{
  "slug": "jp-ai",
  "name": "Japan AI",
  "updated": "2026-09-15",
  "page": "https://godofstartups.com/atlas/markets/jp-ai",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "facts": [
    {
      "metric": "JFC-financed new businesses reporting loss-making conditions at survey",
      "value": "33.0",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025-08 survey; JFC loans 2024-04–2024-09",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.jfc.go.jp/n/findings/pdf/kaigyo_251205_1.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Prior business-management experience among JFC-financed new business founders",
      "value": "13.6",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025-08 survey; JFC loans 2024-04–2024-09",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.jfc.go.jp/n/findings/pdf/kaigyo_251205_1.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese AI users expecting job skills to change due to AI over next decade",
      "value": "89.4",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese SMEs with a skill gap saying generative AI helped compensate for it",
      "value": "39.1",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of SMEs that report using generative AI, Japan",
      "value": "23.5",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of employees who report using AI at work, Japan",
      "value": "8.4",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese managers whose companies provide algorithmic management software",
      "value": "40",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/11/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_a67a343c/b825563e-en.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of managers whose firm provides algorithmic management software, Japan",
      "value": "40",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese AI users expecting workplace AI use to rise considerably within two years",
      "value": "42.8",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Japanese GEAI non-users citing concern about answer accuracy as top reason for not using it",
      "value": "28.7",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese finance-sector AI users reporting AI-driven task automation",
      "value": "58.5",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese finance-sector AI users worried about job loss over the next ten years",
      "value": "73.8",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Japanese large-company GEAI implementers citing generation of inaccurate information as top technical concern",
      "value": "59.2",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese AI users reporting AI improved their job performance or working conditions",
      "value": "35.8",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/11/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_a67a343c/b825563e-en.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese employees expecting workplace AI use to rise within two years",
      "value": "51.3",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese AI users reporting task creation caused by AI implementation",
      "value": "42.1",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese SMEs reporting use of generative AI, OECD D4SME survey n=5,232 SMEs",
      "value": "23.5",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/11/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_a67a343c/b825563e-en.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese AI users reporting AI improved their job performance or working conditions, JILPT survey",
      "value": "35.8",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/11/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_a67a343c/b825563e-en.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese AI users reporting both task creation and task automation from AI",
      "value": "31.1",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_b825563e-en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of Japanese employees using AI at work (incl. generative AI), JILPT all-sector survey n=22,000",
      "value": "8.4",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "JP",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/11/artificial-intelligence-and-the-labour-market-in-japan_a67a343c/b825563e-en.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "note": "status: ready = two or more independent sources or an official series; proxy = one source; context = macro background, not a validation figure."
}