Japan Entry Guide

The status of residence “Business Manager” (the Business Manager visa), which allows foreign nationals to run a company in Japan, changed dramatically…

You might assume that once you form a company in Japan you can start operating right away — but that assumption can lead to an unexpected halt. In…

Once you have decided on the form of entry and the type of company, it is finally time to form the company. The company formation itself follows a…

Once you have decided that "what we will set up in Japan is a subsidiary," the next fork almost always awaits: "a stock company (KK), or a limited…

"We want to set up a base in Japan, but there are several forms — subsidiary, branch, representative office, and so on — and we don't know which to ch…

"We want to enter the Japanese market, but we don't know where to start" — this is the most common question we hear from executives and staff at overs…