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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Local Obligations, Grants, and Other Business Topics in Japan — Overview
Overview of local obligations, grants, real estate, and other practical legal topics for business in Japan.
This section groups smaller but practically important topics: dues owed to neighborhood associations (chonaikai) and the sudden disappearance of an outsourced accountant or a hosting provider blocking a server; government-backed business loans and an IT subsidy, plus the legal exposure of informal loans between entrepreneurs; buying real estate for business use and investment mortgages, alongside future political risk for foreigners; and the new freelance-protection law, small-business succession, and several open legal questions together with foreign-entrepreneur networking. See: Neighborhood Associations, Vendor Risk, and Grants; Business Real Estate and Political Risk; Freelance Law, Succession, Open Questions, and Networking.