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 Manager Visa Requirements and the 2025-2026 Capital Reform
Official Business Manager visa requirements and the 2025-2026 reform raising the minimum capital to 30 million yen.
The Immigration Services Agency's official page on the Business Manager (keiei-kanri) visa is the primary source for current requirements on capital, office, staffing and business plan, with Russian and English language versions available; a companion PDF contains the full official text of the criteria, useful when an exact wording is needed for filing or for disputing an immigration officer's decision. Several pages explain the changes to BM visa requirements taking effect in 2025-2026, including the increase of minimum capital to 30 million yen, and an official PDF provides statistics on BM visa application processing as of January 2026, useful for gauging current processing times and approval rates under the tightened rules. A related, unofficially compiled breakdown of the 審査要領 (shinsa yoryo) — the internal manual immigration officers use to evaluate applications, updated in April 2026 — links directly to the section on the Business Manager visa, since the Ministry of Justice does not publish this manual in an easily accessible form; a separate official page explains how to request administrative disclosure documents from the Ministry of Justice (roughly 300 yen), which can be used to obtain internal notes or grounds for a decision on one's own visa case. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/status/businessmanager.html?hl=ru — official Business Manager visa requirements page (Russian version available). Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/001367220.pdf — official full text of the Business Manager visa criteria (PDF). Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/resources/10_00237.html — official explanation of the 2025-2026 changes to Business Manager visa requirements. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/resources/nyukan_nyukan43.html?hl=ru — explanation of BM visa changes, Russian-translated version. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/001456329.pdf — official statistics on Business Manager visa processing, January 2026. Source: https://yamanaka-bengoshi.jp/2026/04/29/nyuukoku-zairyuu-shinsa-youryou/ — lawyer's breakdown of the internal shinsa yoryo manual for immigration officers. Source: https://yamanaka-bengoshi.jp/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/%E5%85%A5%E5%9B%BD%E5%9C%A8%E7%95%99%E5%AF%A9%E6%9F%BB%E8%A6%81%E9%A0%98%E7%AC%AC%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%92%E7%B7%A8%EF%BC%88%E5%9C%A8%E7%95%99%E8%B3%87%E6%A0%BC%EF%BC%89%E3%81%AE%E3%80%8C%E7%AC%AC%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%90%E7%AF%80-%E7%B5%8C%E5%96%B6%E3%83%BB%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E3%80%8D.pdf — PDF of the shinsa yoryo section covering the Business Manager visa. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/publications/gyoseibunsyo.html — procedure to request administrative disclosure documents from the Ministry of Justice.