Jui-Pang Hsu (Zui-Hou Kyo), Chair
Takashi Ohira, Vice Chair
Yoshio Nikawa and Kazukiyo Joshin, Secretaries
Moriyasu Miyazaki, Treasurer
I. Establishment of 4 New Committees (1)Education Committee Chair; Shizuo Mizushina (NICT) Secretaries; Kazukiyo Joshin (Fujitsu Labs.) Hitoshi Shimasaki (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Major Mission; English Presentation Guidance Activity; Conduct polish-up sessions on conference presentation in English (2)Distinguished Lecture Committee Chair; Eikichi Yamashita (Professor of Emeritus, The Univ. of Electro-Communications) Vice-Chair; Yukio Takimoto (Shonan Institute of Technology) Secretary; Tetsuo Anada (Kanagawa Univ.) Major Mission; Lectures on Microwave Related Topics (3)Membership Committee Chair; Tsukasa Yoneyama (Tohoku Institute of Technology) Vice-Chairs; Osami Ishida (ICU, Korea), Mitsuo Makimoto (Japan Science and Technology Corporation) Secretary; Masatoshi Nakayama (Mitsubishi Electric.) Major Mission; Encouragement and Endorsement for Regular Members and Student Members to Higher Grades Activity; Support commemorative addresses of IEEE MTT-S new fellows (4)Women in Engineering Committee Chair; Michiko Kuroda (Tokyo University of Technology) Secretary; Mayumi Matsunaga (Ehime Univ.) Advisory members; Jui-Pang Hsu, Yukio Takimoto and Takashi Ohira Major Mission; Recognizes women's outstanding achievements in microwave theory and techniques. Organizes receptions at major technical conferences to enhance networking and to promote membership in WIE. II. The third Korea-Japan Microwave Workshop (KJMW 2005) will be held in Pusan, Korea Conference Chair; Dong Il Kim (Korea Maritime Univ.) Japan Officer ; Toru Maniwa (Fujitsu) III. 2006 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference will be held in Yokohama, Japan Date; 12-15, December, 2006 Place; Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan Conference Chair; Makoto Nagao (NICT) Organizing Committee Chair; Yoshio Kobayashi (Saitama Univ.) International Steering Committee Chair; Takashi Ohira (ATR) Steering Committee Chair; Masayoshi Aikawa (Saga Univ.) General Officer Chair; Yoshio Nikawa (Kokushikan Univ.) IV. Technical Meetings A. Sponsor (1) December 19, 2003: 33 attendants (1 IEEE Fellow, 3 IEEE Members) Mitsuo Makimoto (Japan Science and Technology Corporation) "Structures and Basic Properties of Microwave SIR" Commemorative Address of IEEE MTT-S New Fellow (2) January 19, 2004: 21 attendants (14 IEEE Members) Futoshi Kuroki (Kure National College of Technology), and 7 other members "Report on the 33rd European Microwave Conference" (3) January 19, 2004: 21 attendants (14 IEEE Members) Tamotsu Nishino (Mitsubishi Electric.), and 7 other members "Report on the 2003 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference" (4) March 4, 2004: 65 attendants (1 IEEE Fellow, 2 IEEE Senior Members, 34 IEEE Members, and 7 IEEE Student Members) Dedicated Signal Processing Approach to Super-Resolution Espar Antennas Takashi Ohira (ATR) "Commemorative Address of IEEE MTT-S New Fellow" (5) April 16, 2004: 35 attendants (3 IEEE Fellows, 19 IEEE Members, and 7 IEEE Student Members) Yozo Utsumi (National Defense Academy) "Commemorative Address of IEEE MTT-S New Fellow" (6) September 14, 2004: 32 attendants Tadao Nakagawa (NTT) and 8 other members "Report on 2003 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium" (7) November 8,9 and 12, 2004: 11/8: 74 attendants (IEEE MTT-S Member: 17, IEEE Member: 1), 11/9: 50 attendants (IEEE Member; 8), 11/12: 86 attendants (IEEE MTT-S Member: 46, IEEE Member: 6) Prof. Tatsuo Itoh (UCLA), Distinguished Microwave Lecturer Lecture on "Microwave Applications of Metamaterial Structures" B. Cooperatively Sponsor (1) December 16, 2003: 40 attendants (18 IEEE Members) "Advances in Imaging Technology" (2) January 30, 2004: 79 attendants "The 1st Scientific Workshop Presented by the 19th URSI-C in Japan" (3) May 28, 2004: 79 attendants (33 IEEE Members) "The 2nd Scientific Workshop Presented by the 19th URSI-C in Japan" (4) July 20, 2004: 35 attendants "The 3rd Scientific Workshop Presented by the 19th URSI-C in Japan" (5) July 27-30, 2004: 400 attendants "International Symposium on Microwave Science and Its Application to Related Fields" (6) October 20, 21, 2004: 43 attendants (40 IEEE Members) "Microwave Photonics (MWP) Meeting", "THz Meeting" (7) October 22, 2004: 25 attendants "The 4th Scientific Workshop Presented by the 19th URSI-C in Japan" (8) November 10-12, 2004: 6176 attendants " 2004 Microwave Workshops and Exhibition" (9) Dec. 19, 2003, Jan. 19-21, Mar. 3-5, Apr. 1 and May 14, June 18, July 21-23, Sept. 13, 14, Oct. 28, 29, and Nov. 25, 26, 2004 "Technical Group on Microwaves in Electronics Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers" V. Educational (1) May 18, 2004: 22 attendants (7 IEEE Members and 2 IEEE Student Members) "English Clinic for 2004 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium"(Tokyo) Hiroshi Kondo (Hitachi Co. Ltd.), Shizuo Mizushina (NICT) (2) May 26, 2004: 9 attendants (1 IEEE Fellow and 8 IEEE Members) "English Clinic for 2004 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium"(Kyoto) Hiroshi Kondo (Hitachi Co. Ltd.), Shizuo Mizushina (NICT) (3) October 1, 2004: 8 attendants (1 IEEE Fellow and 7 IEEE Members) "English Clinic for EUMW 2004" (Kyoto) Hiroshi Kondo (Hitachi Co. Ltd.), Shizuo Mizushina (NICT) VI. Administrative (1) December 28, 2003: 5 attendants. "Executive committee" (2) March 6, 2004: 8 attendants. "Executive committee" (3) May 29, 2004: 8 attendants. "Executive committee" (4) July 10, 2004: 9 attendants. "Executive committee" (5) September 14, 2004: 12 attendants. "Executive committee" (6) November 12, 2004: 16 attendants. "Executive committee" (7) December 25, 2004: 13 attendants. "Executive committee"