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Japan offers AI tool to help draft parliamentary answers

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Source: Digital Agency, Japan

Japan’s Digital Agency began providing a prototype AI application for drafting Diet answers to about 180,000 government staff through Government AI Gennai. The tool uses generative AI to search and organise information, generate draft answers and support checking of content. The prototype will be tested in the 222nd extraordinary Diet session, with full provision planned from the ordinary session starting next January.

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The Digital Agency says the tool aims to cut staff time spent searching documents, organising information and checking notation and consistency, while staff stay responsible for checking against source material and for the final answer.

When
29 Oct 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0552
Where
Japan
Who
Digital Agency

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WTA-N-2026-0552: “Japan offers AI tool to help draft parliamentary answers.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Oct 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/jp-japan-offers-ai-tool-to-help-draft-parliamentary-answers-2026-10/ (source: Digital Agency, Japan).

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