Life Contents Frontier Special Exhibit will gatherthe diverse achievements

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This year, CEATEC JAPAN has once again been designated an officialevent of the Japan International Contents Festival. Among thespecial programs being planned by the show sponsors is the DigitalContents Business Park, a special exhibit area where companies indigital contents businesses can introduce themselves and createbusiness opportunities. In addition, the Ministry of Economy, Tradeand Industry (METI) will sponsor the Life Contents Frontier as partof its International Contents Market Reinforcement Activities. ThisSpecial Exhibit will paint a picture of the future of diversecontents in lifestyle scenes with the goal of promoting originalJapanese contents technologies.

Outline of the Life Contents Frontier

Experience the new role of contents in our society and thelifestyle scenes that will develop with these contents. At CEATECJAPAN 2008, the Life Contents Frontier Special Exhibit will gatherthe diverse achievements and new ideas of companies incontents-related businesses, showing the potential of contents inour daily lives beyond the framework of conventional entertainment.

Many products and services we see today use contents made possibleby combining the technological prowess of software and hardwaremakers with the creativity of contents developers. Thanks togentler interfaces between people and lifestyles, we stand at thethreshold of a new era of safety, peace of mind, comfort andwell-being on levels never experienced before.

The Life Contents Frontier will also be linked with officialactivities under METI's roadmap for the development ofcontents-related technologies. The exhibit will offer specificideas drawing on the full potential of new "life contents" andrealized through the collaboration of software and hardware thatenrich both our lives and our spirits. Visitors from around theworld will experience new roles and expressions of contents, andthe activities being undertaken to realize this potential throughinnovative software and hardware technologies.

Profile of the Special Exhibit -0- *T WHEN: Tuesday, September 30,to Saturday, October 4, 2008 WHERE: Makuhari Messe (Hall 4, DigitalNetwork Stage) *T

The Life Contents Frontier Special Exhibit will be held as part ofMETI's International Contents Market Reinforcement Activities(Promotion Activities for New Life Contents through the Linking ofSoftware and Hardware). In addition to product and technologyexhibits, the Life Contents Frontier will host speeches andpresentations by participating companies.

--Exhibit Space

The Life Contents Frontier will open in Hall 4 (Digital NetworkStage) alongside the Information Grand Voyage Project, anotherpromotional project by METI. Nine participating exhibitors willpropose "New Roles and Possibilities of Contents" through diverseuser scenes spanning a total area of 360 m2 (40 booth spaces). Newindustries to create new life contents will be promoted using thediverse functions of CEATEC JAPAN to publicize information tobusiness people active in the IT and electronics fields.

--Seminar & Panel Discussion

Information will be conveyed to a wide audience via a seminar andpanel discussion held as part of the CEATEC JAPAN 2008 Conference.-0- *T WHEN: Thursday, October 2, 2008 (3rd day of CEATEC JAPAN2008) 2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. WHERE: International Conference Hall,Makuhari Messe (tentative) SESSIONS: 2 AUDIENCE: Up to 200 seatsavailable per session -- Theme (tentative) -- Strengthening theInternational Competitiveness of Japan's Contents TechnologyIndustry: Potential and Challenges in the Contents TechnologyStrategy Map -- Speakers/panelists (tentative) -- Representative ofthe Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI (speaker) --Members of the Contents Technology Strategy Map Committee --Representatives of contents development/support tool providers *T

--Joint Exhibit with the Grand Voyage of Information SpecialExhibit

METI's Grand Voyage of Information, now in its third year at CEATECJAPAN, will be part of a joint exhibit with the Life ContentsFrontier at the 2008 show. The booth area will be the same for bothexhibits at 360 m2, or 40 booth spaces. This year's booth isexpected to comprise software technologies centered on data searchand analysis, as well as areas of convergence in the contentsfield.

--Japan International Contents Festival (CoFesta)

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The Japan International Contents Festival (CoFesta), the world'slargest comprehensive contents festival, is a series ofcollaborative events with themes linked to the contents industry,including games, animation, manga & characters, music,broadcast contents and film.

This year, CoFesta kicks off on September 30 with the opening ofCEATEC JAPAN 2008 and will run through October 28 via eventscentered in the Tokyo area, such as the Tokyo Game Show and TokyoInternational Film Festival, and is designed to expand globalawareness of Japanese contents. For more information, please visitthe official website at http://www.cofesta.jp.

For further information, please contact Mr. Kunda or Mr. Ishizakiat the CEATEC JAPAN Management Office. -0- *T CEATEC JAPANManagement Office (Japan Electronics Show Association) 5F, SumitomoShibadaimon Bldg., No. 2 1-12-16 Shibadaimon Minato-ku, Tokyo105-0012, Japan Telephone: +81-3-5402-7603 Fax: +81-3-5402-7606E-mail: contact@ceatec.com http://www.ceatec.com *T

Planned Exhibitors at the Life Contents Frontier Special Exhibit(no particular order) -0- *T Company Profile of Exhibit----------------------------------------------------------------------Axell Corporation Axell provides high-value-added LSIshttp://www.axell.co.jp/ developed with original technologies toenhance video, audio and optical products. As key devices inamusement equipment, in-car equipment, advertising terminals andmore, these LSIs make possible a wide variety of contentsexpressions.----------------------------------------------------------------------HI Corporation HI will showcase life contentshttp://www.hicorp.co.jp/ solutions that put the convenience ofcomputers into anyone's hands by breaking down the barrier ofcomputer literacy.----------------------------------------------------------------------QTech, Inc. Ensuring barrier-free video contents ishttp://web-shake.jp/ a global issue. QTech will demonstrate itsfull line of products in the web- shake project, a universalconsole on which it is working as part of its CSR activities.----------------------------------------------------------------------Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki is proposing two futuristichttp://www.suzuki.co.jp/ mobile tools that are "gentle on peopleand the environment": the low- speed sustainable personal mobilitytool PIXY runabout and the SSC unit, a vehicle that can store up totwo PIXY units.----------------------------------------------------------------------Japan Technical Communicators The title of this exhibit is"Anywhere, Association Anytime, Anybody Can Obtain an Easyhttp://www.jtca.org Explanation." JTCA will propose new- conceptoperating and product manuals.----------------------------------------------------------------------PDC Co., Ltd. PDC will exhibit digital signagehttp://www.pdc-pana.co.jp contents, including actual case studiesof digital signage applied in a variety of city scenes, such ascommercial facilities, airports and office buildings.----------------------------------------------------------------------Microsoft Corporation Microsoft's latest Web technologies andhttp://www.microsoft.com/japan platforms open new worlds ofsoftware that "touches the spirit." This exhibit will offer abehind-the-scenes look at product development together with scenesof the "next generation" of the Web.----------------------------------------------------------------------Matsushita Electric Industrial People far away from one another canCo., Ltd. easily and safely "share the same http://panasonic.jpspace" using digital televisions. Panasonic will highlight itsvision of new audiovisual communications systems.----------------------------------------------------------------------Yamaha Corporation Yamaha will introduce its ideas on howhttp://www.yamaha.co.jp/ people will enjoy music in the world ofWeb 2.0 and beyond through such hardware, software and networkproducts as TENORI-ON and VOCALOID, which make it easy for evenamateurs to produce their own music.----------------------------------------------------------------------*T