{"id":135932,"date":"2020-09-29T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T08:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=135932&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-09-29T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T08:50:27","slug":"fukuoka-city-waives-company-registration-fee-to-encourage-startups","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-city-waives-company-registration-fee-to-encourage-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka City Waives Company Registration Fee To Encourage Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka City continues to support new startups by waiving company registration fees. The city has received an increasing number of inquiries about launching new businesses between April and August 2020; it aims to accelerate the trend by subsidizing \u00a530,000 ~ \u00a575,000 of the registration costs. Using the program plus the city\u2019s \u201cdesignated business creation aid program (\u7279\u5b9a\u5275\u696d\u652f\u63f4\u7b49\u4e8b\u696d),\u201d some may establish their businesses without bearing any registration fees. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/data\/open\/cnt\/3\/77422\/1\/teisei_kaisyanotoukiga0enndekanouni.pdf?20200923173533\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka City<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20200924\/5010009488.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135933\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fukuoka-startup-1.jpg?resize=1126%2C725&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1126\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fukuoka-startup-1.jpg?w=1126&amp;ssl=1 1126w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fukuoka-startup-1.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fukuoka-startup-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C659&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fukuoka-startup-1.jpg?resize=768%2C494&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The city has received an increasing number of inquiries about launching new businesses between April and August 2020; it aims to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":135933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-135932","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/135932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}