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Most practices in: Japan (58)
Since 2004, UTEC has channelled venture capital into deep-tech spin-offs linked to the University of Tokyo and beyond, investing in 150+ startups …
Kyoto University's captive venture-capital arm has raised three funds worth over ¥54 billion since 2016 and built an 86-company deep-tech portfolio — …
Japan's first National Strategic Special Zone for global startups (2014), Fukuoka City created Asia's first Startup Visa for foreign founders, achieving a …
Japan's Digital Agency built GENAI, a sovereign generative-AI platform deployed to all Agency staff in May 2025. One documented case cut a …
In June 2023 Japan set a voluntary 30% target for women executives at TSE Prime-listed firms by 2030, up from 11.4% in …
Japan's flagship planned science city since 1963, Tsukuba concentrates dozens of national research institutes and ~20,000 researchers spending nearly half of Japan's …
A mountain town of ~5,000 people reversed decades of depopulation by inviting Tokyo tech firms into renovated houses over fibre; by 2020 …
Fujitsu is adding generative AI to Japan Pension Service's Nenkin Chatbot, already used by ~600,000 people a year, to auto-draft Q&A content …
Yokohama's municipally managed eelgrass beds became the first site in Japan's J Blue Credit market, turning coastal seagrass restoration into tradable carbon …
Toda City, Japan fused attendance, health and counselling data across 18 public schools into an AI model flagging ~1,193 of 12,000 students …
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 …
Japan's education ministry designated 52 'generative AI pilot schools' in FY2023 to test classroom use under provisional guidelines. Reported uses and risks …
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