Core Program
Advisory Panel on the Future of Keihannna
- Research Representative: Hiroshi MATSUMOTO
- Vice Director, International Institute for Advanced Studies
President, RIKEN. Professor emeritus and former-President, Kyoto University
The International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) was established to serve as the “core institute and an intellectual hub” for the Keihanna Science City. Keihanna is the brainchild of Kansai Academic Research City Surveillance Conversazione (Okuda Conversazione) set up in 1978, whose members were greatly inspired by the messages of the Club of Rome’s 1972 report The Limits of Growth. The book called for the need to create what we call today a “sustainable society.” Global challenges—global warming, resource depletion, population growth, environmental destruction, among others—have grown increasingly acute in the 30 years since Keihanna’s opening, and the next three decades will likely bring even more challenges to the surface. Against this backdrop, the IIAS, driven by its founding mission to “conduct research for the future and happiness of mankind,” has brought together wisdom and insight under the “Advisory Panel on the Future of Keihanna” (set up in FY2015 as one of the Institute’s Key Projects) to develop the “30 Year Concept for the Keihanna Science City.” The panel comprises individuals appointed from industry, academia and government sectors who are best suited to discuss the future of Keihanna with a long term view. Taking advantage of the two faces of Keihanna—a science city and a cultural city—the panel will draw on expertise from across genres, examine the path leading from science and technology to industrial application, explore the desirable shape and role of the City and how its citizens can live happily, and combine backcasting and forecasting approaches to develop recommendations towards molding Keihanna into a model science city in the next 30 years.
Advisory CommitteeAs of Jan 15, 2018
Hiroshi MATSUMOTO | Vice Director, International Institute for Advanced Studies President, RIKEN. Professor emeritus and former-President, Kyoto University |
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Shogo ARAI | Governor, Nara Prefecture |
Yasuo Hirata | President, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Takanori Ida | Professor, Kyoto University |
Yasuo KASHIHARA | Director and Executive adviser, The Bank of Kyoto, Ltd. Chairman, Kansai Research Institute |
Shinichi OTAKE | Counselor to the President, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation |
Akimasa YAMASHITA | Vice Governor, Kyoto Prefecture |
Expert Working GroupAs of Jan 15, 2018
Shigeru TAKAMI | Professor, Kyoto University |
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Makoto ASANO | Chief, Industrial Technology and Application Research Department, Nara Prefecture Institute of Industrial Development |
Sakae FUJIOKA | Director, Kansai Science City Promotion Division Department of Commerce, Labor and Tourism Kyoto Prefectural Government |
Kazuya IKEDA | Manager, Planning and Co-ordination Office, Planning Policy Department,Kyotanabe City |
Hirokazu KATO | Associate Professor, Nagoya University |
Morikazu KITADA | Director, City Planning Division, Ikoma City |
Hiroshi KOYAMA | Associate Director ,General Policy Department, Nara City |
Eisaku MAEDA | Director, NTT Communication Science Laboratories |
Takashi MURATA | Director General, Regional Development Department, Nara Prefecture |
Yoshimasa NAKAMURA | Professor, Kyoto University |
Takatoshi NARADATE | Executive Research Director, Kyoto Research Institute Inc. |
Shinji OHARA | Chief, Planning and Coordinating Division, Department of General Affair, Seika Town Office |
Motonori Ozaki | Deputy General Manager, City Branding Department, Kizugawa City |
Toshikazu SAKANO | Director, Business Development Office, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) |
Kenzo TAKAHASHI | Chairman of the board & Chief executive officer, Suntory Global Innovation Center Limited |