, hosted by Karen Makishima, the second Digital Minister who took office a week ago, among others.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Digital Agency staff introduced an analog case in which it took an agency employee 90 minutes to get a parking certificate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hiroyuki introduced administrative online procedures in France. I though France was the country of inconvenience, but I was pleasantly shocked. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, then, the event we hosted.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Digital performances by VJs, DJs, and VFX artists in a virtual XR space from BLACKBOX, a state-of-the-art distribution studio with permanent 4-sided LEDs.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Live entertainment by DJ CARTOON and YELLOCK was a highlight.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The talks by SUGIZO of LUNA SEA/X JAPAN, Tatsuro and Miya, and Digihari President Tomoyuki Sugiyama were also thrilling.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Many people must have been taken aback by the video of SHAG, a jam band led by SUGIZO.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was also a speaker at the “Superhuman Sports Session: Digital and the Body.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Attended by the Superhuman Sports regulars Professor Masahiko Inami of the University of Tokyo, Professor Kota Minamizawa of Keio University, President Yoshiaki Sawabe of 1→10, and Shinji Neki, the Vice Mayor of Paralympic Village.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What is digital human extension? What is the jizai (autonomized) body? What is Tech & Pop sports?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Seven years ago, on October 10th, Physical Education Day, 50 years after the opening ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, superhuman sports made their start.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Physical Education Day became Digital Day. Incorporating the digital into the physical body.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After the new Tokyo Olympics, the next stop is Paris. The year after that, the Osaka Expo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let’s connect them in an interesting way.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In preparation for the Digital Days ONLINE EVENT, a “Digital Day Exploratory Committee” was established at the Digital Agency.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jun Murai was the chairperson and I was the acting chairperson.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Although discussed by a diverse group of members including Yoichi Ochiai and Hiroyuki, the DIGITAL DAYS SUMMIT was planned and implemented almost entirely by private volunteers, mainly from the music industry.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the end of the event, we welcomed online Takuya Hirai, the first Minister of Digital Media, who was in Kagawa with producer Shogo Mizuno.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">He has done a tremendous job in facing the longstanding challenge of public-private partner ship and breaking down stove-piping in the Kasumigaseki area, and successfully implemented this event in one year by allocating the necessary laws, budget, and personnel.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you very much for your hard work.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-80197346526025231992023-12-25T00:40:00.004+09:002023-12-25T00:40:42.485+09:00 Kyoto International Film and Art Festival<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ Kyoto International Film and Art Festival</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Like a film festival, but not a film festival. It looks like an art exhibition, but it is not. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I asked what it was all about,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“It’s all about film, art, and everything else,” was what I got in return. This is the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The festival was held without incident. As the chairman of the executive committee, I would like to express my gratitude.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For two consecutive years since the Pacific War, the Gion Festival had to cancel the Yamahoko Junko procession.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, in order to keep the culture alive, Yamahoko floats were still constructed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As in the previous year, there were only six lightings of the Daimonji (in which a Chinese character meaning “large” or “great” is lit on fire on a mountain).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But lit they were.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Olympics and Paralympics were held under restrictions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We thought we should follow these examples and do the best we can.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Last year, we followed through with the event online.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This year, we tried a hybrid solution, holding the event both on- and offline.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This year’s theme:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Face forward.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Forward.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We want to make shape of the Reiwa era post-COVID.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let’s face forward.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Including those who visited the stage greetings and exhibitions, as well as online viewers, a total of 110,000 people attended the festival.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">58 films and 90 artworks were screened.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Though, we haven’t yet regained the pre-COVID level of enthusiasm.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope that we were able to show a sense of forward moment toward a post-COVID period.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The “Toshiro Mifune” award given to actors went to Kenta Kiritani.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The “Shozo Makino Award” honoring filmmakers went to Masaharu for “The Naked Director” and other films.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This time, the award was given to a young filmmaker.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Face forward, face forward.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The ambassador to present the prize was Kana Kurashina. A young woman.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Face forward, face forward.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Online screenings included the specially screened Chinese film “Beyond the Sky” and the physical screenings at Gion Kagetsu, Hulic Hall, and other venues.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There were also efforts such as the Kyoto International Indies-Cinema, as well as works by the Creator’s Factory for human resource development, among others. I was looking most forward to the silent/classic films. </span></p><p><a href="https://kiff.kyoto.jp/film/"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://kiff.kyoto.jp/film/</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The art was mainly found at the “Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art.”</span></p><p><a href="https://kiff.kyoto.jp/art/"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://kiff.kyoto.jp/art/</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">AU x Shozo Shimamoto “A”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Exhibition and performance by AU, a group of avant-garde artists represented by the late Shozo Shimamoto, a founding member of “Gutai.” The members of AU, Tamaya Shimada, Okakenta, and others worked to create a large “A” (hiragana character “あ”), while Shimamoto himself also created a beautiful “A.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a modified jukebox where you can watch videos of “A” in production.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s a huge PC with buttons as the keyboard, and you’re able type on it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Analog + digital, super inconvenient! Stupid! Cool!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to borrow it and display it at my university. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s also art distributed online.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">From the Naoko Tosa Laboratory at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Ars Vivendi (Shishukan) Art Innovation Industry-Academia Joint Lecture, where I am a specially-appointed professor. </span></p><p><a href="https://kiff.kyoto.jp/art/cat6_artinnovation.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://kiff.kyoto.jp/art/cat6_artinnovation.html</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Heinrich x Marine Nakamura</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Collaboration talk project “Let’s make PoeJan bottles”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a real pleasure to invite Dr. Heinrich.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“K-Ko Project” at Gion Kagetsu.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">New York artist KAORUKO (that’s formal idol Kaoruko Arai!).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Transmitting her signature K-Ko pose (face out from under the crotch) for good luck.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ultra Boogies, Kuuki Kaidan, Gerrardon, Dansei Blanco, and Kaerutei posed before the King of Conte semi-finals.</span></p><p><a href="https://kiff.kyoto.jp/art/cat5_kaoruko.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://kiff.kyoto.jp/art/cat5_kaoruko.html</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Theme song of the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival “MEMORIES of FILM”</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viu10JhwTeU"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viu10JhwTeU</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Everyone contributed a picture of their favorite movie, coupled with a message.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was the last one, after Mr. Kukkii.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you, everyone.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After much deliberation, I chose Fellini’s “8 1/2"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The sweet dream of my boyhood.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fellini’s Rimini is my Kyoto.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just what is cinema?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Holding hands, making a circle.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Life is a festival.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Kyoto International Film Festival.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In closing, a greeting.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To Hulic Hall, KYOCERA Museum of Art, Tamanoyu, and everyone who provided the venue.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you very much.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To the film art administration, media sponsors, and to the grandparents, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children who participated on- and offline.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ookini (Thank you very much).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Next year, we would like to make the entire city of Kyoto—east, west, north, south, and online as well—a much livelier hybrid event.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yoroshuu otano moushimasu (Thank you very much for your cooperation).</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-76496571843796740382023-12-17T23:33:00.003+09:002023-12-17T23:33:58.460+09:00COVID-19, decluttering, Kyoto.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ COVID-19, decluttering, Kyoto.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A young acquaintance of mine has recently taken to decluttering.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She says she is going to get rid of things, become minimalist and live lightly. She will move to a smaller place where she can live within easy reach of things.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She says, “when you lose weight, you become healthy, and when you become light, you can travel. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">From objects to intangible things; eco-friendly and nomadic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">All I need exists digitally.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s right.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She also “decluttered” people by cutting them off. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She said, “My main customer service business was doomed because of COVID. During that time, I cut my social networking and phone contacts down to the bare minimum.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even then, I can still contact the people I need to. The vast majority, however, were unnecessary.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She seems comfortable.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The digital community and communication can be overly self-limiting if too abundant.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wonder.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">No work can be had during COVID. No chance to move your body during COVID.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">An opportunity to be reborn.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Detox the things and people you have stored up.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Though I wouldn’t want to become the waste product after someone’s detoxing, but it may lead toward someone’s opportunity to detox and be reborn anew.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have just delved into the service business area of new universities. Now is a time to strengthen communication with the digital community, so I don’t have time to think about decluttering. Yet, it would do me good to be careful not to let my aging leak out as waste.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But decluttering isn’t the goal, is it? What do we do with weight off our shoulders? While you downsize, COVID has put society at a standstill. What does my friend think about this? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I asked her, she replied back with, “Wait to be burned out.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hm? What does that mean?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Wait to be burned out. Do nothing. Stay still.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is no work for me, but nobody else can either. Our community will be destroyed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will die out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Once that happens, I can start over from zero.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And I look forward to that.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Kyoto people’s sense of time, looking ahead after the “Onin War” in the 15th century, is to let COVID be an opportunity to burn oneself out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Once they’re burnt down, the game is on.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The catchphrase for the 2015 Kyoto International Film and Art Festival was,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Kyoto likes the weird and disorderly ♡”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Kyoto creates. Creates, and then destroys.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Kyoto destroys. Destroys, and then creates.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Those phrases must be true.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hmm…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am halfway to become a Kyotoite.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-12287569056165028682023-12-10T23:00:00.000+09:002023-12-10T23:00:00.141+09:00Introducing two punk films.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ Introducing two punk films.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are two punk music films I watched during the COVID pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">First is “AMERICAN UTOPIA,” a collaborative effort between David Byrne and Spike Lee.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Love it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Love it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Love it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Broadway production is 107 minutes long with 21 songs.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Most of that time I spent crying.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Am I a rare case because the live show I saw 40 years ago is ingrained in my mind and body?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Not at all. Young people who see it for the first time will be shaken it by it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was the best.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hB7Wl4BNSk"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hB7Wl4BNSk</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The stage and costumes are stripped of all decoration to create a thrilling, interesting, and dynamic space with primitive expression of the body, instruments, performance, and dance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Political messages of diversity and inclusion are present throughout.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The production shows that music still carries such profound possibilities.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even then, David Byrne is already 70 years old. Ugh.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was right to see the play in a small and loud theater called “Demachi-za” in Kyoto.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Though, this is not something to be seen while sitting down silently with a mask on your face. It was something meant for the audience to participate in.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I can’t wait to get back to that sense of unity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Next time, I’ll watch it on the super big screen, shouting with everyone else!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here’s the next film.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“THE PUBLIC iMAGE IS ROTTEN.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A documentary by Public Image Ltd. and John Lydon. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I dropped the needle on their first album, PUBLIC IMAGE. The first song, “theme,” with Wobble’s heavy bass and Walker’s drumming, was immediately followed by Levin’s guitar, a shock I will never forget. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The evolution from Sex Pistols to PiL was tremendously unbelievable. I have decided to make punk my life’s path.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Though, this movie shows that punk isn’t just about the crazy madness of young people, but something much more profound as a musician and a person.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are images of when PiL visited Japan in 1983.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Kyoto was very close to the movie theater where I saw their performance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After the performance, I was having a drink with Bo Gambos and others not far from the theater when John Lydon came over and gave me a piggyback ride! It was a great time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The year after, I became a bureaucrat, and the year after, I went to see PiL in Tokyo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I went with Yasuhiko Taniwaki, who was my classmate at the time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In suits and ties, we were getting wild at Shibuya Public Hall.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We were probably the two most conspicuous people in the area. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I’m in “university president” mode, I wear PiL and Sex Pistols badges instead of my family crest. I still haven’t been found out. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">David Byrne and John Lydon.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They were British men who were active in New York and London at the same time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For me, they are the two great heroes of punk.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is no coincidence that I met them twice in Kyoto—as a teenager, they gave me inspiration in deciding what I wanted to do with my life, and now, in my sixties.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My punk path still has a long way to go. </span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-1949725459230013692023-12-03T23:00:00.003+09:002023-12-03T23:00:00.132+09:00Theory of JIZAI Body<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■Theory of JIZAI Body</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Theory of JIZAI Body” written by Masahiko Inami et al.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The “Inami JIZAI Body Project” is led by Professor Inami, our boss at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Advanced Study and the co-chairman of the Superhuman Sports Society.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was drawn in by the self-introductions by young scholars of brain, science, psychology, information engineering, mechanical engineering, information engineering, mechanical engineering, and media design, who gather under the umbrella of body informatics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the modern era, technologies of transportation, production, and information have developed. Dr. Inami calls it “de-embodiment” and “liberation” from drudgery.