Premium Content: Japan to enhance ESG and safety working standards by improving transparency of critical functions of public administration through digitalization

The Japanese government decided, in a sweeping move, to reduce bureaucratic red tapes and increase transparency in industry-related information by digitalizing parts of their public administration functions.

This is to streamline and further increase the efficiency of its public administration and also in line with the top policy makers’ earlier intent to elevate the country’s ESG and safety working standards,

The digitalization exercise is expected to shake up traditional work processes and procedures because industry-related information was previously stored in well-demarcated jurisdictions.