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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Service Marketplaces and Freelance Platforms
Service marketplaces (meetsmore, Mitsumoa) and freelance platforms (Lancers, Socious.io) with differing commission structures.
meetsmore.com is a services marketplace in Japan, and Mitsumoa (ミツモア) is a directory of service providers and contractors, roughly Japan's equivalent of a services-focused classifieds site. Lancers and Socious.io are freelance platforms; Lancers charges a relatively high commission (16.5-22%), while Socious charges less. s.kakaku.com is a large product/price-comparison aggregator (cars, SIM cards and more), useful for competitive retail-pricing research. AnyMind Group is a Japanese company offering brand and marketing products, cited as an interesting reference. osome.com offers company registration and consulting for startups in Singapore and Hong Kong, with a referral registration route mentioned in the community. 3rd-inc.jp helps with promotion and management for clothing/handmade brands, and smartlaundry.jp is an example smart-laundromat service used for competitive market analysis. Source: https://meetsmore.com/ — meetsmore.com — services marketplace in Japan. Source: https://socious.io/ja — Socious.io — freelance platform with a lower commission than Lancers. Source: https://s.kakaku.com — s.kakaku.com — product/price-comparison aggregator. Source: https://anymindgroup.com/ — AnyMind Group — Japanese company with brand and marketing products. Source: https://3rd-inc.jp/ — help with promotion and management for clothing/handmade brands. Source: https://smartlaundry.jp — example smart-laundromat service, used for competitive market analysis.