Aiming to Build Future Skills for Society 5.0: Educational DX (Digital Transformation) of University Education in Japan

This chapter focuses on the concept of Society 5.0, which emerged in response to the current trend of rapid internationalization and globalization in Japan. Society 5.0 aims to improve the quality of people’s daily lives and make all diverse generations members of a “smart society” without leaving them behind. Higher education institutions (HEIs)Higher EducationHigher Education Institutions (HEIs) will further promote close collaboration with industry and provide human resource development and education curricula that place the highest priority on the individual Future Skills needed by the rapidly changing society. In order to realize this new challenge, various urgent efforts are needed, including reform of university governance and introduction of curriculum design specialists into the institutional culture in Japan.