Your business in Japan,
from setup to daily operations.

Registering a Japanese company does not start the business.

You have to find customers, add partners, hire people, sort out licences and bookkeeping, and answer the enquiries and meetings that come every day.

Toyo Shoji takes on that work in Japan, as one team.

We gather what you need to decide, and once you decide, we handle the setup.

We research competitors, price ranges, regulations and channels, and report back. If you go ahead, we take care of company registration, licences, residence status (through our affiliated gyoseishoshi office), bank account, office space and the first customers, so the business can actually start.

Get the product ready for Japan, sell it, and keep it selling. We do this work for you in Tokyo.

Customer and distributor development, trade shows, negotiations, e-commerce (Rakuten, Amazon, your own store) and wholesale. For physical products we start by adapting labelling, packaging and pricing to Japanese standards. We run our own Rakuten, Amazon and direct-to-consumer stores, so test sales can begin right away.

For product sales we start with a paid six-month validation period: research, product adjustment and test sales, then decide together based on real sales data. After that we continue on a monthly operating fee plus a sales-linked commission.

You can hand over the work before you have a full team in Japan.

Sales, customer service, hiring, general affairs, bookkeeping coordination, and liaison with tax accountants and labour consultants. We cover the functions you need, for as long as you need them. Head office focuses on product and technology; the work in Japan gets done in Tokyo.