At the 67th meeting of the Designated Intractable Disease Review Committee on July 7, 2026, members discussed 20 diseases submitted for consideration in fiscal year 2026. Approval was granted for...
At the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s sixth study group meeting, members discussed survey findings on platform workers’ working styles, based on materials organized according to the factors...
On August 5, 2026, Prime Minister Takaichi instructed the relevant ministers at the 7th Emergency Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters meeting for the 2026 Kumamoto Earthquake to provide detailed...
Prime Minister Takaichi identified reducing the burden on middle and lowincome people suffering from tax, social insurance premium, and rising price burdens as the highest priority, and indicated a...
On August 4, 2026, the Cabinet approved the Decree Specifying the Effective Date of Certain Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Sewerage Act and Other Acts, and the Decree Partially Amending...
To build sustainable local public transport systems, a new certification program for municipalities nationwide will be established, and applications will open. The first application period for fiscal...
The June 2026 Construction Orders Survey (Top 50 Firms) found that private construction decreased by 22.5% year on year, marking four consecutive months of decline. Meanwhile, the total increased by...
The Ministry of Finance announced that a Cabinetapproved ordinance will impose provisional antidumping duties on hotdip galvanized steel strips and sheets originating in South Korea and China,...
The government is promoting expanded procurement through fourthcategory solesource contracts by local governments to support the social implementation of startup technologies that help solve regional...
The Ministry of Finance published the receipts, payments, balance, and government bonds in the fiscal funds to private sector balance for July 2026, comparing them with the same month of the previous...