As I mentioned in a previous post that you can continue paying into your previous employers Social Insurance System (社会保険 – shakai-hoken) through 任意継続 – nini-keizoku (for a max. of 2 years),…

Most of the hard work was now over. My next task was to apply for our first bank account and business credit card. Both were not that straight forward. Bank…

Finally, the company is registered and incorporated (phew! and a big pat on the back to myself for getting all the paperwork submitted). Our next task was to find an accountant….

The big day, the visit to the Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局 – houmu-kyoku). This is the day that the company will be incorporated. We chose the date carefully (we didn’t do…

During the preparation of the Teikan, we also prepared the documentation to show we had the capital (the paid-in capital) to start our business. This was the Certificate of payment…

Once the Teikan (Articles of Incorporation) is ready, it’s almost time to visit the Notary Office (公証役場 – koushou-yakuba). But wait! before that, there’s more paperwork! A Letter of Commission (委任状 –…

The next step was to create the Articles of Incorporation (定款 – teikan). Although the documents could have been created by ourselves (filling out a template file), we chose to…

Do you already have an address for your company? We didn’t. Many of the apartments or ‘mansions’ rented in Japan do not allow the residential address to be registered for…

For the next step, I needed to: 1. Register my personal Inkan and obtain the Inkan Registration Certificate 2. Prepare the Company Inkan Personal Inkan In Japan, the stamp or seal (印鑑…

Without a new job waiting for me, and with no HR people to take care of paperwork, there were many things that I was not aware of, and realized afterwards…