The future of IoT transcends consumer, enterprise, industrial operations, space travel, geo exploration etc. and Japan has had a long history of building core competencies (at global scale) in several industry verticals which intersect with IoT. Here’s a short representative list:
1. Automotive manufacturing – Toyota, Honda
2. Imaging systems – Canon, Ricoh
3. Computing and high tech – Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu
4. Mass transit systems – Hitachi
5. Space systems - Mitsubishi
6. Motion control systems
7. Quality process improvement engineering
8. High density construction

Very few nations can boast of such breadth and depth of integrated capabilities in a multitude of core industries. Now is the opportunity for Japan to extend these competencies and knowledge to other nations via organizations such as JICA etc. and help realize the vision of technology for humanity.