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yes, and I believe that further development of technology will bring about a “super nothing-to-do society.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet, Dr. Inami says the next step is realizing the “jizai (autonomized) body.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">He says that robots and avatars will be made self-reliant, and that the human body will be turned into a cyborg robot.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The term “autonomization” refers to “the ability of a person to freely handle the expanded capabilities of a machine.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Those who have seen “MetaLimbs,” which attach a third or fourth arm to the body, will immediately get the idea.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The idea is to extend, distribute, and share such capabilities in both real and virtual space.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Inami’s project has five research themes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Enhancement of the senses (extrasensory)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Enhancement of the physical body (super-body)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Design via the separation of body and mind (astral projection/transformation)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Alter ego</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Union of the body</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Inami’s previous books are full of references to science fiction and pop culture, and this publication is a genealogy of his work.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The goal of his project is to establish the basic technology to realize a “digital cyborg,” i.e., “a person who freely manipulates superhuman abilities by freely traversing across physical space and cyberspace.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The MIT Negroponte “bit and atom combination” will be reincorporated into the body. This is the birth of a “new mankind.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For this purpose, design via the separation of body and mind (astral projection/transformation) will take place.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The hardware and software of a person are separated and deconstructed layer by layer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, the outer body will control a robot or avatar as if it was its own; one can wear a machine and feel it as oneself. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Letting a distant robot avatar take over your actions with automation technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Manipulating real robots and virtual avatars back and forth with one’s own self, switching between automatic and manual control.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">You will have N bodies in N real + virtual locations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Inami explains the “ubiquity of consciousness,” likening it to the ubiquity of machines advocated by Mark Weiser of Xerox, or ubiquitous computing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The ubiquity of consciousness and the body, or the ubiquity of the self. It stirs the human desire to conquer the earth.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other hand, it also scrutinizes the domination and sharing of the self by others.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The “union” of many people into a portable shrine-like structure is also a theme of Dr. Inami’s research.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The possibility of sharing one’s body with others or AI is also being discussed. Experiments are underway in which others can control a robotic arm attached to one’s body.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Extending one’s possessions or body through the process of sharing is also mentioned.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Actions are digitized. Distributed and shares as data. Globally.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The masses could be guided or even controlled and managed by themselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Immeasurable impact.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The academic fields appearing this book are mechanical engineering, information engineering, control engineering, brain science, neuroscience, psychology, physiology, and emergency medicine, as well as the aesthetics, ethics, and cultural anthropology of Daisuke Uryu from the University of Tokyo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Research is the “middle ground,” but additional factors are required. This assumes that social implementation includes the dispersion and sharing of the self, philosophy (what is the self?), economics (output, employment, distribution), and law (freedom of expression and public regulation).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Quite exciting to think about.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was 20 years ago that I published “Digital Toy Box” after two years of study, research, and interviews at the MIT Media Lab to understand MIT Negroponte’s coupling of bits and atoms.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Inami’s book is an impactful one. It is sure to motivate you that much more to dive into his theory of the autonomized body.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-11812790223470621792023-11-26T23:00:00.003+09:002023-11-26T23:00:00.138+09:00Introducing 2 books about AI and the body.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ Introducing 2 books about AI and the body.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will introduce two publications about AI and the human body.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“NEO HUMAN” by Peter Scott-Morgan.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The book follows the author, of a scientist diagnosed with motor neurone disease, who transformed himself into a cyborg by replacing his body with a machine while supplementing his brain with AI. He lives virtually through voice synthesis, gaze input, and his own avatar.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rather than confronting his disease, he uses it as an opportunity to be born again, a challenge that paves the way toward the future of humanity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even if limb or organ function is impaired, life can be maintained as long as the brain can operate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rather, the brains direct connection with AI and robots will expand the body and give it freedom of activity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The author is said to be active even now that his limbs are immobile and he has lost his voice.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The book does not paint a linear picture of the bright future of a fusion between the physical and IT, but rather juxtaposes the author’s difficult life, speaking of the fault lines between him and establishment, the pressures against living as a gay man, and his struggles in business.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The main subject of the book, the execution of his project, is also a harrowing one. In the end, the Seven Samurai finally break through.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a book about the way of life.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What we have given up on in the past may be turned around and be used to bring about a new future by embracing technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This requires a commitment to fight against the orthodox, to gather comrades, obtain funding, and to communicate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wonder if I would have the energy to do so if I think about the author’s situation as my own. That is my impression after reading this book.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The other book.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Genius Weapons: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weaponry, and the Future of Warfare” by Louis Del Monte.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This book questions the development of AI weapons and their control and management by mankind.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Autonomous weapons, omnipotent weapons, autopiloting, AI-implanted soldiers, and the technological and political scenarios they conceive.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a looming reality and an endless thought experiment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I thought about it vexingly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">AI and nanotechnology are too advanced.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A treaty prohibiting the development of autonomous weapons would require both major powers (the United States and China to see the benefits.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This would be when the possibility of small nations, ethnic minorities, and terrorists using the new weapons increases.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This points to a situation in which the democratization of technology would need to be curbed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What will Japan do to control tech democratization?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The military will become system-engineered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Operational units will be replaced by AI, and the majority of personnel will be allocated to AI development and maintenance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Like investment banks.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The unemployment problem among military personnel will be troublesome.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The military may become the strongest force against AI evolution.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This book discusses whether soldiers will control AI or AI will control soldiers, assuming the mass emergence of soldiers with AI implanted in their brains after technological singularity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There would be no military incentive except for AI to have control over the soldiers. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The question is, who would want that?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What AI-implanted people upload into the AI system is not knowledge, but experience and emotion.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This would bring about new life support and regeneration, so there would be incentives for this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Post-singularity. Live to see what technology awaits.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s a good goal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the end of the book, there is a commentary by Keiji Ono of the Ministry of Defense.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The debate on security should not be kept to the experts.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hanshin fans in the Kansai region comment on everything from professionals to aunties and children. Mr. Ono explains the utility of public opinion, “the psychology of Hanshin fan support,” in maintaining governance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This section of the book hit closest to home for me.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-90495055382998540432023-11-19T23:00:00.003+09:002023-11-19T23:00:00.131+09:00The Fight Against GAFA’s Expansion<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ The Fight Against GAFA’s Expansion</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Fight Against GAFA’s Expansion,” written by Masako Wakae.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A business book on how telecommunications, manufacturers, and eC companies suffered defeat.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">…which is what I misunderstood it to be, and was late in reading it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Journalism, academia, and policy theory follows nationalists from industry, academia, and government, who confronted the struggle for data supremacy and questioned national strategy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A good book, and a must-read for IT professionals.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The secrecy of communications, freedom of expression, personal data protection, privacy, network neutrality, communications security, extraterritorial application, competition policy, and content policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IT Headquarters, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Consumer Affairs Agency, Fair Trade Commission, and the Personal Information Protection Commission.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I would like to pay tribute to the efforts of these organizations in tackling “cross-cutting problems that are difficult to solve in the traditional stove-piped matter.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Professor Tsunetoshi Shishido of the University of Tokyo, Attorney Ryoji Mori, President Kunihiro Tanaka of Sakura Internet, and bureaucrats from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Although I knew that many of the people who appeared in the book by their real names, I did not know many of their detailed backgrounds, which made my heart throb with excitement.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They’re distinguished citizens, I thought.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There were a few remarks about Yasuhiko Taniwaki, who left the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Taniwaki’s departure is a loss for Japan.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Taniwaki is a geek and a bit of an oddball, but he is an academic and plows through anything like a bulldozer, getting it done. I have seen him many a time in late-night discussions with young engineers and customer service representatives at an inexpensive izakaya bar, sharing wisdom about the realities of the industry.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“At least in his dealings with NTT, Taniwaki did not appear to be corrupt in protecting his interests. Rather, he was feared by them for his willingness to argue about things on their merits.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was also thoroughly impressed that, as a reporter taking a hard look at Kasumigaseki, Ms. Wakae has commented on what I would like to testify to.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This book does not tell a narrow story of the Japanese industry’s defeat against American IT companies. Rather, it is a telling of the failure of the Japanese industry and government’s maintenance of monozukuri (production) and in addressing intellectual property and software strategy, as indicated by the 1983 Young Report. she further addressed the lack of sensitivity of society as a whole through data-driven technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The author, Ms. Wakae, has interviewed me several times three years ago in the fight against piracy. She was the journalist who most acutely delved into the crosscutting digital constitution issue of the secrecy of communications vs. protection of intellectual property. That, too, has yet to be resolved. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the digital field, “cross-cutting problems that are difficult to solve in the traditional stove-piped matter” will still arise.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We strongly hope that the Digital Agency will confront these cross-cutting issues, but if it is not done properly, a new stove-pipe may be created.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We want to create a zagumi (performer’s organization), a community, to confront these challenges.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That is why we created the Digital Policy Forum, a discussion platform consisting of key players in the digital policy industry, academia, and government.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have asked Ms. Wakae, the author, and other people who appear in this book to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Taniwaki will serve as the secretariat.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. Wakae’s book has inspired me to take action.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-2440387880141098812023-11-12T23:00:00.002+09:002023-11-12T23:00:00.139+09:00The Century of Communication<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ The Century of Communication</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I read through “The Century of Communication: 150 Years of Information Technology and National Strategies” by Tetsuya Ohno. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The attack and defense of communication sovereignty and infrastructure development since the Meiji era.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fierce political and military struggles between nations and dark conflicts between the political, public, and private sectors regarding the domestic telecommunications industry.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Reading this makes the current GAFA measures seem childish.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Teruo Ariyama’s “Information Hegemony and Imperial Japan,” published in 2013, describes the fact that information and communications have been important political matters of the state since the modern era. Furthermore, Japan, too, has seen a series of high-level political decisions by the Prime Minister and members of the Cabinet.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Both publications are must-reads for telecommunications geeks.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I became a telecommunications bureaucrat during the monopoly era of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT) in Japan and Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) internationally.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the midst of the technological epoch of telephone automation, the KDD scandal occurred, and the company advanced headfirst toward telecommunications liberalization.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was followed by the battle with the U.S. and the U.K. over the liberalization of telecommunications, the reorganization of NTT, and finally, deregulation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is quite nostalgic as my own work history.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Ohno takes the harsh view that the restructuring and deregulation of NTT at the end of the 1990s was “a failure of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications,” which lacked the ability to take part in technological progress and market changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I, as a middleman, took it as a purely administrative evolution. Though, when considering the correlation between the subsequent reorganization of ministries and agencies with the dismantling of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, I wonder if Mr. Ohno’s view is the legitimate one.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, the offensive and defensive battleground that continued on for 100 years was drastically changed by the Internet.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Japanese carriers became truly domestic, while AT&T, BT, and Vodafone withdrew.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet, the leading role in telecommunications shifted to the upper layers, led by GAFA.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are also trying to get their hands on submarine cables.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was only last year that the Telecommunications Business Law finally accommodated foreign services such as Gmail. As someone who knows the international offensive pre-Internet, it was like watching the Qing Dynasty under imperialism.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let the EU lead the way and live with the US—is this the way to handle the next few decades?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“I think I would have gone into telecommunications bureaucracy even if I was born a hundred years ago.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wrote this seven years ago at the end of my book-reviewing blog on “Information Hegemony and Imperial Japan.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is no different now. I would like to enter that field and become a policy entrepreneur.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-59689696990959446692023-11-05T23:00:00.001+09:002023-11-05T23:00:00.129+09:00The establishment of an industry-academia-government forum on digital policy.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ The establishment of an industry-academia-government forum on digital policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Digital Policy Forum, a discussion platform for digital policy among industry, academia, and the government, has been launched.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The forum is a community for open online and offline discussion and proposal of cross-cutting themes related to social, economic, and digital issues such as technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a place where wisdoms are connected and discussed, from which action can be taken.