Japan: Creating the most sophisticated it country with large data

During the 2013-2020-year period, Japan's new IT country strategy, with the development of open public data and large data as its core, has built Japan into a society with "the highest standard of information technology in the world".

--Abe's cabinet "creating the most sophisticated it national manifesto"

Japan's government proposed: "To enhance Japan's competitiveness, large data applications indispensable." Japan's big data strategy, with pragmatic application development, especially in the combination of energy, transportation, medical, agriculture and other traditional industries, Japan's large data applications are commendable.

1. National Strategy

In June 2013, the Abe cabinet officially unveiled its new IT strategy, "creating the most sophisticated it country manifesto". The "manifesto" comprehensively expounds Japan's new IT country strategy with the core of developing open public data and large data for 2013-2020 years, and puts forward that Japan should be built into a society with "the world's highest level of extensive use of information industry technology".

The Japanese government has been plagued by a prolonged economic downturn, an aging population and a growing social burden, and the Japanese government has taken it industry, especially large data and cloud computing, as a key to boosting economic growth and resolving internal contradictions.

In the direction of the big Data strategy that the Japanese government exposes, there are several key elements:

1. Open Data. June 2012, Japan's IT strategy department issued a draft e-government Open Data strategy, took a key step in public data disclosure. The program launches residents can browse Centracco and local provincial offices to open data sites. In order to ensure the easy access of citizens to administrative information, the Government will use information to standardize the technology to achieve statistical information, measurement information, disaster information and other public information, in emergencies can be less network traffic to mobile phone users to provide information, and as soon as possible on the network to achieve the full disclosure of administrative information and can be reused, To further advance the construction process of open government. July 27, 2013, Japan's Mitsubishi Institute led the establishment of the "Open Data Circulation Promotion Alliance", aimed at the joint production and government, to promote the open application of public data in Japan.

2. Data flow. Like its Asian neighbours, Japan lags behind the European and American countries in its legal infrastructure, such as personal information protection laws. In fact, not only the Japanese administration has a negative attitude towards public information, but also the ways and means to protect personal information are not enough. In the development of Japan's large data industry, how to deal with the problem of privacy and information protection has been critical, and the revision and further improvement of personal information protection regulations have been put on the agenda. The Japanese government cabinet general Minister Gu Kangyan on the proposed, in the further full use of anonymity technology, and the establishment of a reasonable flexible use of large data rules, under the premise that the Japanese personal Information protection law should be modified. 2013 Japan's IT comprehensive strategy also proposed, as soon as possible to establish a cross government department of Information Retrieval website, in order to enable enterprises to use a large number of government information resources, planning to reach the end of 2015 with other developed countries the same level of information openness. On the issue of personal information and privacy protection, the Japanese government will set up research mechanisms to address the need for legal measures, and to develop basic guidelines this year.

3. Innovative application. In July 2012, the Japan General Strategy Committee for ICT issued a comprehensive strategy for ICT for the 2020, and proposed the goal of "Japan active in the ICT field". The new ICT strategy will focus on the development of intelligent technologies such as social media needed for large data applications, it innovation in traditional industries, the development of new medical technologies and the alleviation of public domain applications such as traffic congestion. such as through it technology to achieve agricultural and related industries in the high level of the surrounding, to enable the agricultural operators to share the relevant data and new technologies of the accumulated and analyzed agricultural sites, to build a network of medical information connections, to establish the National health management countermeasures of the districts and enterprises according to the outpatient data and prescriptions, and to maintain and manage the social infrastructure, Through the use of remote monitoring of sensors, 2020 years ago to achieve 20% of the country's critical infrastructure overhaul, the reform of national and local administrative information systems, before 2021, in principle, all government information systems to cloud, reduce the 30% operating costs.

2. Industrial situation

Japan's big data market is expected to exceed 1 trillion yen in 2020, according to the famous Japanese Economic Research Institute. According to the report of the Economic Research Institute of the Wild, 2011 Japan's big data-related industry market size of 190 billion yen, 2012, about 200 billion yen, up about 5%. The agency also predicts that it will grow by 20% per cent annually after 2013; To 2015 will reach 420 billion yen, 2017 to 630 billion yen, 2020 degree of about 1 trillion 50 billion yen.

From the direction of large data investment in Japan, the bi-linked IT investment that uses data for product sales and new product development currently accounts for more than half of its total. 2015 years ago, the company's internal data utilization will dominate, and 2017, energy management systems, such as the maintenance of social infrastructure system needs will promote the development of large data markets. On the other hand, Japan's large data market in its domestic IT market share, 2011 is 1, 7%. Assuming that the future of Japan's IT investment is unchanged, then, in this case, to 2015 the proportion of 3, 8%, 2017 degree of 5, 7%. Based on this analysis, to 2020, The big data market will account for about 10% of the total Japanese it market.

On the one hand, Japan's large data industry development by privacy issues, human costs and energy constraints, on the other hand, Hitachi, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Toyota and other Japanese technology and manufacturing enterprises for many years of accumulation and advantages, for the application of innovation and development in the forefront of the world. Japan, for example, quickly launched a pilot experiment on a range of related elements, such as renewable energy and electric vehicles for smart city components, in 2010, and formally began building a comprehensive intelligence community that included all the elements. At the same time as the Government and people jointly build the "Smart Community Alliance (JSCA)", Japan also started pilot experiments in 4 places, such as Yokohama, Kitakyushyu, Toyota and the Science and engineering cities of Keihan. Hitachi and Toshiba, a smart city infrastructure, have many successful practices in energy management, intelligent home, and traffic safety. For the intelligent Transportation, vehicle networking and so on, Honda, Toyota and other Japanese car giants have invested a lot of energy. Toyota, for example, provides large data services to local governments and businesses by using real-time traffic information from vehicles on the road, and helps drivers when disasters occur. The service has been able to automatically collect data on about 700,000 Toyota vehicles driving in Japan's domestic roads, after data processing to provide results for Toyota customers.

