Minister of Digital Affairs Hirai and others Gathered to Announce the CiP Manifesto.

 ■Minister of Digital Affairs Hirai and others Gathered to Announce the CiP Manifesto.

The CiP Council, based in the cutting-edge smart building "Tokyo Port City Takeshiba," held an opening event.

The CiP Council has been working to establish a center for "Content x Digital" in the special national strategic zone of Takeshiba.

Since its founding in 2015, many projects have been carried out simultaneously. The CiP Council has been triggering innovation in the content industry and as a hub connecting media, IT, universities, public authorities, governments, and domestic, international communities.

First, the CiP Manifesto with the four quadrants: content, business, education, and technology, was announced.

Inheriting the CiP vision from the council's inauguration, it was determined to make further progress with the completion of the base as an opportunity.

There was also a report on the "Super e-Sports School," a community that provides education through e-Sports, the "Super Entrepreneurship School," a community of educational institutions, mentors, and VCs working on entrepreneurship education, and the "Super Human Sports," a project to develop a sport that unites people and machines by fusing body and technology.

In response to the series of presentations with the word "super," Representative Takuya Hirai said, "Super means Beyond Limits. It means beyond conventional ways of doing things and preconceived notions.”

Mr. Hirai then went directly to the LDP presidential election and became the Minister of State for Digital Affairs, the main focus of the new administration.

In addition, nine projects were announced, including those related to contents such as "SYNC NETWORK JAPAN" and "World Otaku Research Institute," agents for sending out music and other contents to the world, and those related to technology such as "City & Tech Committee," which will create an entire city that implements all advanced technologies such as robotics, AI, IoT, and 5G.

Also, Station Ai is a start-up-support-based project promoted by Aichi Prefecture to generate innovation, and the CiP Council supports it. Aichi Prefecture's governor Hideaki Omura made a remote announcement showing the diversity of CiP projects and the possibility for applications in other areas.

The CiP Council is planning a Pop&Tech real event, “some humor for tomorrow” (Change Tomorrow), known as Chomoro, where pop culture and technology are merged. It continues to plan Takeshiba to the rest of Japan and the world.

On Christmas Day, Minister Hirai held an event to announce the "Digital Day," and CiP Council will support the Digital Day. First, we cooperated in compiling video messages from celebrities in the field of sports and other content.

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A Cutting-Edge Smart Building in Takeshiba has Opened.

 ■A Cutting-Edge Smart Building in Takeshiba has Opened.

Tokyo Port City Takeshiba, a cutting-edge smart building full of robots, AI, and IoT, has opened.

The building was built by Tokyu Land Corporation and Kajima Corporation on 1.5 hectares of land owned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government on the shore of Tokyo Bay. The CiP Council (which I represent), a group of 50 companies and organizations, helped the Tech & Pop plan and design of the building.

Of the 40 floors, the lower floors have halls and exhibition halls, and CiP will be on the 8th floor, running industry-academia collaboration projects.

Above that, Softbank's headquarters will be established there, providing an environment for 5G and data distribution.

The first thing you'll see are the robots: the AI receptionist/guide robots and information signage robots that make humans appear.

Some robots carry your luggage and serve you drinks.

Some avatars connect to remote areas, and there are others running around giving something out to visitors.

At the Lawson convenience store on the first floor, Model-T, a robot developed by Telexistence　Inc. from the University of Tokyo-KMD, is placed in the backyard to remotely sort drinks and lunch boxes displays.

This is a remotely controlled convenience store where robots can work without the need for staff.

Digital signage has also evolved. The availability of stores and restrooms is monitored by sensors and displayed. Stores are cashless, of course.

Face recognition will be used to enter Softbank, and elevators will be assigned according to a person's designation.

The infrastructure that supports all of this is, of course, 5G. There are 1,300 sensors embedded, and data on human flow, attributes, congestion, weather, and so on is analyzed and collected for edge analysis.

Softbank intends to assemble these as an "urban OS" and expand it to other areas.

500-meters from Hamamatsucho Station, a pedestrian deck has been built 15 meters above the ground directly connected to the building.

Beyond the building is Tokyo Bay.

The 20-hectare Takeshiba area has been approved as a national strategic special zone, but it wasn’t a glamorous area lined with warehouses.

However, this building has triggered a rapid redevelopment of the area.

The idea for this Tech & Pop special zone started eight years ago.

It was planned and designed almost entirely during the Abe administration.

The opening ceremony was held on the same day that the Kan administration was elected as the LDP president.

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