TOKYO -- When the New Context Conference kicked off in Tokyo on Aug. 11, it almost looked like an official curtain-raiser for Japan's new Digital Agency, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's proposed solution to the bureaucratic inefficiencies exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga talks at the launch event of the new Digital Agency in Tokyo on Sept. 1 as Digital Reform Minister Takuya Hirai looks on by video link. (Photo by Uichiro Kasai)
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