Smart City Projects

Care and welfare robots developed by Japanese companies. Addresses aging society and labor shortage. Examples include Pepper and Paro. Increasing products with human interaction and emotion recognition. Solution item for Japan's super-aging society challenges.

A smart city project in Kashiwa, Chiba, developed through collaboration between Mitsui Fudosan, the University of Tokyo, and Chiba University. Built on three pillars of energy management, healthy longevity, and new industry creation, it demonstrates next-generation urban models using AI and IoT. Selected as a national smart city model, it represents Japan's approach to future urban living.

Future-oriented urban development leveraging technology, including Toyota's Woven City and NTT's smart city vision. Urban planning integrating IoT, AI, and autonomous driving technologies is underway. These projects aim to solve challenges of an aging society and build sustainable urban models.

Public-private partnership smart city project in Toyota City. Integrates autonomous vehicles, MaaS, IoT aiming human-centered urban design. Next-generation city vision led by Toyota. Focuses on data utilization, real-time optimization, citizen participation in urban design.

Japan-wide 5G infrastructure deployment by NTT DoCoMo and regional NTT entities, serving as the foundation for autonomous vehicles, smart factories, remote surgery, and AR/VR applications. Looking toward quantum communication evolution, it represents the cutting edge of Japan's telecommunications infrastructure advancement.

A connected city under construction by Toyota in Kashiwa, Chiba, integrating autonomous vehicles, AI-controlled infrastructure, hydrogen energy, and robot services. Spanning 175 hectares with approximately 2,000 residents, it serves as a prototype for experimental future urban living, showcasing Japan's vision of human-centric smart cities.

A vision for a super-smart society advocated by the Japanese government. It aims to create a human-centered society that balances economic development with solving social challenges by deeply integrating cyberspace and physical space. It is positioned as the fifth societal model following hunting, agrarian, industrial, and information societies.