The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

Japan’s Artificial Intelligence Basic Plan establishes the government’s policy framework for promoting the research, development and utilisation of AI-related technologies. It sets out basic concepts, policy directions and priority measures, including accelerating AI utilisation, strengthening development capabilities, advancing governance, and promoting societal transformation, together with arrangements for implementation and coordination across government.

This Strategy describes measures that Japan should immediately take to overcome issues Japan faces by leveraging Japan's strengths and to open up opportunities for the future.

AI Guidelines for Business (Ver1.2), issued on 31 March 2026, provide unified guiding principles for AI governance in Japan. They aim to promote the safe and secure use of AI by helping business actors recognise risks and take voluntary countermeasures across the lifecycle, supporting both innovation and risk reduction through cooperation and a risk-based approach.

A flexible subsidy route that supports bespoke equipment, system integration and custom automation/IT investments (including tailored AI systems).

A Japanese national grant programme — a renamed and AI-refocused evolution of the long-running IT Introduction Subsidy — providing SMEs and micro-enterprises with subsidies to purchase and adopt pre-registered IT tools, with AI-enabled tools now prioritised as a core adoption target.