Japan’s Financial Services Agency has created a dedicated reference page for businesses dealing with electronic payment instruments and crypto-asset service intermediation. In practical terms, the page gives operators one official doorway to two things: the governing Cabinet Office Ordinance and the regulator’s linked provider registry.
The ordinance linked from the page is the Cabinet Office Ordinance on Electronic Payment Instruments and Crypto-Asset Service Providers. In the excerpt surfaced by the FSA, it is organised into chapters covering general provisions, business operations, supervision and miscellaneous rules. That makes the page more than a noticeboard, it is a tidy compliance entry point.
The other useful link is the registry. The linked PDF says that, as of April 30, 2026, Japan had 27 registered crypto-asset exchange service providers. That is a concrete official count for the registered crypto-exchange side of the market, though it should not be read as a full tally of every electronic-payment or intermediary business category.
For fintech groups and counterparties, the bureaucratic tidiness matters. A single FSA page now points to the operative rules and the official list of registered providers, which helps with basic compliance checks and market mapping. One caveat, the FSA notes that its machine-translated pages are not necessarily correct, so any legal reading still belongs to the Japanese originals.