From The Newspaper (116) Generative AI (57)
From The Newspaper(116) Generative AI (57)
[AI’s effects : Worst 10 and Best 10] (27)
Best #3: A.I. can solve labor shortages. (14)
(What’s the difference between Tokyo and local cities?)
Recently, he watched a DVD featuring how to revitalize the Japanese economy after Covid-19. In the program, the lecturer, an economist and the president of an online business school, showed some new business ideas. They are as follows:
[Type of business] [Laws/Regulations which should be relaxed] [Direction of new businesses]
・Gas Station – the Fire Service Act – On the premises of a gas station, a convenience store or a distribution hub electricity and hydrogen stations for cars can be constructed.
・Drugstore – the Pharmaceutical Affair Law – Electric prescriptions can change the efficiency dramatically. A doctor sends their patients their prescriptions, and patients can receive drugs at a drugstore nearby using their smartphone.
・Agriculture – the Farming Land Law, the Immigration Law, etc. – Using a huge amount of money from Agricultural Cooperatives, new systems can be made ~ farmers from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, etc. can come and study how to make rice, then, they can run their new rice farmlands in Japan.
・Fishing – the Fisheries Act – Fishermen from Taiwan, China, Russia will be able to unload their fish load to fishing ports in this country.
・Resorts – the Resort Development Law – There are a lot of detailed regulations when you want to develop new resorts. Relaxing them will make new businesses.
・Convenience store- the Immigration Law – To increase labor from abroad in order to solve worker shortage.
・Employment Agency – a law by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare – Privatization of job offerings and job hunting will give more chances to both job offers and job seekers.
・Taxi – the Road Transportation Law – The driver’s license for taxis should be decided by local governments depending on their lack of those services.
・Distribution – the Freight Transportation Law – To use ‘idle economy’ ~ the use of neighborhood associations to transport for the last one mile.
・Drone – the Aviation Law, the Road Traffic Law – To use drones to transport for the last one mile.
・All industry – Add ‘e’ to every industry and think what you can do for your business and new businesses.
The DVD was published in June, 2020, and some of them were already implemented. For example, now in convenience stores a lot of foreign workers are working.
About the ‘e’ of the last one. ‘E’ is the abbreviation of ‘electronic’. At one time, the word ‘e-commerce’ became trendy. It meant to sell and buy things through the internet. Now we don’t use this word because buying and selling on the internet has become normal. We don’t use ‘e’ anymore because using the internet is normal now.
And, Chat GPT has appeared.
If the lecturer makes this list now, maybe he will say to add to all industry ‘AI’, and think about how to change their business model more efficiently and about new businesses.
(To be continued)
No.602 (2025.2.27)
