On the 14th, an expert meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan announced a draft report on information and communication policy, requiring efforts to build an AI basic model that reflects Japanese culture in order to facilitate its use by Japanese people. This is because if the learning data of AI is biased towards Anglo-American culture, the accuracy of the answers may be reduced when used in Japan. The draft also emphasizes that it is also important to improve Japan's research and development environment in the context of an increasingly fierce competition for AI-related talents. The draft also requires working with the international community to promote the construction of rules for the online virtual space "metaverse". (Kinshi)