This program provides subsidies for expenses required to strengthen the management foundations of startup companies working to solve social issues by utilizing systems such as the individual hometown tax donation system and the corporate hometown tax donation system.
Tochigi Prefecture: FY2026 Social Issue-Solving Startup Company Support Program
September 9, 2026
Summary
This program subsidizes expenses needed to strengthen the management foundations of startups working to solve social issues, utilizing individual and corporate hometown tax donation systems.
Key Information
| Location | Tochigi |
|---|---|
| Opening Status | Open for Applications |
| Application Period | Ongoing – Sep 25, 2026 |
| Max Subsidy Amount | ¥5,000,000 |
| Subsidy Rate | 10/10 |
| Purpose | Entrepreneurship, business startups, and ventures / business improvement and strengthening / regional revitalization and community development / capital investment / research, demonstration experiments, and industry-academia collaboration |
| Eligible Expenses | Advertising expenses / production and development expenses / miscellaneous service expenses / outsourcing expenses / rental fees / equipment purchase expenses / utilities expenses, etc. / personnel expenses / raw material and material expenses / equipment and consumable supply expenses |
| Eligible Applicants | Corporations / businesses founded less than 10 years ago |
| Implementing Agency | Tochigi Prefecture |
| Official Page | https://www.pref.tochigi.lg.jp/f03/startup/r8_socialsu_support.html |