Society 5.0: A People-centric Super-smart Society

This chapter elaborates on the general thought process behind Society 5.0 and lists the relevant nomenclature. As per the Japanese government literature, Society 5.0 should be one that, “through the high degree of merging between cyberspace and physical space, will be able to balance economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by providing goods and services that granularly address manifold latent needs regardless of locale, age, sex, or language.” The vision A. Deguchi (*) Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan e-mail: deguchi@edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp C. Hirai Global Center for Social Innovation—Tokyo, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan e-mail: chiaki.hirai.xj@hitachi.com H. Matsuoka Center for Exploratory Research, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan e-mail: hideyuki.matsuoka.ws@hitachi.com T. Nakano Department of Housing and Urban Planning, Building Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan e-mail: nakano@kenken.go.jp K. Oshima Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan e-mail: oshimax@edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp M. Tai System Innovation Center, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan e-mail: mitsuharu.tai.wu@hitachi.com S. Tani Social Systems Engineering Research Department, System Innovation Center, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan e-mail: shigeyuki.tani.dn@hitachi.com The original version of this chapter was revised: This book was inadvertently published with the incorrect license type CC BY 4.0 and the Open Access License has been amended throughout the book to the correct license type CC-BY-NC-ND. The correction to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2989-4_9