Japan is offering a subsidy for content makers that want to go abroad in a bundle, not one title at a time. The IP360 Overseas Expansion Support program is designed to help teams of four or more content IP rights holders expand overseas together, with the stated aim of increasing the supply of content for foreign markets and building foreign fan bases.
The second application window runs from May 29, 2026, to June 19, 2026, at 5 p.m. The program itself runs from March 10, 2026, through March 31, 2027. In other words, this is not a one-day pop-up for the indecisive.
The funding sits under the FY2025 Content Industry Growth Investment Support Project, and the implementing body is IP360. The program description says it is meant to support projects where multiple IPs, from the same industry or across industries, move overseas together. That matters because the gate is not just “have a good title,” but “have a coalition.”
The published subsidy terms say the grant rate is one-half of eligible expenses, with a maximum subsidy of ¥200 million. The target area is nationwide, and there is no employee-count restriction listed in the source. For companies weighing whether to build an overseas launch package, those terms are the real pitch: match funding, a large ceiling, and a preference for coordinated expansion rather than solo heroics.
What remains unclear from the public excerpt is the finer scoring logic, the full eligibility list, and what kinds of bundled IP combinations will be most competitive. But the policy direction is plain enough: Japan wants more coordinated exports of content, not just more exports in theory.