Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released the “2026 White Paper on Information and Communications” on the 24th. Based on the 2025 survey data, the white paper indicates that the usage rate of generative artificial intelligence among individuals in Japan has risen sharply compared to 2024, but the overall share has not exceeded 60%. According to the data, the usage rate of personal generative AI in Japan was 58.8%, while the usage rate in the US and Germany remained the same, reaching 75.6%. In terms of frequency of use, only 29.9% of users in Japan use generative AI almost every day; this share is also lower than that of the US and Germany. Judging from usage scenarios, Japanese people mainly use text generation AI tools such as ChatGPT developed by the US Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center, mostly for office affairs and information retrieval; other types of generative AI services such as voice generation, music creation, and code generation all have a user penetration rate of less than 10%.

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