New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
The Fair Trade Commission's emergency survey found suppliers secured on average just 48.3% of the price increases they sought to cover petroleum-linked cost rises since February, with pass-through weakest at the second-tier to third-tier-and-beyond subcontractor stage, and the regulator has sent warning letters to 59 buyers it says stonewalled those requests.
The Civil Aviation Bureau's draft rewrite adds new UN shipping numbers and packaging rules for sodium-ion batteries alongside existing lithium-cell rules, with comment open until October 26 and compliance due January 1, 2027.
Japan's Financial Services Agency granted a Mitsubishi UFJ Bank subsidiary, capitalized at ¥47.45bn, a full banking license under the Banking Act, though the notice says nothing about a launch date or retail lineup.
Japan's Ministry of the Environment is proposing to tighten the tap-water guideline for thiophanate-methyl from 0.3 to 0.2 milligrams per litre while loosening the benomyl guideline from 0.02 to 0.07 mg/L, and it wants public comments by October 23, 2026, ahead of a planned April 2027 start.
Kanagawa Prefecture has reopened its service-continuity subsidy for disability welfare providers, but only for operators or facilities that missed the first round, and the new window closes on October 2, 2026.
Tokyo will cover up to ¥6.7mn of the price gap between a hydrogen and an engine-powered forklift, plus ¥3.5mn more for hosting a commercial hydrogen station, but only forklifts introduced by TOKYO H2 Project participants qualify, with applications accepted through March 2027.
Japan's environment ministry will fund up to one-third of the cost of swapping HFC refrigeration for ammonia, carbon-dioxide or water-based systems in cold stores, food plants and shops, but only for multi-year projects and only if applicants apply by October 13.
A jGrants-listed subsidy, open to applications from March 23 to November 30, pays for inspection, renovation design and repair work on vacant homes and those likely to fall idle as owners age or heirs inherit them, across seven Japanese metro areas, provided owners take a qualifying step toward putting the property back into use.
A Tokyo Metropolitan Government subsidy, open to applications from April 10 to January 29, pays up to ¥10mn toward blockchain-based securities issuance, but companies that already used its earlier token-issuance subsidy are capped at just ¥3mn.
A Hokkaido foundation will cover up to two-thirds of hydrogen-equipment costs and cap awards at ¥300mn, but self-sustaining systems must keep their output off the general grid and new networked hardware must clear a Japanese cybersecurity check.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority is proposing to lift the statutory cap on the fees it charges nuclear operators for regulatory inspections from ¥9.41mn to ¥40.72mn, adding labor costs that were never counted before and updating materials and travel unit prices, with public comment open until October 17 and the change slated to take effect in April 2027.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry capped its growth-investment subsidy for Asahi Yukizai's ¥11.81bn semiconductor-valve project at ¥3.9bn, conditional on the company lifting employee pay by 6.2% a year from the year the new production equipment begins operating in 2029 through 2032.
Japan Bank for International Cooperation is lending up to $171mn as part of a $285mn syndicate with Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to fund equipment for JFE Steel and JSW Steel's Karnataka joint venture making high-grade grain-oriented electrical steel for India's power grid.
Japan's outgoing Economy, Trade and Industry Minister used his final press conference before the cabinet's resignation to say faithful execution of the Japan-US Strategic Investment Initiative, one of the conditions behind Washington's more than ¥2tn cut to threatened tariffs, was essential to avoid renewed tariff hikes, and that a record ¥51-per-liter fuel subsidy still has no confirmed exit date.
Tokyo will help pay for travel agencies to build drone-piloted sightseeing tours for visitors who face difficulties with mobility or communication, but only firms based in the capital can apply.
Japan's export-credit agency is guaranteeing a $6.5mn loan that a regional Japanese bank is extending to the Indonesian subsidiary of capacitor maker Rubycon, backing further expansion of the production base it set up on Batam Island in 1994.
Japan's securities regulator says ENECHANGE Co., Ltd. understated a quarterly loss and then used that same filing to underpin a February 2024 offering that raised nearly ¥4.0bn from share buyers.
Tokyo's environment ministry has reopened applications for grants meant to cut emissions and toughen resilience at data centers, giving companies until October 16, 2026 to apply without saying what the money is actually worth.
An individual identified only as 'A' bought ¥19.1mn of shares in a Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth-market vehicle dealer in the days before its tender offer became public, and Japan's markets regulator now wants ¥6.56mn of that trade's gain back by November 17, 2026.
An individual identified only as "A" ran a layering scheme across three brokerages to move prices in three listed stocks over ten weeks in late 2023, and Japan's securities regulator now wants ¥6.27mn back by November 17.
ADR Biomedical's male incontinence cell-therapy kit went before Japan's central insurance council on September 16 with a proposed ¥860,000 reimbursement price and a December 1 coverage target, both still pending formal government notification.
A Cabinet Office draft revising Japan's national Urban Regeneration Basic Policy would give prefectures authority to coordinate office and facility siting decisions that cross municipal lines, strip every disaster-hazard zone out of areas meant to concentrate housing, and add new heritage-renovation and area-management tools, with public comment open only through September 30, 2026.
Businesses with 20 or fewer employees in Kumamoto Prefecture can now claim two-thirds of recovery costs, capped at ¥2mn, under a disaster-support subsidy tied to the 2026 Kumamoto earthquake.
Tokyo will cover half the cost of moving intractable-disease certification paperwork online, but the payout is capped at ¥50,000 per medical institution, a modest offset against the system upgrades the shift requires.