<p>Japan's government is likely to create a planned new digital technology agency by autumn 2021, the <em>Nikkei </em>newspaper reported on Friday.</p>.<p>To prepare for the launch of the new agency, the government will create a committee that may be headed by an expert from the private sector, the paper said without citing sources.</p>.<p>Creating a new agency overseeing the digitalisation of administrative procedures has been among key pledges of new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who was officially elected to become prime minister on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Japan's government is likely to create a planned new digital technology agency by autumn 2021, the <em>Nikkei </em>newspaper reported on Friday.</p>.<p>To prepare for the launch of the new agency, the government will create a committee that may be headed by an expert from the private sector, the paper said without citing sources.</p>.<p>Creating a new agency overseeing the digitalisation of administrative procedures has been among key pledges of new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who was officially elected to become prime minister on Wednesday.</p>