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While Japan still maintains technological competitiveness in some areas, among wealthy countries it is seriously lagging digitally.

The Japanese government launched the Digital Agency in 2021 in the hope of accelerating digitalisation. Conducting business as usual in Japan is inefficient and incurs significant transaction costs — it is dependent on the physical availability of people and the duplication, transportation and storage of records. Japan must understand that the opportunity costs of not going digital are already too expensive. Digital transformation in the workplace can be problematic because the prevailing norm is that formal transactions must take place in person, on paper and with a stamp of approval (hanko). [white paper](https://www.soumu.go.jp/johotsusintokei/whitepaper/eng/WP2021/2021-index.html) by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) highlighted personnel shortages in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector as a key factor behind the lag in digital transformation advancement. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) estimates that the [shortage will worsen](https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/it_policy/jinzai/gaiyou.pdf) and increase to 450,000 workers by 2030. After the asset price bubble burst in the 1990s, businesses took a more cautious approach that Once known as a technological powerhouse, Japan has lagged in the global wave of digital transformation. In a high-context culture like Japan, where telework use remains low, online meetings cannot replace the authenticity of in-person meetings. The [delay in digital transformation](https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/09/25/covid-19-and-japans-long-awaited-digital-transformation/) has been felt acutely during COVID-19 because much of Japan’s public health administration still relies on outdated record keeping methods that could not keep up with cases. The companies that succeed in recruiting ICT professionals are foreign firms, such as Google Japan, which offer more competitive merit-based salaries. He has every intention of transferring payments to the residents.

TOKYO: A man was taken to hospital unconscious after apparently setting himself on fire near the office of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on ...

[controversial Unification Church](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/japan-liberal-democratic-party-members-unification-church-list-fumio-kishida-2950551). The [suspect in Abe's death](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/mother-shinzo-abe-killing-suspect-unification-church-member-2801516) said the church had [bankrupted his mother](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/shinzo-abe-assassination-suspect-tetsuya-yamagami-plan-attack-gun-2799131) and he felt the former prime minister supported it. [on Jul 8](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/japan-gun-free-former-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-shot-dead-nara-2796681) while campaigning. [assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/japan-former-pm-shinzo-abe-assassinated-shot-nara-campaign-speech-2796576). Kyodo news agency and other outlets said police were called to the scene after reports a man was "engulfed in flames". [Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/fumio-kishida-shinzo-abe-funeral-unification-church-ldp-2926876) in Tokyo on Wednesday (Sep 21), local media said.

Man sets himself alight in Tokyo after telling police he is opposed to plans for a state funeral for assassinated ex-PM Shinzo Abe, local media report.

TV Asahi said the man set himself alight after telling police he was opposed to plans for a state funeral for assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Kyodo news agency and other outlets said police were called to the scene after reports a man was "engulfed in flames". Man sets himself alight in Tokyo after telling police he is opposed to plans for a state funeral for assassinated ex-PM Shinzo Abe, local media report.

A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister's office on Wednesday in an apparent protest at the government's decision to hold a state funeral ...

Numerous polls show a majority of Japanese now oppose the ceremony, helping to send Kishida's support plummeting. Links to the Unification Church, founded in South Korea in the 1950s, have grown into a huge problem for current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the LDP since they emerged following Abe's killing. The suspect in Abe's death has said the church bankrupted his mother and he felt the former prime minister supported it. 27, with some 6,000 people from Japan and overseas set to take part. His state funeral is set for Sept. The man, in his 70s, was unconscious when first found but later told police that he had deliberately doused himself in oil, media said.

Shinzo Abe was Japan's longest-serving prime minister, but polls show more than half of the public opposes the ceremony.

The suspect in Abe’s death has said the organisation bankrupted his mother and he felt the former prime minister supported it. But state funerals are rare in Japan, and the decision has been controversial. A police officer who tried to extinguish the flames was also injured.

A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister's office on Wednesday after expressing opposition to a state funeral for assassinated ex-premier ...

But state funerals are rare in Japan, and the decision has been controversial. While Abe was not a member of the church, he addressed affiliated groups, and his death caused renewed scrutiny of the sect and its ties to politicians in Japan. He was campaigning for ruling-party candidates in upper-house elections in the Nara region, when he was shot by a man who allegedly believed the former leader had ties to the Unification Church. The agency said a note was found near the man, expressing his opposition to the funeral. The television station said a police officer who tried to extinguish the fire was injured in the process. Police, the prime minister's office and the cabinet office all declined to comment on the reports.

A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo early Wednesday in apparent protest against the state funeral planned next week ...

They say Kishida aimed to please Abe's party faction and buttress his own power. The LDP has said nearly half its lawmakers have ties to the church. The man was taken to a hospital.

TOKYO — A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister's office on Wednesday in an apparent protest of the government's decision to hold a ...

Numerous public opinion polls show a majority of Japanese now oppose the ceremony, helping to send Kishida’s support plummeting. The suspect in Abe’s death has said the church bankrupted his mother and he felt the former prime minister supported it. His state funeral is set for Sept.

