This article summarizes OpenAI’s Japan Economic Blueprint, published in October 2025, which provides a framework for how Japan can harness artificial intelligence (AI) to strengthen its competitiveness, drive sustainable growth, and ensure prosperity for future generations.

Japan stands at a pivotal technological crossroads, where the decisions made today will echo for decades. The nation's future Japan AI strategy is being forged in the exhilarating, yet perilous, heat of a global artificial intelligence boom.