Japan’s new Financial Services Strategy signals a shift from encouraging household investment toward building a broader capital cycle that channels private and institutional funds into corporate growth and the country’s 17 strategic fields.

The strategy calls for stronger roles for financial institutions, asset owners and companies, alongside reforms to financial markets and corporate governance. For businesses, this creates new opportunities to engage with policymakers as the framework takes shape, particularly during the second half of FY2026 and into FY2027.

In this report, we examine the key elements of the strategy and its implications for corporate government relations and public affairs engagement.

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