New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
From October 1, operators newly designated as special critical infrastructure providers will file a cyberattack report on one of three standard templates instead of whatever paperwork each ministry previously demanded.
Japan's trade ministry is rewriting the Green Innovation Fund's roadmap for cutting carbon from industrial furnaces in steel and chemicals plants, and manufacturers have until August 7 to comment before the next funding round opens.
MLIT's draft guideline would have cabin crews tell every seated passenger to buckle up low and tight at all times, a response to turbulence injuries since 2022 and a fatal 2024 accident abroad, with public comments due by August 7, 2026.
Companies with statutory auditors keep a carve-out on restating late-breaking financial events, and the FSA just confirmed it's staying in implementation guidance, not the main accounting standard, despite a comment asking for the fix.
The move: May meeting notes show the FSA pressing regional and labor banks to keep financing flowing to firms squeezed by Middle East supply shortages, to put the new May 1 guarantor-information network to work on succession deals, and to explain interest-rate risk to mortgage borrowers again after a March reminder didn't seem to stick.
The regulator says inspections will now test whether anti-money laundering controls actually work, as specialized fraud losses reached ¥325.7bn and an illicit-account information-sharing system is pushed for April 2027.
Fake investment ads, identification-code solicitations and unregistered lender ads are among the categories Japan wants added to the Internet Hotline Center's removal-request workflow, with comments open until July 16.
The catch: the consultation would reset the two early-stage carve-outs that now extend system-filing deadlines and waive some incident reports for newly designated special critical infrastructure operators, with comments open until August 2.
The consultation would newly list impersonation-style fake investment ads and remittance-crime solicitations as illegal information examples, a change platforms and ad distributors may need to mirror in screening and complaint-handling rules if adopted after comments close on July 16.
The move: Japan’s draft FEFTA rules would refine indirect voting-right calculations and make some acquisitions of overseas entities reportable when they own Japanese shares above the applicable threshold. The annexes also spell out drone, satellite and rocket-related sectors, and comments run to Aug. 2.
The package would bring some later voting-right acquisitions by overseas holders of Japanese shares into the inward-investment regime, while redrawing who counts as a foreign investor and which FEFTA payments banks must check.
The draft order would revisit the grace periods around system registration and incident reporting for designated critical-infrastructure operators, where current rules let some filings wait six months from designation and waive reports on early incidents.
The draft agenda leans toward international-equivalent standards to spare groups exposed to EU rules from duplicate assurance, but provider eligibility and the regime's legal architecture are still being debated.
The draft would add a dedicated standard for a CHO-cell recombinant shingles vaccine and amend technical provisions for Covid-19 and inactivated polio vaccines, with comments open until July 31.
NICT’s third-round support for live-broadcast subtitling covers captioning equipment and system connection work, but surveys, installation, broader retrofits and maintenance stay outside the subsidy.
The move: a nationwide scheme backs demonstration and equipment spending for recycled-material supply, eco-design, circular-commerce and lifecycle data-sharing projects, with a maximum listed amount of ¥40mn. The catch, the portal summary leaves the support rate to the full application guidelines.
The move: Japan wants public inspection of Antarctic activity-plan applications handled on the internet or by other appropriate means, a narrow but clear digitisation step under its review of analog regulations. Comments are open through late July.
The move: Japan has opened comments on a draft entry-and-residence plan that foregrounds electronic travel authorisation, digital processing and closer status oversight, giving employers and advisers an early view of where official priorities are heading.
The move: Japan's latest circular-economy funding round backs low-CO2 bioplastics and recycling systems for hard-to-recycle materials, with support set at up to one-half or one-third of eligible costs and key category details left to the application guidelines.
The move: MLIT wants to cut three maintenance-specific training thresholds in half, lowering the bar for national designation and new-course approvals as smaller providers emerge. What to watch: comments run to July 30, with application pencilled in for August and already-filed test courses due to be covered.
The environment ministry’s consultation would formalise internet-based public inspection of Antarctic activity-plan applications and related documents, alongside conforming fixes tied to a June law amendment.
The transport ministry wants to cut the graduate requirement for designated maintenance training facilities from 20 to 10, while also halving the thresholds for test courses and added programmes, a change aimed at accommodating smaller providers.
The draft pairs electronic travel authorisation with stricter residence management as foreign arrivals topped 40mn last year and the resident foreign population reached about 4.13mn.
The ministry says pharmacies that add their own rewards on top of card-payment points must explain that total benefits on insured dispensing copayments stay within 1%, and it separately makes cashback routed through prescription-reception sites an oral-guidance target.