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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Banking and International Payments for Foreign-Owned Businesses in Japan
Overview of the systemic problem of bank refusals for foreign entrepreneurs in Japan, along with successful workarounds, payment-service risks, and day-to-day account operations.
Opening and maintaining corporate bank accounts as a foreign entrepreneur — especially one with Russian-passport ties — is one of the most common and painful sources of disputes in the chat. This section merges four related areas: systemic refusal patterns and discrimination against foreign and Russia-linked applicants across specific banks (PayPay Bank, the megabanks, SBI Shinsei, SBI Sumishin, Minna no Ginko) along with sanctions compliance, KYC/AML for transfers linked to Russia and Kazakhstan, and FEFTA-based payment blocks tied to technology wording; practical strategies that succeeded in opening or unblocking accounts, including escalation, larger document packages, careful wording, and diversifying across banks and using Payoneer as an independent backup; risks specific to Wise and international brokers such as Freedom Finance; and day-to-day operational issues — scrutiny of personal transfers, account closure on visa expiry, technical limits, capital handling, and currency/crypto compliance. See: Banking Refusals and Discrimination; Banking Success Strategies and Diversification; Wise and Broker Payment Risks; Day-to-Day Account Operations and Currency Control.