Japan’s Cabinet Office runs the Moonshot Research and Development Program. It describes the program as chōsenteki na kenkyū kaihatsu, challenging research and development based on bolder ideas that are not an extension of what came before. The aim is disruptive innovation that starts in Japan. The state itself sets ambitious goals that are meant to fascinate people.
Goal 1 calls for a society, by 2050, in which people are freed from the limits of body, brain, space and time. Goal 6 calls for a fault-tolerant, general-purpose quantum computer by 2050. In February 2021, the Cabinet Office announced that 47 project managers had been chosen for seven goals.