The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

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.

Utilizing an AI foundation model and letting the model additionally learn scientific research data (multi-modalization), develop domain-oriented foundation models for scientific research (AI Foundation Models for Science).

Japan’s Roadmap for Smart City Initiatives, issued in 2024 by the Cabinet Office, sets out a phased national framework for advancing smart cities as part of Society 5.0, explicitly incorporating the use of data, AI and large‑scale digital infrastructure—such as platforms supporting data analysis, AI applications and cloud‑based computing—to improve urban management and public services.

This Guidelines are intended to encourage all AI-related stakeholders to take voluntary effort (e.g. build internal AI governance systems)