How to start doing a Small Business in Japan

How to start doing a Small Business in Japan

-  I am interested to start a small business in Tokyo, doing a form of therapeutic massage. I don't want to know about how likely it is I would succeed, and I'm sure there are many who will want to tell me all about that, but I'm not interested to hear about that right now.

My concern right now is, what are the legalities involved? I have heard it is possible, and that there are just steps I need to go through to make it happen. Is anyone aware of those steps.

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Opening a business in Japan is not much different than in other places, though being a foreigner complicates things, and makes getting started up more difficult.

The first thing you will need is money. A business license and the legal fees of setting up a basic corporation will be around 300,000 yen ($3000). You will also need a physical address for your business, so you have to add the cost of renting a building and the associated expenses. You will also need to sponsor yourself for a business/investor visa, which usually requires that you have 5 million yen in savings. The initial 300,000 yen will cover the license, application
fees, business stamp, and setting up a bank account in Japan.

Provided you have the money, you can usually get yourself set up in 30 to 60 days, at least as far as paperwork goes. You'll probably need to spend some time and money getting your building/office/store set up, but most Japanese contractors can get the work done in a week.

 

- Based on what you're saying, I would only recommend that route as a last resort.
I could do 99% of that stuff on my own very easily, finding a guarantor was a tad complicated but I was able to use local assets as collateral for that.

Oh and check this out, you can't do it legally no matter how you go about it!

You need a business/investor visa in order to operate a business.
To get the visa you need to have spent 5mil yen on establishing that business.
You also need to be employing a Japanese native full time (it used to be 2),
To employ a native, you need to register them with the local tax office.
To register them you need a registered business.
To have a registered business you need to have a business visa.
follow?

I war running and operating my business for 2 months prior to applying for the business visa in order to ensure I met all the requirements necessary for the visa. (I was running it on a teacher visa - specialist of humanities - or something).

I brought this paradox up with a really really nice and super awesome civil servant who basically explained that they know about it and use it as a wild-card to deny applications to people they don't like lol.

So don't be a shithead douche bag when you apply!

 

- I used a local law firm who were able to set everything set up for me, and they also provided me with a guarantor. The cost for the guarantor was equivalent to one month's rent, which was expensive.They also handled the registration at the tax office, and assistance with accounting for the first year. It was not cheap, but they did the leg work for me. All I was required to do was show up at the office to sign the paperwork. I was also able to get a business credit card, which was helpful.

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Art market analysis: Who benefits from charity auctions

Art market analysis: Who benefits from charity auctions

The auction Artists for Haiti, organised by New York’s David Zwirner gallery and Christie’s, takes place on 22 September. It is perhaps the most ambitious charity event since Sotheby’s 2008 auction for the rock star Bono’s Red charity, which finances Aids, tuberculosis and malaria programmes in Africa. The Haiti sale includes high-value, new work by artists such as Luc Tuymans and Jeff Koons.

There are similarities between the two events: Red’s $42.6m total—the result of a perfect confluence of strong market, blue-chip artists, and a celebrity-driven cause—wouldn’t have been possible if Damien Hirst, after a meeting with Bono, hadn’t approached artists including Banksy, Jasper Johns and Julian Schnabel. In Artists for Haiti’s case, Zwirner, after a trip to Haiti with the actor Ben Stiller who works with charities in the region, also opened up his contacts book.

While not all charity auctions are on the scale of Artists for Haiti or of Christie’s forthcoming Japan relief sale with Takashi Murakami (date yet to be confirmed), the dealers give up their time and the auctioneers conduct them, gratis. While the likes of Christie’s and David Zwirner become involved in charity auctions out of corporate responsibility, there are some additional fringe benefits. Such events are good for public relations and can help in winning business: existing and potential clients are often involved in charitable organisations. And they are a good deal for collectors too. Although New York State requires sales tax, there is no buyer’s premium. One exception was the Red sale, for which there was some financial incentive for Sotheby’s, which took a 10% buyer’s commission (below its usual 12% to 25% rate, but a fee nonetheless). Collectors who donate a work get a tax deduction on its full market value; buyers get one on the difference between the retail value of a piece and what was paid above it.

