(15 January 2014) Open data has become one of the central topics of IT policy in Japan. Since the adoption of the e-government Open Data Strategy in July 2012, national and local governments have made great steps forward in this area and the government launched an open data portal in December 2013: “Data.go.jp”, in beta version. The Japanese government aims to achieve the world’s best standard in terms of data provision by 2015.
Read this overview of open data in Japan by Soichiro Takagi on the ODI website.
