Every AI Policy Ever · open in the interactive register
In forceBinding · Guidelines / framework
The Guideline for Japanese Government's Procurements and Utilizations of Generative AI for the sake of Evolution and Innovation of Public Administration
行政の進化と革新のための生成AIの調達・利活用に係るガイドライン
Record JP-13 · DS-920
- Issued by
- Executive Board of the Council for the Promotion of a Digital Society (prepared by the Digital Agency)
- Jurisdiction
- Japan
- Level · region
- National · East Asia
- Published / adopted
- 2025-05-27
- Last updated
- 2026-06-12
- Language
- Japanese
- Official identifier
- DS-920
Summary
Government-wide rules, decided by the executive board of the Council for the Promotion of a Digital Society, for procuring and using generative AI in government information systems, to promote its use and manage its risks together. They cover, in principle, generative AI taking text and audio input and producing text, images or audio; systems such as AI agents fall only under the governance framework. Each ministry appoints a Chief AI Officer (CAIO), who with planners classifies the risk of each use case, using a high-risk AI project finder, and reports likely high-risk uses to the Advanced AI Utilization Advisory Board. Rules cover planning, procurement, development, operation and use.
Language
English translation by Digital Agency (provisional translation) Open it. The Japanese text is authoritative.
Safety topics
public-sector userisk-based classificationaccountability & liability
Status notes
A normative document of the Digital Society Promotion Standard Guidelines that ministries must follow; the Digital Agency prepared it with METI, MIC and others. The first edition of 27 May 2025 covered text-generating AI, applied in full to systems procured or used from fiscal year 2026 (令和8年度) and replaced the government's agreement on the business use of generative AI such as ChatGPT (version 2.1). Version 2.0, decided on 12 June 2026, came into effect on 1 September 2026, with the CAIO measures to be set by 30 June 2026 and the wider scope of the governance framework applying from 1 July 2026. It widened the generative AI covered, revised the high-risk criteria, referred to the AI Promotion Act, the AI Basic Plan and the Guideline for Ensuring the Appropriateness of Research & Development and Utilization of AI-Related Technology, and added measures for AI agents that users create, major model updates and intellectual property. Systems handling specially designated secrets or security-sensitive information are excluded; independent administrative agencies and designated corporations are expected to follow it.
Local copy
Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-18 00:46:04 UTC
Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/JP-13/2026-10-18/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-18 00:46:07 UTC
SHA-256 644b64dbd163990186a69380b063370441cd4ce4703c97915fb640c174be0f5d
Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/JP-13/2026-10-18/document-1.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-18 00:46:09 UTC
SHA-256 5ec5ca32c913202bf4052674c73930b7b3486e5bfe77f55c9d28e342cf7205ad
Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/JP-13/2026-10-18/document-2.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-18 00:46:11 UTC
SHA-256 dbe4497a86bbd1c9ccd9c9c0ba5483bb8cc20c0b70569f7482cfc9d08e09175f
Verification
AThe instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched
Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. Stored and read: the Digital Agency's news page on version 2.0 (digital.go.jp, 公開日 2026年6月12日; copy of 18 Oct 2026), which reports the executive board's decision of 12 June 2026 and links the documents; the Digital Society Promotion Standard Guidelines page (copy of 18 Oct 2026), whose DS-920 entry gives 策定日または最終改定日：2026年6月12日 and Normative; the Japanese text of version 2.0 (64 pages, 2026 年（令和８年）6 月 12 日, デジタル社会推進会議幹事会決定, with revision history and supplementary provisions) and the Digital Agency's English provisional translation of it ('June 12, 2026'); and the news page on the first decision of 27 May 2025, which now says it does not show the latest version, with the Japanese first edition and its English provisional translation. They confirm the title, the Japanese title, the issuer, the identifier, the dates, the normative status, the effective date of 1 September 2026 and the content; the summary is checked against the Japanese text of version 2.0, with terms as the government's translation renders them. official_url now points to the news page on version 2.0, because the page on the first decision says it is not the latest version. The archiver also stored, from the standard guidelines page, an unrelated Digital Agency checklist on public relations.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 10 field(s) supported.
History
- 2026-10-18notes: A normative document of the Digital Society Promotion Standard Guidelines that m → A normative document of the Digital Society Promotion Standard Guidelines that m — the supplementary provisions of version 2.0 (CAIO measures by 30 June 2026, governance-framework scope from 1 July 2026) added; the reference to 'the guideline under Article 13 of the AI Act' replaced by the instruments version 2.0 itself names (section 1.1), since the stored text does not cite Article 132026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-18official_url: https://www.digital.go.jp/news/3579c42d-b11c-4756-b66e-3d3e35175623 → https://www.digital.go.jp/news/decb64eb-f26e-41cb-8d37-f3dd173108b8 — the first decision's news page (the old official_url) says it does not show the latest version; the news page on version 2.0 is the Digital Agency's page for the current text and links the Japanese text and the English translation2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- 2026-10-14Added to the register — found in pipeline run 2026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-14, candidate C018 (JP/ministries)2026-10-14-discover-leads-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Citation
Executive Board of the Council for the Promotion of a Digital Society (prepared by the Digital Agency). The Guideline for Japanese Government's Procurements and Utilizations of Generative AI for the sake of Evolution and Innovation of Public Administration [DS-920]. 2025-05-27. https://www.digital.go.jp/news/decb64eb-f26e-41cb-8d37-f3dd173108b8. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/JP-13/2026-10-18/official.html retrieved 2026-10-18 00:46:07 UTC, SHA-256 644b64dbd163990186a69380b063370441cd4ce4703c97915fb640c174be0f5d. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record JP-13.
Improve this record
Know of an amendment, a status change or an error? Report news or an error on GitHub; the form opens with this record filled in.