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.digitalpolicyforum.jp/"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.digitalpolicyforum.jp/</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Purpose: “In recent years, issues such as security measures, cyber-terrorism countermeasures and intellectual property protection have expanded. At the same time, technological innovations such as AI, Big Data, IoT and 5G have advanced and a new international policy agenda has emerged. We will form a community to discuss and make suggestions to further digital policy.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition to myself, the promoters of the Digital Policy Forum include Masaru Kitsuregawa, Director of the National Institute of Informatics, Ken Sakamura, Professor of Toyo University, Hideyuki Tokuda, President of NICT, Masao Horibe, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University, and Jun Murai, Professor of Keio University. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The forum’s inaugural meeting was attended by researchers from universities and other institutions, ministries, and agencies including the Digital Agency, the Intellectual Property Headquarters, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the Agency of Cultural Affairs.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The central figures discussing digital policy have gathered. More will join. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As an initial agenda, we presented five items.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Data-driven society: Data distribution market and platform measures</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Borderless market: international rules for data transactions</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Market structure change: layer structure and competitive environment, especially in the telecommunications sector</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IP policy: strategy for digital content</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The state of the rules: frameworks for hard law and soft law, co-regulation, etc. </span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-27009915964239160842023-10-29T23:00:00.001+09:002023-10-29T23:00:00.141+09:00Symposium to celebrate the founding of the Digital Agency.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> ■ Symposium to celebrate the founding of the Digital Agency.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Digital Risk Forum” @ Takeshiba. Celebrating the founding of the Digital Agency.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been exactly one year since the opening of the world’s first smart building in Takeshiba. We once again invited Mr. Takuya Hirai, a member of the House of Representatives, who was appointed as the first Minister of Digital Affairs shortly after his arrival at the event. </span></p><p><a href="https://newmediarisk.org/draforum2021"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://newmediarisk.org/draforum2021</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I addressed the audience as the organizer of the event.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“It was 10 years ago that the widespread use of smartphones and social media led to a number of flaming incidents.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The following year, we established the New Media Risk Association, known colloquially as the ‘Flaming Association.’</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Since then, the environment has changed with AI, IoT, and big data, “digital” has become the most important theme for the social economy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the same time, COVID-19 has ravaged the world, making digitality all the more important. It was a reminder that Japan was indeed losing the digital fight. It became clear that the Japanese government, healthcare, and business were lagging behind. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1989, Japan’s international competitiveness, which has been the highest in the world, had dropped to 34th place, a clear downfall. The 30 years since have been a period of digital inaction for Japan. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is Japan’s last chance for digital transformation (DX). The country has maintained its world-class capabilities in manufacturing, design, education, and public safety. We believe is fully possible to digitally revitalized Japan post-COVID.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, digital transformation that manifests as a sudden surge will also lead to increased digital risks. Therefore, last year, our association changed its name to the Digital Risk Association and put in place a new structure.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We welcome the inauguration of the Digital Agency, who shares a similar approach. I am pleased that the importance of digital administration has finally been recognized by the agency, and that they have set sail under a worthy first minister. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In on year, they have developed many relevant laws and gathered human resources to inaugurate the Agency. The sheer horsepower of their work, the likes of which were not seen in the Heisei era, has given me hope. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The agency’s base here in Takeshiba is a smart city designed to be in full swing in time for the Olympics. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was designed as a special zone abundant with digital technology such as 5G, robotics, IoT, and data. We hope to work digitally with the Digital Agency and other government agencies.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. Yoko Ishikura, who was appointed as Digital Supervisor, gave a comment as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ms. Ishikura was a college of mine at Keio and our rooms were next to each other.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She said she never allowed teachers in. This was the same as when she was at iU. Though, simply calling her “Ms. Ishikura” would have been uninspiring. Ishikura-kan, Digi-kan, Yoko-chan—not sure which fits best.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Minister Hirai remarked,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Ten years from now, the word ‘digital’ will no longer be used. We won’t even have to think to be digital.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Great attitude. The digital will merge with our society. Everything will become digital. Consumed as such. This is truly “being digital.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">If their work is successful, the Digital Agency will be gone. This is the goal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Right now, the conversation is focused on how to move forward with government DX, but what was discussed was a major posture to rewrite analog civilization: how to develop cities and live, how to develop cities and live, how to produce communities, families, and meals. It would be exciting if we could move toward such a policy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let us hope that happens.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“A congressman should not seek happiness. If you do this for long enough, you become a horrible person.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The minister murmured.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hmm…</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As was the case year ago, the timing of the cabinet change occurred right before the presidential election.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They must be carrying a heavy load.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Great work.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-92062973062839717142023-10-22T23:00:00.003+09:002023-10-22T23:00:00.143+09:00The Media Content Market Today<p><span style="font-size: large;">■ The Media Content Market Today</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The 2021 edition of the "Japan and Global Media Contents Market Database" has been published by HUMANMEDIA.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It estimates that due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the size of the media content market in Japan has become ¥13,107.6 billion, which is a decrease of ¥661.2 billion (-4.8%) from the previous year.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's read more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2020, "Entertainment and facilities," including movies and karaoke, etc., fell 43.3% from the previous year due to the impact of COVID-19. "Broadcasting" fell 12.2%, and "Software packages" fell 6.4%.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other hand, "Online content", with its large growth in streaming and increased advertising, rose by a total of 5.3%, accounting for 41.4% overall. The total for all segments remained in the ¥13 trillion range despite a 4.8% decrease.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the 2010s, the content market shrank 5% year-on-year in 2009 following the Lehman Shock in 2008, and remained leveled off until 2012, the year after the Great East Japan Earthquake.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The market began to expand in 2013, and in 2016 recovered to the size it was in 2008. It has continued to expand since then, and in 2019 reached its largest level since 2008.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2020, there was a dip due to COVID-19. The question is whether this will continue or reverse in 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In terms of media categories, "Online content" such as streaming, etc., accounted for only 13.4% of the total in 2011, but in 2019 it accounted for as much as 34.8%.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Its size was about three times larger in 2019 than it was in 2011, and the amount increased by ¥3,184.9 billion. This sector was responsible for most of the recovery and expansion of the market in the 2010s.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other hand, the "Package content", consisting of video, music, game software, newspapers, printing and publishing, etc., accounted for 43.5% of the total in 2011, but shrank to 27.4% in 2019. Its size declined 27.4% from 2011 to 2019, and the amount declined by ¥1,424.3 billion. "Broadcasting" maintained the ¥3.7 to 3.8 trillion level, but the overall market shrank from 29.5% in 2011 to 28.0% in 2019.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The results of survey of the media content market size in 20 countries and regions around the world showed that on a yen basis for 2019, the United States, China, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, will be in that same order as they were in the previous year.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The market size in the United States, which is the world's largest, is about four times the size of the Japanese market, with China in second place being about twice as large as Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom in fourth and fifth place being about half the size of Japan, and France being about one-third of the size.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The overseas market for Japanese content will be about ¥2 trillion in 2019. This is a 16.3% year-on-year increase, nearly tripling since 2012. By sector, anime, followed by online gaming for smartphones is the largest.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The largest field was animation, which exceeded ¥1.2 trillion in 2019. Online games came next, with ¥368.9 billion, followed by publishing, mainly consisting of manga, which has also continued to expand.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2019, the total market size of domestic media content and related industries in the 5 sectors was ¥56.5 trillion, accounting for 9.9% of the ¥554 trillion GDP. It exceeded food service that was at ¥26 trillion, clothing which was at ¥10 trillion, and has reached a size where it is closing in on the ¥63 trillion in construction investment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(5 areas: communications including telecommunications, etc.; advertising; characters; media hardware including TV and game consoles, etc.; and live performances)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">---</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The content market had dipped at the beginning of the transition from analog to digital, but has since been on a trend of growth.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Although also having dipped due to COVID-19, digital expansion will accelerate and live shows will return sooner or later. Overseas markets will also grow.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is an industry with high expectations. Market expansion revolving around digital content and internationalism, which the government's intellectual property strategy is aiming for, will be in full swing after COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even more than that, we should focus on a market that combines related industries. The total market size of hardware and software is a pillar of industry on par with food, clothing, and construction.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Furthermore, it will have a large ripple effect on markets around it. The viewpoint of expanding the scale of investment in these fields is required in anticipation of the ripple effects.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I recommend that this database, which is compiled on an annual basis, be used as a text for policymaking.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-38879817128424128582023-10-15T23:00:00.001+09:002023-10-15T23:00:00.148+09:0020 years after 9/11 (September 11th), optimistic expectations.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■20 years after 9/11 (September 11th), optimistic expectations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I had optimistic slides that I was going to present back in Japan right after 9/11.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">September 11th, 20 years ago was the strongest season for the Internet in the United States, even though the Internet bubble had burst.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I had an appointment with president of MaMaMedia, Inc., Idit Harel, a female entrepreneur and graduate of MIT. It was when I was approaching Manhattan after driving from Boston in the early morning, that I came across the terrorist attack.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have written about this several times. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">While returning to Boston from New York, there was just screaming and confusion coming from the car radio, and I learned of the situation from the images from the TV at a roadside restaurant.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the East Coast people were commuting to work and school, and on the West Coast, which was three hours behind, people were sleeping.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, everyone I knew in Japan saw it happening on the news.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The degree of it being in real-time was higher in Asia.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The "Advanced information society," in which the media connects the world through images, had been completed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With that, the "Optimistic expectations" that mutual understanding would advance, and world peace would come, was showed to be downright lie.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mutual understanding breeds extinction, hatred, terrorism, and revenge.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The United States brandished nationalism, which soon led to the war in Afghanistan, and then the war in Iraq.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ten years later, Japan was shaken by March 11th, and the tremors were shared and spread on TV and smartphone social networking sites.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Since September 11th, I have once again recognized the power of images.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, it was not the images that made me flinch when I entered the area immediately after the quake, but rather a sharply intense "Odor".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That odor was not perceived through the digital images.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My expectations for digital technology were still optimistic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At that time, smartphones and social networking sites became widespread, and helped democratize the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Arab Spring has arrived.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Democracy and capitalism covered the globe along with the wave of digitization.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are moving in one direction.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I had such "Optimistic expectations".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then another 10 years passed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The United States was in decline, and after 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan, it was defeated and withdrew from the country.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The United Kingdom left the European Union.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Arabs have reverted to civil wars and iron-fist regimes after the Arab Spring.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">China has become too confident and uncompromising, and it is clamping down domestically.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Democracy and capitalism are both without life.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"Optimistic expectations" remained only optimistic once again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And COVID-19 has brought into sharp relief the shape of the country.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">China is suppressing with an iron-fist..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">France is also ruling with a heavy hand, but only against protests.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The United States is divided among its states.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The United Kingdom shows the strength of its logistic management.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">India makes its people do push-ups.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Japan makes demands, has no presence, and hypothesizes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The world is in pieces.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, Japan has been falling. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Its international competitiveness, which was once 1st, has fallen to 34th.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What we have gained during COVID-19 is a recognition of the digital defeat.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The eJapan strategy of 20 years ago and the last solid policy were both led by introducing IT into administration and education.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For 20 years, we stopped.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Launching the Digital Agency will help us recover from this defeat.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At this moment, digital technology is at the stage of transition from the Internet and smartphones to AI data.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is the last chance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After bringing an end to the "Kishotenketsu" (introduction, development, turn and conclusion) of the modern eras that were Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei, Reiwa will move us on to the post-modern era.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wonder if that is the mood for the "Optimistic expectations".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Olympics that were forced through did not glorify nationalism.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Especially the new city-based competitions where teenagers were the main participants. They were cooler, showing smiles rather than a hungry spirit, and what they shouldered was not the nation, but love and friendship.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The nationalistic, modern Olympics, where people competed for medals, was turned around, and became a super-modern, leisurely, and fun festival.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a great legacy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">10 years after September 11th was March 11th, and 10 years after that was COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With each decade, "Optimistic expectations" have withered away.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What awaits us 10 years from now?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope to see the light.</span></p>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-9149339567073530392023-10-08T23:00:00.001+09:002023-10-08T23:00:00.149+09:00The OTAKU SUMMIT was held <p><span style="font-size: large;">■The OTAKU SUMMIT was held</span><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Based in Ikebukuro Sunshine City, as Tokyo 2020's official cultural Olympiad.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Representative of The International Otaku Expo Association (IOEA), Kazutaka Sato, was the president of the executive committee.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I gave a congratulatory speech and talk at the opening.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://otaku-summit.jp/">https://otaku-summit.jp/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Plague in the 14th century. The authority of the church declined and the Renaissance was born.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There was the birth of art and science. The Middle Ages departed, and the modern age arrived.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What will COVID-19 produce?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Artists and geeks are resting at home.