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Many brewers will be flying in from Japan for this special event. The event is organized by The Sake Institute of Ontario, a not-for-profit trade organization of sake importers, distributors and manufacturers. This year, the cultural, food and sake festival will showcase sake from over 50 breweries from Japan and around the world and over 200 sakes in total.

A man was taken to hospital unconscious after apparently setting himself on fire near the office of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday, ...

Kyodo news agency and other outlets said police were called to the scene after reports a man was "engulfed in flames". The television station said a police officer who tried to extinguish the fire was injured in the process. TV Asahi said the man set himself alight after telling police he was opposed to plans for a state funeral for assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe.

Japan's government is considering allowing hotels to refuse entry to guests who do not wear masks and follow other measures to control infection during an ...

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A letter opposing Abe's state funeral was found nearby, media added. Abe, Japan's longest-serving premier, was gunned down at a campaign rally on July 8. His ...

Numerous polls show a majority of Japanese now oppose the ceremony, helping to send Kishida's support plummeting. Links to the Unification Church, founded in South Korea in the 1950s, have grown into a huge problem for current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the LDP since they emerged following Abe's killing. The man, in his 70s, was unconscious when first found but later told police that he had deliberately doused himself in oil, media said.

Protester sustains widespread burns as Japan wrestles with legacy of leader whose death revealed scale of politicians' links to Unification church.

[at least ¥1.7bn ($12m)](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/06/japan-state-funeral-shinzo-abe-opposition), with most of the money going on a huge security operation. In all, about 6,000 people are expected to attend. A Mainichi Shimbun poll conducted at the weekend showed support for Kishida at 29%, down six percentage points from late August. Media reports said the protester, who is in his 70s, regained consciousness and told police that he had doused himself in oil before setting it alight. [fierce criticism](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/12/shinzo-abe-controversial-vision-japan-constitution). More than 75% said the government was spending “too much” on the funeral. [first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/27/barack-obama-first-us-president-to-visit-hiroshima-japan). [damaged](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/japan-pm-fumio-kishida-popularity-dives-unification-church) the prime minister, Fumio Kishida, who announced his support for a state funeral within days of Abe’s death. [state funeral](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/22/shinzo-abe-state-funeral-growing-opposition-japan) for the country’s former prime minister, [Shinzo Abe](https://www.theguardian.com/world/shinzo-abe). [Sun Myung Moon](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/revelations-shinzo-abe-death-unification-church-moonies-political-influence-japan), was encouraged to establish a presence in [Japan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/japan) by Abe’s grandfather and postwar prime minister, Nobusuke Kishi, as a counter to communism and trade unionism. [shot dead](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-dies-after-being-shot) in July. [plunged into poverty](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/11/mother-of-shinzo-abe-killing-suspect-member-of-moonies-church) 20 years ago when his mother, a church member, donated large sums of money to the organisation.

The planned state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been criticized as more details emerge about his links to the Unification Church.

General Assembly](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-great-peril-un-chief-warns-global-leaders-rcna48473) meeting of world leaders. [Fumio Kishida](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japan-prime-minister-fumio-apology-kishida-shinzo-abe-assasssination-rcna45589) is in New York for the annual [U.N. They say Kishida aimed to please Abe’s party faction and buttress his own power. The LDP has said nearly half its lawmakers have ties to the church. He gave a speech Tuesday expressing disappointment over the Security Council’s failure to respond to the Russian invasion of [Ukraine](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/occupied-ukrainian-regions-vote-join-russia-war-counteroffensive-rcna48475) because of Russia’s permanent veto and called for reforms that would allow the U.N. The man was taken to a hospital.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urges the world to reaffirm the importance of the rules-based international order amid ongoing war in Ukraine and ...

Kishida, during a four-day stay in New York through Friday, plans to meet leaders of other nations on the sidelines of the U.N. Kishida urged other leaders to take advantage of the U.N. Japan has long expressed its desire to become a permanent member of a reformed Security Council. Kyiv has recently taken back many areas of the country from Russian control, aided by military support from the United States and some other Western countries, while Moscow continues to launch offensives. Instead, its operations have shown a widening rift between members such as the United States and other Western countries imposing economic sanctions on Moscow and others refraining from fully or immediately joining them. Charter, said Kishida, the first Japanese leader to give a speech in-person at the assembly's annual general debate session since 2019.

A Japanese man in his 70s has been taken to hospital in Tokyo after setting himself on fire near the prime minister's office, according to Japan's public ...

