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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 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.

These Guidelines are intended to encourage the voluntary consideration of AI users, especially those who provide AI services to others (AI service providers) and those who use AI systems (business users).

These Guidelines are prepared as a basis for international discussions at G7 and OECD regarding matters expected to be considered in R&D activities for promoting the benefits and reducing the risks of AI.

This Guideline summarizes what to do to put the Social Principles of Human-Centric AI (decided by the Council for Integrated Innovation Strategy) into practice.

An expert group in a wide variety of fields, including law, economics, technologies and businesses, has held discussions on the need for new governance models to pursue both the promotion of innovation and the achievement of social value, as well as ideal approaches thereto as Japanese society is facing dramatic changes brought about by big data, IoT, AI and other digital technologies.

To gather top researchers and promote R&D for innovative fundamental technology and also promote implementation.

This Guidebook shows how we can introduce AI to SMEs.

The Principles contain the fundamentals of what each stakeholder should keep in mind in order for AI to be accepted and properly used by society.

The Quad countries (Australia, India, Japan, and the United States of America) affirm that the ways in which technology is designed, developed, governed, and used should be shaped by our shared democratic values and respect for universal human rights.

This Guideline establishes a basis for quality goals for ML-based products/services utilizing AI.

This Guideline provides the methodology to fulfill AI's desired quality in terms of safety and productivity enhancement, in order to promote the usage of AI in the field of plants where safety is considered vital.

This Guideline is reference for businesses that explains approaches to concluding [i] contracts for utilization of data or [ii] contracts for the development and utilization of software using AI technology.

This multi-stakeholder (industry, academia, consumer organisation and government) conference body discusses issues that the development and deployment of AI network may bring to the society.

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 report aims to tackle the concept of agile governance and analyse how it can be implemented into the Japanese society.

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.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) together with the French National Research Agency (ANR, France), and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, Japan) is announcing the first trilateral call for research proposals on Artificial Intelligence (AI).