IEEE Hiroshima Section History
| IEEE Hiroshima Section History | |
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| Established date | 1998-11-14 |
| IEEE Region | 10 |
| IEEE Council | Japan |
| Geographic region | Hiroshima |
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Section Background
The Hiroshima section is part of Region 10, and represented at the Japan Council. The section was formed on 14 November 1998.
How has our section come about at an Internationality named ‘Locality’ - Tadao Ichikawa
“Where is the center of the world?” ? You will be at a loss how to answer. The center may differ depending, at least, on the fields of human activities such as academia, art, and politics. Suppose you were asked where the center of Japan was. ? The answer is obvious. Tokyo unifies and maintains all kinds of activities, and so it is the center. Since there is a center, other places are all called ‘local’ counties here in Japan.
When I moved from Tokyo to Hiroshima, I used to say to my university colleagues and students: “You may want to keep watching Tokyo. Sorry, you can’t see it because Hakone mountains are hiding Tokyo behind them. Try to look across the ocean. There you will see Los Angeles.” To be honest, however, what we could actually see there, from the Hiroshima coastline, was Miyajima island. At any rate, people started presenting their research outcomes in our ‘local’ language which was commonly used in Los Angeles from that time. In fact, such a local language is called the ‘international’ language.
In such a ‘local’ county as Hiroshima, an IEEE section was newly organized in 1999. People will say: “The Hiroshima Section actually came into existence simply as a result of the unexpected break up of the overweight Tokyo Section into eight parts, following the government administrative division principle.” Such a concept, however, can’t get acclimated to the world of ‘local’ language. We started having people in other cities in Chugoku Prefecture as members of the Hiroshima Section, in the hope that they would soon be independent and eventually gain their own sections in Okayama, Yamaguchi, Tottori, and Shimane with a greater number of members enrolled.
The organization of the Hiroshima Section has thus been worked out. We now hope that our section, in turn, will have members from outside Chugoku Prefecture, or even from outside Japan, by developing attractive programs on the basis of the section’s internationality named ‘locality’.
In closing this note, I highly appreciate Dr. Takao Hinamoto for his effort and contribution in forming Hiroshima Section and also Drs. Ikuo Awai, Mitiko Miura-Mattausch and Yoshiaki Kakuda for their valuable assistance and collaboration in the early stages of building up specific section activities.
Section Officers
| Year | Chair | Vice chair | Secretary | Treasurer |
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| 1998 - 1999 | Takao Hinamoto | - | - | - |
| 1999 - 2000 | Tadao Ichikawa | - | Yoshiaki Kakuda | Yoshiaki Kakuda |
| 2001 - 2002 | Tadao Ichikawa | Yoshiaki Kakuda | Masahito Hirakawa | Masahito Hirakawa |
| 2003 - 2004 | Hideo Sunami | Masahito Hirakawa | Masashi Hotta | Masashi Hotta |
| 2005 - 2006 | Toshiaki Tsuchiya | Masami Konishi | Mamoru Terauchi | Katsumi Sakakibara |
| 2007 - 2008 | Yoshiaki Kakuda | Masashi Hotta | Junichi Funasaka | Jun Rokui |
| 2009 - 2010 | Masahito Hirakawa | Nobuo Funabiki | Yoko Kamidoi | Shingo Yamaguchi |
| 2011 - 2012 | Masashi Hotta | Junichi Funasaka | Satoshi Taoka | Kensuke Okubo |
| 2013 | Kenji Ishida | Masanobu Abe | Tomoyuki Ohta | Koichi Tokuno / Isao Nakanishi |
| 2014 | Kenji Ishida | Masanobu Abe | Tomoyuki Ohta | Isao Nakanishi |
| 2015 | Nobuo Funabiki | Yoshio Iwai | Yoshinobu Tamura | Yutaka Sasaki |
| 2016 | Nobuo Funabiki | Yoshio Iwai | Yoshinobu Tamura | Yutaka Sasaki |
| 2017 | Isao Nakanishi | Kazuhiro Uehara | Akimitsu Kanzaki | Hiroyasu Obata |
| 2018 | Isao Nakanishi | Kazuhiro Uehara | Akimitsu Kanzaki | Hiroyasu Obata |
| 2019 | Kensuke Okubo | Hiroji Masuda | Chisa Takano | Takahiro Matsumoto |
| 2020 | Kensuke Okubo | Hiroji Masuda | Chisa Takano | Takahiro Matsumoto |
| 2021 | Kazuhiro Uehara | Satoshi Taoka | Hiroaki Yamada | Kokoro Kitamura |
