The unified e-sports organization JeSU has been launched

 ■The unified e-sports organization JeSU has been launched        The founding presentation of the Japan e-Sports Union (JeSU), a corporation, has been held in Shinjuku. It is the launch of a unified organization for e-sports.Through the cooperation of the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) and the Japan Online Game Association (JOGA), JeSU was founded through the integration of the Japanese e-Sports Association (JeSPA), the e-Sports Promotion Organization, and the Japan e-Sports Federation.I was...

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The content meeting at the intellectual-property headquarters has started

 ■The content meeting at the intellectual-property headquarters has startedThe content meeting in the IP headquarters committee has started. I am serving as chairman.The topic this time is the overseas expansion of content. We are reviewing government policy.Since the IP headquarters were founded in 2003, the policies have thickened, and the export value of content has more than doubled. We can make the evaluation that results are showing. The export value of content:In the past five years (2011 to 2016; 2010 to 2015 for broadcasting)Film...

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A new round has started in the intellectual-property headquarters

 ■A new round has started in the intellectual-property headquarters The committee in the intellectual-property headquarters has convened, and a new round has started. We are refining our short- and long-term strategies regarding content and industrial property rights. I am serving as the chairman. These were my greetings at the start.“The fact that the Prime Minister appeared dressed as Super Mario in the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics is a manifestation of the stance that moving towards the Tokyo Olympics, Japan places importance...

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Recommendations for an ultra-free society 7: Can the bureau director be AI?

 ■Recommendations for an ultra-free society 7: Can the bureau director be AI?          　What jobs are suitable for me? If I were reborn, what would I like to become?　I think at the start, I would probably choose to be a bureaucrat again. That’s because a bureaucrat is a generalist, which is suitable for an ultra-free society. Also, the path after the bureaucracy is a wide one. After leaving the bureaucracy, I went onto the paths of education and business. Not descending from heaven (a Japanese term referring to...

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Recommendations for an ultra-free society 6: Recommendations for an ultra-free society 5: Quickly do the work for me

■Recommendations for an ultra-free society 6: Recommendations for an ultra-free society 5: Quickly do the work for me    　Try imagining what you would do in an ultra-free society, rather than what other people would do.　Specialists’ jobs will be taken by specialized AI, and generalists will have the advantage. Try recklessly planning and fantasizing, and polishing your skills. Put on more pairs of straw sandals. 　After that, it’s a revolution in the way you play. Distribute your time among e-sports, live comedy, or guerrilla...

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Recommendations for an ultra-free society 5: Quickly do the work for me

■Recommendations for an ultra-free society 5: Quickly do the work for me         　The English word “content” started being used in Japanese in 1993, 25 years ago. With digitization, devices became multimedia, and distribution networks started to be bundled up into the Internet. Information services like those for movies, games, music, news, and books that had been scattered until then were now circulated as one. This concept was created based on that.　High hopes are being set on the content industry....

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Recommendations for an ultra-free society 4: How many pairs of straw sandals are you wearing?

■Recommendations for an ultra-free society 4: How many pairs of straw sandals are you wearing?            　As digitization and the transition to smart technology move ahead, as well as people’s return to urban areas, we become a mobile society. Kenro Hayamizu’s “Where to Live in Tokyo?” argues that as the concentration of people away from outside urban areas and towards inner-city areas continues, the ability to move and to change one’s location is becoming an important ability.Richard Florida’s “Who’s Your City?”...

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Recommendations for an ultra-free society 3: A mosaic-style way to work

■Recommendations for an ultra-free society 3: A mosaic-style way to work         　The ultra-free society will lead to a revolution in the way we work and play.　If general AI appears on the scene, we will be able to get by with only 10% of the population working. 90% of today’s jobs will be handled by AI or robots. That will actually increase production, and we will be able to distribute the fruits and live on basic income. I can see a future like that. 　But it’s difficult to anticipate what it looks like when...

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