For government affairs, public policy & regulatory teams
Coverage no analyst team can match, at a price every team can.
The living record of Japanese policy: every ministry, advisory council, Diet session, consultation and local assembly. Continuously captured, cited to the primary source, queryable in either language.
- REGULATORY
New ordinance, effective in 30 days
Tagged to your portfolio
- HEARING
Committee hearing this week
Two stakeholders you follow are speaking
- STRATEGY
Digital strategy plan revised
Two clauses changed since last edition
Why teams switch
The wires are slow. The signals worth paying for slip through.
That's the government affairs status quo in Japan, and it's what every team we've onboarded was doing before us.
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The wire delay
By the time an English-language wire picks up a Japanese regulatory development, 48 to 72 hours have already passed. Your team learns about it when the rest of the market does.
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The consultancy gap
Most reports you receive organize what you've already seen in Nikkei Asia. The signals worth paying for (the ones inside government channels and policy proceedings) slip through quietly.
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The resource ceiling
Even with a Tokyo team of one or two, no single analyst can comprehensively cover every government, ministry, regulatory, and political signal across your full portfolio. Coverage gets prioritized by what the analyst happens to know about.
There is a deeper, faster, more relevant way, and most teams in the market haven't realized it exists yet.
Why intelligence is the foundation
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.
- Execution Meetings, submissions, representation
Where outcomes actually move, and the layer that consumes senior time. It can only execute the strategy it was given.
- Strategy Positioning, sequencing, who to engage and when
Judgment applied to evidence. Without a complete picture underneath, it is judgment applied to a sample.
- 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, consultations and, increasingly, local 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 about. That is precisely the work that consumes an analyst team's hours, and precisely the work that gets quietly narrowed when budgets are set.
This is where the software comes in
PolicyHQ produces the intelligence layer in full (every source, every day, every claim cited) at the marginal cost of software rather than the monthly retainer of an analyst team or an outsourced consultancy. You get the complete foundation, and your team's hours go where judgment and relationships actually change outcomes.
Across the government affairs value chain
Not just monitoring. Strategy.
Actionable intelligence and evidence-based strategy across the functions where your team spends its time: policy monitoring, stakeholder mapping, competitive intelligence, narrative development, and engagement strategy.
Policy monitoring
Every government, regulatory, and political signal in Japan, surfaced, translated, and ranked against your portfolio. The brief is for you. Not for the market.
Stakeholder mapping
Who matters in your issue space, how they're positioned, and what they're signaling, across politicians, ministries, advisory bodies, and academia.
Competitive intelligence
What your competitors and the industry associations they belong to are filing, lobbying for, and saying, across the same policy spaces you're tracking.
Narrative development
Where the policy frame is moving. Which arguments are gaining ground. Which are losing. What language your sector should use, and what it should avoid.
Engagement strategy
Evidence base for where to invest your team's time: which proceedings to follow, which conversations to weigh in on, which stakeholders to brief.
Local government
Policy doesn't only move in Tokyo. We surface what prefectural and municipal assemblies are debating and putting out for consultation, mapped to the issues you track.
Procurement signals
Public tenders and funding opportunities tied to your portfolio, surfaced as they open: the commercial edge of a policy shift, not just the shift.
Legislative hearings
What's actually said in committee, not just that it met. Testimony captured, translated, and searchable, down to who said what.
Consultation to statute
The full policy lifecycle: open comment periods with their deadlines, and the moment a measure is enacted into law. Where to weigh in, and confirmation of what landed.
Coverage scope, refresh frequency, and method: not published.
How we think about this
We learn your context. Then we curate.
PolicyHQ builds a deep model of every user: your portfolio, your competitors, your regulatory exposure, your strategic priorities. Every signal in the Japanese policy environment gets evaluated against that model. What reaches you is what matters.
Countless sources, continuously
We monitor every primary source worth monitoring in the Japanese policy environment. We don't publish the list, because the value is not in the list, it's in the model that decides which signals matter to you.
Trends and hidden connections
Cross-source. Cross-timeframe. Cross-language. The models find threads no single analyst could trace alone: connecting policy signals across timeframes, stakeholder activity to legislative momentum, advisory output to coming regulatory frames.
Personalized at every layer
No two subscribers get the same brief. Your relevance bar, your portfolio, your competitors, your priorities: they shape what surfaces. Subscribers shape the bar by what they read, what they save, and what they tell us matters.
How it shows up
Hundreds of signals in. One brief out.
Each morning, what reaches you has already been judged against what you said you care about. Read it in five minutes. Act on it the same day.
Raw signal
Hundreds, every morning
Your brief
Today
Regulatory
New ordinance, effective in 30 days
Tagged: regulatory · your portfolio
Political
Committee hearing this week
Two stakeholders you follow are speaking
Strategic
Plan revision: digital strategy
Two clauses changed since last edition
5 min read
Beyond the brief
Ask the corpus. Get a cited answer.
The same indexed corpus that produces your daily brief (every ministry document, every committee transcript, every stakeholder filing) answers your questions in plain English. "What is the FSA's position on stablecoin issuers since April?" returns a cited answer in seconds.
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Ask anything
In plain English or Japanese. The chat reaches across ministries, committee proceedings, advisory outputs, news, and stakeholder activity, the same surfaces your daily brief draws from.
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Every answer cited
Every claim links back to the source document. No black-box summaries. You can read the underlying material in one click and decide for yourself whether the inference holds.
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Bilingual by default
Ask in English, get an English answer grounded in Japanese primary sources. Ask in Japanese, get a Japanese answer. Same understanding, two languages.
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Who it's for
Built for the people who can't afford to miss anything.
For global + APAC PA leaders
You manage Japan from elsewhere.
- Every Japanese regulatory signal, translated and contextualized: your team gets the original, you get the brief.
- See what your competitors and their trade associations are filing, lobbying for, and saying, across the same policy spaces.
- Augment a Tokyo team of one or two without growing the headcount.
- Replace the wire-clipping vendor with intelligence that surfaces what's not yet in the wires.
- Same understanding, two languages, one source of truth.
For in-house Japan teams
Your team is small. The information surface isn't.
- Coverage that extends past what one analyst can manually monitor.
- Signals captured at the primary source, before they reach the news cycle.
- Bilingual briefs your HQ has been asking for, generated, not re-authored from scratch.
- More time for strategy. Less time on monitoring.
Request a demo
Private beta. New seats by introduction.
Tell us who you are, what you're tracking, and where you're stuck. Every submission read by a person; replies within one business day. No marketing automation, no drip sequence. Just a real conversation.