Policy Plan for Promoting Japan as a Leading Asset Management Center

1. Overview

To promote Japan's economic growth and improve national prosperity, the Government of Japan is working to create a virtuous cycle of capital through initiatives targeted at participants in the investment chain, including households, companies, financial institutions, markets and asset owners.

The government has published “Policy Plan for Promoting Japan as a Leading Asset Management Center” (December 2023), and “Financial Services Strategy to Promote Growth Investment – Upgrading ’Promoting Japan as a Leading Asset Management Center’” (July 2026) with the aim of further advancing its asset management and investment agenda by strengthening both public and private finances and the broader investment chain that supports growth investment.

2. Ongoing Initiatives

(Supporting Steady Asset Building)

(Fiduciary Duty of Financial Product Distributors)

(Advancing Asset Management Services, Enhancing Asset Owner Capabilities)

(Corporate Governance Reform, Fostering More Vibrant Capital Markets)

(The Supply of Growth Capital)

(Public Relations)

3. Financial Services Strategy to Promote Growth Investment

4. Other Policy Plans