BlockBeats News, July 10th, according to Nikkei Asia, Japanese Minister of Finance and Financial Services Takumi Nagayama stated during the opening ceremony of the "OpenQUICK 2026" seminar hosted by the financial information service provider QUICK that, against the backdrop of the continued expansion of overseas cryptocurrency ETF trading, he "hopes to promote related research on lifting the ban on cryptocurrency ETFs in Japan." Japan is currently working on legislation to include cryptocurrency for the first time in the regulatory framework of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.