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is expression born from difficult times.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jazz and punk were born out of oppression.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope that new pop music will be born.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been 20 years since the term "Cool Japan" was coined.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the past, the image of Japan was that of a "Fighting nation", typified by the words "Harakiri" (ritual suicide by disembowelment) and "Kamikaze" (a suicide attack).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This image was transformed into "Fighting companies", such as Toyota, Honda, and Sony.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now this image has been replaced by "Fighting characters", such as Naruto, Pikachu, and Super Mario. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Western reception of contemporary Japanese culture exhibits different characteristics from that of the old exoticism and Orientalism of Kabuki, Sumo, and Geisha.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And the power to spread, penetrate, and influence, that Japanese pop culture now demonstrates is thought to be far greater than the inspiration that Ukiyo-e once provided for the birth of Impressionism.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2018, the "World Otaku Institute" was launched.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The idea is for the CiP Council - an incorporated association that is creating a special zone for the concentration of pop culture in Minato Ward, Tokyo - to collaborate with the International Otaku Expo Association (IOEA), to create a headquarters for otaku researchers from around the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In founding this project, I stated the following.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"I want to create a network of leading experts in otaku research, and develop that into a research institute that will bring joy to researchers and fans on all five continents.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I want the World Otaku Institute to be a sandbox for researchers from all over the world, where they can play freely, make mountains how they want to, and dig in.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the same time, I want to devise ways to circulate research funds and business money."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The trouble with Cool Japan is business.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2004, the government set a goal of expanding the content market from ¥11 trillion to ¥15 trillion by 2010.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Currently, the market is at ¥13 trillion, so the target has not been reached.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, the market for character products, tourism, and other related markets that use this content will amount to ¥57 trillion.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This accounts for 10% of GDP, and is close to the amount invested in construction.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">If we look at the content industry by itself, even though it's scale may not be so large, the related industries and the ripple/external effects are significant, and a composite model of earning "By" content is expected.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The government's aim is to use the content industry as a catalyst to enhance brand power and image, and to grow overall industry, including consumer electronics, food, and tourism, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In recent years, the content market has been on a trend of expansion, and in particular, "Online content", such as streaming, has tripled in 2019 since 2011.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Overseas markets are also being developed, and the overseas market for Japanese content has more than doubled in the past 10 years. We can see the light.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Barcelona, Spain, 2019.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IOEA and the World Otaku Institute teamed up to host the "Otaku Summit" at "Manga Barcelona", an event focused on Japanese manga, with a 25-year history, attracting 50,000 people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Researchers and activists from the United States, Italy, China, and Japan spoke passionately about the challenges and prospects of otaku culture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In all of these countries, the image of otaku culture is changing for the better.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Once a niche area, it has now become mainstream.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It has become the main culture, rather than a sub-culture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the same time as such things were being pointed out one after the other, there were strong opinions that otaku culture is spreading globally, transcending national borders, systems, and religions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What can otaku culture do in response to global trends such as protectionism, and the swing towards conservatism?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How can we make the most of this power to reconciliate?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How can we strategically utilize the soft power of otaku culture?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Various questions were raised.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was an opportunity to try and take a fresh look at the possibilities of otaku culture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Minister of Culture for Catalonia, Ms. Mariàngela Vilallonga Vives, also attended the event, where she and the CiP Council held a ceremonial signing of an agreement to promote the integration of digital culture and technological innovation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The idea is to promote a strategy in which cities in the East and West of the world can work together to demonstrate their strengths through pop culture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The World Otaku Institute is located in CiP, a special tech and pop zone in the Takeshiba district of the Tokyo Bay Area. The project is to create a digital national strategic special zone where content and IT industries are concentrated.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The CiP Council is the parent body that is driving the project forward.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The city opened in September 2020 with the participation of 50 companies and organizations in the animation, game, music, and IT industries.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Pop music and tech events will also be held in Takeshiba.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A showcase for the near future.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"An interesting future that lies a little further ahead". "Change Tomorrow", both of which are abbreviated as "CHOMORO".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The first event will be held the week after the Otaku Summit.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to develop research on otaku culture around the world at this new center that combines technology and entertainment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is my presentation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"Otaku culture - the new normal!"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/1Byq4l1vhy8">https://youtu.be/1Byq4l1vhy8</a></span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-21068695911540877702023-10-01T23:00:00.001+09:002023-10-01T23:00:00.141+09:00Digital Transformation for Human Resource Development - What Should We Do?<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■Digital Transformation for Human Resource Development - What Should We Do?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Digital Nation Japan Forum.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I appeared at the "Challenges of Digital Human Resource Development".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Digital transformation of human resources ranks 63rd in the IMD ranking. What should we do do?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With Member of Diet, Ms. Satsuki Katayama; Mr. Izumi, Head of the Information Economy Division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Mr. Urakawa, Chairman of SOMPO Systems; and Mr. Mori, Corporate Executive Officer at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are my comments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Situational awareness of digital transformation</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Japan has fallen. The country's ranking in competitiveness has dropped in rank by 30 in 30 years of the Heisei era, and wages have become low.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What became clear during COVID-19 was that Japan's was poor in digital support. Its downfall was due to digital technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Remote work has been an issue for 30 years, but is at its lowest level in major nations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even more serious than industry are the public sectors of healthcare, education, and government. We cannot respond to crises on site with Fax, only 5% of classes can be done online, and 7.5% of national procedures are online.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For both the eJapan strategy from 20 years ago, and last year's framework policy, the introduction of IT to administration and education is at the core. It has stopped for 20 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is the 4th industrial revolution and Society 5.0 through AI and IoT, but Japan has not even reached the 3rd industrial revolution or Society 4.0.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Firstly, the starting point is to recognize this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, I am hopeful. The reason for the delay is that the success experienced in the Showa era was too strong.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In industrial growth, Japanese-style management was highly praised.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The fields of healthcare, education, and government were considered "World-class".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There was little incentive to innovate digitally.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I noticed during COVID-19 that we have real ability.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Few deaths during COVID-19; it is likely to be overcome without lockdowns; and there is no damage to safety and security. Foreigners will return.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to respond now and turn this situation into an opportunity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Issues with the digital transformation of human resources</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The pool of human resources will expand rapidly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Digital human resources = IT experts were unevenly distributed among vendors, SIer, and digital companies.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, all industries and occupations are going digital, and everyone will become a digital human resource.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Not only vendors, but also finance, logistics, manufacturing, construction, and agriculture too.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Not only IT departments, but also management, planning, sales, general affairs, and accounting too.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The top, middle, and bottom layers of the workforce need to be deepened.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Top management = training experts at universities.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Training middle-level business personnel through recurrent education, training, and university curriculum organization.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even More than that, in the long run, it is important to raise everyone's literacy. This will finally begin by having one PC per person, and making programming a mandatory subject.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">iU was created to develop the human resources who will bring about innovation in information and management.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Having human resources who are useful in all industries, instead of just working for an IT company.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">All members are trained together with the company as interns.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the number of partner companies reached 250 within one year of the opening of the university, is proof that there is a need for this from the industrial world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Strategy for human resource development</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Takuya Hirai the Digital Minister, has requested a regional Digital transformation of human resources development strategy, and iU is designing the curriculum. However, it is impossible for just one school to do this. I want to expand this nationwide through collaboration between industry and academia.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Teaching can be done online, but hands-on learning centers are needed. The Liberal Democratic Party's proposal calls for the development of 6 to 9 locations. I want to utilize universities in various locations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, I am optimistic in the long term.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ten years from now, the PC mobile generation, who are now around 40 years old, will become presidents. Junior high school students will be entering the workforce. If we can survive until then, we will be fine.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What is needed is a generational change. </span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-51234512711183752082023-09-24T23:00:00.000+09:002023-09-24T23:00:00.138+09:00Participation in the (Art) Museum Policy.<p><span style="font-size: large;">■ Participation in the (Art) Museum Policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Museum subcommittee of the council for cultural affairs. Number 1.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will participate from this term.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We will discuss the promotion of museums, art galleries, zoos, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Prospects of what museums should be like after COVID-19, whilst taking on the major task to revise the Museum Act's registration and curatorial systems.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will give my personal views on the role art plays in the digital age.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Three initial comments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">1. legal reform.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This clears up a long-standing concern. I support it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, why has the system not moved to the point where there is no benefit to registration?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That is also the question of whether there is public support for the institutional change.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a community issue, and may be a low priority for the public.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To arrive at legal reform, is it not necessary to make efforts to raise the priority level?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is important to persuade the public of how important revisions of the Museum Act's registration and curatorial system are for people's lives and the social economy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It should be stated how when museums change in this way, the benefits to the public will be like this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the beginning of the interim summary, museums are viewed as "Facilities that are indispensable to the lives of the people", but we need to make a rigorous evaluation and verification of whether the public actually views them in this way.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2. The role of museums.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">WG Chairman Hamada summarized it as follows.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">① "Protection and inheritance" - Protection of collections, and the preservation and inheritance of culture</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">② "Sharing" - Sharing of culture</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">③ "Cultivating" - Inheritance by future generations</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">④ "Connecting" - Responding to social issues</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">⑤ "Managing" - Sustainable management</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sharp, easy to understand, and precise.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The question is whether museums will be allowed to play this role.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Knowledge is rapidly being dispersed due to digitization and networks.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Information and activities are shifting from happening at real places to being virtual.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Conversely, the significance of museums will be severely called into question.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What kind of value will museums strike back with?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Computerization and networking are the central issues.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Data sharing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In order to raise the priority of museum policy and develop a vision, I want to share the data that is a precursor to these things. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Usage trends: How many people use museums per year/how much time is spent in museums per year?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Market size: What is the total annual operating cost?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Revenue structure: Is the ratio of public, corporate sponsorship, and admission fees sustainable?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How do these basic figures stand when compared with other cultural facilities (education, entertainment, etc.)?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How do they stand when compared to other countries such as G7 and China?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Based on these things,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">how do we envision a strategy for growth?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How do we ensure sustainability?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">How do we correct the disparities?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I said we needed to draw up policies and strategies based on these things. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I know it is too much for a newcomer and an outsider to say, but instead of being satisfied with the inside stories of academia and industry, based on the fact that the Museum Act was once setback by legal reforms, etc., I wanted to make a scientific policy argument based on numerical evaluation and analysis, which is usually done in the field of public administration.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Start the discussion.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-88644535207233675832023-09-17T23:00:00.001+09:002023-09-17T23:00:00.147+09:00The Stir of the Review of the Communications and Broadcasting Administration<p><span style="font-size: large;">■The Stir of the Review of the Communications and Broadcasting Administration</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I appeared at the Radio Symposium, "What was behind the Tohokushinsha Film Corporation/NTT entertaining of guests issue?"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The panel consisted of Nobuo Ikeda (ex-NHK), Shin Yasunobe (ex-Ministry of International Trade and Industry), Takeshi Natsuno (ex-NTT Docomo), and myself (ex-Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The independent committee on communications and broadcasting was the point at issue.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will make a note of what was said and what was not said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The independent committee comes to the fore every 10 years - from the Hashimoto administration in 1998, to the DPJ administration in 2009, and now this time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was in charge at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in 1998, and I killed that conversation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was against it in 2009 as well, and for one reason: "It would tighten regulations". That hasn't changed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, the result of that conversation being quashed 20 years ago has led to the current turmoil, so this time I am not opposed to it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">First of all, how do you evaluate the administration of the past 20 years?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I see the media administration as "Doing well" under the the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The main objective which is to develop digital infrastructure, has been more successful in Japan than in other countries, and the reputation of the government office has improved since the days of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The independent organizations in the United States., France, and the United Kingdom are much tighter and not transparent.