Japan E-Commerce Association

Nice to meet you all.

My name is Shoji Nishimura, and I am the chairman of the Japan E-Commerce Society (a general incorporated association).
As university researchers, we have few opportunities to come into contact with or build relationships with companies and business operators, and areas such as inter-company collaboration have been areas where we have been weak.

Then, together with Mr. Nakajima, vice director of our association and a graduate of my seminar, I worked for a year in the "AI Utilization Research Consortium for E-Commerce," the predecessor to the current organization, where we conducted research with e-commerce businesses and engineers, deepened our friendships, shared information, and came to understand each other's strengths and weaknesses.
For me personally, it was a very meaningful experience, and it gave me the conviction that connecting researchers like us with businesses can be beneficial to society.

The e-commerce industry is developing rapidly not only in Japan but all over the world, and is a mammoth market that is said to reach 20 trillion yen in Japan alone by 2020. As the market is already polarized by giant corporations, we have launched the Japan E-Commerce Society together with those who have supported the market since the dawn of e-commerce to help small and medium-sized e-commerce businesses survive and win, and to pave the way for young people to get a future.

In addition, one year from now, we will adopt the same organizational structure and operations as a public academic society, in order to meet the requirements of the Science Council of Japan, a government advisory body, to become an "Academic Research Organization Affiliated with the Science Council of Japan."
This society is made up of members, and we hope to grow together with those who have the ambition to become researchers, become research subjects, and put their research results into practice for the future development of e-commerce.

Although the society has only just been established, we aim to achieve great things, so we would appreciate your guidance and encouragement.