Below is Julian Bashore’s answer to this question on Quora. Yes, you bet Japan is a good country for business for a whole host of reasons. From my perspective as a manager working in a B2B environment, I will list some less obvious reasons as follows: 1) Loyalty of workforce Everyone from the custodial staff to …
This is a pretty awesome article, so I had to summarize it. It’s a long summary for a long article – there is after all a lot to understand here. You’ll learn about the state of hiring, and firing, in Japan. Although aimed at people outside Japan needing to understand what it is going to …
If you operate a guest house business, lodge business, hotel business, or an AirBnB business, there are two options to comply with recent regulations. You obtain Hotel Inn License based on Hotel Business law. Or you register your real estate based on the New Minpaku Law (Date of enforcement is 15th, June, 2018) A new …
In this Summary of an article by Joe Peters; managing director and recruiting specialist for insurance, e-commerce, and consumer goods at I Search Worldwide K.K., Joe gives us the 10 commandments… on what you shall not do when hiring in Japan. Check out these summarized myths, mistakes and suggestions below, and/or click through to read the …
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While Japan’s appeal, compared to other destinations, is very strong, its performance in terms of FDI has been weak at times. After a slowdown following the 2009 global financial crisis, Japan experienced two consecutive years of divestment in 2010 and 2011, and then in 2015. This is an Executive Summary of an Santander – Foreign …
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Background & premise: In January 2018, hackers stole more than $500 million in cryptocurrency from Coincheck, one of the largest crypto exchanges in Japan – the article explains why it happened, and why it is likely to happen again. This is a Summary of an article written by BIJ Member, leader in the Tech Startup …
This is a BIJ summary of a great article about Starting a Business in Japan, that you can find and read in full at behere.asia/making-it-in-japan Some TL;DR takeaways: Researching, setting up and building a successful business in Japan is a long process. It took the author 7 months to do. The requirements are: lawyers, choosing …
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