Visa cost: ¥5M Y
What? Why would anyone migrate to Japan then? You'd think that they'd have started relaxing the requirements, given the low birthrates and shrinking labor pool.
A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan
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#12I'm currently going through the same process for a business investor visa. However, my lawyer claims that immigation office changed the requirements this december to also require at least one (can be part-time) employee (other than yourself). Apparently this is something not stated anywhere, but a whim of the immigration office... Can anyone confirm?
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#13Once thing not mentioned here is that starting a business is usually a major commitment to staying somewhere, and you may not want to be prepared to make that kind of years-long commitment to a particular place. Sure, it's all exciting at first, but you may not like it long-term. I ran a successful publishing business in Japan, which kept me interested and happy, but it was a huge challenge to get the company to the stage where we could sell and leave. Problems multiply if your business does not do well. You may be stuck with tons of debt, in a foreign country, with very little support. Start small, make sure you have customers, and grow safely.
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#14I'm currently going through the same process for a business investor visa. However, my lawyer claims that immigation office changed the requirements this december to also require at least one (can be part-time) employee (other than yourself). Apparently this is something not stated anywhere, but a whim of the immigration office... Can anyone confirm?
Individual regional immigration offices and the individual clerks at them have pretty substantial latitude with regards to how they interpret the regulations. Another similar issue is how much salary you need to have to "self-sponsor" one of the professional visas (which is a thing which isn't really anticipated in the written regulations per se but can be finangled out of Immigration). The amount can, depending on the whims of the examining clerk, be "3 million yen", "300k yen per month", "at least as much as a Japanese person in your line of work", "enough to not be a burden on the public purse", "at or above the average income in this prefecture", etc.
(I will pause to say that if you'd trust an HN comment over the advice of your lawyer it is time to get a new lawyer.)
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#15Japan's population is expected to collapse over the next few deacades, and that population will be increasingly past retirement age. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demogra... So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from.
Or you could start a robotics or elder-care business...
You'd probably want to combine them and run an elder-care business staffed by robots to get around the labor supply problem.
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#16Visa cost: ¥5M Y
What? Why would anyone migrate to Japan then? You'd think that they'd have started relaxing the requirements, given the low birthrates and shrinking labor pool.
They kinda don't give a shit about that birthrate and declining population thing. Instead they aim for post-labour era with robots and not much manual labour.
In addition to that, they already have lots of young people who can't find solid jobs. For the last 20-ish years they economy doesn't grow. Big companies usually keep their old employees for a really long time, but don't grow. Thus youth don't have positions to fill. Importing population wouldn't help much, most of their companies are export based.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you could start a robotics or elder-care business...
You'd probably want to combine them and run an elder-care business staffed by robots to get around the labor supply problem.
Or still yet, a robot-care business staffed by ever more populous and longer living Japanese. Because Japan!
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd probably want to combine them and run an elder-care business staffed by robots to get around the labor supply problem.
Or still yet, a robot-care business staffed by ever more populous and longer living Japanese. Because Japan!
Or just cut out the care part and start robotically enhancing Japanese seniors.
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#19Japan's population is expected to collapse over the next few deacades, and that population will be increasingly past retirement age. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demogra... So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from.
> So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from.
As well as the tax burden for supporting the aging portion of the population (similar to considerations of basing a company in Florida, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, or other high-percentage elderly population US state).
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or still yet, a robot-care business staffed by ever more populous and longer living Japanese. Because Japan!
Or just cut out the care part and start robotically enhancing Japanese seniors.
Or making robots act as Japanese seniors. The sky is the limit.