Establishment of EMC Research in Japan and its Future Prospects

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Osamu FUJIWARA †a) , Fellow SUMMARY Systematic research on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) in Japan started in 1977 by the establishment of a technical committee on "environmental electromagnetic engineering" named EMCJ, which was founded both in the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers or the present IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) and in the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan or the IEEJ. The research activities have been continued as the basic field of interdisciplinary study to harmonize even in the electromagnetic (EM) environment where radio waves provide intolerable EM disturbances to electronic equipment and to that environment itself. The subjects and their outcomes which the EMCJ has dealt with during about 40 years from the EMCJ establishment include the evaluation of EM environment, EMC of electric and electronic equipment, and EMC of biological effects involving bioelectromagnetics and so on. In this paper, the establishment history and structure of the EMCJ are reviewed along with the change in activities, and topics of the technical reports presented at EMCJ meetings from 2006 to 2016 are surveyed. In addition, internationalization and its related campaign are presented in conjunction with the EMCJ research activities, and the status quo of the EMCJ under the IEICE is also discussed along with the prospects. key words: electromagnetic compatibility, technical committee on environmental electromagnetic engineering, establishment, research activities, prospects Introduction"Environmental electromagnetic engineering" is defined as an academic discipline dealing with extensive electromagnetic (EM) issues on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) in EM environments. It was named in 1976 by Risaburo Sato, Professor of Tohoku University at that time [1]- [5]. As this academic research organization, a technical committee on environmental electromagnetic engineering, which is called "EMCJ," was established in 1976 under the umbrella of the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineer of Japan or the present IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) and the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ). The first technical meeting organized by the EMCJ was held in May 1977. The IEICE will celebrate its 100 th anniversary in 2017, and the EMCJ will be 40 years old.To mark these occasions, the establishment history and construction of the EMCJ/IEICE are reviewed in this paper. In addition, research activities that the EMCJ has performed EMCJ EMC and EMCJ EstablishmentBasically, the EMC, which derived from radio frequency interference (RFI) in the USA in the 1960's [1], describes the ability of a device, equipment, or system to function satisfactorily in its EM environment without introducing intolerable EM disturbances to anything in that environment [6], [7]. In the USA, the establishment of the "professional group on RFI" was approved by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), which is the origin o...