Latest
  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Latest / Work and education

PolicyWorkJapanReported

Japan issues provisional guidelines on generative AI in primary and secondary schools

See how this story connects

Source: National Diet Library, Current Awareness PortalAlso reported by National Diet Library, Current Awareness Portal (version 2.0 report)

Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology sent provisional guidelines on generative AI use in primary and secondary education to boards of education on 4 July 2023. They reflect knowledge as of the end of June 2023 and focus on chatbots, and they recommend starting with limited use while strengthening pupils’ information literacy and teachers’ AI literacy. They also cover holiday assignments such as reading reports.

Why it matters

Schools across Japan got a national reference for classroom generative AI in 2023, which the ministry replaced with version 2.0 in December 2024.

When
4 Jul 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0072
Where
Japan
Who
MEXT
Topics
Education

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from National Diet Library, Current Awareness Portal and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at National Diet Library, Current Awareness Portal

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Document the source offers: document 1 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toJapan’s education ministry issues version 2.0 of its generative AI school guidelines

Cite this story

WTA-N-2023-0072: “Japan issues provisional guidelines on generative AI in primary and secondary schools.” wheresthe.ai, 4 Jul 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/jp-mext-genai-school-guidelines-2023-07/ (source: National Diet Library, Current Awareness Portal).

Spotted an error? Email [email protected].