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While there is a plan to set up a panel in April, the Japanese government is also launching a pilot program for the digital yen in the same month. As the race for digital currencies intensifies, the Japanese government is considering launching a panel to examine the practicality of the digital yen. The Finance Ministry is reportedly considering creating an expert panel in April to examine the feasibility of issuing the digital yen. Since the Bank of Japan began research on CBDC in 2020,...

Japanese lawmakers are pushing for the adoption of the new CBDC system and the development of the digital yen in the next three years in order to counter the failing fiat currency system.Led by the head of the Banking and Finance Systems Research Commission at the JLD party Kozo Yakamoto, Japanese lawmakers are pushing for the country to digitize their systems by adopting CBDC. According to Yakamoto, the country should be in the line of creating a Yen Central Bank Digital Currency in the next...