🗼 Tokyo Events: August 9–15, 2026
Upcoming events · August 9 – August 15, 2026
🗼 Tokyo is alive this week — from live concerts in Shinjuku to summer matsuri in Minato, here are the best things happening around the city August 9–15. Hand-picked for curious locals and visitors alike.
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AI Ethics
Tokyo's metropolitan AI guidelines give public servants practical direction for adopting AI across agencies and engaging diverse stakeholders. Consider how human responsibility, privacy, explainability, and access for residents using different languages carry through from policy to deployment.
- Tokyo AI Adoption and Use Guidelines / Tokyo Metropolitan Government · Bureau of Digital Services
The metropolitan framework covers appropriate AI adoption in government and engagement with diverse stakeholders.
- AI Ethics / Mark Coeckelbergh · MIT Press
An accessible introduction to accountability, values, and the social effects of AI beyond technology hype.
Upcoming events
Community spotlight
Amnesty International Japan
Amnesty International is the largest human rights NGO in the world which has over three million memberships in 150 countries and regions. It was praised for its accomplishment and was awarded Novel Peace Prize in 1977. Amnesty was founded by people who have got together with desire to learn and share human rights issues and help people suffering from those problems. Amnesty International Japan envisions a world in which every person has his/her human rights defended while not suffering from human rights abuses caused by conflicts, poverty, torture, discrimination, etc.
Business spotlight
Kenja AI – Your Content x Secure AI x Output the Way You Want
Kenja AI is a Tokyo-based AI startup that lets individuals and businesses create content with secure, enterprise-grade AI — on their own terms. Your content, your rules, your output.
Official source for Kenja AI – Your Content x Secure AI x Output the Way You Want
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