Japan is currently looking for ways to bring their struggling economy ahead. One of those ways could be using blockchain technologies and digital currencies. But, this would not really be in the interest of the government and the national central bank because they have done inflationary money politics since almost three decades and I doubt they want to give control away.
Japan is very promising and has high hope for bitcoin. Experts says that bitcoin could explode in Japan and will make Japan and may compete with China as the leading Bitcoin giant in Asia. Being proud of bitcoin 2.0 experiment results Japan will soon starts the full blast in token economy. This is good news to all bitcoin users. With this event coming at hand expect increase of bitcoins monetary value.