Japan is turning to AI coding tools as demographic decline and legacy infrastructure create software engineering demand. The report cites Cognition AI president Russell Kaplan, saying Japan is among the company’s top user-engagement markets and describing Cognition AI’s Tokyo expansion. The story notes Japan’s projected working-age population decline by over 30% between now and 2060 and a METI estimate of a 789,000 software engineer shortage by 2030. It also describes a compliance modernization use case: Sapporo’s city government modernized more than one million lines of legacy code using Devin in roughly a quarter of the expected engineering time. For higher education, this raises pressure to build AI-enabled computing curricula and workforce pathways that translate into government and critical infrastructure modernization—not just classroom coding exercises.