By KEISHI NISHIMURA/ Staff Writer
May 12, 2021 at 17:58 JST
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at a meeting of the Upper House Cabinet Committee where a package of bills related to the digitization of administrative procedures was debated on May 11. Seen behind him is Takuya Hirai, minister of digital transformation. (Koichi Ueda)
The Diet enacted a raft of bills on May 12 that will streamline how governments in Japan handle and share data and revise how personal data is protected under the law. [Read More]
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