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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Labor Law in Japan — What to Watch When Hiring and Firing
Overview of Japanese labor law for employers: employee protection, termination risk, and hiring practice.
Japanese labor law strongly protects employees: a full dismissal is almost impossible without following extensive formal procedures, and violating them lets an employee go to the labor inspection office and win reinstatement while the company faces fines. Practicing entrepreneurs and lawyers unanimously flag this as a systemic feature of doing business in Japan. This section covers two grouped topics: the real-world protection given to employees and the risks around termination, probation periods, fixed-term and haken (temp-agency) contracts, and the legal strategy of a gradual, rules-based dismissal via internal work regulations (shugyo kisoku); and the practical process of hiring a first employee, registering for social insurance, and handling medical checkups, BYOD, and background checks. See: Termination and Contract Risk in Japan; Hiring and Workplace Compliance.