Learn in the textbookLaws and Institutions Related to the Digital Society
DefinitionThe Super City Act (スーパーシティ法) is the common name for the scheme, created by amending the National Strategic Special Zones Act, that lets future cities use AI and data to change several areas of daily life together.
ExplanationIt lets regulatory exceptions in fields such as mobility, healthcare and administrative procedures be used together at the same time, across fields. Other features are a data linkage platform (データ連携基盤, also called a city OS) that joins data from each field, and moving forward while checking what residents want. It was introduced by a 2020 amendment.
AnalogyInstead of each shop on a shopping street trying new services on its own, the whole street adopts one shared membership card so every shop is linked by the same data.
Memory hook"Super" means going beyond. Read it as a city that goes beyond the walls between fields and changes them together.