If you run a business in Tokyo for less than five years since registration or are planning to start a business in Tokyo, you, both a...

(*Edited: Details of the submission deadline is added.) The short answer is yes, as one of the subsidy admin offices answered our...

What is needed to start a business in Japan? We’ve asked an immigration lawyer (3) Yasuo Tachikawa, an immigration lawyer in Tokyo has...

What is needed to start a business in Japan? We’ve asked an immigration lawyer (2) Self-Employed Restaurant Owners May Face Stricter...

What is needed to start a business in Japan? We’ve asked an immigration lawyer (1) If a non-Japanese person wants to start a business in...

The insurance rate is 18.3%, and you'll pay half of it If you are an employee, your employer will issue a notification slip in September...

All people aged between 20 to 60 years old living in Japan ‘must be covered by the National Pension system and must pay contributions by...

Three types of Japanese health insurance in Japan Health insurance in Japan is divided mainly into three groups at large. They are: (1)...

A payment slip contains essential information about your social insurance. If you are a non-Japanese national working in Japan, it can...

NB Translation is updated on 2 March to improve clarity. As predicted, the translation 'How to apply for the covid subvention 2022' is...

NB The word previously used 'pre-checking' (事前確認 in Japanese) has been changed to 'pre-screening', considering the actual procedure. In...

For the covid subvention, here are the slides of required documents for the application. The slides include a glossary, too. I have...

Japanese government started accepting an application of a subvention for SMEs or registered freelancers who are seriously affected by the...

From Yamanashi to Tokyo, weekly trip by highway bus to learn translation Hurdle for female freelancers in Japan: spouse deduction...

My, and Posse Nippon’s, project is to provide entrepreneurial assistance for non-Japanese people, as I mentioned before, and this is why...

Everything started with the question above: Is that the only way for foreigners to work in Japan? I have met many skilled foreigners...

James Webb Young, in his seminal work A Technique for Producing Ideas, used islands in the ‘South Seas’ as a metaphor for the...