New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
Apps sold under a partner's "Bank" label must tell users the bank holds the account, and a firm that steers customers to a bank can still need an agency licence, under FSA guidance applying from 6 November.
The first-class electrician exam would cost ¥17,000 by post instead of ¥14,400 under a draft ordinance METI proposes because it expects current fees to make running the tests in the 2027 fiscal year difficult; comments close on 6 December.
METI has ordered Chubu Electric to rebuild its compliance framework and whistleblowing handling, with outside experts verifying the work and the company reporting progress to the ministry on a continuing basis.
Japan's cabinet approved ¥10bn from reserve funds for cybersecurity, with ¥4.1bn for police equipment, ¥3.8bn for Digital Agency systems and ¥2bn for AI-assisted vulnerability checks on government systems, ahead of a wider emergency package.
Businesses in their first year that used a municipal startup-support programme can claim up to ¥2mn for sales-channel work, with ¥500,000 more for invoice-special-case firms, in applications running to 15 December.
Taiyo Oil and Nisshin OilliO Group are the two newest prospective recipients in NEDO's roughly ¥270bn bio-manufacturing programme, whose scale-up work must cut costs to 1.2 times current products at most.
A Fisheries Agency draft would pull prepared saury and squid products such as fins and liver into Japan's legal-catch import certificates, with comments due 4 December and enforcement planned for early July 2027.
JBIC and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation will lend 722.322 million baht in total to a Thai unit of a Hiroshima auto-parts maker, with JBIC's share capped at 262.289 million baht.
From November 9 the National Police Agency will gather abused-account data from all 47 prefectural forces and supply it to 30 banks, so lenders can flag customers who have sent money to those accounts and police can contact them.
MLIT's draft would cap national funding for the next-generation ship project at ¥40.58bn, reflect the cancelled N2O reactor demonstration and fund up to ¥490mn of longer ammonia-vessel trials through existing contractors, with comments due on 5 December.
A Financial Services Agency working group discussed on 9 October exempting commitment fees from deemed-interest limits and easing the ¥1bn capital rule for nonbank bond issuers, while members pressed to keep national supervision and clarify who counts as a professional borrower.
Tokyo-based small and mid-sized companies have until 4pm on November 13 to apply for the third round of a grant for plans that deepen existing businesses, with awards due in late February 2027.
Small businesses hit by the Kumamoto earthquake can apply from November 2 to December 15 for up to ¥2mn if their own assets were damaged, or ¥1mn if they only lost sales; the route depends on which chamber covers them.
Japan's economy ministry would let operators holding its advanced safety certification, and for three and a half years holders of two older certifications being abolished, seal small non-toxic gas leaks with injected resin; comment closes 1 December.
Under an Environment Ministry draft, goods containing steel would meet the common higher-tier test only with steel carrying a tracked emissions-reduction credit and lifecycle carbon data; public comment is open until 3 December.
Japan's communications ministry is taking comment until 2 December on new cost parameters for NTT East and NTT West's copper-line wholesale charges, including a shorter life for aerial metal cable and lower maintenance costs per subscriber line.
Agriculture ministry draft would let fertilizer sellers that take title to raw materials and store them for fertilizer businesses claim support for stockpiling facilities and equipment; comments are open until 3 December.
Minister Akazawa said METI is promoting a bundled cyber-defence service by making its introduction costs eligible for the digital and AI subsidy and has opened special help desks, while the wider cyberattack package cited in a reporter's question awaits formal announcement.
The Environment Ministry's draft would add lithium battery waste to signage, ledgers, contracts and manifests across Japan's waste chain from a planned April 2027 start, with public comment open until December 3.
JBIC's share of two new ADNOC loans is about $543mn and $58mn, alongside Japanese and foreign banks, for LNG decarbonisation and power transmission in the UAE, and the release ties the lending to Japan's energy supply resilience.
JBIC will provide $360mn of a $600mn credit-line ceiling agreed with Petronas for decarbonisation and energy-transition projects in Malaysia and abroad, though no individual project has been named.
Japan's transport ministry is taking comments until 3 December on a draft that corrects a test-load coefficient for ship lifting gear and tells shipowners how to disable cranes judged unsafe.
The labour ministry would let firms hit by the Noto earthquake keep subsidised secondments for up to three years, but sending employers filing a first plan from 1 January 2027 would get a lower rate.
Sellers of used homes could carry the Anshin R Housing mark without photographing owner-occupied interiors, and with a promise of a renovation proposal rather than a finished one, under a land ministry draft open for comment to 3 December.