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Throughout these multiple generations up to the 1970s, Japan built computers following U.S. and British leads. In the mid-1970s, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry stopped following western leads and started looking into the future of computing on a small scale. They asked the [[Japan Information Processing Development Center]] (JIPDEC) to indicate a number of future directions, and in 1979 offered a three-year contract to carry out more in-depth studies along with industry and academia. It was during this period that the term "fifth-generation computer" started to be used.
Prior to the 1970s, MITI guidance had successes such as an improved steel industry, the creation of the oil [[supertanker]], the [[automotive industry]], consumer electronics, and computer memory. MITI decided that the future was going to be [[information technology]]. However, the [[Japanese language]], particularly in its written form, presented and still presents obstacles for computers.<ref>J. Marshall Unger, ''The Fifth Generation Fallacy'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)</ref> As a result of these hurdles, MITI held a conference to seek assistance from experts.
The primary fields for investigation from this initial project were:
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