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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Business Bank Accounts — Overview
Opening a corporate bank account in Japan as a foreign entrepreneur: experience with specific banks.
Opening a corporate bank account for a newly registered company is one of the biggest challenges facing foreign entrepreneurs in Japan. Experience with specific banks (SBI, GMO Aozora, SMBC Trunk, PayPay Bank, Bank of Yokohama) varies widely and is often contradictory. Foreign-currency operations, SWIFT transfers, and Wise Business are covered in a related record. See: International and Foreign-Currency Banking: SWIFT, Wise, and Crypto.