Your Japanese Business Setup Introduction

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Your Japanese Business

Setup IntroductionPresented byMichio Matsuzaki

[email protected]

Japanese Administrative Lawyer

Financial Planner

International Business Consultant
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Who Is Michio Matsuzaki? Japanese Administrative Lawyer

(gyoseishoshi) Accredited by the AAssociation of AdministrativeLawyers, Saitama Prefecture Branch

Financial Planner Possesses 2nd Grade Financial Planner Licensegranted by the Japan Association forFinancial Planners

Immigration Lawyer authorized by theTokyo Immigration Bureau

International business consultant for14 years with the German chemicalgiant, Merck Japan Ltd. Involved insales, marketing and various trade-related activities in 12 countries.


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What Does Matsuzaki General

Counsel Do? Established MGCO in 2001 to serve the

domestic and overseas foreigner market as alegal and administrative consultancy.

The main areas of assistance:

Incorporating businesses in Japan.Visa and immigration procedures.Preparing contracts in Japanese/English

concerned with international business andtrading with Japan.

Consulting about other sales and marketingmatters in Japan.


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Necessary Period For Setting Up A

Japan Branch (1)Case One: Foreigners Who Have Not Yet Resided In

Japan(Estimated Time Needed)

1) Enter Japan with a temporary visitor visa = 1 week or longer

2) Work on preparations such as finding a residence/office, employees, etc. = 2~3

weeks or occasionally longer3) Incorporate your business as a registered company = 2~3 weeks or

occasionally longer

4) Preparation to apply for an investor/business manager visa or apply for licenseor special permission for your particular business = 1~2 weeks or longer

5) Obtain an investor/business manager visa and license or permission, whenrequired = 3 months, more or less

6) You start a your business as the owner of the company = 18~21 weeks orlonger to go through the entire process


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Necessary Period for Setting up a

Branch Office or a Company in

Japan (2)Case Two: Foreigners Who Are Residing or

Have Legal Residence in Japan(Estimated Time Needed)

1) Work on finding and office, hiring employees, etc. = 2~3 weeksminimum

2) Incorporate your business as a registered company = 2~3 weeksminimum

3) Preparation to apply for a investor/business manager visa and to

apply for required licenses and permission for your business = 1~2weeks or occasionally longer

4) Obtain an investor/business manager visa and license orpermission, when required = 3 months, more or less

5) You start a your business as the owner of the company = 4 weeks orlonger to go through the entire process


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Costs for Incorporating a Business

in Japan


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Costs for Incorporating a Business

in Japan ( Supporting Data) (*1) Amongst the indispensable costs the registration

tax is 0.7% of the amounts of initial capital butJPY60,000 for LLC and JPY150,000 KK as theminimum. There is no such an initial capital for LLP sothat the registration tax is fixed with JPY60,000 forLLP.(*2) Actual expenses such as traveling etc. will beseparately charged.

(*3) In case some additional legal procedures are

needed upon establishing your company such ascontribution in kind, investment from foreign parentcompany etc., additional costs and our legal servicefees will be charged other than mentioned above.


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Indispensable Costs for Registering a

Branch Office (BO), a KK and an LLC


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Indispensable Costs for Registering

a Branch Office (BO), a KK and an

LLC (Supporting Data)

Amongst the indispensable costs the registration tax is 0.7% of theamounts of initial capital but JPY60,000 for LLC and JPY150,000KK as the minimum. There is no such an initial capital for LLP so

that the registration tax is fixed with JPY60,000 for LLP. In addition to the a.m. indispensable costs you will need to procure

relevant seals to be registered and Commercial Registrations andCertificates of Representative Seal upon necessity. Upon yourrequest our firm can procure such necessary seals (a representativeseal, a bank seal etc.) with additional charge JPY10,000 per seal.

In case you did not hire law firms like us but did the a.m. procedureson your on, you will need to bear the revenue-stamp taxJPY40,000to be applied on the articles of incorporation in addition to the a.m.indispensable costs.


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Supporting Data for Other Services

For KK and LLC, fee for registration scrivener is included. Daily fee and expenses for traveling will be separately charged. As for coordinative services those payments to real estate companies, H.R.

agents, office equipments vendors etc. will be separately needed. Those conditions you need to meet in order to get an investment /

management visa are as follows:

1) Your company must have set up /rented own office or shop in Japanprior to your visa application.

2) Your annual investment into Japan must be JPY5,000,000 or above.

3) Your company must hire two employees or more (beside yourself) priorto your visa application. However, those companies just newlyestablished can be exempted from this regulation for the first period of

visa permission, so that what you need is only JPY5,000,000 initialcapital in case of a new company.

4) You need experience in management of three years or more (includingthe period you studied management in a graduate school), and salaryequivalency to Japanese management.


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Are you ready to start a business in

Japan? Then contact us:

Matsuzaki General CounselOffice Japan Seekers LLC.

http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~risk21/index.html

Email [email protected]

Tel: Phone : + 81 (0)48 758 7572 Cell-phone : + 81 (0)90 3500 9678 Address: In Saitama Prefecture, Japan
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