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On June 12, 2018, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting of the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters at the Prime Minister’s Office.
 
At the meeting, the Intellectual Property Strategy Vision and the Intellectual Property Strategic Program 2018 was approved.
 
Based on the discussion, the Prime Minister said,
 
“Today, we approved the new Intellectual Property Strategy Vision as well as the Intellectual Property Strategic Program 2018.
 
Through revolutionary innovations, the world is now undergoing phenomenal transformation towards Society 5.0; the importance of intellectual property is becoming more significant. At the same time, intellectual property itself is also gradually changing, incorporating diverse values.
 
In anticipation of such changes in the times, we will envision and design new values and promote them to the world. With the determination of that, Japan will lead the world as a cutting-edge intellectual property-based nation going forward. I would like the relevant ministries and agencies to work as one and move resolutely toward the execution of bold and concrete policies, including strengthening support for small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, developing highly-creative human resources, providing support for the overseas expansion of Japan’s high-quality agricultural produce and contents, and further spread the Cool Japan strategy across the world.”