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Conversely, Japan's characteristics are that it is "Weak and narrow".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In my view, the diagnosis of the problem is misplaced, i.e., that it is due to the cozy relationship between the government and the business world, which stems from the powerful authority of telecommunications and broadcasting administrations. Instead, it is the weakness and narrowness of Japan that has led to the current situation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Japanese government is weak. It is lax.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the late 1990s, the government drastically eased regulations on fees and entry into the market, and with the exception of the airwaves, eliminated restrictions on foreign investment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even if there is a problem with a TV program, at most there is only a warning. There are absolutely no recommendations to discontinue the program or fines given with unknown grounds, as is the case in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I think this is the right administration for Japan.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">If you make it independent, it will get out of control and its degree of transparency will lessen,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Since it is independent from politics and the government, it will not have to make the rounds of the Diet members' meetings, or attend Mr. Natsuno's council for regulatory reform.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For the bureaucrats, this is what they want.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">All they do is regulate, so they will regulate hard.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">If you look overseas, you can imagine that this will happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And the Japanese government is narrow.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications had logistics, finance, and insurance in addition to communications and broadcasting.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The postal service was detached when it became the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">in the 1998 administrative reform.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It merged with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Management and Coordination Agency, but there was no exchange, leaving only communications and broadcasting.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Weak and without regard for the problems, the same people have been with the narrow industry for 20 years. The distortion of this issue is the current problem.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A further problem is the fact that the policy agenda in this area has already changed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The development of digital infrastructure for both telecommunications and broadcasting has been completed, and the development of a system of integrated techniques was completed 10 years ago. There is also the adjustment of mature markets such as reducing the price of cell phones, and local station management issues.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is a shift from business administration to consumer administration.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The more important agenda includes matters such as the integration of IT and IP policies, data strategy, overseas platform support, personal information protection, security measures, and the digitization of administration, education, and healthcare.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">These have been addressed by various parts of the government over the past 20 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications remains narrow and does not play a leading role.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is also exposed as the problem of vertical division in the digital age.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Communications and broadcasting, IT, intellectual property, computers, copyright, security - these government offices are fragmented.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition, a Digital Agency will be created.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The separation of regulation and promotion is not a matter of further subdivision, but rather what is important is making them into a large group.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When creating a large organization, it is necessary to review the administrative structure.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's promote streamlining and further deregulation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In terms of monitoring the market, the functions of the dispute resolution committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications should be strengthened.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In terms of program checks, the authority of the BPO, a private organization, should be strengthened.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For monitoring the administration, the Administrative Management Bureau and the Board of Audit should be strengthened.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We do not need an independent committee.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I don't think any sector wants an independent commission that leads to tighter regulations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I don't see any sponsors to shoulder the policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is also true of a pulse auction.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even if there is academic and political discussion, it will not become a realistic plan unless there is pressure from industry, users, and foreign countries, etc., to make it happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am proposing a "Ministry of Culture" for the next reorganization of ministries.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A strong government agency that integrates the administration of digital media, including telecommunications and broadcasting, into a large entity. The Digital Agency should be the nucleus.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The content is almost identical to the "Digital Ministry" (Ministry of Digital Economy and Society) proposed by the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) in 2018.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This has a policy sponsor.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I think it would be productive if, after the creation of the Digital Agency, this commotion develops into being the next agenda for an administrative organization discussion for large entities. </span></p><p><br /></p>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-11268002291568740232023-09-10T23:00:00.001+09:002023-09-10T23:00:00.268+09:00Thank you, Tokyo 2020.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> ■Thank you, Tokyo 2020.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After 57 years. It has been 8 years since the bid. The long-awaited Olympics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Success amidst the whirlwind of controversy over COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I shudder to think that the Olympics may not have been held without spectators or whatever.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Athletes and sports are precious.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I respect the young and vibrant men and women who fight beautifully against the negative reactions they receive.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was in front of the display the whole time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">One TV, three PCs, two tablets, and a smartphone.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I also had another smartphone for taking pictures.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm following the Olympics on 8 digital devices at home.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Olympics is a period of training to improve multiple skills.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">According to Yoshimoto Osaki, Chairman of the Board of Directors</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"A proper sushi restaurant serves eight people at the same time. The counter is for eight people."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I see. Had I been training in making nigiri sushi at the Olympics?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As It's the Edo Olympics!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There were many amazing achievements from Japan's perspective.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yui Ohashi was the champion in two swimming events.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Daiki Hashimoto, the flower of gymnastics, was the individual all-around champion and the horizontal bar champion.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Europe's secret techniques, the men's epee team in fencing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Consecutive judo championships for Shohei Ohno and Risako Kawai.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sena Irie won the women's boxing championship for the first time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The dramatic turnabout with the "Gon Zeme" (full on aggressive attack) also energized me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The table tennis team of Mizutani and Ito, and skateboarders Yuto Horigome and Momiji Nishiya.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There were also siblings who got gold medals. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Abe siblings in judo, and the Kawai sisters.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Getting the silver medal in women's basketball, Inami getting the silver medal in women's golf, and Kajihara getting the silver medal in the women's omnium are also great achievements.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Japanese women are amazing!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I counted the medals.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Gold 27: women-14, men-12, mixed-1.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Silver 14: women-8, men-5, mixed-1.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Bronze 17: women-8, men-8, mixed-1.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Total 58: women-30, men-25, mixed-3.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The red team won overwhelmingly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Naomi Osaka, Kento Momota, Daiya Seto, men's 400m relay, and men's soccer.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Some of the athletes were expected to get gold medals, but were unable meet those expectations because of local pressure or something.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, the gold rush in other events is dazzling, and I feel positive.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I also learned how unreliable the media's pre-event reviews can be.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Before being held, the legacy of the Olympics was as follows:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">1. To return the Olympics to being the Olympics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2. To show the recovery from COVID-19</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Preserving data for the future</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">These are the 3 points I considered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Return to a tournament which is athlete-centered, and focused on sports. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was a success. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was opposed to there being no spectators, nevertheless, watching baseball on the Internet with only the sounds of catching, the crack of the bats, and players' voices, and no play-by-play broadcasting or commentary, gave me a new fascination.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I also felt that it could be done in a devolved way, in local cities, rather than big cities. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Showing the recovery from COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was shown. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In particular, I think it brought light to the world given the fact that the event was held without any serious problems in Japan, where life without masks has not returned as it has in Europe and the United States, and where the infection situation is getting worse.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">3. We still don't know about data. How much of it will become available in the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But we have AI/IoT, 4K8K5G, robots/drones.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We were able to display a comprehensive showcase of technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Robots working on the track, live coverage through AI, displaying the per-second swimming speed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IoT cameras were a big success on the bike track.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to use all the data left behind by these devices.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">e-Sports also left its mark.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The IOC-sponsored "Olympic Virtual Series" held five events before the Olympics, including baseball, cycling, and rowing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I very much hope that it will be connected with the Paris and Los Angeles games.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To bring it back to Japan once again, we came third in gold following the United States and China. Overall, Japan ranked 5th behind the United States, China, Russia, and Great Britain. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Never in the future will Japan rank so highly with the great powers of the world. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The number of medals won at the Olympics reflects the power of a nation. It is a clear indication of the overall economic, cultural, and political power. Nothing surpasses this event in the battle over national flags and anthems. It is a symbol of modern national sovereignty.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That is how I have thought. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That Showa-era thinking has been clearly overturned.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">New city-based competitions such as skateboarding and climbing were cooler, showing smiles rather than a hungry spirit, and what they shouldered was not the nation, but love and friendship.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The sight of rivals carrying Misugu Okamoto, who placed 4th with her full on aggressive attack in the skateboarding women's park event, is a historical scene that shows the change of the times.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Skateboarding has street and park events, and Japan got three golds out of four from Horigome, Nishiya, and Yosozumi in the men's and women's events combined. It is our forte.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Moreover, the four female medalists are aged 19, 16, 13, and 12!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They had fun, laughed, and put the country second.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the teens presented such an image (sorry to go back to the country again) made me think that Japan has a future.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Japan's specialities of baseball, softball, and karate won't be held in Paris.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a treat for Tokyo to host the event.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That's enough of medals and nations right.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That's what I feel like I am being told by girls who could be grandchildren.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The modern, nationalistic Olympics, in which we compete for medals in desperation, will be overturned, and it will become a super-modern, leisurely, fun festival.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I think this is the greatest legacy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I would like to thank the participants and all those involved who overcame opposition, criticism, and disorder to hold the Olympics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you so much.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Until Paris in three years, I will be drinking in the lingering excitement of these games.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-23316273085066285432023-09-03T23:00:00.001+09:002023-09-03T23:00:00.134+09:00Comprehensive Policy Across Content and Media<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■Comprehensive Policy Across Content and Media</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The last meeting of the season for the content subcommittee of the Intellectual Property Division has been held. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the last meeting, I said that seeking a partial solution within the framework of copyright law would not lead to an optimal solution, and I sensed that people were thinking "what on earth are you talking about".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was given 5 minutes to explain and so had homework to do to prepare. Though I was chairman, I made the following comments as a member of the committee.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">First of all, content policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Starting in the 1990s, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications were all dealing with the issue separately, but in 2003, the Intellectual Property Headquarters was established and a cross-organizational framework was put in place.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Efforts have been focused on overseas development and Internet support.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Overseas development has shown results, with overseas sales increasing over the past five years in every category, including anime, movies, and broadcasting.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other hand, Internet development differs greatly depending on the field.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The effects are finally beginning to show.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Overseas players are a threat in terms of piracy in manga, there is Netflix and other overseas streaming of anime, there is the use of cloud computing by Google and others for gaming, and there is Spotify and other platforms for music.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Measures differ by category. For example, there are anti-piracy measures for comics, integration with telecommunications for TV, development of new areas such as e-Sports for games, and copyright handling rules for music.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Measures that cross categories and collaborate with other fields are more important.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As discussed in the Cool Japan Strategy, measures to collaborate with other industries such as food, fashion, and tourism will be important.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Next is the media policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Linking with media and IT for hardware for content distribution is more important, and its policy needs to be looked at in conjunction as well.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Television has played a major role in Japanese content, but the structure has changed with the development of telecommunications/the internet. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication has played a central role in telecommunications and broadcasting policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2003, when the Intellectual Property Headquarters was established, terrestrial digital broadcasting began, and in 2006, the Takenaka roundtable conference under the Koizumi administration reported a review of the telecommunications and broadcasting legal framework, which led to significant deregulation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fifteen years later, NHK finally implemented simultaneous broadcasting over the Internet, a bill to revise the Copyright Law was submitted to the Diet, and the major task of integrating telecommunications and broadcasting was accomplished.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, before I knew it, the Internet had taken over as the new innovator of media, and the difference in power was so much that NTT's annual profits alone were enough to buy all the leading stations. U.S. operators were on the offensive with data and AI-based businesses.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The contrast is that while TV stations' advertising is shrinking due to COVID-19, Internet advertising has overtaken TV, and video streaming is booming with the special demand that comes with people staying at home. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the past, content and media, and software and hardware were one and the same. Equipment manufacturers made music records, etc., however, recently, the hardware and software industries are often at odds with each other, even when it comes to compensation for sound and visual recordings and anti-piracy measures, and integrating the two has become a challenge.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are two major waves that content and media face, and they are COVID-19 and technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">COVID-19 has brought live entertainment to a halt and the industry has been hit hard, while on the other hand, video streaming and e-Sports are growing rapidly with a special demand that comes with people staying at home. