Godzilla is approaching a crowded city, and there is roughly an hour to get people to safety. At CEATEC 2026, Fujitsu turns that fictional emergency into a demonstration of technology that could help planners prepare for real catastrophes. The Godzilla-themed experience gives visitors an accessible introduction to the company’s Social Digital Twin technology.
The setting may seem amusing, but the problem behind it is serious. Japan faces significant earthquake and tsunami risks, making evacuation preparedness a practical concern. Getting large numbers of people out of danger requires understanding how they might move and respond when circumstances change.
Fujitsu’s scenario takes place around Kawasaki Station during “KAWASAKI FESTIVAL,” with crowds filling the area. Godzilla has landed from Tokyo Bay and is expected to arrive approximately 60 minutes later.
Visitors experience a “digital rehearsal” that simulates evacuating festival participants and other people to safe locations. This is a technology demonstration, using a fictional threat to illustrate how evacuation measures could be evaluated, with the help of Digital Twins technologies, before an actual emergency.
A digital twin is a computer-based representation of something in the physical world, built using real-world data. It can help users explore how a system might behave under different conditions.
Fujitsu extends that concept beyond equipment and buildings to include people’s behavior and social activities. Its Social Digital Twin combines AI with insights from behavioral economics to model how people make decisions, including choices that do not follow purely rational calculations.
Applied to the CEATEC experience, this means recreating people’s movements and urban conditions digitally, then simulating different evacuation strategies. The purpose is to help decision-makers examine the effects of their options before putting them into practice. For visitors, Godzilla provides a memorable way to understand why modeling human behavior matters to disaster planning.
The technology’s backstory goes back to 2021, when Fujitsu began researching Social Digital Twin technologies to address complex social challenges. In 2023, it announced digital rehearsal technology and began a trial with shared-mobility operator Beryl on Britain’s Isle of Wight. That project explored how changes to scooter availability and pricing incentives could affect travel choices, operating costs, and carbon emissions. The underlying idea was already the same: test a proposed measure digitally before implementing it.
CEATEC attendees can explore Fujitsu’s Godzilla evacuation demonstration at booth 6H251 in Hall 6, at Makuhari Messe. The show runs through October 16, offering visitors a chance to see how a virtual monster attack can explain a very real challenge in urban safety.
Become Godzilla With GODZILLA in MOTION
Fujitsu’s booth also lets visitors take on the role of Godzilla and destroy a virtual city. Attendees move their bodies, while skeleton-recognition AI captures those movements in real time and translates them into Godzilla’s actions on screen. The experience demonstrates how Fujitsu turns human movement into data that can control a digital character.
The technology behind the experience is called skeleton-recognition AI. Here, “skeleton” refers to a digital representation of a person’s body pose, allowing software to track movement. Fujitsu uses that movement data to animate the virtual character. Beyond entertainment, the company identifies sports, manufacturing, education, and healthcare as fields where skeleton recognition is finding applications.
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