Ask J-FSA: J-FSA’s one stop contact point for your inquiries

If you need further information concerning: (1) interpretations of laws and regulations or (2) specific procedures necessary to practice in the Japanese financial market, please contact us at the following postal or email address with your name, company name, contact address, telephone number and email address included in the message. We will reply to the email address you provide.

Please note that if your request is outside the FSA’s scope of business, we may ask you to contact another appropriate ministry, agency or organization. Thank you for your understanding.

By Postal Mail

Financial Services Agency
The Central Common Government Offices No. 7
3-2-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8967 Japan

By Email

• equestion@fsa.go.jp

Useful Links

【Virtual Currency (Crypto-Asset)】
<Registration procedure>

• Details of Screening for New Registration Application as Virtual Currency Exchange Service Provider
• Grounds for Refusing Registration, and Relevant Statutes and Regulations Pertaining to Viewpoints in Registration-Screening
• Overview of Virtual Currency Exchanger
• Outline of the Standard Screening Procedure for Applications for New Registration with the FSA/Local Financial Bureau

<Legislations>

• Payment Services Act
• Order for Enforcement of the Payment Services Act
• Cabinet Office Order on the Virtual Currency Exchange Service Providers
• “Guidelines for Administrative Processes” Regarding Virtual Currency Exchange Service Providers (available only in Japanese)

【Initial Coin Offering (ICO)】

• Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) - User and business operator warning about the risks of ICOs -

【High Speed Trading / High Frequency Trading】

• For those engaging in High Speed Trading
• Grounds for Refusing Registration, and Relevant Statutes and Regulations Pertaining to Viewpoints in Registration-Screening

【"Cold Calling" - Non-Registered and/or Non-Authorized Entities, Non-Existing Governmental Bodies】

• "Cold Calling" - Investors Alert

【Fund Related Businesses】

• To Those who Operate Fund Related Businesses in Japan (Guidelines on Registration and Notification Requirements)
• An English Guidebook for Foreign Asset Managers to Establish a Business Base in Japan

【The Strategic Directions and Priorities / Progress and Assessment of the Strategic Directions and Priorities】
<Strategic Directions and Priorities>

• 2017-2018
• 2016-2017
• 2015-2016

<Progress and Assessment of the Strategic Directions and Priorities>

• 2016-2017
• 2015-2016