Through late August, a number of sites listing Japan's fiscal 2026 minimum wages filled in the last blank — Okinawa — with 1,079 yen. It was described as a forecast in some places and stated flatly in others.
The actual figure came in on September 3. The Okinawa Labour Bureau announced a rise of 63 yen to 1,086 yen, effective December 2. That is 7 yen above the number that had been circulating, and it completed the set: all 47 prefectures have now issued their rulings.
Two details are worth keeping.
First, Okinawa is no longer the lowest in the country. At 1,086 yen it edges past Miyazaki's 1,085 yen by a single yen. Second, the 63-yen increase exceeded the national guideline for its rank by 7 yen — the Central Council's guideline for Rank C was 56 yen.
There is a practical lesson in how the announcement was published. The ruling did not appear on the prefectural minimum wage council page that most trackers watch — that page still showed an August 18 meeting notice. It went up on the labour bureau's main news index instead. Watching only the obvious page meant missing it.
If you are checking a fiscal 2026 minimum wage table right now, the fastest sanity check is Okinawa: a table still showing 1,079 was built from forecasts, not rulings.
Full prefecture-by-prefecture detail, including the effective dates that range from October to December — 最低賃金 2026年度はいくら?
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