Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) will launch a dedicated Crypto Assets and Stablecoins Division on August 7, giving the country’s digital-asset firms a single supervisor.

The agency is following through on a reorganization it approved back in December 2025, and is a major step forward in the country’s goal to treat crypto like mainstream financial products.

What does the new FSA division do?

Crypto oversight in Japan has typically been scattered across low-level offices, but the Financial Services Agency will be launching a division with three specialized teams dedicated to the sector, called the Crypto Assets and Stablecoins Division, on August 7.

Before the creation of this division, cryptocurrency-related work was…