Japan’s new digital chief to resign over health issues – media

TOKYO (Reuters) – The chief of Japan’s Digital Company, a brand new authorities physique to improve creaking authorities infrastructure, will resign as a result of well being points, native media reported on Saturday.

Yoko Ishikura, a tutorial and administration advisor who previously labored at McKinsey & Firm, was picked as chief digital officer on the new company final September to repair the nation’s gradual progress in digitalization and overhaul the federal government’s outdated forms.

When the company was launched final yr, it reported some customers have been having bother connecting to its web site, and she or he apologised after posting a picture in breach of copyright guidelines.

The federal government plans to contemplate Ishikura’s substitute within the non-public sector, Asahi Shimbun mentioned.

(Reporting by Ju-min Park; Modifying by Kim Coghill)