Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has declared 2026 the nation’s “digital year” and pledged strong support for integrating cryptocurrencies into the mainstream financial system. Speaking at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, she backed allowing digital assets to trade on stock exchanges and pointed to U.S. crypto ETFs as a model worth emulating. Japan is advancing plans to reclassify about 105 major cryptocurrencies as financial products under securities law and cut capital gains tax from as high as 55 % to a flat 20 %, aligning crypto more with stocks and boosting investor access and market growth.
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