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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Highly Skilled Professional Points, Industry Categories and Designated-Activity Visas
HSP visa points table, industry-category requirements for work visas, and the Designated Activities visa for top-university graduates.
The official points-calculation table for the Highly Skilled Professional (HSP) visa is the primary source for scoring education, income, experience and language ability, which determines eligibility for benefits including accelerated permanent residency; two further official PDFs clarify what counts as "innovative activity" (advanced technology or science) for extra points under HSP category 1, relevant when a business is positioned as innovative for visa purposes, including in the context of a startup visa. A separate official list of industry categories is used by the Immigration Services Agency when assessing work and Business Manager visa applications, helping applicants understand how their business will be classified; a companion page covers the requirements — including education, language level and employer-company category — for the gijinkoku work visa (engineer/specialist in humanities/international services). Finally, an official page describes the Designated Activities visa available to graduates of a specific list of top global universities who want to start a business in Japan, giving them preparation time without the usual capital or office requirements. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930001657.pdf — official HSP visa points-calculation table. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930001665.pdf — official material on what counts as innovative activity for HSP category 1. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/001458720.pdf — further official material on innovative activity for HSP visas. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/001448693.pdf — official list of industry categories used to assess visa applications. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/status/gijinkoku.html — official page on the gijinkoku (engineer/humanities/international services) work visa. Source: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/status/designatedactvities13_2.html — Designated Activities visa for graduates of top global universities starting a business.