New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
A government draft would let procurement rely on ML-DSA-44, a Category 1 or 2 signature scheme, while keeping other 128-bit-class tools off the new list; comments close 11 November, and the scheme's security evaluation is unfinished.
A draft opinion before the FSA's sustainability assurance subcommittee proposes limited assurance and Japan-specific versions of international standards, with the target of finishing them by March 2027, a year before mandatory assurance starts for Prime Market companies worth ¥3tn or more.
Local governments, companies and nonprofits can claim up to ¥2mn per low-speed electric vehicle, but only for models the administering association has pre-registered, and projects must finish by 28 February 2027.
Small Tokyo firms can claim half of eligible costs, capped at ¥1mn, for pre-development technical studies, but a grant covering only materials will not be accepted. Applications close on 18 November.
Draft guidance would have prefectures press fishing cooperatives to widen their district limits for members and fishing-right holders, and add whistleblower, cybersecurity and disability-access checks; public comment closes on 25 November 2026.
A successor multiple-debt panel meets on October 28 as health ministry data count about 1.53 million people with three or more unsecured, unguaranteed loans and one lender group reports more complaints about illegal lenders.
Companies worth ¥3tn or more are slated to report under SSBJ standards from the year to March 2027, with ¥1tn and ¥500bn tiers following in 2028 and 2029, while an FSA survey of 17 institutions finds gaps in physical-risk modelling.
Ministries revoked a Fukuyama cooperative's permit for skipped audits and untrue reports, ordered two other supervisors to improve, and cancelled training plans at two employers over illegal work and human-rights violations.
Akazawa says Prime Minister Takaichi ordered a review of fuel support, including its unit rate and exit, but would not say whether the ruling party's proposed monthly price-target step-ups will be the basis, and wants to raise EU origin rules for EV support with Germany's Merz.
METI's draft Cyber/Physical Security Framework 1.1 re-maps supply-chain security requirements to NIST CSF 2.0 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, with comments due December 21 and AI-related risks left to a later revision.
Tokyo's 14th equipment-investment subsidy round pays one-half to four-fifths of eligible costs, but the higher rates require a zero-emission or wage commitment, and applications close on 24 November 2026 at 13:00.
The Environment Ministry's draft would enlarge the Hokkaido park by a net 2,444 hectares and steer tourism toward guided, non-motorised use, with visitor caps and entry fees among rules it says it will work on; comments close 21 November.
Finance Minister Katayama called the energy aid begun in March effective but said she did not think a decision on winter support had been made; the ministry will respond if the prime minister gives instructions.
The FSA's audit subcommittee broadly endorsed a longer going-concern look-ahead for audits of years ending March 2028, while several members said Japan still has no accounting standard obliging management to make the assessment.
Internal affairs ministry draft would push the end of 5.8GHz experimental drone radio use from March 2027 to March 2028, drop five test areas and add two, with comments due by 24 November.
The communications ministry's draft, open for comment until 24 November, recommends tools from demonetisation to AI labels but leaves the choice to each platform; the legal teeth sit in the annual disclosure duty.
A draft health ministry order would give workers five years to claim compensation for cerebrovascular and heart disease, mental illness and asbestos-related disease, with comments due November 23 and a planned April 1, 2027 start.
Japan's market watchdog says a former Toho Zinc employee sold 1,800 shares in November 2024, before the company announced it would end zinc refining and issue new shares, and has recommended a ¥530,000 surcharge.
Japan's trade ministry says it will set up a team of elite testers at the Information-technology Promotion Agency within next month to run AI-assisted simulated attacks on systems, while smaller firms get subsidy-backed security services and a supply-chain evaluation scheme starting in March.
METI's draft rules would have household water-heater makers and importers set and publish their own fossil-energy target for the year beginning April 2034, guided by a 5,605 MJ per unit, per person figure; comments close November 20 and the start is planned for April 2027.
An NBIM presenter told the FSA's disclosure working group that five of six Japanese companies studied filed their securities report within a week of the AGM, and floated moving record dates; members were divided and nothing was decided.
The education ministry's draft would make hybrid paper-and-digital textbooks the norm, bar all-digital books in lower and middle primary grades, and require publishers to build to ministry standard specifications, with public comments due November 8.
Most G-SIB selection indicators will be measured as full-year averages under a final Basel Committee document aimed at window dressing, while the treatment of European Banking Union cross-border exposures remains open for comment until January 14, 2027.
For the year starting April 2027, METI and four other ministries propose lowering the paper-packaging recycling obligation from 27,720 tonnes while lifting plastic packaging to 732,600 tonnes. Public comment closes on 21 November 2026.