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The structure of the industry will change after COVID-19, but there doesn't seem to be a strategy that comprehensively addresses this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In terms of technology, AI and data will continue to revolutionize content and media, and 5G will also bring significant changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, strategies that comprehensively address this are also lacking.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The majority of advertising will be targeted advertising based on data and AI; games will be played using the cloud system, so game consoles will no longer be necessary; and broadcasting will be possible via 5G - how will these changes be perceived? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The main players in advancing these reforms will be IT companies and platform providers in the United states. China will also be an influential player.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There has been discussion about strengthening restrictions on foreign investment in broadcasting. However, the issue of whether to draw up a strategy that excludes foreign investment, or one that introduces foreign investment is also a point of contention.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is why I raise the issue.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It may no longer be possible to obtain the optimal solution only by individual policies such as considering things specifically for each category, and copyright.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We now need to have a cross-sectional view of content and media.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is necessary to integrate intellectual property policy and IT policy, and to formulate a cultural and industrial policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That is what I am saying.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That was my 5 minutes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have always said this, so there is nothing new in it, but it is a reiteration of my emphasis on comprehensive policy now that I have done my homework on the major integration of the Broadcasting Act and the Copyright Act.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Although I had some concrete ideas, such as the reorganization of ministries and agencies and measures to promote the introduction of technology, I did not touch on them, but rather gave general remarks.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-41974534172174787272023-08-27T23:00:00.001+09:002023-08-27T23:00:00.147+09:00New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society 9 - Conclusion<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society 9 - Conclusion</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Part of my recent work, "New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society After COVID-19 - The Age of Cats" is revealed below. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“Conclusion”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">----------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I live with two cats.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> They are gold and silver. The gold one is male, and the silver one is female. Their names are Amber and Silver.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> When I lived in Boston, as a present for my young sons, I bought Amber and Silver, which were very popular stuffed animals among children called Beanie Babies, and they loved them. After my sons became independent, I ended up taking care of actual cats of my own.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Working from home during COVID-19 does not force you to just stay at home. It gives you the freedom to be wherever you want, whenever you want. We are in an era where people can live anywhere. We live in a highly mobile society. We are an active nomadic society.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> In such cases, I just take another good look at at the sunshine at home, and sit face to face with my cats. That twitzed, mischievious side of me comes out. But they, who have been calmly settled at home since before COVID-19, are the masters of the house. I am their subordinate. It is the beginning of their era.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> ”Good morning”. When I wake up, they follow me sluggishly. They don't frolic around, and they don't cry out. Sometimes they come as close as 5cm from me as if they are interested, and other times they look at me from a distance of about 5m.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> When I am typing on the computer, they slowly cross over the keyboard on purpose.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> " " : . Oh, 7 tsu tsu c t x r ze w q </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Such characters end up getting typed in. I say "Hey hey", but they don't move out of the way. That being said, when they are away from me and I call them over in a friendly manner, they turn away more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They neither respect me, nor look down on me. Whenever I get drunk and play around with Amber, he always bites down on me. I am a cat, he insists. I am usually drunk at night, and my arms are covered in scratches. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Silver runs away when I try to hold her. However, when I am being lazy, she asks me to play with her with sticks and balls. When she gets hungry, she will put her face slowly in front of my eyes and groan "meow" at me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I can't see them either under the bed or in the bathroom, and they don't come when I call them. However, when I talk in whispers about Amber and Silver with my family, they always appear calm and composed, as if they had heard.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> They are cute, but whenever a small bird comes up to the balcony, they run up to it as if they had morphed into rabbits, open their eyes and screech "Kakakakaka". If they catch sight of a grasshopper or an ant, they attack it. They are wild animals. I like that dual nature in them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As well as being family, you are friends who are on the same page as me. So, I talk to you as if I were talking to a friend. What do you think? Will Hanshin be okay this year? Will there ever be a Japanese Yokozuna? Which is more legitimate - stir-fried liver and Chinese chives or stir-fried Chinese chives and liver? What do you think?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I know. Sometimes you listen intently with your eyes wide open, and sometimes you lie down with a sullen look. You just walk away in a huff, as if to tell me what I'm saying is boring. I know. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> They are masters of communication. They get your hopes up, and when you approach they pull away. When I pull away, they make their presence known. It makes them happy, it makes them angry. The exquisite timing is very useful. I would like to make use of that kind of power of communication after COVID-19. Please teach me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> When they were at home purring, a startling thing took place.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a big shakeup at the government office where I used to spend time, and at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, that I created as the person in charge. Dinners with vendors caused a stir in the Diet and the media. The two top officials who resigned were allies of mine who I worked together with, and all of my junior colleagues who were connected are also close friends.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My life as a government official was a period of expanding the subjects of media policy. It was a small administration with a very small community, that is, the monopolies of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation and KDD, as well as NHK and commercial broadcasters. Liberalization and deregulation were movements to increase the number of new entrants in IT and content.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> My job was trading to increase the number of government office customers. I ran around. In terms of creating a culture of connection between the public and private sectors, I am not unrelated to this project, and I am partly responsible for it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> What do you think? My seniors did their best. Maybe they did too much. They fought a war with NTT, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Finance, and were broken up by Hashimoto's reforms. I took responsibility and quit, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications was formed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> What do you think? My peers and juniors did their best. After I quit, its reputation improved, and a good digital infrastructure was established. Did I try too hard? The government offices that were broken up and reorganized are being rebuked again at the same time as losing the digital war.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> What shall we do? Amber, Silver, please think together with me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> If people could be like cats, we would be less stressed. As long as you have food and a bed, you can go to sleep and wake up whenever you want, and move closer or further away as you please, without having to pay attention to the mood of those around you. That would be nice. In a super free society where there is AI and robots, living like a cat will be the model.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Amber, Silver, what do you think?</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-88724885556371558862023-08-20T23:00:00.002+09:002023-08-20T23:00:00.145+09:00Legacy of the Olympics<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■ Legacy of the Olympics</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was interviewed by a certain newspaper about the significance and legacy of the Tokyo Olympics, which was set to be held, though without spectators.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have served as a counselor for the Olympics and Paralympics in the Cabinet Secretariat, and while I am unwavering in my support for the Olympics and Paralympics, the situation has changed because of COVID-19, so I answered differently.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Whereas the previous Olympics was something to show the "Development and growth" from postwar reconstruction, the bid for this Olympics was to show "Maturity" in terms of coexistence with the aging population and the environment since reconstruction after the earthquake disaster.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was also an Olympics to show AI for Society 5.0 after the Internet era since the last Olympics, which was broadcast on TV all over the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That has shouldered COVID-19; and the positioning of reconstruction, the meaning of maturity, and the importance of the digital world have all changed, and I believe that the importance of hosting the Olympics has become much more significant than before.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was even afraid that a decision not to hold the Olympics would mean losing the courage to take responsibility for it, and so declare Japan's demise to the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Holding it is more important than anything.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course, I am assuming that the situation with COVID-19 in Japan will not prevent it from being held.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The number of deaths in Japan is low, and it is the only G7 country with a negative excess mortality rate. Medical care has also not collapsed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is no lockout, only a "request" for restraint. Riots have also not broken out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Entertainment and sports are being held with supervision, and we don't hear problems about groups of people getting sick with COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It can be held.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Although it was expected that the Olympics would be one that showed Japan's maturity and SDGs, in the end, the design for the Olympics that was carried forward was one using the commercial event colors from the 80s.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, the commercial prospect was off the mark because of COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Due to this, the tournament will be athlete-centered and more focused on sports.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It could be an opportunity for this tournament to break with policies of the past, and return to the original modern Olympics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It may differ from what the IOC is asking for, but it would return the Olympics back to being the Olympics, and isn't that what its primary legacy is all about?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Recovery from the COVID-19 is the second legacy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Last time it was civilization in the form of a major war, and this time it has been nature in the form of an epidemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Both are problems that humanity has struggled with for thousands of years, and both are times in which there was suffering on a global scale.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Last time, we showed recovery as the losers. This time, too, we have not yet won, but there is a light that is shining.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The experience of light that is universal and can be shared throughout the world is precious.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Japan is in a good position to send out a message for the first time in history.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even without COVID-19, the politics of all the major powers, including the United States, Europe, China, and Russia, are in turmoil. Conflicts between the major powers are also on the rise.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Japan is almost the only country in the world where politics is stable; where there is peace without turmoil; and where dialogue can take place with any country without it becoming belligerent.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a historic opportunity to become the nexus of the earth.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are not in a mighty enough situation where the leaders of our government can claim things like, "It is a symbol that we have overcome COVID-19."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, if we can hold the event while taking the necessary measures, we can share with the world the joy of returning to normalcy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am relieved that we have not suffered such damage that we would give up on that opportunity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The third legacy is data.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Half a century has passed since the last Tokyo Games, which opened on TV. The streaming of all events online was realized in London 2012, and then for Tokyo 2020 with a comprehensive showcase for AI/IoT, VR/AR, 4K8K5G, robots and drones. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In terms of media history, it should have been regarded as such.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, it will be a non-spectator event, and the images that will be presented will be different from what's expected.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The technology used at the location, such as the smart stadiums that have been constructed, may also not have much of an opportunity to be used.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other hand, with the world staying at home because of COVID-19, digital technology has moved forward in a big way.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Technology may be used more to connect everyone, and get them to participate and show support..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We could have displays and robots covering the entire bleachers, and people from all over the world could have access, show up, and cheer loudly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">That can be done, if the sponsors are up for it!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This could be an opportunity to create a new way to watch the games.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Watch the real thing at the scene.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On the other hand, I hope that we will not have a legacy of this "Pressure", where even local events are held without spectators, whilst data and authority are unclear.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">P.S.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I felt the division of this country through how people either approved or disapproved of holding the Olympics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am relieved that this did not turn into anything serious.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, this division is deep.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Proactive and cautious: the attitudes and feelings that were divided on this occasion are likely to be repeated.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Beyond ideology, beliefs, and organizations, I feel that this difference defines where people stand.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And I will probably work with the proactive people for the rest of my life.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-91713739209713629332023-08-13T23:00:00.001+09:002023-08-13T23:00:00.133+09:00Constantly Keeping Our Eyes on New Developments in Content Policy<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■Constantly Keeping Our Eyes on New Developments in Content Policy</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Government meetings on content and copyright continue to be held.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Digital Copyright Task Force of the Intellectual Property Headquarters has issued an interim report, and in response, a copyright study group for the Digital transformation era at the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and a content subcommittee meeting about content at the Intellectual Property Headquarters were held.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the time of the Diet deliberating on the revision of the Copyright Act for the integration of telecommunications and broadcasting, comes the next step in the discussion of digital strategy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I made a report on the Intellectual Property Task Force. --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The government's internal coordination had not been settled, and the interim report brought things to an end for the time being. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was because there was difficulty coordinating over the options and specifics in relation to the handling of rights, such as extended centralized licensing and rights restrictions with compensation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, this was also a result of the fact that the committee members were allowed to discuss matters freely, making the discussions worthwhile.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Copyright administration has achieved significant results in the past few years.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Flexible rights restrictions and online education in 2018; anti-piracy measures in 2020; and broadcasting online streaming, which is currently being introduced.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I believe that the major issues for digitization have been largely dealt with. We should recognize that work.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This task force is now chatting about what is the next challenge.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The first half of the task force report is about the changing environment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Digitization has drastically changed the environment for content distribution, consumption, and creation, and platforms dominate the market.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Furthermore, content is the source of data and becomes intermediate goods; and content is the center of economic value.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We recognized that policies that focus only on content will fail.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For the latter half of the measures, centralized handling of rights, such as extended centralized licensing, etc., were the most controversial, and so intra-governmental coordination was also difficult.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Other items were even more important.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">UGC guidelines, rights databases, improvement of transactions for productions, and problem solving through methods other than law, such as an emphasis on soft law, are becoming more important as copyright policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Furthermore, what I felt through the discussion this time is that, in the midst of major environmental changes, seeking partial solutions within the framework of copyright law is no longer enough to reach the optimal solution.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The time has come to think again within the framework of larger media and information policies, that include IT policy and telecommunications and broadcasting policy, and both software and hardware.