1. 1 IPv6 Opening the Door to Japan’s Next Generation Information Industry － As IPv6 approaches commercial deployment, can it provide life to Japan’s sluggish economy? － 19 December 2002 Atsushi Kawakita Global IPv6 Summit in Japan 2002 Panel 3

2. 2 1.Purpose Discuss about Can IPv6 Open the Door to Japan’s Next Generation Information Industry ? Can Next Generation Information Industry Resolve the Economic Crisis in Japan ?

3. 3 2.Panelists Hiroshi Fujiwara President & CEO, Internet Research Institute, Inc. Kazuo Furukawa Administrative Officers, Hitachi, Ltd. Hisao Iizuka Senior Vice President, NTT Communications Co. Jun Murai Professor, Keio University Satoshi Yamaguchi General Manager, JAFCO Co., Ltd. Tetsuo Yamakawa Manager, Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts & Telecommunications

4. 4 3.Viewpoint Industry; Hardware, Infrastructure, Application, Service Investor Government Academic

5. 5 4.Subject Can IPv6 related industry create new major industry ? What is required in order that IPv6 related industry instigate growth of major new industry ? What are promising fields ?

6. 6 5.Moderator Personal Profile 2002.4- Professor, Dept. of Design, Engineering, Management, Kyoto Institute of Technology 2000.7-2002.2 Manager, Corporate Venture Capital Office, Hitachi, Ltd. 1999.10-2002.2 Manager, Corporate Planning Div., Semiconductor Group, Hitachi, Ltd. 1991.1-1999.3 Senior Researcher, Industry Research Div., LTCB Research Institute, Inc. 1980.4-1990.12 Assistant Manager, Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business Atsushi Kawakita