Japan's Finance Ministry is studying on-chain settlement of government bonds. Bonds and cash already swap together on BOJ-NET; what could change is the one-day T+1 gap and night hours.
Minoru Kiuchi, Japan's economy minister and long seen as a reflationist, says Abenomics-style reflation is over. The BOJ was already at 1.25%. Yet Japan still hasn't declared deflation over.
Japan says ¥8.2 trillion in self-driving investment will yield ¥187.3 trillion in economic effects, about 23 to 1. The government's own footnotes show what that number measures and which assumption drives it.
Japan had 2,730 sento left at the end of fiscal 2024. Under a 1946 ordinance, prefectures still cap their prices, and Tokyo calculates its cap like a utility rate. It rose to 600 yen in August 2026.
Seven in ten Japanese bookstore companies were profitable in fiscal 2025, but only 13.4% grew both sales and profit, on a 0.6% margin. What lifted the numbers, and why bookshops are multiplying in the US and Britain.
Astellas and Kyowa Kirin are the first Japanese drugmakers to sign most-favored-nation pricing deals with Washington. A September 29 tariff deadline explains the timing, and Japanese prices sit inside the U.S. formula.
Transits through the Strait of Hormuz have fallen from 21.6 to 4.9 million barrels a day, and Gulf producers are building seven bypass pipelines. Japan restored procurement, but July brought a 634.5 billion yen deficit.
Japan's Environment Ministry will stop subsidising the purchase of conventional solar panels for new projects from fiscal 2027. The stated reason was not carbon but industry: the money was benefiting factories abroad.
On August 24 Takaichi pledged continued aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia at the Kyiv summit. Japan also draws 8.9% of its LNG from Russia, and a US Senate bill counts it among the top five buyers of Russian gas.
Japan's trade ministry is reportedly winding down the Cool Japan Fund and its 54 billion yen in losses. Hours later it published a strategy targeting 20 trillion yen in content exports by 2033.
From November 1, 2026, Japan drops instant tax exemption at the register. Visitors pay full price and get the 10% consumption tax back only after customs confirms the goods are leaving.