Will the ``digital garden city-state concept'' lead to an increase in meaningless digitization and poor metaverses?

Is it really possible to digitize rural areas?

The Kishida administration's ``Digital Garden City Nation Plan'' is one of the ``new capitalism'' economic policies, with a budget of 5.7 trillion yen including promotional grants.

Through the use of digital technology, the aim is to accelerate local revitalization by leveraging the uniqueness of each region, achieving breakthroughs in solving local social issues and improving their attractiveness. This is a policy that aims to solve Japan's problems of a declining birthrate and aging population, as well as the hollowing out of rural areas due to excessive concentration in cities, through digitalization.