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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Personal Contacts: Visa Specialists, Accountants and Tax Advisors
Personal contacts for administrative scriveners, accountants and tax advisors, plus reference pricing for their services.
The community shared several personal contacts for visa and accounting help, along with reference pricing. Administrative scriveners (gyosei shoshi) mentioned with positive feedback include a Kyoto-based consultant specializing in business visas. Other personal contacts include an English-speaking accountant based in Yokohama, a possible tax-advisor option (no feedback available from the community), and a tax consulting firm mentioned without a detailed assessment. For finding a tax advisor (zeirishi) independently, freee runs a search service for accounting advisors, and both freee's and Yayoi's blogs break down typical pricing for zeirishi services. A rough reference price shared in the chat for a gyosei shoshi drafting a business plan and filing a startup-visa application was 30,000 yen upfront plus 70,000 yen on success, against a typical market rate of around 100,000 yen. Source: http://www.gaikokujin-backup.com/ — business-visa consultant based in Kyoto. Source: https://beps2aoki.com/ — English-speaking accountant based in Yokohama. Source: https://tax-navio.com/ — possible tax-advisor option, no community feedback available. Source: http://www.jbp-tax.jp/about — tax consulting firm, mentioned without a detailed assessment. Source: https://search-advisors.freee.co.jp — freee's search service for finding a tax advisor (zeirishi). Source: https://www.freee.co.jp/kb/kb-kakuteishinkoku/cost/ — freee blog on typical pricing for zeirishi services. Source: https://www.yayoi-kk.co.jp/zeirishi/oyakudachi/zeirishi_estimation/ — Yayoi blog on typical pricing for zeirishi services.