# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第八条 (Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-8. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 中小企業基本法 (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act), 昭和三十八年法律第百五十四号 - English title "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第八条 (Article 8)（小規模企業に対する中小企業施策の方針） — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-8 - e-Gov law ID: 338AC0000000154 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条（小規模企業に対する中小企業施策の方針） — Policy for Measures for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Directed at Small-scale Enterprises caption: machine translation, not official art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-8 **第一項** 国は、次に掲げる方針に従い、小規模企業者に対して中小企業に関する施策を講ずるものとする。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-8/par-1 The State is to take measures concerning small and medium-sized enterprises for small-scale enterprises in accordance with the following policies: machine translation, not official **一** 小規模企業が地域における経済の安定並びに地域住民の生活の向上及び交流の促進に寄与するという重要な意義を有することを踏まえ、適切かつ十分な経営資源の確保を通じて地域における小規模企業の持続的な事業活動を可能とするとともに、地域の多様な主体との連携の推進によつて地域における多様な需要に応じた事業活動の活性化を図ること。 art-8/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-8/par-1/item-1 Taking into account the important significance of small-scale enterprises in contributing to the stability of the economy in regions and to the improvement of the lives and the promotion of exchange of local residents, to enable the sustainable business activities of small-scale enterprises in regions through securing appropriate and sufficient management resources, and to seek to revitalize business activities that respond to diverse demand in regions by promoting cooperation with diverse actors in regions; machine translation, not official **二** 小規模企業が将来における我が国の経済及び社会の発展に寄与するという重要な意義を有することを踏まえ、小規模企業がその成長発展を図るに当たり、その状況に応じ、着実な成長発展を実現するための適切な支援を受けられるよう必要な環境の整備を図ること。 art-8/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-8/par-1/item-2 Taking into account the important significance of small-scale enterprises in contributing to the future development of the economy and society of Japan, to develop the necessary environment so that, in pursuing their growth and development, small-scale enterprises can receive, according to their circumstances, appropriate support for achieving steady growth and development; machine translation, not official **三** 経営資源の確保が特に困難であることが多い小規模企業者の事情を踏まえ、小規模企業の経営の発達及び改善に努めるとともに、金融、税制、情報の提供その他の事項について、小規模企業の経営の状況に応じ、必要な考慮を払うこと。 art-8/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-8/par-1/item-3 Taking into account the circumstances of small-scale enterprises, which often find it particularly difficult to secure management resources, to strive for the development and improvement of the management of small-scale enterprises, and to give the necessary consideration, according to the state of management of small-scale enterprises, to finance, taxation, provision of information and other matters. machine translation, not official --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業基本法 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/338AC0000000154/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業基本法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/822), retrieved 2026-10-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-basic-act-20261106T173426-002, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06