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Japan foresees widespread government GenAI use by 2027

( January 14, 2026, 03:56 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A survey by Japan’s Digital Agency published on Tuesday said about 90 percent of government agencies were using generative artificial intelligence by September 2025, without any reported risk incidents. Of the agencies using it, 10 percent said they were using models trained for specific administrative tasks or data search, using technology such as retrieval-augmented generation, while the rest were using general-purpose models from Amazon and Anthropic. The Digital Agency, which is responsible for the government digital transformation, plans test adoption of domestically developed LLMs run on a government cloud by summer — with widespread use by 2027.Reports and study findings (all in Japanese) attached....

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