{"id":12688,"date":"2012-09-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2012\/09\/26\/en-japanigf-2012-overview\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T05:00:00","slug":"en-japanigf-2012-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2012\/09\/26\/en-japanigf-2012-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"IGF-Japan 2nd Plenary Meeting \/ APrIGF 2012 Tokyo \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-japanigf-2012-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-japanigf-2012-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 18\u201320 July 2012, Japan&#39;s JAIPA hosted the 3rd Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF 2012 Tokyo) at Aoyama Gakuin University, drawing 278 participants from 28 economies; IGF-Japan&#39;s 2nd Plenary ran as one of its sessions on 19 July.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The plenary asked what risks must be managed &#39;in an age when cloud is taken for granted&#39;, while APrIGF tackled disaster recovery, new gTLDs, free expression in Asia and IPv6 \u2014 with outcomes reported to the 7th IGF in Baku that November.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This was the first time Japan hosted a regional IGF: the national meeting merged into an international one, the high-water mark of Japan&#39;s internet governance engagement.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>IGF-Japan 2nd Plenary Meeting \/ APrIGF 2012 Tokyo<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-japanigf-2012-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>IGF-Japan 2nd Plenary Meeting \/ APrIGF 2012 Tokyo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>18\u201320 July 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Aoyama Gakuin University, Aoyama Campus Building 17, Shibuya, Tokyo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>278<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Supporters<\/td>\n<td>Supported by MIC; special sponsor: Aoyama Gakuin University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by the Japan Internet Providers Association (JAIPA); secretariat: DotAsia and JAIPA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Outcome<\/td>\n<td>Outcomes were reported to the 7th IGF in Baku, Azerbaijan (November 2012) as the Asia-Pacific regional contribution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-japanigf-2012-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. APrIGF Tokyo \u2014 Japan&#39;s three days as regional host<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: All 22 sessions, 18\u201320 July 2012, Aoyama Gakuin University<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The IGF is possibly the best example of a global multi-stakeholder forum, and we should keep it alive and ongoing, respecting its original foundations&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Paul Wilson (APNIC Director General)<\/strong> [1][4]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>JAIPA hosted the 3rd APrIGF with 278 participants from 28 economies (202 domestic, 76 overseas) and a cumulative 19,762 Ustream views across three venues [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>The opening lined up AGU&#39;s president Semba, JAIPA president Takenori Watanabe, APrIGF chair Ang Peng Hwa, the UN IGF Secretariat&#39;s Chengetai Masango and MIC bureau chief Shun Sakurai, with Keio&#39;s Jun Murai delivering the keynote [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>That year the NRO doubled its annual contribution to the IGF process to USD 75,000, with APNIC framing it as a statement of support for the multistakeholder forum [1][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. IGF-Japan&#39;s 2nd Plenary \u2014 interrogating risk in the cloud era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session C3 &#39;IGF Japan&#39; (19 July, 14:30\u201316:00, Room 3)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Held as an APrIGF session on the theme &#39;What risks must we prepare for in an age when cloud is taken for granted?&#39;, examining the interconnected nature of cloud from both provider and user perspectives [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Tsuyoshi Kinoshita moderated a panel of Sakura Internet CEO Kunihiro Tanaka, Nifty&#39;s Takaya Ueno, NEC BIGLOBE&#39;s Endo and Infosec&#39;s Takeshi Higuchi [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Where the 1st Plenary in Kyoto had been a standalone two-day event, this year&#39;s plenary was compressed into a 90-minute session inside an international conference [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Disaster recovery and the internet \u2014 municipal voices and the Ishinomaki tour<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Plenary 1 and Session A1 (18 July); study tour (21\u201322 July)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sixteen months after the 2011 earthquake, officials from Tagajo, Soma and Sendai reported first-hand on municipal information policy in the disaster zone [1]<\/li>\n<li>A post-conference study tour took ten overseas participants from seven economies, plus fifteen Japanese, to Ishinomaki and Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture [1]<\/li>\n<li>A distinctly Japanese agenda item \u2014 disasters and the internet \u2014 was elevated into a shared Asia-Pacific concern [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. New gTLDs and free expression \u2014 Asia&#39;s issues converge<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;The New gTLD Shock&#39;, &#39;Free Expression in Asia&#39;, Youth IGF and other sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Timed with ICANN&#39;s opening of new gTLD applications, &#39;The New gTLD Shock&#39; brought together JPRS&#39;s Endo, ICANN board member Sebastien Bachollet and the GNSO&#39;s Rafik Dammak [1][5]<\/li>\n<li>A Freedom House-moderated session on internet free expression in Asia heard from civil society in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia [1][5]<\/li>\n<li>On 19 July, students from Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore ran the Youth IGF (YIGF 2012 Tokyo), continuing the regional IGF tradition of youth participation [1][5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Was this a Japanese meeting or an international one?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Both. Japan&#39;s JAIPA hosted the 3rd Asia Pacific Regional IGF in Tokyo, and IGF-Japan&#39;s 2nd Plenary ran as one session inside it \u2014 a rare year when national and regional activity merged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was most discussed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Cloud risk at the plenary; disaster recovery, new gTLDs, free expression in Asia and IPv6 across APrIGF. Afterwards, overseas participants toured the tsunami-hit towns of Ishinomaki and Onagawa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What happened next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The outcomes fed into the 7th IGF in Baku that November as the Asia-Pacific contribution. Japan would not host an IGF gathering of this scale again until IGF 2023 in Kyoto.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Japan IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-japanigf-2012-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Japan IGF 2012 \u6771\u4eac \u2014 About Japan IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Japan IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2012 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaipa.or.jp\/event\/APrIGF\/APrIGF_repo.pdf\">APrIGF 2012 Tokyo \u958b\u50ac\u5831\u544a\u66f8\uff08PDF\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30d7\u30ed\u30d0\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u5354\u4f1a\uff08JAIPA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaipa.or.jp\/topics\/2012\/07\/506.php\">IGF-Japan \u7b2c2\u56de\u5168\u4f53\u4f1a\u8b70<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30d7\u30ed\u30d0\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u5354\u4f1a\uff08JAIPA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaipa.or.jp\/topics\/2012\/07\/535.php\">2012 AprIGF Tokyo<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30d7\u30ed\u30d0\u30a4\u30c0\u30fc\u5354\u4f1a\uff08JAIPA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conference.apnic.net\/news-archives\/2012\/aprigf-tokyo\/\">APNIC supports the regional IGF in Tokyo<\/a> \u2014 APNIC (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ap.rigf.asia\/events\/\">Events \u2014 APrIGF.Asia\uff08\u6b74\u4ee3\u958b\u50ac\u4e00\u89a7\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Asia Pacific Regional IGF (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.ad.jp\/ja\/materials\/igf\/20210520\/material3.html\">\u65e5\u672c\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u95a2\u9023\u6d3b\u52d5\u306e\u7d4c\u9a13\u3068\u8ab2\u984c<\/a> \u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30a4\u30f3\u30d5\u30a9\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\uff08JPNIC\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 26 September 2012, 14:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 16 July 2026, 20:09 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18\u201320 July 2012, Japan&#8217;s JAIPA hosted the 3rd Asia Pacific Regional IGF (APrIGF 2012 Tokyo) at Aoyama Gakuin University, drawing 278 part<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,140,11],"tags":[163,161,160,550,162,164],"class_list":["post-12688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-japan-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-japanigf2012","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}