Japan Overhauls Business Manager Visa: What Foreign Entrepreneurs Need to Know

Japan Overhauls Business Manager Visa: What Foreign Entrepreneurs Need to Know

Japan is fundamentally reshaping its landscape for foreign entrepreneurs. In a landmark move, the Immigration Services Agency (ISA) has announced a sweeping overhaul of the Japan Business Manager visa (経営・管理), with the changes set to take effect on October 16, 2025.

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Can You Manufacture Luxury?

Can You Manufacture Luxury?

There are moments in business that crystallize a complex problem into a single question. For me, that moment arrived over a typically tasty lunch at The Oak Door in Tokyo, and the question was this: Can luxury be manufactured? More specifically, can you take a product born from science and imbue it with the “soul of“ luxury?

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