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Company Registration in Japan
COMPANY
REGISTRATION
IN JAPAN
BY- HARSHIT SHARMA
BUSINESS STRUCTURE & COMPANY
FORMATION PROCEDURE IN JAPAN
SOLE COMPANY FOREIGN
PROPRIETORSH FORMATION COMPANY
IP JAPAN ESTABLISHMENT
SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP
(KOJINJIGYO)
It is less complicated and requires less tax until
the business reaches a certain amount of
profit. It is a business run and owned by
Individual. It can use a commercial name but
does not separate its owner and the business,
meaning thereby all profits/loss and
assets/debt of business is sole responsibility of
Individual. There is no legal obligation for
mandatory registration to become sole
proprietor hence once decided to start a
business can start trade/business.
COMPANY FORMATION
JAPAN
TYPES OF COMPANY
FORMATION IN JAPAN
Kabushiki
Kaisha
(KK) Godo
Kaisha (GK)
FOREIGN COMPANY CAN
HAVE EITHER…
Subsidiary
Company
Representative (company Branch Office
Office (RO) established under (BO)
the Japanese
Laws)
REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE
It is a simple fact of having a physical office space located somewhere in
Japan and there isn't any required procedure to register it officially. It is not
allowed to engage in commercial activities or generates profits locally but
the activities like providing information to parent company, advertising &
publicity, market research etc. kind of activities allowed to do being RO by
Japanese Government. It is not subject to paying corporate tax. It is not
possible to open a bank account under the name of the parent company.
Only a personal account under the name of representative can be opened,
but the account holder's name can be followed by the company's name.
SUBSIDIA
RY
COMPAN
Y
BRANC
H
OFFICE
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED
FOR ESTABLISHING BRANCH
OFFICE IN JAPAN
Firstly: Affidavit certified by Country’s Embassy/Consulate in Japan
or public notary of the company where the foreign company is
registered.
Secondly: Seal Certificate or Signature attestation of
Representation in Japan (issued within 3 months)
Thirdly: Branch Office’s official seal (to be registered at the
registry office)
PROCESS & STEPS TO BE
ADHERED FOR
INCORPORATING COMPANY
IN JAPAN
First: Find an Office Address
Second: Prepare the Article of Incorporation (AOA) and
Notarize the AOA
Third: Deposit of Capital
Fourth: Preparing documents for the company’s
registration.
Fifth: Filing the application for the company’s registration
It cost minimum 150000 yen for KK and 60000 yen for GK.
CONTINUED…
Sixth: Registration
certificate Issued
Seventh: obtain
Tax & Social
insurance
registration
CONCLUSION
The compliance and regulatory framework of Japanese law for any form of
business structure is not difficult to fulfilled provided initial requirement like
obtaining bank account and representative director might cause problem
which in a nutshell required local link up to set up business here in Japan.
Otherwise, the growth of Japan is always attracting the foreign investors in
huge number due to welcoming less burden of compliance and regulatory
framework with good corporate governance and labor force.
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