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(The above is the report.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I would like to introduce the subcommittee's discussion on contents.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Hori of HoriPro expressed his sense of impending crisis that entertainment during COVID-19 is being treated as unnecessary and nonurgent, even though the situation is that Japan has lost out to South Korea.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Ota of TV Tokyo also expressed his sense of crisis that the handling of rights is complicated, and profits cannot be gotten amidst the diversification of media such as with streaming etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A great sense of urgency was also shared regarding piracy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Although this style of downloading has declined due to the revision of the Copyright Act and campaigns, the damage has increased during the year of COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The amount of reading that is done for free is on par with the former “Manga-Mura”, to be the worst in history.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now they all come from Vietnam, and even if they are dealt with, it doesn't lead to them being shut down.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was the report. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In addition to the revision of the Copyright Act, the government is taking a firm hand in strengthening international cooperation and enforcement; considering an access warning system; and establishing a legal system for the disclosure of identification information of the sender, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The private sector has also been putting effort into measures to address the situation, with the establishment of the incorporated association ABJ by the publishing industry.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even so, the worsening of the situation is a serious matter.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is where the discussion of blocking arose once again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Committee member Hayashi, pointed out the importance of the fact that blocking has been adopted almost everywhere overseas, and that in Europe, in addition to the UK, Spain and Italy, Germany has also started a system.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Committee member Kawakami, also put right perceptions about whether the government is aware of the seriousness of the current situation, and whether it thinks piracy can be deterred by means other than blocking.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The government decision on blocking was made just two years ago. Since then, after heated debate, comprehensive measures have been established, and steady steps have been taken. However, there is now a new situation, given demand due to staying at home during COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Blocking is to be "Examined whilst watching the effects of other measures and how much damage there is, etc.", so the possibility remains that it may be reconsidered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Based on all of this, the 2021 IP plan was recently decided upon. It is now moving on to the next phase of policy implementation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will constantly keep my eyes on new developments in content policy.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-73246302052578749522023-08-06T23:00:00.001+09:002023-08-06T23:00:00.138+09:00New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society 8 - Super Free-Time Killing Strategies<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society 8 - Super Free-Time Killing Strategies</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Part of my recent work, "New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society After COVID-19 - The Age of Cats" is revealed below. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> From Chapter 4, "Super Free-Time Killing Strategies".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">----------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">○ No more school.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Here's the exam question.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> What, you haven't heard of it? No, because this is my class. Chico will scold you if you sleep through life. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Question: What is your strategy for killing super-free time?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I'll give you a little hint.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> COVID-19 is gone. Perhaps you are allowed to live with others. You settle into a hybrid, new-normal life. The world will look different than it did before COVID-19. The humans that survive should have evolved. We have learned that the unexpected can overtake the earth. We have learned that no amount of power, no amount of knowledge, no amount of open-mindedness can solve or save us just like that. And we have realized that these kinds of things can happen again. And so, we live.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Those who can survive in the future are those who can enjoy change. You never know what might happen. With the tech revolution of AI and robotics advancing at the same time, continuous change has also become built into the social economy. When the waves come at us, destroying in an instant everything which we have taken great pains to accumulate and prepare for, as they do, only those who can ride out those waves will be able to survive.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Those who will survive are those who continue to learn. We will face unexpected situations. Problems that cannot be solved at all will arise. What you have learned, what you know, what you have figured out, will be uprooted and rejected. It happens! As such, only those who seek will survive.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> It is not a matter of ability. It is a matter of resolve.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">You'll be free. Commuting to and from school and work will become much less necessary. We will no longer feel reluctant to get together. Living in cramped cities will become much less necessary. Life planning will become easier. You won't have to be tied down to one company. We can wear many hats (i.e. do many different things).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I have been a nomad for a long time since leaving the government office 20 years ago. Since I moved to the United States with my first-generation VAIO and excellent PowerBook 2400c, I have been living on a laptop and the Internet. Deep in the mountains of Canada, at the edge of Argentina, in the hustle and bustle of Morocco, on a boat in the Mediterranean, on top of a mountain in Nepal. Wherever I have been, I have done my best to secure internet and a power source, and get by with a presence as though I were in Tokyo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The only thing that has changed through COVID-19 is that everyone around me has gone the same way (as me). Even now, I am writing this on my MacBook in the precincts of Shokoku-ji Temple in Kyoto, whilst connected to different meetings in Tokyo on both my iPhone and iPad. Everyone at the meeting is in a similar situation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I have been involved with digital tech, and was in charge of telecommunications liberalization, and launching CATV and satellites. I promoted the government's AI projects, and created research laboratories. I was first in charge of Internet policy in Japan, and was involved in IoT and robotics development at MIT. I returned to Japan and took the initiative with digital signage, 4K8K, and open data.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have also been involved with pop music. I originally wanted to be a musician and so have always been in the J-Pop industry. I promote the development of human resources and overseas expansion of manga and anime. I help develop video game consoles and smartphone games, and industrialize e-Sports. I use comedy as a teaching tool.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> A super free society is coming. The next mission is to integrate tech and pop and create a place where everyone can be free. Let's create a place where everyone can act boldly. One of the pillars is to create sports: e-Sports and superhuman sports. Another pillar is to create a place to enjoy them, train, and create. The city and the school.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The city and the school. CiP and iU. We opened these two in 2020. We've finally managed to do it. We have just begun. We still have only the bones of them. It is from now that we have to put flesh and blood into them. We must eat, run, and train.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> After "Building" the bodies, the next step is "Connecting" them. Both CiP and iU can be connected. They will proliferate in Tokyo, nationally and internationally. We want to be a hub. iUs will likewise move out sideways like the way crabs move.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We have created an organization called "Learning of Tomorrow". It is an organization that promotes the integration of education and technology, chaired by Nanako Ishido, with Hiroshi Komiyama, former president of the University of Tokyo, as its president, and myself as its managing director. It is an all-star group of over 30 digital industry organizations in IT, software, content, etc., with affiliated enterprises reaching 8,000 companies. It is a new movement that aims to move into the next dimension of tech with things like AI, IoT, and data, having achieved its 10-year goal of institutionalizing digital textbooks, and having one PC per student at schools.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> iU will be a mighty participant and player here, and we want to spread the iU spirit. A small venture university is only a dot. We need to connect the dots to make them into lines, and connect the lines to make them into surfaces. There are many fashionable schools in Japan, with Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Beppu, Oita, being known for its high international standing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are discussing collaboration measures with President Haruaki Deguchi. We will also collaborate with other cutting edge high schools, such as DWANGO's N High School led by Takeshi Natsuno, and Zero High School started by Takafumi Horie and others. We want to create a community of outstanding schools and turn it into a platform for super-education.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Projects are also underway. There is entrepreneurship support. The action is called "Super Start Up School". In addition to iU, where everyone starts a business, there are of course many other schools that are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship. Ritsumeikan APU and N High School both have entrepreneurship clubs. Some schools, such as Tokyo University, Waseda-Keio, and technical colleges, etc., are integrating it into their education. We will create a school community, bringing together 100 schools. Then, match entrepreneurs, consultants, and VCs. We will advance with curriculums for education, and exit strategies, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> e-Sports. "Super e-Sports School" was also launched. We are collaborating with JeSU, the Japan e-Sports Union. We will create a school community that includes schools from universities to elementary schools to bring together 100 schools. We will match competition organizers, professional players, and researchers, etc. We will advance with curriculums for education, and exit strategies, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Takuya Hirai, the first Digital Minister requested, "Please work with the Digital Agency and iU to develop the digital transformation of human resources." - You got it! We will jointly develop curriculums for working adults with the Digital Agency, and make them available to everyone. We have also received requests from local governments, such as Sumida Ward and Kyotango City, and we entered into an agreement to work on local human resource development.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">iU is driving things forward. We are now envisioning a "School of the future" and an "i-research laboratory".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The "School of the Future" will be developed by mobilizing next-generation digital technologies such as 5G/6G, IoT, robots/drones, AI/data, 8K/VR/AR, etc., and implementing them on the campus. We will also connect this testbed model with other schools and other organizations and collaborate with them. We will connect multiple locations via 5G, and share images in 8K and VR whilst learning through the utilization of AI and robots. We will carry out mutual authentication of units between schools using blockchain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then the "i-research laboratory" will be established. It will be a lab where "Everyone will create an interesting future together", while focusing mainly on the digital field. It will be regarded as a participatory platform that connects universities, research institutes, local communities, and human resources from around the world. Focusing on the digital field, it will create a fusion of technology, design, business, and policy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rather than the enclosed, high-end academic research that universities have aimed for up until now, it will be an unprecedented research institution that is grounded on the characteristics of digital networks - ”Openness, decentralization, and participation". We will collaborate with 100 research laboratories from around the world, and set up labs around the world, whether they be virtual or real. The goal is to have 1 million researchers. Anyone from grandmothers to children can be a researcher. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> We will overcome the boundaries of universities, and integrate with other schools to develop human resources. From kindergarten to graduate school, they will be jumbled together, and nurtured while playing. Professor Resnick of the MIT Media Lab, who developed "Scratch", advocates a "Lifelong Kindergarten". We want to implement this concept.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Professor Noriyuki Yanagawa of the University of Tokyo proposes a system in which students do not wait to graduate from university, but instead start working, acquire a degree within 10 years, and then graduate. Yes, yes. Even if you go from high school to university, there is no reality in what you study, and you will instead realize what you need to study when you enter the workforce. If that is the case, it is better to get a job early and re-learn slowly. If you live for 100 years, you will live for more than 30 years after retirement, so you can study for 5 years and be active for 25 years. Such a university would be a good place for everyone to come.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> If you just want to study, you don't need school anymore. Everything is available all over the Internet. Advanced courses from all over the world are available, as are lessons for children. They can teach you games, sports, and even cooking. If all you want to do is teach, you don't need a university anymore. Schools need to be able to offer value that only schools can provide, or they will collapse.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Online learning materials and blockchain certification will be proof of your background of learning. Stanford computers, Harvard entrepreneurship, Oxford philosophy, Tsinghua AI, English from charismatic teachers at prep schools, and Fender guitar lessons. A list of having completed such courses is more valuable than a diploma from Keio University. Such a time is approaching.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My long-term goal is to eliminate schools. I want to smash the schools we don't need into pieces, and I want to be able to learn the way I want to learn. Toward this end, iU is working on bringing them down. That said, we want to be an important school that remains. Let's break it, let's make it. [Gakuen Tengoku] (Finger 5)</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-62481685401291380312023-07-30T23:00:00.001+09:002023-07-30T23:00:00.158+09:00An Interesting Future That Lies a Little Further Ahead - CHANGE TOMORROW = CHOMORO!<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> ■An Interesting Future That Lies a Little Further Ahead - CHANGE TOMORROW = CHOMORO!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIkFYEzYN3GlJCzMUDbYCKsKSDbKbKuWbhMoK83x_fZX5Ge2u2eqKovf3iujDMjddvMYzzY2K_iLUucKo6iQWPWv0B0tZl8pFr50vu3APEZoSpAitvysa8drJyIBHxDLuTM-nE_AUD1PW34ZSzuOcpE5C-NKds-3vmRcdYycdByr4ZcscdfIy5WV1U6gs/s640/41.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="640" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIkFYEzYN3GlJCzMUDbYCKsKSDbKbKuWbhMoK83x_fZX5Ge2u2eqKovf3iujDMjddvMYzzY2K_iLUucKo6iQWPWv0B0tZl8pFr50vu3APEZoSpAitvysa8drJyIBHxDLuTM-nE_AUD1PW34ZSzuOcpE5C-NKds-3vmRcdYycdByr4ZcscdfIy5WV1U6gs/w441-h209/41.png" width="441" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is Ichiya Nakamura - a changer of tomorrow</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">An event where you can experience the future of pop culture and technology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"An interesting future that lies a little further ahead - CHANGE TOMORROW".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In both Japanese and English, it is abbreviated as "CHOMORO".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The event was held in Smart City Takeshiba.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXBEl0LMDqm2bIzNG0WlYxXZo9tcF1pTAWemrcQVmEuFOd8lZTTsKYeMfB4wjpu51RFSYYFIZf-Fw5TJRMqdadB0op5eGJeeHFedfigBQrT_qCYDaEFq-R8we5hlVyx7ocTXfVjfn6h3sXnZZYVTjzBWb86CjcXLhG1A4ofGOZLpsuf7EZFx8qfW7QMk/s640/43.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="640" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXBEl0LMDqm2bIzNG0WlYxXZo9tcF1pTAWemrcQVmEuFOd8lZTTsKYeMfB4wjpu51RFSYYFIZf-Fw5TJRMqdadB0op5eGJeeHFedfigBQrT_qCYDaEFq-R8we5hlVyx7ocTXfVjfn6h3sXnZZYVTjzBWb86CjcXLhG1A4ofGOZLpsuf7EZFx8qfW7QMk/w379-h327/43.png" width="379" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Takeshiba is a bay area directly connected to "Haneda Airport", and it is the gateway to the sea of Tokyo and the sky.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Under the theme of "Pop & Tech", a special zone has been formed where international businesses are concentrated.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The CiP Council, a community that connects content, media, IT, universities, municipalities, and the government, is the focal point, and it is bringing about innovation.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjUvHdSf_OoAGAqvxWsjhxV0uHW-2P3XC9Fr6cFN-47tvI2pw9t9PLROUVeiWmBX1b5DIS1ZjJLHS6TOqO9Qs28G0MJF-K2M31A7uMxs7CQ4xSSSRgy8_9mnK6mKoDYTY_hix6KGyDMSnclz7EiQpM_byAs929dnhemDMzrZQIlcOUyYMGR52qLJXoN8/s640/44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="640" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKjUvHdSf_OoAGAqvxWsjhxV0uHW-2P3XC9Fr6cFN-47tvI2pw9t9PLROUVeiWmBX1b5DIS1ZjJLHS6TOqO9Qs28G0MJF-K2M31A7uMxs7CQ4xSSSRgy8_9mnK6mKoDYTY_hix6KGyDMSnclz7EiQpM_byAs929dnhemDMzrZQIlcOUyYMGR52qLJXoN8/w469-h236/44.png" width="469" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">CHOMORO - "An interesting future that lies a little further ahead" - is an event where you can experience a part of this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Behind-the-scenes of a convenience store and digital signs for guidance. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Various robots are already at work in the smart building in Takeshiba.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Welcome!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUXvlhNXiBbAB0XLZLr3aCHVQgQLi3n581nGi59UaPuaQAggeM3FOD47DgXSNFUI9WTO8H8IHJ_bYPuAFdnu89_OO6-CAOrZRm-A991UbjgrMooN5nDzHSz6LAEU7XHfA2IrqeRxsUXqv_-wVUHOeaMmVM7g4ZM7sjUSIF68R-Rf79lz3y0jmnpH_3jw/s640/45.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="640" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUXvlhNXiBbAB0XLZLr3aCHVQgQLi3n581nGi59UaPuaQAggeM3FOD47DgXSNFUI9WTO8H8IHJ_bYPuAFdnu89_OO6-CAOrZRm-A991UbjgrMooN5nDzHSz6LAEU7XHfA2IrqeRxsUXqv_-wVUHOeaMmVM7g4ZM7sjUSIF68R-Rf79lz3y0jmnpH_3jw/w451-h318/45.png" width="451" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a city with many built-in sensors, and data that circles around and around. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Technology that will change people's lifestyles was implemented in a 2021 era city for people to experience.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was held during COVID-19, just before the Olympics, and it was a venture that focused on realism. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Post COVID-19, I want to create a hybrid, new kind of rhythm.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40a6bDYT73nN4Avopd_bkatoRr8HGhGxLQ8hMa4Gu4FoKm-t4nMiB_zjT72tYiHDDX34tsvmofP_waIE_NPfgoR76-1H61rvnOCsLdN0XcJVHSNmqVmBmpAplsRxTFt93d1Kj8Sg_CglyWUvq0CrMLHHvKSo61BCI0GU1inRWGHfThOogUMnFX9PZxYQ/s639/46.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="639" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40a6bDYT73nN4Avopd_bkatoRr8HGhGxLQ8hMa4Gu4FoKm-t4nMiB_zjT72tYiHDDX34tsvmofP_waIE_NPfgoR76-1H61rvnOCsLdN0XcJVHSNmqVmBmpAplsRxTFt93d1Kj8Sg_CglyWUvq0CrMLHHvKSo61BCI0GU1inRWGHfThOogUMnFX9PZxYQ/w394-h296/46.png" width="394" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"Workshop Collection", a creative event for children, was also held.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was full of robot stuff.