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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Statutory Capital — Overview
Statutory capital of a Japanese company: formally as little as 1 yen, but 5 million yen is needed for the Business Manager visa; paid into the founder's personal account.
A company (KK or GK) can formally be registered with as little as 1 yen of capital — the 5 million yen requirement applies to the Business Manager visa, not to registration itself. Capital is paid into the founder's personal account, can and should be spent on the business, and shares need not be split strictly in proportion to each person's cash contribution. There are legal and semi-legal schemes for "showing" capital through a director's loan. Crossing the 10 million yen capital threshold changes the company's tax burden. Ways of raising capital (増資) for a KK after formation are covered in a related overview. See: Ways to Increase Capital (増資) for a KK.