Despite his wins at the ballot box, Abe was no stranger to controversy. [reverberated across](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/asia/shinzo-abe-legacy-china-japan-indo-pacific-intl-hnk/index.html) the world and [huge crowds gathered](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/09/photos/gallery/shinzo-abe-react-070922/index.html) on the streets of Tokyo to pay their respects. [died](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/asia/japan-shinzo-abe-dies-shooting-intl-hnk/index.html) from excessive bleeding in July at the age of 67 after being shot while giving a public campaign speech. [longest-serving prime minister](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/asia/shinzo-abe-former-japan-pm-death-intl-hnk/index.html), holding office from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020 before resigning due to health reasons. [state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/asia/shinzo-abe-former-japan-pm-death-intl-hnk/index.html) later this month, CNN affiliate TV Asahi reported. A Japanese man in his 70s has been taken to hospital in Tokyo after setting himself on fire near the prime minister’s office, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK.

Police officers and firefighters investigate the site where a man protesting a state funeral for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set himself on fire, ...

Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was assassinated on July 8 while delivering a speech at a campaign rally in the western city of Nara. News reports say the man, believed to be in his 70s, sustained burns over a large part of his body but was conscious when he was taken to a hospital. A police officer who tried to put out the fire was reportedly injured.

In a country where voters are increasingly opposed to a state funeral for Shinzo Abe, support for the event remains high among younger Japanese who see ...

When the coronavirus pandemic first broke out, Stefano Volonte, an Italian teacher, translator and interpreter, was planning to move to Japan to start a ...

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A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister's office on Wednesday in an apparent protest at the government's decision to hold a state funeral ...

[Health](https://www.ctvnews.ca/health) [Struggling to find children's medication? [Canada](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada) [Funeral to be held Wednesday for slain Toronto police officer Const. The late Queen Elizabeth II was a master of symbolic dressing, using clothes, colours, hats and jewels to communicate with subjects and conduct soft diplomacy. Global shares mostly declined Wednesday as investors looked ahead to a widely expected interest rate hike by the U.S. The NASA InSight Lander has 'heard' and detected the vibrations of four space rocks as they slammed into Mars over the past two years. The overall score for the Global Women's Health Index in 2021 was just 53 out of 100, one point lower than in 2020. For months now, Canadians have been facing a nationwide shortage of children's pain and fever medications due to unusually high demand. The independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former U.S. Making his question period debut in the House of Commons, Official Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre focused in on the cost of living and the government's handling of inflation. Numerous polls show a majority of Japanese now oppose the ceremony, helping to send Kishida's support plummeting. Links to the Unification Church, founded in South Korea in the 1950s, have grown into a huge problem for current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the LDP since they emerged following Abe's killing. The suspect in Abe's death has said the church bankrupted his mother and he felt the former prime minister supported it.

(Bloomberg) -- In a country where voters are increasingly opposed to a state funeral for Shinzo Abe, support for the event remains high among younger ...

“I’m not saying that’s all down to Abe, but politicians who find fault with the way a person’s funeral is held are cruel.” Kishida has prioritized efforts to ease the economic disparities he said were a side-effect of Abenomics, in an implicit criticism of his former boss. “The senior generation came up under moderate policies,” and tend to like Kishida’s centrist position, he said. In Britain, there’s a generational divide on support for the monarchy, with older residents viewing the crown with more favor than younger people, surveys showed. Japan’s longest-serving premier was fatally shot in July by a gunman who authorities said targeted Abe for his ties to the Unification Church, which he blamed for bankrupting his family. It even led a man to set himself on fire near the prime minister’s office Wednesday, with police saying he left a note saying he opposed the state funeral, Kyodo News reported.

A city clerk in western prefecture of Yamaguchi carries a floppy disk containing account information for 463 residents to a local bank. He has every.

The Japanese government launched the Digital Agency in 2021 in the hope of accelerating digitalization. But Japan must understand that the opportunity costs of not going digital are already too expensive. The reasons behind resistance to digital transformation are embedded in Japanese organizations and In 2018, the shortage of ICT personnel in Japan totaled approximately 220,000. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) estimates that the After the asset price bubble burst in the 1990s, businesses took a more cautious approach that The [delay in digital transformation](https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/09/25/covid-19-and-japans-long-awaited-digital-transformation/) has been felt acutely during Covid-19 because much of Japan’s public health administration still relies on outdated record-keeping methods that could not keep up with cases. Once known as a technological powerhouse, Japan has lagged in the global wave of digital transformation. These figures underscore the differences in the human resources systems between each country. For Japanese workers in their twenties, average annual salaries were 4.1 million yen (US$31,300), while US workers earned 10.2 million yen annually ($77,900). Such a mishap may be understandable had it occurred in the 1980s, when personal computers and memory devices were just popping up. He has every intention of transferring payments to the residents.

TOKYO — A man set himself on fire near the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo on Wednesday in an apparent protest against the state funeral planned ...

The state funeral is scheduled for next Tuesday at the Budokan martial arts arena in Tokyo. The suspect in Abe's assassination reportedly believed his mother's large donations to the church ruined his family. They say Kishida decided to hold a state funeral to please Abe's party faction and buttress his own power. More protests are expected in coming days, including the day of the funeral next week. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is in New York for the annual U.N. Police called it an attempted suicide and refused to give further details because the case involved no criminal intent.