# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第十六条 (Article 16)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第十六条 (Article 16)（海外における事業展開の促進） — address `art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-16
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### 第十六条（海外における事業展開の促進） — Promotion of Overseas Business Expansion
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-16</sup>

  **第一項**  国は、中小企業者がその事業基盤を国内に維持しつつ行う海外における事業の展開を促進するため、海外における事業の展開に関する情報の提供及び研修の充実、海外における事業の展開に必要な資金の円滑な供給その他の必要な施策を講ずるとともに、中小企業者が供給する魅力ある商品又は役務に対する海外における関心及び理解の増進に努めるものとする。
  <sup>art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-16/par-1</sup>
  In order to promote the expansion of business overseas that small and medium-sized enterprises carry out while maintaining their business base in Japan, the State is to take the necessary measures, including the provision of information on overseas business expansion and enhancement of training and the smooth supply of funds necessary for overseas business expansion, and to strive to increase overseas interest and understanding in the attractive products or services supplied by small and medium-sized enterprises.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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