URSI National Report (1989-2013)

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 "XXXIst URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium" to be held in Beijing, China on August 16-23, 2014.

As of now, URSI comprises 43 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 2010 to October 2013. 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), Chicago, USA (2008), and Istanbul, Turkey (2011).

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 2014

Kazuya Kobayashi
President
Japan National Committee of URSI

EDITORIAL BOARD, URSI NATIONAL REPORT (November 2010 - October 2013)

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

COMMISSION EDITORS

Commission A: Electromagnetic Metrology

M. Musha (University of Electro-communications)
Y. Koyama (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Commission B: Fields and Waves

J. Hirokawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
H. Shirai (Chuo University)

Commission C: Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing

M. Morikura (Kyoto University)

Commission D: Electronics and Photonics

T. Nagatsuma (Osaka University)

Commission E: Electromagnetic Environment and Interference

O. Wada (Kyoto University)

Commission F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing

Y. Maekawa (Osaka Electro-Communication University)

Commission G: Ionospheric Radio and Propagation

M. Yamamoto (Kyoto University)

Commission H: Waves in Plasmas

Y. Omura (Kyoto University)
S. Yagitani (Kanazawa University)

Commission J: Radio Astronomy

K. Fujisawa (Yamaguchi University)

Commission K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine

S. Watanabe (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
M. Sekino (University of Tokyo)
M. Ikehata (Railway Technical Research Institute)
S. Yoshie (Railway Technical Research Institute)
M. Taki (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Y. Jimbo (University of Tokyo)

JAPAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF URSI (2011 - 2014)

President; Member of Science Council of Japan:

Secretary; Associate Member of Science Council of Japan:

Assistant Secretaries:

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

Members of Science Council of Japan:

Vice-President, URSI:

Vice-Chair, Commission A, URSI:

Chair, Commission K, URSI:

Chair, Commission A, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission B, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission C, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission D, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission E, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission F, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission G, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission H, Japan National Committee of URSI; Chair, Long Range Planning Committee, URSI:

Chair, Commission J, Japan National Committee of URSI:

Chair, Commission K, Japan National Committee of URSI: