New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
MLIT's draft cabinet order would add the new business-facility district height-limit exemption permit to the approvals that must be in hand, where the work requires them, before agents advertise or contract for unfinished buildings, and would lengthen the list of restrictions agents must explain; comments close 5 November.
Japan's privacy commission has cautioned holders of large personal-data stores to delete records they no longer need and previewed revised technical-security examples, including multi-factor authentication and device checks, which it plans to finalise next April.
MEXT's proposed curriculum would cut about 3-4% from subjects above 35 periods to fund a new elementary information domain and junior high IT subject, with comments open until 5 November and full rollout in fiscal 2030 and 2031.
The Japan Fair Trade Commission and SME Agency are convening a closed-door study group because their surveys show price pass-through lagging in deeper supply-chain tiers, with minutes to be published promptly.
A draft ANRE guideline would require JC-STAR Level 1 labels on IP-capable equipment in new solar, battery, wind and fuel cell projects, starting between April 2027 and April 2028, with comments due by November 6.
The FSA's September 2026 listing of Hong Kong-address Izakaya Limited, which it says served Japanese residents online without registration, is the overseas list's newest entry; the agency cautions that listings record status at warning time, not today.
The Japan Fair Trade Commission will teach final-year commercial students in Asahikawa about the premiums-and-representations law and the Antimonopoly Act on 13 October, in a programme that listed fewer high school sessions in the latest year.
Businesses and local governments have until 4 November to say which state and municipal functions private operators could run, ahead of a 2027 revision of the policy that governs market testing.
Japan's Cabinet approved ¥3.23bn from this year's general-account reserve on 6 October to control the red-necked longhorn beetle, ¥2.70bn of it under the Environment Ministry, leaving ¥708.9bn in the fund.
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation will pass on-the-ground monitoring data from its 19 overseas offices to a regional lender, which plans to expand financing for mainly Hyogo-based mid-sized and smaller companies abroad.
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation will lend up to ¥70mn toward gym equipment in Malaysia, in a ¥100mn loan shared with a regional bank, for a small Osaka company's unit set up in 2024.
The health ministry's draft herbal standards add nine items and revise 18, with comments open to November 4, publication planned for December 2026 and a transition of about 18 months after that.
NEDO has picked a research association of about 40 companies and a University of Tokyo institute to train perovskite solar engineers, with up to ¥20mn for the current fiscal year and a contract of up to four years.
A draft MLIT notice would halve one particulate limit, cut others, and add a particle-number cap for diesel special vehicles rated 19kW to under 560kW, with new models covered from December 2027 and continuing production from December 2030.
The Basel Committee approved a G-SIB window-dressing revision and a machine-readable Pillar 3 standard, and scheduled October publications including a leverage-ratio review of Japan, with an interest-rate-risk consultation due in November.
Taxi, route-bus and charter-bus operators would be able to turn away passengers who keep abusing crews after being told to stop, under a transport ministry draft notice slated to take effect on 1 December; comments close on 3 November.
The Ministry of the Environment would cut the thiamethoxam water limit to 0.031 mg/L and the glyphosate aquatic benchmark to 3,000 µg/L from 6,200, with public comment open until 4 November.
Railway and tramway operators, and the lessors that supply them, can seek equipment grants in a third round; vehicle retrofits must be expected to cut CO2 by at least 40%, and this year's projects must finish by 28 February 2027.
The memorandum signed in Tokyo on 5 October lets either side leave on six months' written notice and sends any dispute to consultation, not a tribunal; its agenda spans critical minerals, investment screening and public-bank financing.
Residence periods for foreign residents in Kumamoto quake-hit municipalities run to January 27, 2027, but their cards show earlier dates, so the FSA asked industry groups to alert banks that monitor those dates.
Japan's Financial Services Agency will run Delta Wall 2026 from October 6 to 22 with a planned record 181 institutions, testing responses to attacks on core systems and promising industry-wide feedback.
Japan and Australia signed a non-binding memorandum on October 2 to coordinate agencies such as JBIC, JOGMEC and Export Finance Australia on co-investment, naming two government accounts but setting no funding amount and approving no project.
A METI draft would require drone suppliers seeking supply-plan certification to report actual or suspected cyberattacks through the ministry, and would recommend a ★4 supply-chain security rating, with comments open until November 3.
Narita City will refund half of what airport-zone employers spend repaying young staff's student loans, capped at ¥8,000 a month per worker, with applications open from 1 October to 30 November 2026.