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PolicyHQ reads Japan's ministries, advisory councils, the Diet and municipal assemblies around the clock, weighs what it finds against your issues, and briefs your team in English or Japanese. Every claim links to its source.

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For government affairs, public policy and regulatory teams

Dashboard · Your project (Sample data)

14 developments today. 3 need you.

This morning

  • 3Act
  • 5Prepare
  • 6Monitor

  1. Act: Comment period on the draft guidelines closes in 6 days

    Public comments · Draft response ready

  2. Act: Two members you follow question the minister in committee

    The Diet · Our transcript, ahead of the minutes

  3. Prepare: Advisory council puts your issue on next week's agenda

    Councils · Next sitting Wednesday

  4. Monitor: Subsidy call opens in your sector

    Tenders and subsidies · Closes in 3 weeks

The wires are slow. The signals worth paying for slip through.

Most teams following Japan from abroad work from English-language news, a consultancy report and one or two people in Tokyo. Each of those misses something.

  1. The wire delay

    By the time an English-language wire picks up a Japanese regulatory change, the comment window may already be closing. Your team hears about it when the rest of the market does.

  2. The consultancy gap

    Many reports neatly organize what you have already read in the business press. What happens in council rooms and committee hearings rarely makes it in.

  3. The resource ceiling

    A strong Tokyo team of one or two still can't read every ministry, council and committee across your portfolio. Coverage narrows to what they already know to watch.

None of this replaces your team's judgment. It gives that judgment a wider view, sooner.

Strategy is only as good as what it is built on.

Every effective engagement rests on three layers. Execution delivers the strategy; the strategy is only as good as the intelligence beneath it. Get the bottom layer wrong and everything above it is confident guesswork.

  1. Execution · Meetings, submissions, representation

    Where outcomes actually move, and the layer that consumes senior time. It can only execute the strategy it was given.

  2. Strategy · Positioning, sequencing, who to engage and when

    Judgment applied to evidence. Without a complete picture underneath, it is judgment applied to a sample.

  3. Intelligence · Monitoring, analysis, research, context

    The foundation everything rests on, and by a wide margin the most labor-intensive layer to do properly.

Why the base layer is the hard one

A complex regulatory issue rarely sits with one regulator. It moves between ministries, advisory councils, the Diet, the gazette, public consultations and municipal assemblies, each on its own timetable and each publishing in Japanese. Full coverage means watching all of them, continuously, not sampling the ones you already know. That is the work that eats an analyst team's hours, and the work that gets quietly narrowed when budgets are set.

Where the software comes in

PolicyHQ produces the intelligence layer in full, every source, every day, every claim cited, at the cost of software rather than the monthly retainer of an analyst team. Your people keep the judgment and the relationships, which is where outcomes change.

Hundreds of signals in. One brief out.

Each morning the day's developments are read, matched to your issues and ranked by what needs action. It takes five minutes to read. When something can't wait for tomorrow, an alert reaches you first.

How quickly it reaches you

News and alerts
Within the hour
Council materials
Within hours of publication
Gazette, tenders and subsidies
Every day
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Daily brief · This morning (Sample data)

Read overnight

Your brief

5 min read

  1. Act: New ordinance takes effect in 30 days

    Tagged to your portfolio

  2. Prepare: Committee hearing this week

    Two members you follow are speaking

  3. Monitor: Digital strategy plan revised

    Two clauses changed since the last edition

The Diet. Heard before the minutes.

PolicyHQ transcribes committee hearings itself, so you can read what was said before the official minutes are published. Read a sitting as its key takeaways, each linked to the passage behind it. Exchanges that touch your issues, or the members you follow, are pulled out for you.

The Diet · Committee hearing (Sample data)
Political

Committee on Economy, Trade and Industry

House of Representatives

Committee member

Will the ministry publish the draft guidelines for consultation before the end of the year, and how will smaller operators be heard?

Minister

We intend to put the draft out for public consultation this winter, and we will hold hearings with industry, smaller operators included.

Why it's here: matches two of your tracked terms

Our transcript · official minutes not yet published

From the first council meeting. To the final vote.

