Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), the country’s financial regulator, published public-comment results on draft revisions to supervisory guidelines for small-amount short-term insurers and promulgated an amendment to the Enforcement Regulation of the Money Lending Business Act on Aug. 31, 2026. The money-lending amendment expands nationality details recorded for chief officers of money-lending businesses who are not Japanese nationals, aligning the framework with a family registry ordinance that took effect on May 26, 2025. The FSA received seven comments on the money-lending draft during the July 10-Aug. 10, 2026 consultation period and published its responses and the detailed amendment in appendices.