UK-Japan Digital Partnership
A framework for deeper UK-Japan collaboration across digital infrastructure and technologies, data, digital regulation and digital transformation.
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Update: UK-Japan Digital Partnership: joint statement 2025 published
This joint statement is a collaboration between the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), and three ministries in Japan: the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC), the Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the Digital Agency (DA).
It highlights cooperation over the last 12 months under all four pillars of the Digital Partnership Agreement (2022), and it outlines priorities for 2025. The sectors referenced include Semiconductors, AI, Future Telecoms, Data, Digital Technical Standards and Digital Government Transformation.
The joint statement was agreed at a Digital Ministerial Council meeting on 22 January 2025.
Background
The UK-Japan Digital Partnership is based on shared values and builds on existing collaboration arrangements. Progress will be driven by an annual Director General-level steering board, which will monitor progress and make recommendations to an annual Ministerial Council.
It is led by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Japan’s Ministry for Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC), Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Japan’s Digital Agency (DA).
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Published 7 December 2022Last updated 23 January 2025 + show all updates
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UK-Japan Digital Partnership joint statement (January 2025) published.
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UK-Japan Digital Partnership progress report published.
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First published.