Aerial view of large data industry in Japan

At present, Japan is faced with many problems such as the decline of international status due to the prolonged economic downturn, the small number of children and the increasing social insurance costs and the aging of society infrastructure. In order to reverse this situation and maintain sustained economic growth, the Japanese government decided to promote economic development by vigorously developing IT industry, especially large data and data development and cloud computing. And Japan's major IT companies are full of anticipation, because large data and cloud computing has become the core of it enterprise strategy. In addition, Japan has a clear advantage in Asia, both in terms of large data technology and practical applications. Next, will revolve around the Japanese government new IT strategy, the Japanese big data industry development status as well as the future development trend and so on the brief elaboration.

Large data has become the core of the new IT country strategy of the Abe government

In June 2013, Japan's second Abe cabinet officially unveiled its new IT strategy, "creating the most sophisticated it country manifesto". The manifesto provides a comprehensive exposition of Japan's new IT country strategy, centred on the development of open public data and large data during the 2013-2020-year period.

The declaration proposes that Japan be built into a "world's highest level of widespread use of information industry technology", and to expand its development achievements to the international level, including, specifically, see below.

Key points of the new IT strategy of the Abe cabinet:

Open public data to the private sector: a Web site (Trial Edition) that allows residents to browse the Centracco and local department of public data in 2013. Formally implemented from 2014.

Promote the wide use of large data: to promote the circulation and application of personal data. Define the rules for the flexible usage of personal data. This year to determine the reform of the relevant system policy.

Utilize it technology to realize the high level of agriculture and its surrounding industries: to share relevant data and new technologies of the agricultural operation with the accumulated and analyzed agriculture field. Realize agricultural knowledge industrialization.

Building a network of medical information connections: Before 2016, according to out-patient data and prescription, the establishment of regional and corporate health management countermeasures. Prior to the fiscal year 2018, a medical information networking system was generally established throughout the country in order to provide medical information to institutions such as health care and care, as well as residential support services.

Use it technology to maintain and manage social infrastructure: Before 2020, 20% of the country's critical infrastructure was serviced by remote monitoring using sensors.

Reform of national and local administrative Information systems: By 2018, the current 1500 government information systems would be halved. Before 2021, all government information systems were in principle to be cloud-reduced to 30% operating costs. Accelerate the cloud computing of local government system.

The size and development trend of large data market in Japan

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

Currently, the bi-linked IT investments that use data for product sales and new product Development Account for more than half of the 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, the proportion of 2011, 1, 7%. Assuming that Japan's IT investment in the future, then, in this case, to 2015 the proportion of 3, 8%, 2017 accounted for 5, 7%. According to the analysis, the large data market will account for about 10% of the total Japanese it market by 2020.

A survey by Gartner, Japan, says more than 60% 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.

In fact, Japan's large data professionals are seriously inadequate, "data scientists" less than 1000 people, while the United States more than 10,000 people, the urgent need to strengthen the training of personnel.

Familiar with large data analysis and flexible use of Statistical Institute of Statistics Higuchi said: Because Japan's universities do not set up a statistical discipline, so whether the cultivation of talent or talent is far behind the United States. Even if we start to set up a statistical discipline, it will take 2-3 years to reach the virtuous circle of talent cultivation and use in the United States. Therefore, it is urgent to start from the scene of the enterprise, to find the corresponding countermeasures. In fact, at present some enterprises, especially it enterprises in speeding up the pace of training data analysis personnel.

The biggest challenge for Japanese companies to use big data is how to apply the big data to business operations, which means that big data is used and the specifics are unclear, according to a survey published by Nomura's Comprehensive research Institute. The survey showed that the companies surveyed accounted for about 61% of the total number of companies surveyed.

In addition, the development of Japan's large data industry, the revision and further improvement of personal information protection regulations have also been mentioned on the agenda. At present, most professionals in Japan have pointed out that in the current development of large data industry under the new situation, to develop new protection of personal privacy related laws and regulations. For example, the Japanese government cabinet General Department of Public Housing Review Officer (Government Deputy minister) Valley Association Kangyan and well-known lawyers, the two Lang both think, should amend the Japanese Personal Information protection law. Of course, these two people also talked about amending the "prerequisite" of personal privacy regulations, that is, to make full use of anonymity technology, and to make a reasonable application of large data rules.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)