New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
Tokyo's special hospital work-environment grant starts at ¥133,000 per bed and rises to ¥266,000 for hospitals meeting extra working-hour conditions, with applications open to 31 March 2027.
A METI draft would let solar capacity installed beyond Tokyo's required level be assessed for J-Credit additionality if the excess is objectively quantified and confirmed by the city; comments run to 4 November, with a mid-November start planned.
Chemical, paper-pulp and cement producers can seek support for up to one-third of conversion costs, or half for structural overhauls, but must apply by noon on 27 November and meet GX League reporting conditions.
Japan's trade watchdog recommended that Oji Container pay 140 subcontractors for storing 9,610 idle plates and dies, after it had paid 127 of them ¥3.41mn, and asked the corrugated federation to end unpaid storage.
Seven draft rules move Japan's hazard-classification cut-off to 31 March 2026, resetting skin-protection scope from April 2028 and carcinogen designations from April 2029, while diethyl phthalate would drop out of the exposure-limit list.
Japan's health ministry has asked doctors to withhold Kissei's avacopan from new patients and, as a rule, to consider stopping or switching those already taking it, after a panel found the approval data may be unreliable.
The SME Agency proposes extending special credit-insurance treatment for quake-hit small firms in designated areas by a year, to March 31, 2028, with comments open until November 19 and enforcement planned for mid-March 2027.
A Consumer Affairs Agency draft raises chlorantraniliprole limits for brown rice and tea but lowers them for corn, with lowered limits taking effect a year after notification; comments are due November 19.
Draft health ministry amendments would extend labeling and safety-data-sheet duties to 35 more substances from April 2029, while diethyl phthalate would leave the list and its exposure rules from February 2027; comments are due 18 November.
METI is requesting government industrial investment in Rapidus over 2027 to 2029, which the minister put at ¥400bn on his recollection, and says Tokyo is pressing the EU to treat Japanese EVs as equivalent to EU-made ones.
A second meeting in early 2027 is meant to produce an interim summary and public-private roadmap on on-chain finance, after the FSA's study group was scheduled to hear Nomura and Securitize Japan on 20 October; four payment and settlement pilots remain trials.
Only shochu fermented and distilled in Japan in single-distillation stills, then stored and bottled there, could carry the honkaku label under a draft the tax agency opened for comment until 20 November.
Japan's finance minister said the government is not aware of loans or bank accounts opened using leaked identity documents, yet the FSA has already asked financial institutions to verify customers by reading ID chips and to police their contractors.
The Environment Ministry's draft notification would change odor-sampling equipment, panel screening and index calculation, with comments open until November 18 and the revised method planned to apply from April 1, 2028.
The Environment Ministry's draft would extend Ise-Shima National Park's marine ordinary zone from 1km to 5km offshore, adding 53,528 ha, while land area changes by only 35 ha; comments close in mid-November.
Japan's finance minister Katayama Satsuki succeeds Sweden's Elisabeth Svantesson as chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee, whose next meeting is in April 2027 in Washington.
Japan's postal policy committee is taking public comment until November 20 on which features of universal mail service, such as speed, reliability, price or frequency, should take priority and how to sustain the network in disadvantaged areas; no service change is proposed.
METI's draft would add synthesisers without a joining function, explosives-making 3D printing equipment and a new processor performance band to Japan's export controls, with comments open until 18 November 2026.
Tokyo employers with 20 or fewer staff (five or fewer in commerce and services) have until October 23 to enter a draw for heatstroke-prevention grants; applying early confers no advantage in a program sized at 1,000 businesses.
Japan's NEDO is taking applications until November 25 from parties that want to carry out the third round of its solar power deployment technology development work.
The Tokyo Tourism Foundation will fund two-thirds of digital and product projects by city tourism firms, up to ¥30mn, but only plans built on a prior expert diagnosis. Applications close on 30 November.
Under a new memorandum, JBIC and the European Investment Bank will work on co-financing for critical-minerals and Ukraine-rebuilding projects that Japanese and European companies are expected to join.
Japan's finance minister said the currency-swap extension with South Korea was decided in Bangkok talks, though the ministry's summary gives no size or term; a ministerial dialogue with India is only close to agreed.
NEDO has named JFE Engineering the planned implementer of a five-year demonstration, with support of about ¥7.1bn, to turn waste syngas into chemical feedstock without external hydrogen and reach at least 27% carbon utilisation by 2030.