Taira Masaaki, former Minister for Digital Affairs: “If you create a PT, it almost becomes national policy” — At T4IS2026, he explains the proposal for the “AI On-Chain Finance Initiative PT” after the holidays and Japan’s version of Project Glasswing
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Masaaaki Taira delivered a keynote at T4IS2026 outlining Japan's push on AI, on-chain finance, and national cybersecurity, and emphasized that party project teams (PTs) often become national policy. The government kicked off a Japan version of Project Glasswing, led from the Financial Services Agency and involving banks, exchanges, NCO and AISI to harden financial-sector cyber defenses with participation from global AI firms. A new AI on-chain finance PT will publish policy proposals after the holiday, exploring stablecoins and legal/operational changes to enable agent-driven on-chain finance. The ruling party also released an AI white paper proposing a roughly ¥1 trillion public–private investment in AI×robotics and additional measures for agentic, vertical, education, and defense AI use cases.
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