Microsoft's Japan head thinks the aging country needs AI: ‘We don't have enough people' [Fortune]
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and tech sector by going further, according to Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsusaka. The country's digitalization push got a boost during the pandemic as businesses adapted to new work-from-home arrangements, and Tsusaka believes Japan has made up lost ground after previously being a laggard. “The Japanese have caught up. And I think it will continue to accelerate at this point because the technology enables things that we haven't been able to do,” Tsusaka said in an interview. “ We don't have enough people , our population is aging, and yet generative AI has the power to accelerate growth.” The Microsoft Corp. executive said she's particularly interested in helping skill up more women in the local workforce. It's one of the US company's four focus areas in Japan, headed by a $2.9 billion investment over the next two years to scale up its AI data centers in the country. The announcement of that new funding in April lifted the country's utility and industrial shares on expect
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