This page summarizes Minister Matsumoto's press conference on November 18, 2025. It reports on the FY2025 "Autumn Review" and the "Administrative Reform Student Ideathon Hackathon" award ceremony. The review recommended better categorization of business items, setting short and medium-term outcomes, clarifying the "3-year rule" for funds, and horizontal deployment of successful local government practices. The minister also announced the launch of the Japan Dashboard's GDP statistics dashboard, an in-house digital agency project providing easily understandable economic data visualizations. Finally, he informed about My Number Portal backend system maintenance scheduled for December 6-8 and December 31-January 2 to enhance flexibility, scalability, and stability.
