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Most practices in: Japan (47)
A mountain town of ~5,000 people reversed decades of depopulation by inviting Tokyo tech firms into renovated houses over fibre; by 2020 …
GovTech Tokyo used AI 'Broad Listening' and the open-source Talk to the City tool to cluster ~27,000-30,000 public comments into the 2050 …
Since 2018, Japan's whole-of-government regulatory sandbox has let firms trial AI, fintech and mobility innovations under supervised exemptions. By March 2023, 29 …
A 2006-2011 project reconnected 2.4km of the Kushiro River's original meander in Japan's largest peatland; a 2025 peer-reviewed study found hydrology recovered …
In April 2023, Yokosuka became Japan's first city to open ChatGPT to all ~4,000 municipal employees for daily admin work. A one-month …
Japan's pioneering university licensing office: 2,000+ companies under contract since 1998, feeding into a university-wide IP base of 5,725 active licences and …
Japan's first university technology-licensing organisation: since 1998, TODAI TLO has signed contracts with 2,000+ companies and by FY2023 managed 5,725 licensed patents …
atama+'s AI traces each student's errors back to the exact missing prerequisite, sometimes years below grade level, then sequences personalised video and …
Since 2003, Suntory holds 30–100-year forest management agreements at 27 Japanese sites totalling >12,000 ha, recharging more than twice the groundwater it …
Japan's tripartite government carbon credit scheme for forest management (METI, MOE, MAFF): 356 forestry projects registered by March 2024. Japan's forests removed …
Japan's 2020/2022 law forces every employer to define, prevent and respond to 'power harassment' — but it carries no fines or criminal …
Since 2007, Japan's MHLW certifies employers meeting childcare-leave targets under the 'Kurumin' mark. Over 4,900 firms were certified by early 2025, though …
Japan's 2015 act requires companies with 100+ staff to publish gender data and submit action plans. Female managers rose from 6.2% (2012) …
Japan pays households leaving Tokyo's 23 wards up to ¥5m (~$32,000) to relocate to one of roughly 1,800 rural municipalities and take …
Tokyo NPO Waffle runs Japan's Technovation Girls chapter, where teen girls build AI-powered apps; in 2025, 440+ students in 88 teams from …
For over 120 years Tokyo's Bureau of Waterworks has owned and managed ~25,000 hectares of 'water conservation forest' along the upper Tama …
Japan's 2022 amendment to the Act on Promotion of Women's Active Engagement requires employers with 301+ staff to publicly disclose gender wage-gap …
Since 2001, Tokyo has legally required new and renovated buildings above set size thresholds to green 20-25% of their roof area; the …
Japan's Ministry of the Environment declared the small Indian mongoose eradicated from Amami Oshima in 2024 after a 25-year, ¥3.57bn campaign; a …
Japan's Labour Standards Act has guaranteed menstrual leave since 1947, one of the world's longest-running such laws — yet nationwide surveys report …
Japan's 'Digital Nomad' visa lets high-earning remote workers stay up to six months; issuance rose from 257 in its first nine months …
Saitama City adopted a game-theory matching algorithm, built with Fujitsu and Kyushu University, to allocate 7,959 children to 311 nursery places — …
On 7 April 2026 Japan's Cabinet approved full legal status for digital textbooks, equal to print, alongside a privacy-law amendment waiving individual …
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