Comply · National frameworks
Japan AI Promotion Act
Japan's light-touch AI promotion law.
Japan's AI Promotion Act takes a pro-innovation, soft-law approach: it sets out basic principles for the research, development, and use of AI, establishes a government AI strategy headquarters, and emphasizes voluntary cooperation and guidance over prescriptive penalties.
Who it applies to
Japanese businesses and institutions developing or using AI (largely voluntary/cooperative).
Key obligations
- Align with national AI basic principles
- Cooperate with government AI strategy and guidance
- Manage AI risks proportionately and transparently
How Maetra maps agents to Japan AI Act
Maetra gives Japanese organizations a ready governance surface — inventory, controls, and audit — to act on the Act's principles and any sector guidance.
In practice, Maetra:
- Scans and fingerprints each agent. Discover reads the agent’s code — its tools, data access and sensitivity, actions, model, and environment — into an evidence-backed profile tied to the exact file and commit.
- Decides what applies. That profile determines whether Japan AI Act is in scope for the agent and which of its requirements apply.
- Auto-detects controls and surfaces gaps. Controls your code already satisfies are detected automatically from the scan; the rest become a clear list of gaps, each tied to the requirement and the evidence it still needs.
- Proves it and keeps it current. Close gaps with linked evidence or generated documents — reused across every framework the same control supports — and Maetra re-checks on each rescan and flags evidence that has gone stale.
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Prove Japan AI Act compliance with Maetra
Classify your AI agents once and Maetra maps them to Japan AI Act and every other framework it supports — generating the evidence and documentation, tracking gaps and deadlines, and sealing every decision in an immutable audit trail.