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Sea Japan 2016 JAPAN PAVILION

The Japan Ship Machinery and Equipment Association (JSMEA) academia-government joint research projects, whose participants will take part in this year’s Sea Japan, the 12th edition of Japan’s include universities and colleges as well as research institutes. leading marine industry event. With financial support from The

Nippon Foundation and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport To help visitors better appreciate the unique characteristics and and Tourism (MLIT), JSMEA will showcase its member companies’ significance of various ships, the Ministry of Defense (MOD), the products and services at the Japan pavilion as part of the Japanese Japan Coast Guard (JCG) and leading shipping companies will display maritime cluster. ship models and other materials.

The Japan pavilion will occupy a space of some 3,000 square A program of conferences and seminars will be held, with key figures meters at the center of the exhibition. In the thematic zone of the from Japan and other nations giving presentations. They will focus on, pavilion, members of the Japanese maritime cluster will showcase among other subjects, MLIT's efforts on environmental protection in

Japan’s cutting-edge technologies and developments to the world. the field of maritime affairs; the marine policies promoted by Norway,

Exhibits will include the Kaiko 7000II, an unmanned underwater probe which is an advanced nation in terms of maritime affairs as well as joint capable of reaching depths of 7,000 meters; an underwater robot called actions taken by the public and private sectors; and the approaches “Hobarin” , which is an autonomous underwater vehicle that can hover of the maritime sectors of Japan and Germany on big data and the in place underwater much like a helicopter; and models of offshore Internet of Things (IoT). floating drilling facilities.

JSMEA strongly hopes that visitors to Sea Japan 2016 will take

In addition, there will be exhibits showing Japan’s technologies for the time to visit the Japan pavilion to learn more about the strength exploiting marine resources and for saving energy and protecting the of Japan’s maritime cluster and its production of state-of-the-art natural environment. Also to be unveiled will be the results of industry- technologies. Japan Pavilion Layout

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