URSI National Report (1989-2016)

PREFACE

On behalf of the Japan National Committee of URSI, I am pleased to announce that we have completed preparation of our triennial "URSI National Report" for distribution at the "XXXIInd URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium" to be held in Montreal, Canada on August 19-26, 2017.

As of now, URSI comprises 44 Member Committees and 10 Scientific Commissions. We are happy that URSI has been constantly expanding into various directions in the area of radio science. We believe that Japan is one of the most active countries in the worldwide URSI community. Following the tradition, we have prepared this URSI National Report, which provides a comprehensive summary of achievements by the Japan National Committee of URSI over the past three-year period from November 2013 to October 2016. It is hoped that our report will serve as a reference for the other Member Committees and individual radio scientists.

In this Report, we have also included the past National Reports that were prepared for the URSI General Assemblies in Kyoto, Japan (1993), Lille, France (1996), Toronto, Canada (1999), Maastricht, Netherlands (2002), New Delhi, India (2005), and Chicago, USA (2008), and for the URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposia in Istanbul, Turkey (2011), and Beijing, China (2014).

I am very much thankful to the Commission Editors and a number of contributors for their hard work during the course of preparation of this Report. I would also like to emphasize that this Report would never have been materialized without the efforts by the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Satoshi Yagitani of Kanazawa University. I would like to express my deep appreciation to Professor Yagitani for his outstanding editing work.

August 2017

Kazuya Kobayashi
President
Japan National Committee of URSI


EDITORIAL BOARD, URSI NATIONAL REPORT (November 2013 - October 2016)

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Satoshi Yagitani (Kanazawa University)

COMMISSION EDITORS

Commission A: Electromagnetic Metrology
Mitsuru Musha (University of Electro-communications)
Masatoshi Kajita (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Commission B: Fields and Waves
Jiro Hirokawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Naobumi Michishita (National Defense Academy)
Commission C: Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing
Nobuyoshi Kikuma (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Commission D: Electronics and Photonics
Katsutoshi Tsukamoto (Osaka Institute of Technology)
Commission E: Electromagnetic Environment and Interference
Yasuhide Hobara (University of Electro-communications)
Osami Wada (Kyoto University)
Commission F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing
Yasuyuki Maekawa (Osaka Electro-Communication University)
Commission G: Ionospheric Radio and Propagation
Mamoru Yamamoto (Kyoto University)
Commission H: Waves in Plasmas
Yoshiya Kasahara (Kanazawa University)
Commission J: Radio Astronomy
Kenta Fujisawa (Yamaguchi University)
Commission K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine
Teruo Onishi (NTT Docomo)
Masateru Ikehata (Railway Technical Research Institute)
Sachiko Yoshie (Railway Technical Research Institute)
Kazuyuki Saito (Chiba University)
Masaki Sekino (The University of Tokyo)
Tomoaki Nagaoka (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Koichi Ito (Chiba University)

JAPAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF URSI (2014 - 2017)

President; Member of Science Council of Japan; URSI Assistant Secretary-General (AP-RASC); Vice-Chair, URSI Commission B:

Kazuya Kobayashi (Professor, Chuo University)

Secretary; Member of Science Council of Japan:

Satoshi Yagitani (Professor, Kanazawa University)

Assistant Secretaries:

Junichi Takada (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tsuneki Yamasaki (Professor, Nihon University)

Council Members of Science Council of Japan (Section III: Physical Sciences and Engineering):

Kazuo Hotate (Vice President/Professor, Toyota Technological Institute)
Susumu Yoshida (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)

Members of Science Council of Japan:

Fumiyuki Adachi (Project Professor, Tohoku University)
Kiyomichi Araki (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Kazumasa Enami (Auditor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Kaori Fukunaga (Director of Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Hiroshi Ishiwara (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Ryuji Kohno (Professor, Yokohama National University)
Yasuo Kokubun (Professor, Yokohama National University)
Masanori Koshiba (Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University)
Masato Nakamura (Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
Toshihiro Omodaka (Professor, Kagoshima University)
Masakazu Sengoku (President, Graduate Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies)
Mitsuo Tateiba (Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University; Professor Emeritus, National Institute of Technology, Ariake College)
Toshitaka Tsuda (Executive Director, Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Toshitaka Tsuda (Guest Professor, Waseda University)

URSI Vice-President; Associate Member of Science Council of Japan:

Makoto Ando (Executive Vice President for Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Chair, URSI Commission A; Associate Member of Science Council of Japan:

Yasuhiro Koyama (Director of Research Planning and Promotion Office, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Past Chair, URSI Commission H:

Yoshiharu Omura (Professor, Kyoto University)

Past Chair, URSI Commission K:

Masao Taki (Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Chair, Commission A, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Mitsuru Musha (Associate Professor, The University of Electro-Communications)

Chair, Commission B, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Toru Uno (Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

Chair, Commission C, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Nobuyoshi Kikuma (Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology)

Chair, Commission D, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Katsutoshi Tsukamoto (Professor, Osaka Institute of Technology)

Chair, Commission E, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Osami Wada (Professor, Kyoto University)

Chair, Commission F, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Yasuyuki Maekawa (Professor, Osaka Electro-Communication University)

Chair, Commission G, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Mamoru Yamamoto (Professor, Kyoto University)

Chair, Commission H, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Yoshiya Kasahara (Professor, Kanazawa University)

Chair, Commission J, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Kenta Fujisawa (Professor, Yamaguchi University)

Chair, Commission K, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Koichi Ito (Professor Emeritus, Chiba University)