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Solution Matching
Theme (1) Tourism
As the annual number of foreigners visiting Japan is expected to reach 20 million by 2020, it is important to promote tourism
spending and take it as an opportunity to increase the Japanese economy and vitalize regions by increasing the number of
inbound tourists. METI plans to implement demonstration projects to develop the environment to promote consumption by
improving the satisfaction of foreign tourists for their entire stay from entry through departure using IoT in FY 2016 (requesting
funds from the FY 2016 budget for the project).
The specific plan is to establish a platform that links information on foreigners visiting Japan, including their movements,
transportation used, meals, accommodations, and payments, to their ID information.
The first theme-based event for Project Organization and Company Collaboration aims to promote the creation and public
implementation of new businesses which utilize the platform.
Solve problems for foreign tourists and improve overall satisfaction
● Provision of information, such as the best
places to eat, based on information on the
religion and allergies of each tourist
● Attribute information
● Payment information
● Passports
Hotel
Payment
Registration
ID linkage
Entry
Platform for promoting
activities of consumers
Airport
Departure
Public
institution
● Provision of necessary information in tourists’
mother tongues
● Report information on the safety of tourists to
embassies in the case of a disaster
Information
linkage
Shopping
● Issuance of common coupons
● Delivery of purchased goods using the hotel
addresses of tourists, realizing sightseeing
without the need to carry baggage
Sightseeing
spots
●Provision of information on tourists’ favorite
sightseeing spots, inferred from information on
their interests and tastes
●Multilingual tour guides
Solution Matching
Theme (2) Manufacturing (smart factories)
As significant changes in the added value obtained from the manufacturing industries emerge through policy platforms such as Industry
4.0 in Germany and the Industrial Internet in the U.S., it is also important for Japan’s manufacturing industries not only to improve their
productivity and reduce costs at manufacturing sites in Japan but also to establish new systems to increase the added value of products
and services. METI plans to develop the necessary environment and tools for this and conduct demonstration projects to examine their
effectiveness in FY 2016 (requesting funds from the FY 2016 budget for the projects).
The specific plan is to establish information systems linking machines, processes, factories, and companies.
This event aims to encourage business operators to participate in this efforts to create and publicly implement these systems.
An example of a demonstration project
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Non-manufacturers
(ex. consumers, and manufacturing ventures)
External input B
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Selection and set-up of production lines and orders through a browser
Manufacturers of tooling machines and robots
Transmission of functional
information on facilities and
monitoring and maintenance of
facilities through a browser
System integrators
Simulation and operation of production lines
through a browser
Production management departments of companies
Monitoring facilities and rearrangement and
operation of processes (lines) through a browser
Schedule
Step 1
Accept application forms (multiple applications allowed)
Step 2
Create the list of outlines of entities such as companies and
company groups applying for matching
Step 3
Register entities which other participants hope to be matched
with (multiple registrations allowed)
Step 4
Using information provided by the secretariat, select
companies to make appointments for the day of the event
Step 5
The secretariat is to send event invitations to successful
matching candidates
Step 6
Conduct individual matching on the day of the matching event
Solution Matching

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