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The Strategic Headquarters for the Promotion of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society (IT Strategic Headquarters)
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In light of the urgency to adapt ourselves to the world's rapid and drastic changes in the socio-economic structure caused by the utilization of information and telecommunications technology, in order to promote measures for forming an advanced information and telecommunications network society expeditiously and intensively, in January 2001, the Strategic Headquarters for the Promotion of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society (IT Strategic Headquarters) was established within the Cabinet.
Please click HERE to take a look at the history of the IT policy of the Government Headquarters.


 Foundation / Members
Basic Act on the Formation of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society (Act No.144 of 2000) [Summary] [Full Text]
Members [PDF]
Basic Act on the Advancement of Public and Private Sector Data Utilization (Act No.103 of 2016)Outline[PDF] [Full Text]
 Major Steps and Decisions Taken
June 7, 2019Public-Private ITS Initiative/Roadmaps 2019[PDF]
June 15, 2018Public-Private ITS Initiative/Roadmaps 2018[PDF]
May 30, 2017Declaration to be the World's Most Advanced IT Nation: Basic Plan for the Advancement of Public and Private Sector Data Utilization [Summary (PDF)] [Full Text (PDF)]
May 30, 2017Public-Private ITS Initiative/Roadmaps 2017 [PDF]
May 20, 2016Declaration to be the World's Most Advanced IT Nation [Summary (PDF)] [Full Text (PDF)]
May 20, 2016Public-Private ITS Initiative/Roadmaps 2016 [PDF]
June 30, 2015Declaration to be the World's Most Advanced IT Nation [Summary (PDF)] [Full Text (PDF)]
June 30, 2015Public-Private ITS Initiative/Roadmaps 2015 [PDF]
June 24, 2014Declaration to be the World's Most Advanced IT Nation [PDF]
June 24, 2014Policy Outline of the Institutional Revision for Utilization of Personal Data
[Full Text (PDF)]
June 3, 2014Public-Private ITS Initiative/Roadmaps [PDF]
December 20, 2013Directions on Institutional Revision for Protection and Utilization of Personal Data
[Full Text (PDF)]
October 29, 2013Japan Open Data Charter Action Plan
[Full Text (PDF)] [Main Body (Word)] [Annex (Word)]
June 14, 2013Declaration to be the World's Most Advanced IT Nation [Summary (PDF)] [Full Text (PDF)]
July 4, 2012 Open Government Data Strategy [Summary (PDF / PowerPoint)][Full Text (PDF / Word)]
June 28, 2012Outline of Basic Policy and Action Plan for Building IT Disaster-Management Lifeline [Summary(PDF)] [Full Text(PDF)]
May, 2011Task Force Report on IT Strategy in the Healthcare Field[PDF]
June 22, 2010The New Strategy in Information and Communications Technology (IT) Roadmaps [PDF]
May 11, 2010A New Strategy in Information and Communications Technology (IT) [Summary (PDF)] [Full Text (PDF)]
July 6, 2009i-Japan Strategy 2015 [Summary (PDF)] [Full Text (PDF)]
August 20, 2008Priority Policy Program 2008 [PDF]
July 26, 2007Priority Policy Program 2007 [PDF]
July 26, 2006Priority Policy Program 2006 [PDF]
January 19, 2006New IT Reform Strategy [PDF]
February 24, 2005IT Policy Package - 2005 [PDF]
September 10, 2004Basic Concept on IT International Policy Centered on Asia [PDF]
June 15, 2004e-Japan Priority Policy Program - 2004[Summary] [PDF]
February 6, 2004e-Japan Strategy II Acceleration Package [PDF]
August 8, 2003e-Japan Priority Policy Program - 2003[Summary] [PDF]
July 2, 2003e-Japan Strategy II [PDF]
June 18, 2002e-Japan Priority Policy Program - 2002[Summary]
December 6, 2001Direction for Structural Reform in the IT Sector (Report by the Research Council on IT-related Regulatory Reform)
November 7, 2001Acceleration and Advancement of e-Japan Priority Policy Program and e-Japan 2002 Program - Structural Reform Schedule of IT-related Policy Areas
June 26, 2001e-Japan 2002 Program
March 29, 2001e-Japan Priority Policy Program [Summary] [Full Text]
January 22, 2001e-Japan Strategy [Summary] [Full Text]

 Others
Outline of the Institutional Revision for Utilization of Personal Data
( Revised version of the one submitted to 13th Official Meeting of the Committee on Personal Data, December 19, 2014 )
e-Document Law [Summary] [Full Text]
(Law Governing the Use of Information and Communications Technology in the Preservation of Documents that Private Businesses Perform)
Utilization of IT for disaster prevention
(Drawing on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, developing the "Guidelines on IT lifeline for Disaster Management")

 Contact Details
National Strategy office of Information and Communications Technology, Cabinet Secretariat
Shoyukaikan Bldg.,. 3-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,100-0013, Japan
TEL +81-3-5253-2111