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This concept was introduced in 2019 in the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan for Japanese Government as a blueprint for a forthcoming societal framework.
The date is wrong: Japan’s Cabinet Office says Society 5.0 was first proposed in the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan on January 22, 2016, not in 2019.
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Japan’s Cabinet Office page on Society 5.0 states that “In the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan (Cabinet decision of January 22, 2016), Society 5.0 was first proposed”. The same page explains that the 6th plan, adopted on March 26, 2021, later elaborated the concept.
That directly contradicts the article’s statement that the concept was introduced in 2019 in the 5th plan. The 5th plan was a 2016 cabinet decision, so 2019 is not the year in which Society 5.0 was introduced there.
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- Society 5.0 | Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
In the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan (Cabinet decision of January 22, 2016), Society 5.0 was first proposed...
- Society 5.0 - 科学技術政策 - 内閣府
第5期科学技術基本計画（平成28年1月22日閣議決定）において、... Society 5.0が初めて提唱されました。