Japanese policy takes shape in advisory councils long before a bill is written. PolicyHQ follows each issue from the council table through public consultation and into the Diet, sums up council meetings in key takeaways from their minutes or papers, and gives every bill an enactment likelihood that moves as the bill does.

Public comments arrive with their deadline and a draft response. Tenders and subsidies are picked up every day.

Tracked for you (Sample data)
  • Council

    Working group on platform guidelines · 3rd meeting

    Ministry advisory council · Next sitting Wednesday

  • Bill to amend the Telecommunications Business Act

    Enactment likelihood · High
    1. Submitted
    2. CommitteeNow
    3. Lower House
    4. Senate
    5. Enacted

  • Draft guidelines on platform operators

    Public comment · 6 days left

    Draft response

  • Subsidy call in your sector

    Tenders and subsidies · Closes in 3 weeks

Ask Seiji. Get an answer with its sources.

Seiji, the PolicyHQ assistant, answers from the same record that builds your brief, in English or Japanese, and shows the source behind each claim.

Prefer the assistant you already use? The PolicyHQ connector brings the same answers into Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants that support MCP, behind your own sign-in.

Seiji (Sample data)

Where does the ministry stand on the draft guidelines, and who has raised them in committee?

Seiji

The ministry plans to put the draft out for public consultation this winter1. In committee, a member pressed on the burden for smaller operators, and the minister committed to hearings with industry2.

  1. 1Advisory council · Working group, 3rd meeting
  2. 2Committee hearing · Our transcript

Also in Claude and ChatGPT · PolicyHQ connector (MCP)

Reports for headquarters. Ready before the meeting.

Turn a week of developments into a report for leadership and export it to Word. Read a stakeholder brief before you meet someone. Draft a response to a public consultation in formal Japanese, with the English beside it.

Reports · Weekly update (Sample data)

Weekly update for headquarters

Draft guidelines on platform operators

Export to Word

What moved

The ministry confirmed a public consultation this winter; the working group meets again on Wednesday.

What it means for you

The draft's reporting duties would apply to your Japan entity from next fiscal year.

Next steps

Prepare a submission and brief the division director before the consultation opens.

Division director

Ministry

Spoke on your issue this month

Stakeholder brief

Every source. One desk.

Explore shows everything PolicyHQ watches, as it lands. Your dashboard turns the parts that matter to you into one morning view.

3M+

indexed passages, and counting

Every source in Japanese, every screen in English or Japanese.

Explore · Everything we watch (Sample data)

  • The Diet

    Committee hearings and plenary sessions

  • Advisory councils

    Agendas, materials and minutes

  • Ministries and agencies

    Releases, guidelines, white papers

  • Bills

    From submission to enactment

  • Public comments

    Open consultations and results

  • Official gazette

    Laws and ordinances as promulgated

  • Municipal assemblies

    Prefectural and city sittings

  • Tenders and subsidies

    Calls as they open

  • Industry associations

    Positions and statements

  • News

    Press conferences, government and industry news

Built for the people who can't afford to miss anything.

You manage Japan from elsewhere.

For global and APAC government affairs leaders

Reporting to headquarters, the same day

Turn the Japanese record into an English brief or a report for leadership in minutes, generated from the primary sources rather than rewritten the night before a review.

  • Japanese regulatory developments in English, with the original one click away.
  • Where industry associations and peers stand, from their public submissions.
  • A wider reach for a Tokyo team of one or two, without adding headcount.
  • Signals from councils and committee rooms, before they reach the wires.
  • Colleagues invited by link, each reading PolicyHQ in English or Japanese.

Your team is small. The information surface isn't.

For in-house Japan teams

  • Coverage beyond what one analyst can read by hand.
  • Signals caught at the primary source, before the news cycle.
  • The English briefs headquarters keeps asking for, generated rather than rewritten.
  • More time for strategy, less for monitoring.
  • Teams by policy area, each with its own brief and alerts.

Get started. We'll set it up around what you track.

Tell us who you are, what you're tracking and where you're stuck. A person reads every submission and replies within one business day. No drip sequence, just a conversation.

Replies within one business day, from a person.