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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Accountant and outsourced-accounting pricing and options

Accountant pricing runs roughly 15,000-33,000 yen/month plus a separate 80,000-300,000 yen annual filing fee (higher for a company than a sole proprietor); freelancers can be found through freee's…

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Jul 21, 2026
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A visiting/remote tax accountant (zeirishi, 税理士) typically charges around 15,000 yen/month plus 80,000 yen for the annual filing for a sole proprietor (roughly double for an LLC/KK). Another example: 30,000 yen/month plus 300,000 yen for the annual filing. Freelance accountants can be found via freee (with an English-language filter) or via meetsmore.com. zeroichitax.com does freee bookkeeping for a KK for 20,000 yen/month, including electronic filing. Cloud Partners' cheapest plan starts at 15,000 yen/month, but it doesn't enter data into freee itself — only review, consultation, and partial filing. UR Cloud (ur-cloud.jp) charges roughly 120,000 yen/year (can run about 20% higher in practice) or about 15,600 yen/month, with an English-language option at double the price; per another mention, it's organized but "assembly-line," not personalized, at about 200,000 yen for a one-off turnkey annual filing. Overall, full accounting support ranges from about 33,000 yen/month subscriptions (communication via Slack/email, annual report within a week) to a one-off turnkey annual filing for 200,000 yen. Useful search keywords: 税理士 確定申告 個人事業. Time needed for a quarterly/annual report: for a small company (1 part-timer, ~300 transactions over 3 months), up to a month during the "kakutei" filing season is considered normal — it's worth agreeing on a timeline with the accountant in advance. Outsourced payroll (salary calculation for employees) runs around 5,500 yen/month; annual reports (年次決算/shinkoku) are usually billed separately from monthly bookkeeping by accountants. See: Bookkeeping model and freee plans. Source: https://meetsmore.com/ — Freelancer and service search platform, including accountants. Source: https://ur-cloud.jp — UR Cloud accounting service website.