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Legal Affairs Promotion of data utilization in digitalisation, laws and ordinances, etc.

We are considering the construction of more efficient and self-directed confirmation processes and systems for laws and ordinances, including new laws and ordinances, and promoting initiatives related to the utilization of laws and ordinances information.
In addition, we are holding the Digital Legislation Working Group under the Digital System Reform Review committee to consider these initiatives.

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Survey and Demonstration on the Development and Utilization of digitalisation and laws and ordinances Databases for Legal Affairs

Fiscal 2023 "Survey and Demonstration on the Development and Utilization of digitalisation and laws and ordinances Databases for Legal Affairs"

In fiscal 2023 (2023), the following items were surveyed and verified as part of the "Survey and Verification of the Development and Utilization of digitalisation and laws and ordinances Database for Legal Affairs" project.

  • Analysis of legal affairs
  • Prototyping and user testing of the legal affairs editor
  • Technical verification of the legal affairs editor
  • Examination and Expansion of laws and ordinances Data Disclosure Function
  • Architecture and data structure verification
  • Survey and Research on the Present and Future of Digital Legislation
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Fiscal 2024 "Survey and Demonstration on the Development and Utilization of digitalisation and laws and ordinances Database for the Second Phase of Legal Affairs"

In FY 2024 (FY 2024), the "Survey and Demonstration on the Development and Utilization of digitalisation and laws and ordinances Databases for the Second Phase of Legal Affairs" project was conducted. For details, please refer to the following materials.

to explain the mechanism of laws and ordinances and the basics of laws and ordinances API so that even people who are not familiar with the

On Friday, March 8, 2024, we will hold a laws and ordinances laws and ordinances × Digital Workshop to explain the mechanism of laws and ordinances and the basics of laws and ordinances API so that even people who are not familiar with the field can start developing services and tools using database. laws and ordinances
We will also introduce the actual situation of "legal affairs", which is difficult to hear usually, and the efforts of laws and ordinances × Digital.

Laws and ordinances API Hackathon

With the aim of developing industry, technology, and policy planning through the use of laws and ordinances and other data, we are working to enhance the laws and ordinances API, which provides information on laws, government and ministerial ordinances, etc. As part of this, we held a hackathon (service development trial event) using the laws and ordinances API prototype from Friday, November 10 to Friday, November 17, 2023, to promote service development using the laws and ordinances API.

Laws and ordinances API Prototype Public Testing

As part of the upgrading of the laws and ordinances API , which provides information on laws, government and ministerial ordinances, we developed a prototype of the expanded functions of the laws and ordinances API (laws and ordinances API prototype).
For the developed laws and ordinances API prototype, we will collect opinions from users of laws and ordinances data and conduct public testing of the laws and ordinances API prototype to promote the creation of new services.

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