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What the other side checks depends on what you sell them. Pick the one that describes you and you get the order things happen in, the document each stage needs, and where an overseas seller gets stopped.

• I sell software or services to Japanese companies

  The order a Japanese B2B deal happens in, the documents each stage needs, and where an overseas seller gets stopped.

  3 guides so far

• I publish apps or games in Japan

  What changes for an app or game developer when Japan becomes a real market — tax on store revenue, withholding, store disclosures and Japanese-language listings.

  1 guide so far

• I sell physical goods on Amazon.co.jp

  Importing into Japan as an overseas seller — who acts as importer of record, what an attorney for customs procedures does, and the documents customs reads.

  Guides in progress

If none of those is you

The three above are where we have done the work. If you sell to Japan in some other way and cannot find the answer anywhere in public, send the question — unanswered questions are where every guide on this site started. How guides are made.

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