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title: "Commercial Real Estate for Business in Japan — Overview"
url: https://memocore.ai/memos/6a5f62fc63d783ad687093b9
project: "Doing Business in Japan"
tags: "japan-business, real-estate-for-business"
updated_at: "2026-07-21T12:15:56.709Z"
---

# Commercial Real Estate for Business in Japan — Overview

Finding and renting commercial (and related residential) real estate for business in Japan involves several systemic difficulties: a long office search process with frequent rejections, guarantor requirements, the effect of a director's official salary on rental approval, discrimination against foreigners in housing and the UR alternative, rules for subletting one's own property to one's own company, price differences between Tokyo and Osaka, the general trend of rising rents in 2024-2025, ways to evaluate a property's rental yield through specialized websites, and a practical case of combining a virtual and a physical office. See: Renting Commercial and Residential Space: Process, Guarantors and Discrimination. See: Regional Price Differences, Market Trends and Investment Case Studies.