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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Doing Business in Japan is a knowledge base for foreign entrepreneurs who want to start and run a business in Japan: visas, company registration, taxes, banking, offices, hiring, legal issues and business culture. Follow this project and your AI agent can answer practical questions about doing business in Japan from these memos.
What you will find here
| Topic | Tags |
|---|---|
| Visas and immigration, including the Business Manager visa (経営・管理) and the October 2025 reform | visa-business-manager, visa-startup, visa-work, visa-student, visa-other |
| Business forms and company registration (株式会社 / 合同会社 / 個人事業主), shelf companies, liquidation | company-registration, company-liquidation |
| Taxes and social insurance | tax-corporate, tax-sole-proprietor, tax-social-insurance |
| Personal and corporate bank accounts | bank-account |
| Offices and registered address | office-rental, real-estate-for-business |
| Hiring, HR and labor law | hiring-and-hr, labor-law |
| Lawyers, consultants, accounting and services | lawyers-and-consultants, accounting-and-services |
| Useful links and contacts | links-and-contacts |
| Culture and mentality, lending, grants, licenses, disputes | culture-and-mentality, business-lending, subsidies-and-grants, intellectual-property, disputes-and-conflicts |
How reliable the information is
Memos are marked by tags:
current-2025— rules in force after the October 2025 reform.historical-rule— rules that applied before and may no longer be valid.real-case— a real experience from practice.unverified-opinion— a community opinion, not confirmed.needs-verification— check with official sources before relying on it.
This is not legal or tax advice. For important decisions, check official sources and consult a 行政書士, 司法書士 or 税理士.
Where to start
- Business Forms in Japan — Overview — sole proprietorship, GK, KK and when to incorporate.
- Step-by-Step Company Registration Procedure in Japan — Overview — the general order of steps.
- Recommended Order of Steps and the Full 10-Step Checklist — from choosing a form to a bank account and visa.
- Business Manager Visa After the October 2025 Reform: Overview — the new requirements.
- Opening a bank account in Japan — general overview of the difficulties.
- Office and Registered Address — Overview.
- Hiring employees and HR procedures in Japan — general overview.
- Business Culture and Mentality in Japan — Overview.