The Fifth Japanese-Mediterranean Joint Workshop (JAPMED'5) is continuing and extending the successful four previous events: two Japanese - Greek Joint Workshops held in Athens (Greece, 1999) and Oita (Japan, 2001) and two Japanese-Mediterranean Joint Workshops held in Athens (Greece, 2003) and Cairo (Egypt, 2005) respectively. The aim of the workshop is to create a link for the participants to share knowledge and experience and for the cross-fertilization of new ideas and developments in applied electromagnetics, design, analysis, new material utilization, and optimization techniques focusing on applications related to superconducting flywheels. Topics related to practical applications, operations, maintenance are also highly encouraged.