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Sep 11, 2023Now Reports
FIBA – Joint Event with Fukuoka Foreign Trade Association Report
The Fukuoka International Business Association (FIBA) is an organization aimed at networking and exchanging business information about Fukuoka and Kyushu for business professionals...
Aug 8, 2023Now Reports
Fukuoka’s Next-Level Co-Working: The Company – Mina Tenjin
Nestled in the heart of Tenjin with sweeping views of the city and a direct link to the Tenjin Underground Mall, Fukuoka welcomes a brand-new co-working and shared office space...
Oct 4, 2022Now Reports
Our Business Legal Consultancy Services
October is here, and I suddenly realized it’s Autumn. In Japan, we say “Ichijitsu Senshu” (one thousand autumns in a day): meaning it feels like a day has lasted a thousand years. ...
Aug 26, 2022Now Reports
Fukuoka: City of Growth and Dynamic Vision
Compared to Western cities, urban planning in Japan might seem to be more of an afterthought. There’s clearly less zoning, and some places just look chaotic. But, dig deeper, and y...
Mar 9, 2021Now Reports
Dispatched Workers and the 3-year Rule
In my previous article, I explained that a contract (or fixed-term) worker has the right of conversion from a fixed-term contract to a non-fixed term contract if their contract has...
Jan 5, 2021Now Reports
Business Suspension Requests Under The Covid-19 Law
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has expressed his wish to revise the Covid-19 law. The focus is on whether to set penalties for those who refuse to abide by the authorities’ business...
Nov 17, 2020Now Reports
Fukuoka City Became Japan’s First Hanko-free City
Some of you might be able to recall the opening scene of Kurosawa’s film ‘Ikiru’ in which a local civil servant sitting around a pile of documents is affixing a seal to a document ...
Oct 6, 2020Now Reports
Sending Money Abroad and Fintech Companies
When we send money abroad with traditional Japanese banks, they charge various fees, including remittance fees, lifting charge, and recipient/intermediary bank fees...
Sep 10, 2020Now Reports
Can Fukuoka Become an International Financial Hub?
Unlikely. However, the government seems to think otherwise. According to Kyodo News, [1] Japan’s central government has decided to target Fukuoka and Osaka to attract companies and...
Dec 19, 2019Now Reports
Leaving a Will in Japan
Thankfully, I received a request from a reader about writing a will in Japan, and so I’m writing about that from a non-Japanese person’s perspective. We will all die someday. At th...