The Toyama University Affiliated hospital has accumulated 17 million case histories, 10 million clients, 143 million drug prescriptions and 3 million disease names in the last 9 years. The University of Toyama Affiliated hospital, based on these data, currently provides "prescription knowledge" and "input support functions" in real time. "Prescription knowledge" can be based on the patient's specific symptoms and conditions, to assist physicians to analyze the best drug prescription program. and "Input support function" can be entered in the word and the candidate, through the Pull-down menu to carry out a number of tips, can help physicians improve the electronic medical records of the input operation efficiency.

Japan General Shinto in the 2013 edition of the Information and communication white Paper, estimated that if the domestic full use of records of personal shopping data such as large data, "large data" services, retail, 4 sectors, such as manufacturing, are expected to bring economic benefits of 7.77 trillion yen (about 480 billion yuan) a year by boosting sales and cutting costs. The White paper notes that "domestic liquidity", which shows large data exchanges, has soared 4.5 times-fold in the 7 years between 2005 and 2012.

A survey by Gartner, Japan, also points out that more than 60% per cent of companies are now actively considering the big data. At the same time, it is expected that by 2016, the number of large Japanese enterprises actively committed to large data projects will increase by one-fold, 70% of which will involve the business and business sectors outside the IT sector. Therefore, to ensure that large data analysis of the talent will become an important issue.

According to a survey published by the Nomura Institute, the biggest challenge for Japanese companies to use big data is how to apply large data specifically to business operations, that is, the means and practices of large data use are unclear. At present, the big data of Japan still face serious shortage of professional talents, and it is urgent to intensify personnel training.

3. Typical cases

(1) Hitachi Production Institute--the development of services to guide the use of large data

Since June 2012, Hitachi has provided "data Analytics Meister Service" to user enterprises to help users create new business value by using large data. This service includes: "The construction uses the big data the enterprise image", "chooses to use the Big Data implementation Plan", "the concrete application verification and the installment work" and so on. The service can provide different user enterprises with the most suitable for the enterprise system Analysis mode and the application of large data implementation plan. June 1, 2013, Hitachi set up 300 people to encompass and govern the world's largest data-related departments of the specialized organizations, planned in 2015 to increase the number to 500 people. At the same time, Hitachi plans to work with the UK administration to develop disease prevention services to make it the prelude and pioneer of Hitachi's "globalisation".

(2) nec--use face data to increase product sales

NEC, through its own face verification technology "Neo-face", provides "the use of face verification technology marketing services", through the camera set in the store to take photos of the customer face data, can automatically identify the customer's age, sex and the store experience. It can be calculated from different age groups to store the status and the number of heads, analysis of the relationship between the two and sales, so as to take appropriate measures to increase sales. User enterprises do not have to purchase this system themselves, only pay 70,000 yen per month of equipment use fee, you can use this service. At present, NEC intends to further expand the coverage of face verification technology, and has increased the "surveillance of suspicious People security services" project since January 2013.

(3) Fujitsu-launches 800 People's "Data Initiative Center"

Using its data center and cloud computing Services, Fujitsu is actively expanding its "convergence service", which is provided by professional data analysis teams with large data. Fujitsu also proposes to strengthen data Analysis Services on social networking Services (SNS), as users require faster, more accurate and timely discovery of the information available on social networks, so that businesses can launch marketing campaigns in real time, and strengthen commodity planning and customer support. June 24, 2013 Fujitsu established a "large data leading center" consisting of 30 core business personnel and more than 800 data experts and consultants.

4, NTT data--set up "large data business propulsion room"

July 1, 2013, the NTT data concentration of the enterprise's internal large numbers of business related departments, set up a special "large data Business Propulsion room", which includes 130 data using professionals, the user enterprises to implement a one-stop service, including helping enterprises to tap business opportunities and provide corresponding services, Plan to increase the large data revenue to 20 billion yen by 2015.

5, the electricity--provides the position information Analysis Service "Draffic"

Japan Electric Company uses GPS system to collect 700,000 people's position information, develops the position information service "Draffic", realizes the human flow visualization. This service allows for the current and 3-year movement of some mobile phones and smartphone users who hold a built-in GPS system for NTT DoCoMo. Also, specific dates can be specified to analyze mobile phone users. Since "draffic" can narrow the detection area to 50.4-meter square meters (2500 sq m), it can more accurately analyze the flow of customers in commercial facilities or shopping malls, such as where people come from and where they will go and what their numbers are.

Large Data Country Archives

Country name: Japan

Data opening plan: "E-government Open Data Strategy", Information retrieval website

Large Data country strategy: Creating the most sophisticated it national manifesto, the integrated ICT strategy for the 2020

Release time: 2013, 2012

Leading agency: Government cabinet, General Affairs Provincial ICT Basic Strategy Committee

Core content: Japan's new IT country strategy with the development of open public data and large data for 2013-2020 years to build Japan into a "world's highest level of extensive use of information industry technology"

Related departments: Government Cabinet, government cabinet general Administration, ICT Basic Strategy Committee, etc.