New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
The city will help pay for security equipment at Tokyo-based home-visit care offices to counter harassment of staff who enter clients' homes, but offices run by national or local government don't qualify.
The Financial Services Agency has scrapped the shortcut that let agencies selling multiple insurers' policies recommend one without weighing it against the customer's stated preferences, and ruled out commissions, sales targets and insurer perks as acceptable grounds for the pick, effective March 2028.
Japan's FSA is proposing two working groups, to be formally launched on August 31, that will examine whether foreign banks without a Japanese licence can join syndicated loans behind large cross-border takeovers, and whether the government renews a subsidy backstop for failed life insurers before it lapses in March 2027.
Doctors giving Japan's recombinant RS virus vaccine would have to report Guillain-Barré syndrome within 28 days of a shot, after one suspected case surfaced 18 days post-vaccination and regulators could not rule out a link.
MLIT's draft cabinet order would delegate approval of single-region truck relay transport plans to regional transport bureau heads instead of the minister in Tokyo, with public comment open until September 25 and enforcement planned for November 1, 2026.
MHLW's late-August filing would reclassify oral loxoprofen from a Class 1 to a Designated Class 2 OTC drug, letting registered sales clerks complete sales alongside pharmacists in exchange for tougher box warnings, buyer checklists and mandatory staff training that manufacturers and retailers must supply.
Certified repair and manufacturing shops could confirm routine "Essential" technical bulletins themselves under a Japanese transport ministry proposal, skipping the individual government approval that Mandatory bulletins still require.
Japan's environment ministry wants a lighter environmental review for thermal, geothermal and wind plants rebuilt on their existing site, but only if the new unit stays within 300 metres and does not outgrow the old one by more than a set ratio.
Tokyo has set a ¥15.1bn budget to subsidize engines, fuel tanks and fuel-supply systems for hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and battery-powered vessels, but just ¥1.2bn is funded this year, and the disclosed excerpt does not name the subsidy percentage applicants would actually receive.
MLIT wants to make illegal airport hire-car touting harder to hide by forcing operators to log and retain records of covered hire-car bookings, with suspensions running up to 120 vehicle-days for firms that skip the paperwork.
Tokyo's telecoms ministry wants to strip the ¥110 cap on standard letters out of postal regulation and replace it with a three-year cost-recovery formula, letting Japan Post argue for higher rates through a prescribed cost model instead of a fixed number in the rulebook.
MAFF has opened a three-week comment window, closing September 6, on a Cabinet Order that would raise the individual borrower cap on Agricultural Modernization Loans from ¥18mn to ¥200mn, lengthen the maximum repayment term to 20 years, and add a specified agricultural-sector financial institution to the list of owners that let a farm-support company qualify for the loans, ahead of an October 1 effective date tied to the underlying law.
Okayama Prefecture's Akaiwa City opened a subsidy window on Aug. 17, 2026 that refunds two-thirds of the cost of swapping in energy-efficient equipment, but the deadline to finish the work falls two months before applications even stop being accepted.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government will help small and midsize employers cover the housing and living costs of foreign interns, but only for firms that have already secured a placement through the city's own internship-matching scheme.
A jGrants-listed program will fund up to a third of the cost of blackout-capable gas cogeneration systems and gas heat-pump air conditioning, but only for businesses whose gas arrives via a medium-pressure line or a low-pressure line reinforced against earthquakes, and only if they apply by August 30, 2026.
Seven Japanese agencies, led by the Financial Services Agency and the National Police Agency, want five platforms to detail their advertiser identity checks and ad-takedown responses by mid-October, then report results by March 2027, after deepfake celebrity investment ads spread across social media.
A draft rulebook out for public comment until September 4 would let JBIC bankroll certified overseas ventures, so long as expected losses stay inside a dedicated capital account and the bank keeps a forced-exit clause on hand if certification is pulled.
From March 2027, patients filling prescriptions for 77 active ingredients also sold over the counter will pay an extra quarter of the drug cost, unless they are children, cancer patients, or otherwise exempted.
From August 7, Japan's Financial Services Agency splits its main supervisory bureau into banking-and-securities and asset-management-and-insurance arms, and creates a standalone division for cryptoassets and stablecoins, so firms with pending filings need to find the new address for their paperwork.
Tokyo's communications ministry is taking comment until September 8 on rules that would add earth-observation and space-research satellites to the interference checklist for high-altitude base stations, on top of existing rocket-launch coordination duties.
A draft ordinance from Japan's Immigration Services Agency would add a five-year residence term to the Specified Skilled Worker No. 2 visa, raising the bar these workers must clear before applying for permanent residency to match other work visas.
MLIT wants to let homebuilders keep a type-approved structural design even when a certified material runs short, a change that touches the roughly 90% of homebuilder housing already built on type approval; comments are due August 30, 2026.
Any Japanese business handling 300 tonnes of rice a year, from farms to convenience-store chains, would have to register with the farm ministry from October, though the monthly and annual reporting itself does not become mandatory until the following spring.
Japan's NRA has opened a month-long comment period on draft rules that would require power and research reactor operators to spell out exactly how teardown costs will be funded, a response to an IAEA review that found the existing financial checks too thin.