The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has formulated the Global Communication Plan 2025 in order to promote the further sophistication of multilingual translation technologies, such as the realization of concurrent interpretation by AI in 2025.
Name in original language
グローバルコミュニケーション計画2025
Initiative overview
In 2014, MIC formulated the Global Communication Plan with the objective of eliminating global language barriers, and initiatives were begun for research and development and social implementation of multilingual translation technologies of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for 2020.As a result of these efforts, NICTs multilingual translation technologies have seen improvements in translation accuracy and the widening of supported languages, have allowed various translation services to be applied and disseminated, and they have been used in a range of sectors, such as government administration, medical care, transportation and tourism.The initiative has the following objectives:MIC expects rapid growth in multilingual translation technologies in order to strengthen business capabilities in handling discussions and negotiations in person at business and international conferences, to realize an inclusive society with people from other countries against the background of the tourism strategy and policies to accept human resources from other countries being promoted by the entire government, and to improve Japan's presence at the Expo 2025 (Osaka, Kansai).The Global Communication Plan 2025 which outlines policies on new missions, visions, objectives and actions that need to be tackled in cooperation between industry, academia and government, in order to promote research and development for the further sophistication of multilingual translation technologies, such as the realization of concurrent interpretation by AI in 2025, and its social implementation.
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
