New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
OCCTO found no thermal, storage, or biomass generator sharing a congested 154kV line in the Chubu area, so solar and wind plants alone absorbed curtailment orders of up to 4,100 kW in July 2026.
Saitama Prefecture's industrial promotion foundation has opened a second call for applications under a subsidy that pays part of the cost of filing patents, trademarks, and designs with foreign patent offices, funded through a budget channeled from METI's regional bureau.
China has provisionally imposed anti-dumping duties of up to 99.2% on Japanese suppliers of dichlorosilane, a gas used in chip manufacturing, and Japan's trade minister confirms that only about a fifth of the $550bn Japan-US investment initiative is accounted for by projects announced a year after it was signed.
Japan's antitrust watchdog recommended that Toridoll Holdings repay ¥147.4mn skimmed from small food manufacturers through a wholesaler's 'system usage fee,' with 14.6% annual interest due on any deductions taken this year.
A second nationwide funding call running September 7 to October 16, 2026 covers up to half the cost of electric vehicles capped under 20 km/h for regional transport gaps.
The subsidy pays part of the cost for small and midsize businesses to register patents, trademarks, designs, or utility models abroad, but the public listing withholds the funding rate, cap, and application dates, sending applicants to separate guidelines for specifics.
Japan's SME agency wants local commerce and industry societies and chambers of commerce to focus their advisory work on wage-raising and growth-bound small businesses, floating a ¥100mn sales target for the most ambitious, with comment open until October 7 and another revision already flagged for next year.
A three-part test, covering traits, wide-area distribution rights and formal registration, will decide which crop varieties count as 'important' under Japan's new varieties law, a label that steers priority budget treatment toward certified breeders and seed producers, with comment open until October 7.
A draft ordinance out for comment would scrap eight summary forms filed alongside building-confirmation and inspection paperwork and let municipal ledgers carry the public-disclosure burden instead, but the change would not start until April 2028.
A nonprofit administering an Environment Ministry-backed subsidy for slow-speed electric shuttle vehicles has reopened applications for a second funding round, aimed at decarbonizing regional public transport while filling local transport gaps.
INPIT's fourth funding round this year will help smaller Japanese companies and research institutions cover part of the cost of protecting patents, designs, and trademarks abroad, with the funding cap and deadlines held in a separate guideline.
Solar and wind already cover more than seven in ten units of demand at times in Hokkaido and Kyushu, and a new jGrants-listed subsidy would fund grid-scale batteries to store the surplus.
A METI draft would add new cybersecurity requirements to the economic-security certification scheme covering batteries, battery materials and manufacturing equipment, with public comment open only through October 5, 2026.
Japan's Specified Skilled Worker program is 52.9% filled overall, but the split is stark: food service has used 98.1% of its quota while road transport and rail sit at 2.5% and 2.2%, immigration data for June 2026 show.
METI's draft would let it investigate a mineral supplier only when its exit risks disrupting Japan's supply, and would require certified projects to route cyberattack reports through the ministry to a Cabinet Secretariat cyber-coordination office; comments close October 4, 2026.
MLIT's draft lets EASA Category B1 holders sitting Japan's first- or second-class maintenance exam skip two practical checks with proof of high-power engine test-run authorization at an EASA-certified shop; comment runs to October 3, 2026.
Comments are open until October 2 on a draft rule that would require operators to complete planned maintenance on safety-critical reactor equipment within existing outage-time limits and to verify the plan with a probabilistic risk assessment beforehand.
Japan's antitrust watchdog found Nichirin left 25 subcontractors storing 1,048 molds and jigs for up to 22 months without orders or compensation, and has ordered the automotive-hose maker to settle any remaining balance beyond the ¥9.79mn it already paid.
A foreign investor's review of six Japanese issuers for the FSA's Disclosure Working Group found only six of 103 risk factors carried a number and filings sometimes reached shareholders a week before the vote; the submission argues merging the business report into the Yuho fixes none of that.
Japan Post failed to disclose required contract terms to 167 freelance contractors and missed statutory payment deadlines for 140 of them, the Fair Trade Commission found, ordering a board resolution, a retrospective audit of similar contracts and staff training under Japan's freelance protection law.
Two new categories of long-chain PFAS substances are joining Japan's Class I chemical list, and draft ordinances would fold PFOS-style labeling and handling rules onto any fire extinguisher or foam agent that contains them, effective November 22 with comments due September 30.
From November 22, the containers, packaging and shipping invoices for fire extinguishers and foam suppressants containing two newly designated long-chain PFAS compounds must carry pollution-prevention labels, and Japan's chemical ministries are taking comment on the label update through September 30.
Six Japanese ministries plan to fold a newly restricted class of long-chain PFAS into the technical standard already governing PFOS- and PFOA-laced fire extinguishers and foam, with compliance due November 22 and public comment open only through September 30.
A newly listed subsidy will offset the fee home-care operators owe a second worker sent along on a visit after a client, relative, or cohabitant has harassed staff, but only for listed establishments within Tokyo and only when the harassment comes from the client's own circle.