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On 24 April 2025, the Jean Monnet CoE Kyushu, Third Stage (JMCoE-Q3) Kick-off Seminar titled “e-Governance and e-Democracy in the EU” was conducted by the Kyushu University EU Centre and supported by the Delegation of the European Union to Japan and the Fukuoka EU Association.

On 1 April 2025, the EU and Japan held their 8th Digital Policy Dialogue in Brussels to enhance cooperation in key digital areas.

The EU-Japan Centre has recently published two reports under the Minerva Policy Report project. The topics are on Dual-Use and Advanced AI Systems.

This report examines Japan’s evolving role in the development and governance of advanced AI systems across five interconnected dimensions: national policy, ethical direction, institutional coordination, collaboration with the European Union, and global positioning.

This report examines the evolving landscape of dual-use technology trade and investment between the European Union (EU) and Japan, analyzing the challenges and opportunities that shape this important area of industrial cooperation

Based on a mutual cooperation agreement, the Digital Agency of Japan dispatched an expert to Estonia to analyze the i-voting system.

In an effort to enhance understanding and analysis of the Japanese market and its policy background, the EU-Japan Centre has launched three new reporting projects. These initiatives will provide comprehensive insights into current market trends, policy developments, regulatory changes, and economic policies that impact both domestic and international stakeholders.

The EU-Japan Centre organized a webinar on Japan’s green transformation (GX) strategy on 18 April, 2024, with 430 participants.

The government of Japan has appointed officially in August 2022 a new "Startup Minister" to help the support to startups, to implement an economic revitalization and in addition has launched the Five-Year Startup Development Plan in November 2022 to have 100 000 startups, 100 unicorns and an annual investment of 10 trillion yens. Although this seems to be an ambitious plan, Japan is setting the tone for a new economic road with entrepreneurship in high technologies and deeptech.

“Does Inequality Matter? How People Perceive Economic Disparities and Social Mobility in Japan”, the latest OECD report on what people think about inequality and how their views shape the demand for redistributive policies.