New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
Japan's state export-import bank is putting up to $440,000 into the Indiana subsidiary of a small Aichi auto-parts maker, part of a $640,000 syndicate with Hyakugo Bank that marks the company's second US financing since 2021.
Japan's markets regulator will let respondents in surcharge hearings appear by video and file evidence electronically from November 30, but its public-comment responses show it declined stricter camera checks and a ban on personal USB drives connecting to its own terminals.
Owners of specified buildings in Japan would face a new triennial test for PFOS and PFOA in drinking-water supplies if a draft health-ministry ordinance, open for comment until October 15, takes effect as planned in May 2027.
Japan's financial regulator finalized a new supervisory checkpoint asking whether investment-trust managers take reasonable steps to match liquidity, such as setting redemption terms to the liquidity of the assets they hold or introducing a variable trust-property reserve, effective October 2027, after a public comment argued the change does nothing to curb high fees charged to ordinary savers.
Japan Bank for International Cooperation will lend up to 1,672,100 thousand Thai baht, part of a 2,390,000 thousand baht syndicate with private banks, to help Inaba Foods' Thai subsidiary build a new pet food factory serving more than 80 export markets.
Foreign nationals holding qualifications as dental technicians or speech-language-hearing therapists could gain access to Japan's Medical residence status under a draft rule now open for public comment until October 15, with the agency citing growing regional medical needs from an aging patient base and targeting a November effective date.
Japan's FSA will treat a subsidiary's bond solicitation as the issuer's own from September 16, but the subsidiary has to guarantee repayment and supply backup funds itself rather than outsourcing either job, and the agency declined requests to spell out the equivalence test any further than the ordinance text already does.
Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency wants chat and DM sales pitches to carry the same disclosure, cooling-off and re-solicitation bans as phone sales, alongside a crackdown on subscription-trap checkout screens and bait pricing for callout repair services, with public comment open until October 31, 2026.
With interest rates rising, Japan's markets and banking regulator is turning its year-ahead priorities toward deposit-rate competition, insurer misconduct, unregistered crypto exchanges and stakebuilding moves designed to dodge disclosure rules, according to priorities the FSA published this week.
Japan's markets regulator wants a broader range of Payment Services Act-regulated settlement tokens, including certain foreign-issued ones, to count as company cash under revised financial-statement formats, with public comments due October 16.
Japan's securities watchdog says a trader crossed its own buy and sell orders over ten sessions to fake demand and move the market price of a share on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Standard market, yet the resulting surcharge recommendation is just ¥760,000.
Labour inspectors found rule violations at roughly three in four workplaces employing foreign technical trainees and specified skilled workers in 2025, and machinery-safety lapses, not unpaid wages, topped the list of offenses.
Japan's securities regulator will accept greenhouse-gas figures companies already file under a two-decade-old climate law as valid input for the SSBJ climate standard, sparing filers a second calculation exercise.
Financial services minister Satsuki Katayama has ordered Japan's Financial Council to study loosening money-lending rules for business loans, a review that could open room for private-credit and fintech lenders alongside banks, though the mandate specifies no draft rules or timeline.
Japan's environment ministry is taking comment on a draft rule that would let solar developers carry prefecture or city environmental review paperwork into the national assessment process now that an amended enforcement order brings solar projects under national law, sparing many a full restart, provided the underlying local ordinance meets the ministry's five conditions.
Japan's financial regulator says a company listed at a British Virgin Islands address has been lending money over the internet through a service called CryptoPawn without registering as a moneylender, and it cannot identify who runs it.
Market participants have until December 1 to comment, in English, on two consultation papers from BIS's payments committee and IOSCO covering cyber resilience and third-party vendor dependency at financial market infrastructure, after Japan's FSA posted a notice pointing to the original documents.
Financial Services Agency data for April to June show 1,616 of the 1,961 reported fraudulent investment pitches already involved some form of harm to the complainant, even as crypto-asset complaints eased and everyday investment queries climbed to 5,603.
Japan's Financial Services Agency has proposed a standalone XBRL taxonomy, built on the IFRS Foundation's own sustainability tags, for the disclosures companies must start filing under the country's new Sustainability Disclosure Standards, with public comments due October 13 and the tags required from reports covering the year to March 2027.
China's commerce ministry has provisionally set anti-dumping tariffs as high as 99.2% on Japanese producers of dichlorosilane, a gas used to build semiconductor insulating film, and Japan's trade minister says Tokyo will work with the affected companies while pressing a separate protest over China-only export controls; he also confirmed the year-old US-Japan investment initiative has reached roughly a fifth of its $550 billion target after a US bank joined a gas-plant project's financing.
Japan's financial regulator wants corporate-affiliated non-life insurance agents to prove their commissions are not disguised premium discounts, phasing in tougher related-party and antitrust tests between 2030 and 2032, with comments on the draft due October 13.
Japan's Financial Services Agency wants mandatory third-party assurance to cover only Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, governance and risk-management disclosures for the first two years, and only at the lighter "limited assurance" tier.
Japan's Kyushu and Tokai finance bureaus have each requested financial-sector measures for disaster-hit areas, covering Kagoshima and Aichi prefectures after Typhoon No. 24 and heavy rain from a front.
Japan's transmission overseer confirmed Hokkaido Electric Power Network had no adjustable power source to draw on before it cut solar and wind output by up to 1,400 kW on five July holidays on one congested line.