Doing Business in Japan
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Knowledge base on doing business in Japan. Topics: visas and immigration (including the Business Manager visa 経営・管理 and the October 2025 reform), company registration (株式会社/合同会社/個人事業主), taxes, legal issues and cases, documents and procedures (banking, offices, accounting, hiring), useful links and contacts, and other business-relevant topics (culture and mentality, networking, marketing, real estate, lending, insurance).
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Business Culture and Mentality in Japan — Overview
Overview of Japanese business culture: connections, risk attitudes, communication, staff management, and customer expectations.
Doing business in Japan differs sharply from Western and post-Soviet business practice in several key respects: the role of personal connections and referrals in closing deals, attitudes toward risk and failure, the balance between written correspondence and face-to-face meetings, expectations around managing staff, aesthetic expectations of customers, and the real difficulty of starting and running a business that newcomers often underestimate. See: Trust, Connections and Communication Norms in Japanese Business. See: Managing Japanese Staff and Adapting to Local Design and Technology Expectations. See: Practical Friction Points and Warnings for Newcomers in Japan.