InterBEE REVIEW2016

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33Cutting the ribbon with industry stakeholders from Japan and overseas(From left on the cutting the ribbon podium)Mr. Masataka OhnishiChairman of Inter BEE 2016 Organizing CommitteeMr. Jose Manuel Fernandez MarinoGlobo Group EnterpriseMr. Peter BruceDirector, IABM APACMr. Yutaka YoshimotoDeputy Director-General, Commerce and Information Policy BureauMinistry of Economy, Trade and IndustryMr. Mabito YoshidaDeputy Director-GeneralMinistry of Internal Affairs and CommunicationsMr. Erick KishEmbassy of the United States of America in JapanMr. Olimpio Jose FrancoPresident, SETMr. Keiichi KawakamiExecutive Senior Vice President, JEITAMr. Mabito Yoshida, Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, expressed the follow-ing when he stood up to give a greeting from the guests.Inter BEE is held as an exhibition which brings together many technologies that attract the highest level of audio, video and communication professionals in Japan, as an opportunity for business trading and information exchange, and as an event which brings together the latest technologies together under one roof. In particular, looking at the exhibits and sessions this year, it is possible to see keywords highly related to the measures being promoted by the Ministry of Internal and Communications interspersed everywhere. These include 4K/8K, HDR, conver-gence of IT and broadcasting, simultaneous distribution on the Internet, and measurement of broadcast viewing.The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is also conducting various investigations and studies while aiming to promote these in terms of policies and systems. It is especially important that we support technology. In that sense, I am extremely interested in Inter BEE this year because it has brought together the technologies essential to the promotion of broadcasting and IT in Japan.I hope that the accumulation of everyone’s advanced technolo-gies and experiences leading the world’s broadcasting and communications will become a great driving force to building a new society to encourage overall economic growth without being limited to the expansion of the broadcasting and IT fields.It became possible to receive terrestrial digital broadcast-ing in all prefectural government office locations on Decem-ber 1, 2006. It will be the tenth anniversary this year of the enactment of the Digital Broadcasting Day on that day since then. New technologies have steadily appeared not limited to the conventional boundaries of broadcasting (e.g. 4K/8K and IP conversion) over the past 10 years. Furthermore, VR, AR and more have also appeared. This has made me realize that broadcasting will continue to change ever more in the future.I am really looking forward to seeing in what forms it will be possible to watch the Olympics and Paralympics in four years. Perhaps television will have moved beyond the bound-ary of “being watched” and will have headed toward the sharing of experiences. No doubt even more new technolo-gies will emerge.I think it is very likely that the products and services we will see implemented in four years can be found now in the venue of Inter BEE that showcases the cutting edge and highest peak of technology. I am really looking forward to what I see here today to catch a glimpse of the things that consumers will be able to experience in four years like a time machine in that sense.Mr. Mabito YoshidaDeputy Director-GeneralMinistry of Internal Affairs and CommunicationsMr. Yutaka YoshimotoDeputy Director-General, Commerce and Information Policy BureauMinistry of Economy, Trade and IndustryBacking of technology is essential in the promotion of policies and systemsCatch a glimpse of the viewing environment four years in the future at Inter BEE