Japanese Prime Minister: Web3 will drive local innovation and a new future of global cooperation

ChainCatcher News: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stated at WebX Asia 2025, "To further support innovative technologies, the Japanese government is strengthening the 'Five-Year Plan for Startup Development.' This plan focuses on Web3, AI, the digital industry, the creative industry, and the application transformation of AI in manufacturing, agriculture, and the fishery industry. At the upcoming Osaka Kansai Expo, Web3 technology will also be practically applied to further promote its social experiments and innovative potential. Future history books will record the 2020s as the starting point of a new round of industrial revolution, with Web3 and AI being the core technologies of this wave of revolution."