# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第五条 (Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（基本方針） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（基本方針） — Basic Policy caption: machine translation, not official art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5 **第一項** 政府は、次に掲げる基本方針に基づき、中小企業に関する施策を講ずるものとする。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5/par-1 The government is to implement policies concerning small and medium-sized enterprises based on the following basic policies. machine translation, not official **一** 中小企業者の経営の革新及び創業の促進並びに創造的な事業活動の促進を図ること。 art-5/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5/par-1/item-1 to promote business innovation and the founding of businesses by small and medium-sized enterprises, and to promote creative business activities; machine translation, not official **二** 中小企業の経営資源の確保の円滑化を図ること、中小企業に関する取引の適正化を図ること等により、中小企業の経営基盤の強化を図ること。 art-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5/par-1/item-2 to strengthen the management base of small and medium-sized enterprises by facilitating the securing of management resources of small and medium-sized enterprises, ensuring the fairness of transactions concerning small and medium-sized enterprises, and the like; machine translation, not official **三** 経済的社会的環境の変化に即応し、中小企業の経営の安定を図ること、事業の転換の円滑化を図ること等により、その変化への適応の円滑化を図ること。 art-5/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5/par-1/item-3 to respond promptly to changes in the economic and social environment and to facilitate adaptation to those changes by stabilizing the management of small and medium-sized enterprises, facilitating the conversion of their businesses, and the like; machine translation, not official **四** 中小企業に対する資金の供給の円滑化及び中小企業の自己資本の充実を図ること。 art-5/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-5/par-1/item-4 to facilitate the supply of funds to small and medium-sized enterprises and to enhance the equity capital of small and medium-sized enterprises. 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-20261106T173426-001, 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