The third Japan-China Joint Workshop on Control was held in Fukuoka, Japan, on August 18, 2009, which is organized as a pre-conference workshop of the ICCAS-SICE 2009. More than 60 system and control experts participated the workshop.

China-Japan (Japan-China) Joint Workshop is a series conference, organized by the Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and the Control Division, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE).  The first China-Japan Joint Workshop on Control--Advanced Robust Control and Adaptive Control: Theory and Applications was held in Beijing, China on September 22-26, 2004, and the second China-Japan Joint Workshop on Control--Control of Non-smooth, Switched, and Hybrid Systems was held in Harbin, China, on August 6, 2006.

This joint workshop consists of four keynote speeches and 12 lectures. The four keynote speeches are A Unified Approach to Consensus and Cooperation in Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems: Systems with Generalized Frequency Variables given by Shinji Hara (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Decoupling of Boolean Networks given by Daizhan Cheng (Chinese Academy of Science, China), Adaptation in Nonequilibrium Dynamic Games given by Lei Guo (Chinese Academy of Science, China) and Brain Science and Control Theory given by Hidenori Kimura (RIKEN, Japan).

On August 19, two Japan-China joint sessions were held in ICCAS-SICE. They are SICE-CCC Joint Session on Complex Systems and SICE-CCC Joint Session on Advanced Control Design.

At the VIP dinner on the evening of August 19, some leading experts from Japan, South Korea, and China got together to discuss possible further collaborations among three major Asian counties. Prof. Kimura expressed his sincere welcome to the guests from China and Korea. Prof. Hara, Chairman of the SICE, highly evaluated the Japan-China joint workshop and the coordination between Japan and China. On behalf of China delegation, Prof. Guo Lei  delivered a warm speech to thank our Japanese hosts and gave a best wish to the further collaborations and academic exchanges between Japan and China.