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Japan’s Cabinet adopts its first AI Basic Plan under the AI Promotion Act

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Source: Cabinet OfficeAlso reported by nippon.com (Jiji Press), White & Case

The Cabinet adopted Japan’s first Artificial Intelligence Basic Plan on 23 December 2025 under Article 18 of the AI Promotion Act. It sets four basic policies: faster AI use, stronger AI development capability, leadership in AI governance and a sustainable move to an AI society. It plans to roughly double the staff of Japan’s AI Safety Institute, citing the UK’s AI Security Institute as the benchmark. The AI Strategy Headquarters had adopted a guideline on appropriate AI development and use four days earlier.

Why it matters

Ministries, AI developers and the AI Safety Institute received the statutory policy agenda under the new Act, including the guideline it will use when asking companies to cooperate.

When
23 Dec 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0088
Where
Japan
Who
Cabinet Office, AI Strategy Headquarters, Japan AI Safety Institute
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Cabinet Office and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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

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WTA-N-2025-0088: “Japan’s Cabinet adopts its first AI Basic Plan under the AI Promotion Act.” wheresthe.ai, 23 Dec 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/jp-first-ai-basic-plan-2025-12/ (source: Cabinet Office).

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