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Cabinet Office of Japan

Japan

Japanese executive office coordinating science, technology and AI promotion policy around Act No. 53 of 2025.

Policy questions

Recorded interests
Institutional design

Should states prefer AI promotion statutes to horizontal bans?

Japan’s Act No. 53 of 2025 promotes AI development and directs guidelines. Whether that model outcompetes bans-heavy statutes remains contested.

Policy asks

Connected outcomes
in-force

Enact AI promotion statutes that direct national guidelines

Pass promotion-focused AI legislation that treats AI as foundational technology and requires government guidelines aligned with international norms.

Policy vehicles

regulation · In force

Japan AI Promotion Act (Act No. 53 of 2025)

Japanese statute promoting AI research, development and utilization and directing national guidelines.

Event history

Recorded actions
  1. 2025-06-04
    Japan enacts AI Promotion Act

    Act No. 53 of 2025 on AI-related technology promotion was enacted.

Evidence

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Japan’s AI Promotion Act frames AI as fundamental economic and social technology

Article 1 states the statute’s purpose around research, development and utilization of AI-related technology.

a fundamental technology for the development of Japan's economy and society
Japanese Law Translation · Act No. 53 of 2025 · Article 1 (purpose clause, Japanese Law Translation)
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Japan’s AI Promotion Act directs national guidelines aligned with international norms

Article 13 requires the national government to establish guidelines in accordance with the purport of international norms.

The national government is to establish guidelines in accordance with the purport of the international norms…
Japanese Law Translation · Act No. 53 of 2025 · Article 13