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Significance
The agency aims to digitise administrative procedures in 31 policy areas, such as elderly care and childrearing, while standardising systems across all government levels within five years.
Impacts
The agency's need to integrate specialists and mid-career hires could provide a model for the rest of the civil service.
Taro Kono, the leading candidate to succeed Suga as prime minister, would continue pushing digitisation, probably even more strongly.
Successful digitisation would help Japan deal with the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic and respond to future national crises more effectively.
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