The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

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.

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has approved subsidies of up to 72.5 billion yen in total to five companies to improve computational resources for AI development, under the Economic Security Promotion Act. The initiative designates cloud programmes as specified critical products, aiming to strengthen domestic AI infrastructure, reduce reliance on foreign cloud providers, and ensure resilient generative AI service provision in Japan.

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

A compilation of issues to be addressed due to the advent of generative AI, while maintaining the basic strategies and principles that have already been established.

This project aims to establish a methodology for building next-generation generative AI models that ensure transparency and reliability, while accumulating a series of knowledge and experiences.

Council of experts to discuss issues related to AI

This report is written how governments, businesses, and civil society can create a better world by reimagining governance.

This report provides the result of discussion of ideal approaches to AI governance in Japan for the purpose of operationalizing the Japanese AI Principles by the Expert Group on How AI Principles Should be Implemented (former the Expert Group on Architecture for AI Principles to be Practiced), organized by the METI.