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生成AIモデルの透明性・信頼性の確保に向けた 研究開発拠点形成
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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.
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)
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).
Council of experts to discuss issues related to AI
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.
