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May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The IP360 promotion-support grant is accepting its second round through June 19 at 5 p.m. It is aimed at content IP rights holders doing company-led promotion to grow foreign fan bases, with support covering half of eligible costs up to ¥20 million.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo’s Financial Services Agency has finalized post-comment wording for small short-term insurer supervision. The key takeaway: the sector will follow the larger-insurer playbook where appropriate, but the FSA says it will also keep sector-specific differences where business models justify them, especially around what counts as an impermissible special benefit.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: revised FSA guidance makes sales oversight a daily operational test, from solicitor training and customer-information controls to agency audits, remediation deadlines and special-benefit restrictions.
May 31, 2026 · 3 min read
The Financial Services Agency told bank groups to keep four items front and center in March 2026: support cash flow for stressed borrowers, stay ready for market volatility, harden disaster response for a Nankai Trough event and use the newly revised regional finance and restructuring guidance.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The latest FSA tally shows Japanese banks approved 96.9% to 98.9% of SME loan-condition changes and 91.0% to 94.0% of household mortgage changes through April. Regional banks carried the biggest volume, and the agency notes some cases in the tables were received before March, so the counts are not a pure one-month snapshot.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: if finalized, the FSA's draft would require certified public accountants and audit firms to formalize customer due diligence, beneficial-owner checks, higher-risk transaction handling and record retention, while expanding the framework to include proliferation financing.
May 31, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: The FSA says shared rules for small amount and short term insurance providers should generally match the treatment given to insurance companies. The catch is that commission formulas and agent audits remain under scrutiny, even without a word-for-word transplant of the larger-insurer clause.
May 31, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: prefectural police can send bank inquiries through the National Police Agency online, instead of relying on mailed requests while transferred victim funds keep moving. The initial roster covers nine banks, but the release sets no response-time target or recovery metric.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Read-through: the FSA’s new September 2025 SSAF report shows Japan discussing IFRS S1 and S2 implementation with peer standard setters, regulators and ISSB participants. The public material is best read as a guide to who was involved and what topics were on the table, not as a record of final decisions.
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read
SHIFT rewrote a March merger plan so the parent will absorb SHIFT SECURITY, KRAF and MAS Lab directly, while separately centralizing 15 group back offices and having ALH absorb SPST and Trust Brain as part of an efficiency and AI-enabled operations push.
May 26, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan Lifeline plans to rename itself JLL Med from March 1, 2027, subject to shareholder approval in June 2026, while also adding an executive-officer framework and rewriting its articles to separate board supervision from day-to-day execution.
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Hakuhodo DY says restructuring has already pushed adjusted margin above its March 2027 goal, but gross profit growth and ROE still lag. Management's plan for the current year leans on digital win rates, Digital Holdings synergies, a mid-3% domestic ad market and AI investment that raises system costs more than headcount.
May 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's FSA added Q&A saying exposures insured by NEXI may be treated as government-guaranteed under Article 129, Paragraph 2, and that banks may recognize certain collateral effects within corporate-value security rights if they can demonstrate how the security interest is maintained and reviewed.
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan’s Payment Services Act revision comes with practical clarifications for e-payment and crypto-adjacent operators. The FSA says matched safe assets do not automatically satisfy domestic asset holding orders, and changes in the composition of assets backing specific trust beneficiary rights are the kind of changes that must be notified.
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read
FSA materials sketch a three-bucket SSBJ rollout for larger Prime Market issuers, starting with companies averaging ¥3 trillion or more in market cap in the year ending March 2027. Assurance would become mandatory from the following year, stay limited for the first two years, and Prime companies below ¥500 billion are still left for later consideration.
May 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan’s FSA has asked financial institutions to take short-term cybersecurity measures under direct management oversight, warning that frontier AI could accelerate vulnerability discovery and shorten the gap between a flaw being found and being exploited. The request is linked to the broader Project YATA-Shield response.
May 26, 2026 · 2 min read
DyDo returned to first-quarter operating profit as overseas beverages, especially Turkey and Poland, outpaced domestic weakness. But IAS 29 hyperinflation accounting, including a ¥1.157 billion loss on net monetary position already reflected in results, still held down ordinary and net profit.