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Recently, the JT-60U has employed ECRF system in addition to LHCD and ICRF systems. Three types of RF experiments on JT-60U have been performed. A reversed magnetic shear (R/S) configuration with internal transport barrier (ITB) was successfully maintained for 4.7 s in a quasi-steady state by LHCD in addition to the bootstrap current, where all profiles of temperature and plasma current were almost stationary. On the normal operation without heating during plasma current ramp-up, high electron temperature (Te0∼10 keV) with a strongly peaked profile was produced by LHCD alone at the density of ∼0.5×1019 m−3. This peaked temperature profile was featured by a reduction in core density. The central electron temperature and density slowly changed in several seconds. The performances of ICRF (2ωCH) on the R/S configuration were also studied. Degradation of confinement of energetic particles was observed probably due to the large banana orbit loss. An 110 GHz ECRF system has been operated on JT-60U. Its gyrotron has successfully generated power at the level of up to 830 kW for 300 ms and is under conditioning. On the initial operation, the power of 620 kW was injected into plasmas. The central electron temperature increased from 3 keV to 5.5 keV at ne∼0.6×1019 m−3. A controllability of local heating was also demonstrated by the poloidally steerable mirror.