About CEATECHistory of CEATEC
History
The origins of CEATEC can be traced back to the Japan Electronic Industry Exhibition, which began in 1962.
The exhibition, which was made up of four categories - audio equipment such as TVs and radios, radio equipment including electronic application equipment, measuring equipment, and electronic components - was attended by 207 companies, and over the course of the 10-day event, around 150,000 people visited. The show's characteristic as a “comprehensive exhibition” that displays a very wide range of themes, from parts to finished products, has been carried on to the present day.
The name was changed to “Electronics Show” from the third show in 1964, and the 25th Electronics Show in 1986 was particularly lively, with a record 443,500 visitors.
In 2000, the Electronics Show was integrated with COM JAPAN, an exhibition for information and communications, and was reborn as CEATEC JAPAN. With the aim of “enriching society through technology”, a new history began as a “composite” exhibition that encompassed everything from video, information and communications to digital networks.
In 2007, 200,000 people visited the exhibition, and it established a firm position as a “comprehensive exhibition of cutting-edge IT and electronics”.
From 2016, the show was rebranded as the CPS/IoT Exhibition, and it has become one of Japan's leading exhibitions, attracting a great deal of attention from society as a place where key figures from Japan and overseas gather together, with the aim of realizing “Society 5.0” by bringing together everything from electronic components and devices that form the core of IoT, to finished products, equipment that incorporates them, and the various services that utilize them.
The Transition of CEATEC
CEATEC JAPAN (Since 2000)
The history of CEATEC goes back to 2000, when it was launched as the result of the merger of two exhibitions, the “Electronics Show” and “COM JAPAN”.
- Electronics Show (1964-1999)
- Organized by: Electronic Industries Association of Japan (EIAJ) *1
- TV and Radio Parts Show (1958-1961)
- Organized by: Electronic Industries Association of Japan
Tokyo Radio and Television Wholesale Association - Electronic Parts Show (1961)
- Organized by: Electronic Industries Association of Japan
- Japan Electronic Industry Exhibition (1962-1963)
- Organized by: Electronic Industries Association of Japan
- COM JAPAN (1997-1999)
- Organized by: Communications Industry Association of Japan (CIAJ) *2
Japan Electronics Industry Development Association (JEIDA) *1
Japan Personal Computer Software Association (JPSA) *3
- Data Show (1972-1996)
- Organized by: Japan Electronics Industry Development Association (JEIDA) *1
- Communication Tokyo (1982-1996)
- Organized by: Communications Industry Association of Japan (CIAJ) *2
- JPSA CONVENTION (1994-1996)
- Organized by: Japan Personal Computer Software Association (JPSA) *3
- 1 The Electronic Industries Association of Japan (EIAJ) and the Japan Electronics Industry Development Association (JEIDA) merged in November 2000 to form the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA).
- 2 The Communications Industry Association of Japan (CIAJ) changed its name in 2003 to the Communications and Information Network Association of Japan (CIAJ).
- 3 The Japan Personal Computer Software Association (JPSA) changed its name in 2006 to the Computer Software Association of Japan (CSAJ).