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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Contracts, Agreements, and Intellectual Property in Japan — Overview
Overview of key legal points on contracts, agreements, and intellectual property for business in Japan.
This section covers civil contracts in Japanese business and intellectual property protection together: non-compete practice in IT consulting, the importance of written NDAs and work rules when hiring, the historically loose interpretation of contracts in Japan, real disputes over construction and rental contracts, hidden tax risks in consultant contracts, statutory limits on a hired director's authority, the status of third-party litigation funding, the absence of classic patent trolling alongside aggressive brand defense by large companies, patenting of game mechanics, a court precedent on an ISP's liability for piracy, an assessment of copyright in game development, protection of dual-use technology at universities under FEFTA, and insurance for developers. See: Non-Compete, NDA, and Contract Interpretation Practice in Japan; Tax, Governance, and Litigation-Funding Risk in Contracts; Patents, Copyright, and Legal Protection of IP in Japan. Housing and office rental agreements are covered in a separate section.