New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
The FSA's first on-chain finance forum, held on 30 September 2026, wants an interim summary and roadmap by early 2027, while the Finance Ministry, Digital Agency, Bank of Japan and bankers' association each run their own studies.
The Financial Stability Board's final report on responsible AI adoption offers 12 practices covering firm-wide governance and risk management across the AI lifecycle, and Japan's FSA has flagged it to domestic institutions.
Providers seeking designation to receive wages would need a guarantee sized to a fixed maximum number of accounts, with full balances repayable within six business days of a worker's claim after an insolvency filing, under a draft open for comment until 16 November.
Draft rules from Japan's land ministry would grade sewer assets from deferred diagnosis to sound, publish the worst-rated ones promptly and require inspections at least every three years at some of the most corrosion-prone spots on critical pipes. Comments close on 14 November.
The Children and Families Agency's draft shifts return-to-nursery paperwork for influenza, COVID-19 and pharyngoconjunctival fever from doctors to parents, leaves the waiting periods unchanged, and takes public comments until November 14.
Pharmacists would have to confirm three conditions and limit quantities before selling a prescription drug to someone without a prescription, and operators would keep a record of the reasons for two years, under draft rules open for comment until 14 November.
Three draft rules, open for comment until 14 November, would put the May 2026 amendments into practice: more cultural-property types could anchor historic-district plans, prefectures could set wide-area landscape policy, and residents could propose plans, with effect planned for late November.
A draft METI notice would set a 2.97 W/m²K heat-loss target for sashes used in non-wooden apartments, applying to makers and importers with about 1% of output; public comment runs to 16 November 2026.
Economy minister Akazawa says Japan has no kerosene shortage, yet METI will ask sellers to match last year's volumes, create refiner direct sales and subsidize the import-price gap, without yet giving a rate or start date.
A Financial Services Agency draft would require auditors to assess going concern for at least a year after financial statements are approved and report on it even without material uncertainty, applying from March 2028 year-end audits if adopted.
The health ministry is taking comment until November 14 on a draft notice adding hospital efficiency and work-environment support to a regional care fund, with final issue planned for late December and an April 2027 start for one provision.
Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau proposes dropping standard audit frequencies for large carriers in favour of plans built on an 11-item risk profile and mandatory corrective-action plans; comments close November 13.
A draft assessment of the plant growth regulator rests on lab toxicity tests, with no colony-level or pollen-and-nectar residue studies, and the ministry is taking public comment until 13 November.
Japan's farm ministry is taking comment until 13 November on a draft finding that the acaricide propargite is unlikely to harm bee colonies, provided growers keep it off fruit trees from bud break to petal fall.
Japan's farm ministry has opened a voluntary comment period on a draft finding that the insecticide buprofezin, used on rice, fruit and tea, does not threaten honeybee colony survival when applied as registered.
A farm ministry draft finds the miticide pyrimidifen poses no colony risk if its single use, on greenhouse roses, is confined to closed-system facilities; public comment runs to 13 November.
A draft assessment finds pyraclonil, a rice-paddy weed-control ingredient in 147 applied-for formulations, unlikely to harm honeybee colonies as applied; the farm ministry takes public comments until November 13.
Japan pledged $40mn to the Global Financing Facility and urged every G20 member to join a World Bank debt-data exercise, in a statement delivered as it took the Development Committee chair.
A MAFF draft concludes dinotefuran is unlikely to impair honeybee colonies if used within applied-for methods and risk-management measures, with public comment open until November 13.
Tokyo small firms whose new leader has taken over representative authority from a predecessor can apply until 12 November for a grant toward new-business costs, with decisions planned for early February.
Applications run to 15 December, but two of the four applicant types must already have used a local succession-advice programme since 1 October 2025 to qualify for help paying outside experts.
Japanese police traced a 2024 bank-impersonation voice-phishing case to a Vietnamese money-laundering group, and Vietnam has now apprehended seven of its suspects, the National Police Agency said.
Japan's NEDO is taking applications until 16 November for an additional round of quantum-computer R&D funding, this one aimed at the components and materials layer rather than whole machines.
Tokyo hospitals with fewer than 200 beds can claim up to ¥2.7mn for one discharge-coordination nurse or social worker, but the higher tier requires a record of home-care admissions and shared records with community providers.