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">During these difficult times, CHOMORO did not do any promotion, or try to get visitors to come.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Even so, a total of 20,000 people - 4,000 people in real life and 16,000 people online - enjoyed the event.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfgVzMbo8EvCNQKgvXR6fkw-a_9be5Blbo8a10aFJTNC4TIZB0CuBCrVvOK9KOE0-Qe1G37tMmmryh1WbS__7eEFzDTy7z2IRdyqtjpjWuS2x2YzBomJDPG9a4m0pRRMlMxUglFig_myhl7IknICbs8lgHX7z0xo4YGIgiWBxkdbFfvHUOA6-M2Kz_aQ/s640/47.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="640" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfgVzMbo8EvCNQKgvXR6fkw-a_9be5Blbo8a10aFJTNC4TIZB0CuBCrVvOK9KOE0-Qe1G37tMmmryh1WbS__7eEFzDTy7z2IRdyqtjpjWuS2x2YzBomJDPG9a4m0pRRMlMxUglFig_myhl7IknICbs8lgHX7z0xo4YGIgiWBxkdbFfvHUOA6-M2Kz_aQ/w505-h244/47.png" width="505" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is the Japan Expo in Paris, Ars Electronica in Linz, and SXSW in Austin, USA.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is strange that Tokyo does not have such kind of events.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's bring together pop and tech to the Mecca that is Tokyo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the starting point. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_obd3QJ2zzQp2C6UbBP0xDke62njrGblCLQybKjXnAGksAF6Bwhcpw16roo1BQvc4dcWt7gRKiIHQwImxHS8FyhWp_xxD41p7xSKqacyeBiBM9tmbS0Bz3u-p57gUqLIYQ1ZNv0zgqugBqO-kjAVMMgI1gDJmK1U-A0b8Wz0LRQcztrCnS6cpzOvF8PQ/s639/48.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="639" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_obd3QJ2zzQp2C6UbBP0xDke62njrGblCLQybKjXnAGksAF6Bwhcpw16roo1BQvc4dcWt7gRKiIHQwImxHS8FyhWp_xxD41p7xSKqacyeBiBM9tmbS0Bz3u-p57gUqLIYQ1ZNv0zgqugBqO-kjAVMMgI1gDJmK1U-A0b8Wz0LRQcztrCnS6cpzOvF8PQ/w461-h322/48.png" width="461" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Superhuman sports and e-Sports, where people and machines are one and the same.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A representation of Pop & Tech.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Just before the Olympics and Paralympics, new sports that break down the barrier between the Olympics and Paralympics were on display.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's make it happen!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"ZEKKI MANZAI" shows "CHOMORO" as seen by the comedy world.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYhUmWhOOq9FOqWyV4WI9AfR7Gxen6tn1xQUGVqvxt0UFoJkXBhGiTRufXOJFU-0Uo1E39nEPwT69tplLjjVeWBOGKJdImHP80K34kNFOt4Wfho1PfR3TKk_m3uwgOHZTL1Ow3G20gHpYKPdKYMgahpKwGTIEGSA-_ok-BSpZZOW-DXjf3mGRaXjsWBg/s640/49.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYhUmWhOOq9FOqWyV4WI9AfR7Gxen6tn1xQUGVqvxt0UFoJkXBhGiTRufXOJFU-0Uo1E39nEPwT69tplLjjVeWBOGKJdImHP80K34kNFOt4Wfho1PfR3TKk_m3uwgOHZTL1Ow3G20gHpYKPdKYMgahpKwGTIEGSA-_ok-BSpZZOW-DXjf3mGRaXjsWBg/w545-h320/49.png" width="545" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The challenge is to introduce "Manzai" (comic dialogue) and comedy sketches with spectacular views of the Northern Lights, volcanoes, futuristic cities, grasslands, and cheerleaders on a wall-to-wall 4K screen in the background. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Igo-Shogi, Magical Lovely, New York, Tamons, Kazuyuki Sakuma, Impossible, and Rice.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Ridiculous stuff~!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs7L8Z-hpInPl6rGidX_tPb1Zf7HqZcM_HjrdZxHuyHGpPYS3LeJMeGSFsM1KXNRJydTMdaMeTEr-WMCqwa7yWerk-_Bv6fg03V8b4aTnwC1_0oskpjqf4hVWIy0qtINr8N0yP_ofVdYqZajItU44YfpH1t7D3FDKNjaPbspgt8GRn72jm29FTlYDLTeE/s640/50.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="640" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs7L8Z-hpInPl6rGidX_tPb1Zf7HqZcM_HjrdZxHuyHGpPYS3LeJMeGSFsM1KXNRJydTMdaMeTEr-WMCqwa7yWerk-_Bv6fg03V8b4aTnwC1_0oskpjqf4hVWIy0qtINr8N0yP_ofVdYqZajItU44YfpH1t7D3FDKNjaPbspgt8GRn72jm29FTlYDLTeE/w497-h375/50.png" width="497" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There was also a serious "CHOMORO".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Researchers from Keio Media Design KMD, RIKEN, Softbank, and others exhibited real examples of technology that will change tomorrow.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPrJgMqeWLCP1-XQ8LmtxDWteIfnGDO15o2RZgV5-NseHQSBFPH6_XsW0EXUeryDOD7OCOnKgeqZZaennVtgaI-u5qlKoc4Hyxs2KEKlMd3WFvFRfmytP7alqDQBKNAu-k7BoJgT1zeWodRAvsw-yz9x51B0gnDulDVzVhNxCI_AtMF_8QYjq1zV9WIc/s640/51.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="640" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPrJgMqeWLCP1-XQ8LmtxDWteIfnGDO15o2RZgV5-NseHQSBFPH6_XsW0EXUeryDOD7OCOnKgeqZZaennVtgaI-u5qlKoc4Hyxs2KEKlMd3WFvFRfmytP7alqDQBKNAu-k7BoJgT1zeWodRAvsw-yz9x51B0gnDulDVzVhNxCI_AtMF_8QYjq1zV9WIc/w495-h265/51.png" width="495" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">iU students' "Kowashite Tsukurou" (Break and Make) workshop. Let's break it, let's make it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Faculty members are not to be outdone.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There was a press conference for the "B Lab," iU's research laboratory, and a unique lab for creating an interesting future together.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuv1iUUPk2_RCOOZKY2ULJbLP85q8bag-IWoHDO5Wei52zGo1SWraAWm_AQ_zMCDsHsPIkYndFvg4AB7m14-HfY_hvXl21tbzRwm38-as-111eW7n5grb2Hmi8P-RgzHezvDKScbRby2Rv40oTZWTluNaycZvZINRim0ZVUlRNud37IiU6II1uCPPo1o/s639/52.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="639" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuv1iUUPk2_RCOOZKY2ULJbLP85q8bag-IWoHDO5Wei52zGo1SWraAWm_AQ_zMCDsHsPIkYndFvg4AB7m14-HfY_hvXl21tbzRwm38-as-111eW7n5grb2Hmi8P-RgzHezvDKScbRby2Rv40oTZWTluNaycZvZINRim0ZVUlRNud37IiU6II1uCPPo1o/w445-h338/52.png" width="445" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At the same time, an agreement was entered into with Ota Ward, where HANEDA INNOVATION CITY is located.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It will promote the concept of connecting Tokyo Bay with various vehicles on land, sea, and air.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Collaborative events with urban festivals in Sapporo, Kobe, and Fukuoka will also be held.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVUWNGoCsyeU2GnkvE9ElCVy_CVGXTs3__5m576M3IqGDWNr9f-RZf-UTjvWJGw8oUBJ3U7AUUH7Hv4ggTioDe7UIA9azCw3q4v-N77Hyn4Jhpyn3pAwQ7aaa8TP4QvGAFIgrEM-JzTPVDLl9vYz-vbY4NkEJnx2os19zQrZurpRXM50-NY34LxokS4c/s639/53.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="639" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVUWNGoCsyeU2GnkvE9ElCVy_CVGXTs3__5m576M3IqGDWNr9f-RZf-UTjvWJGw8oUBJ3U7AUUH7Hv4ggTioDe7UIA9azCw3q4v-N77Hyn4Jhpyn3pAwQ7aaa8TP4QvGAFIgrEM-JzTPVDLl9vYz-vbY4NkEJnx2os19zQrZurpRXM50-NY34LxokS4c/w404-h319/53.png" width="404" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We will continue to connect.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4bEmev_e1sNDl-NpQ84o8DBsEDTgQp8S88nPfRdFScDWmfz0DqkqIOvP2FlevqC1gpoBN_XRYb6vG0ILxCdJVV-nmSMsBFvYSj0gdSf6Fis2IHglTMwNfvKnM29hLVZMNi08WOzCBwmZ374Yz8JY1OQ0xefyMUZuOttMpXYqLoldniBovKyV0esYS2mw/s640/54.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="640" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4bEmev_e1sNDl-NpQ84o8DBsEDTgQp8S88nPfRdFScDWmfz0DqkqIOvP2FlevqC1gpoBN_XRYb6vG0ILxCdJVV-nmSMsBFvYSj0gdSf6Fis2IHglTMwNfvKnM29hLVZMNi08WOzCBwmZ374Yz8JY1OQ0xefyMUZuOttMpXYqLoldniBovKyV0esYS2mw/w485-h319/54.png" width="485" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We will develop it into an international event, by connecting it to Digital Day on October 10th and the Osaka World Expo in 2025.</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-91034255609557048952023-07-23T23:00:00.002+09:002023-07-23T23:00:00.132+09:00New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society 7 - Super Free-Time Killing Strategies<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> ■New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society 7 - Super Free-Time Killing Strategies</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Part of my recent work, "New Edition: Creating a Super Free Society After COVID-19 - The Age of Cats" is revealed below. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> From Chapter 4, "Super Free-Time Killing Strategies".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">----------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">○Wanting to be Miku Hatsune</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> A super free society is a super-entertainment society. The theme is to kill time, by also including sports and education. I want to create a place for that, and that is CiP. However, it doesn't have to be Takeshiba. It is important to create a super-free time killing town, and the first step is Smart City Takeshiba. It can be done all over the planet. We'll follow that concept.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The first part of the vision that was presented at the CiP launch was "A Japanese-influenced fusion of Silicon Valley and Hollywood".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are hubs where entrepreneurship is thriving in the United States in Silicon Valley on the West Coast, and Route 128 in the suburbs of Boston on the East Coast. In contrast to the open Silicon Valley, Route 128 is self-sufficient and enclosed. Different approaches continue to foster the tech industry. However, it also fuses technology with entertainment. I want it to be tightly bound together like the way Silicon Valley and Hollywood are.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> However, that does not mean that we will create a Hollywood or a Silicon Valley. The strength of Hollywood and Silicon Valley is the concentration of top artists, geeks, and business elites. In contrast, Japan's strength is its large number of precise and diligent craftsmen. In addition, Japan's identity is in its industrial and cultural power that is sordid and chaotic, where everyone participates, creates and is a consumer in the comic market, Nico Doga (Nico Nico Douga - Japanese video sharing service), karaoke, cosplay, Yuru-chara (mascot characters), and B-class gourmet food. Let’s make use of this to become a chamber for growth. [Identity] (Sheena Ringo)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are research and education centers like the Seoul CKL (Contents Korea Lab). It holds money like the Frankfurt ECB (European Central Bank). It is chaotic like the Marche (central market) in Casablanca, water is splashed around like at the seaside in Barcelona, and there is always music and dancing like at the Buenos Aires Caminito. That kind of place.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> A place where men and women lithely strut around like at Monte Napoleone in Milan; where the government is serious like it is in Singapore; where children run around like at the La Villette in Paris; where there is excellent food and sake like at Ponto-cho in Kyoto; and a place that is brimming with creativity like San Fransokyo in "Big Hero 6", where the West Coast and Tokyo blend together. That kind of place. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> A town that everyone can build together. Akihabara is the model. Akihabara was originally a town for radio parts, then in the 70's it changed into a town for consumer electronics. In the 80's it became a town for PCs, and in the 90's it changed its character to become a town for nerds. CiP promised to continue for 70 years after opening, but people will say, "That place has been continuously changing for 70 years since opening, right?" In 70 years I will still only be 130 years old.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">CiP wants to be Hatsune Miku. Hatsune Miku is composed of three elements. First, there is the Vocaloid technology. With this technology all you have to do is write the songs and she will sing for you as part of the software. Second, is the content; that is the design of the 16-year-old, 158 cm, 42 kg character.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> And third, is the community. Everyone participated in Nico Nico Doga and developed it. We tried writing lyrics, we tried singing, we tried performing, and we tried dancing. Everyone brought their own abilities and developed them. Japan's strength lies in its power to synthesize technology, design, and a participatory community. I want to make the most of this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Takeshiba is just a starting point. There are many similar development plans in Tokyo, such as in Shibuya, Ikebukuro, Haneda, and Shinagawa. Between Takeshiba and Haneda, a major development around JR Shinagawa awaits. It will move northward, reaching Akihabara and the University of Tokyo. Sumida has the iU. Toyosu and Harumi will also be connected, and we can envision a digital belt around the Bay Area. The redevelopment of Shibuya is also flourishing. A town where social games, J-Pop, and fashion converge. I have a vision of creating a digital hub that covers a wide area, linking Tokyo vertically and horizontally.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">StationAi, a huge incubation facility, is operational in Nagoya. There is also a plan for Kyoto. A plan similar to CiP is in motion, in which the film industry, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, and others, will create a center for human resource development and industrial support. Previously, the Stanford Japan Center was based in Kyoto, because it was focused on its features of the presence of technology and culture, and the thriving partnerships with the universities.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Osaka, where Expo 2025 is coming, is also developing a large-scale entertainment center, and the same is true of Okinawa. Fukuoka is playing a leading role as a special zone for entrepreneurship. I would like cooperation with these centers to advance, and for the dots to be made into lines and then lines into surfaces. Let's create a pop-tech archipelago.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> South Korea has models. There is CKL, the "Contents Korea Lab" for human resources development, and CEL, the "Creative Economy Leader" for entrepreneurship support. The Korean government has a large budget for running them. There is also the "Digital Media City" (DMC), a media agglomeration created through a partnership between industry, the government, and the city of Seoul. The CiP Council entered into an agreement in Seoul to collaborate with the Korean government and the Korea Creative Content Agency.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the "Iskandar" development region in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, adjacent to Singapore, the government is developing a media education and research center. The University of London is playing a central role, and CiP has entered into an agreement to collaborate there as well. It has already been stated that they have signed an agreement with Barcelona in Spain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The most important goal above all is Stanford University. The university functions as a platform for Silicon Valley, and CiP would like to bring in Stanford research institute to learn how to do the same. In this way, I hope it becomes a hub connecting Tokyo, the United States, Europe, and Asia.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> More than 100 years have passed since Japan embarked on a policy of national wealth and military power, and with its defeat in the war, it has dropped its banner of having a strong military. The country pushed forward to pursue a wealth policy of industrial development. The success of this was called the "Asian Miracle", but after the bubble that position was shaken.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, Japan has begun to shine as a cultural superpower. Combined with the pacifism of 70 years since the end of the war, and the etiquette and order shown by Japanese society in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japan as a whole has demonstrated what is known as "Soft power" in international political theory.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Of course, this does not mean that Japan has lost its technological and manufacturing capabilities cultivated by its industries. They are the combination of Japan's strength in terms of hardware, and strength in terms of software with things like content, and they are the resources of Japan as it is today. Half a century ago, the Tokyo Olympics and the Japan World Exposition, Osaka, 1970 showed Japan's recovery and growth. What will Tokyo and Osaka show us next about Japan?</span></p>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236715569826892691.post-87176702280115242762023-07-16T23:00:00.001+09:002023-07-16T23:00:00.137+09:00iU B Lab Starts!<p><span style="font-size: medium;">■iU B Lab Starts!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">iU will start the "iU B Lab", a lab where everyone can create an interesting future together.</span></p><p><a href="https://blaboratory.org/"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://blaboratory.org/</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"B Lab" is an acronym for Beyond, Borderless, Breakthrough.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a participatory platform that connects universities, research institutes, regions, and human resources around the world, to integrate people's specialties and knowledge to create technology, services, content, businesses, and society.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It stands at the gateway to Society 5.0 represented by technology such as AI/IoT, and it will create something new.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It will create a new world with/after COVID-19.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So far, the state, universities and corporate research institutes have been dealing with this issue on an individual basis.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Next, it is time for a different approach from highly specialized research institutions, based on advanced academia.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A lab where all users are connected to build a new society.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I want to create a platform and chamber for growth to create new technology, services, content, businesses, and society, by integrating a wide variety of knowledge and the expertise of many people in a participatory format that is social and open.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The scope is broad, and includes technology development, solving social issues, and creating new services, but the common denominator is creating together with digital technology and social implementation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a new, participatory research institute that is social and open. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The theme is "Creating Interesting Futures".</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It focuses on creating an interesting future and implementing it in society.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We will co-create the future, from small creations to large ones, including innovations and inventions in daily life, and the creation of new businesses that have never existed before.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is also a place for matching issues, ideas, technology, money, skills, and people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">●A community of universities and research institutes from around the world</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Collaborating with 100 research institutes from around the world, to create a community that transcends boundaries.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">●A global field of operation</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Setting up labs around the world, whether they be virtual or real.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">●Anyone can be a researcher</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> A plan to have one million researchers. Anyone from grandmothers to children can be a researcher. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"Technology" such as IT and AI, "Culture" such as pop culture, and "People" are the three focal points that bring about innovation. Incubating these three focal points induces further innovation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Innovation x Incubation = i².</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Technology, culture, and people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Creating and nurturing them together.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For the time being, we will formulate the following projects in the areas of education, industry, and the community. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Schools of the Future</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Super Universities</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Kids University</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Inter Academic e-Sports Education</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">School Sharing</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Campus Test Site</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Virtual Lab</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Super Start Up School</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Creation</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Local DX</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Local Revitalization</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">City Tech</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Academia Media</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Future Media</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">iU2.0 has started!</span></p><div><br /></div>hirokohiratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07397626901903178919noreply@blogger.com0