Charity auctions have been around for a while. Sotheby’s decorative arts specialist Robert Woolley, who died in 1996, became a star charity auctioneer in the 1980s and 1990s. Lydia Fenet at Christie’s says there was a huge increase in charity auctions in the boom years between 2000 and 2008. Then, hedge fund money made for more visible events, such as the star-studded Robin Hood Foundation Gala, but these suffered during the downturn. Recently fundraising events have increased again, despite the still flailing economy.

They differ from normal public auctions. Alcohol is served, buoying moods. Auctioneers are not obliged to abide by the regulations (and the New York State laws) that govern regular auctions, including following specific bidding increments, so have more sway for drawing out bids.

This can influence the market. It’s unusual that artist records are set, but after the Red sale, there were 17, including Banksy at $1.9m and Howard Hodgkin at $792,000 (both still the artists’ auction records). Because it was at Sotheby’s, these results are listed on Artnet (most charity auctions are not) where there is no obvious sign it was a charity auction. This is misleading: who knows if these prices would have been achieved in a standard public auction?

Benefit sales are not always ideal for dealers or artists, however. A common refrain among dealers is that there are too many of these events, packed with too much low-value art. (Zwirner is keeping Artists for Haiti to a modest 26 lots of expensive, mainly primary market work.) Some institutions’ boards do not come out in support, leading to lacklustre results. Dealers and artists do not want to turn anyone down—dealers are swayed by collectors who are trustees at institutions; artists feel indebted to spaces that helped their careers. Neither do they want to donate second-rate pieces, since influential people will see these flop. Still, there are complaints about second-tier “benefit art”; some artists get asked so often that they’ve made large edition pieces for donations. In June, Mat Gleason, an art critic for the Huffington Post, advised artists: “Don’t ever donate your art to a charity auction again.” Artists who donate receive a tax deduction only on the cost of materials. And dealers want to control markets, making any auction problematic.

But charity auctions can have their advantages for dealers too: well-run events like Dallas’s Two x Two for Aids and Art, which benefits the American Foundation for Aids Research and the Dallas Museum of Art, and Aspen Art Museum’s Artcrush (whose 3 August auction was conducted by Sotheby’s Tobias Meyer) attract high-profile collectors and give artists exposure. Artists are flown in and given an opportunity to network with collectors and curators. The first lot in Aspen this year was a new painting by New York artist Rashid Johnson, whose work had never appeared at public auction. It jumped to $52,000, more than double its market value of $24,000.

Such results can recycle money into the system. After Augusto Arbizo of New York gallery 11 Rivington arranged for a donation by his artist Katrin Sigurdardottir to Two x Two, organisers sent underbidders his way, who went on to buy from him. “Most of the time the good [events] understand what they’re asking and know how often these artists are being asked,” said Arbizo. “They are OK with being politely told ‘no’ every once in a while. It benefits the non-profit [institutions] and it’s good for the artist. There are some collectors who go to these things who don’t make it to the gallery.”

Art advisor Allan Schwartzman also extols auctions like Two x Two, started by his client Howard Rachofsky, and says they can be opportunities to collect. But he also warns that non-profits “have had difficulty getting substantial work donated because they become the buying ground of bargain hunters”—there are often no reserves—“and often things given for worthy causes are sold to speculators who bring them to day sales a few years later”.

In rare instances benefit auctions, like that of New York alternative space The Kitchen, which supports emerging artists, allow artists to take a portion of the sale price. This can bring in good-quality pieces. Last November The Kitchen’s event featured pieces by rising stars Tauba Auerbach and Jacob Kassay, both coming off the back of strong results at auction earlier that month: at Phillips, a pair of works on paper by Auerbach sold for $17,500, and a painting by Kassay, estimated at $6,000 to $8,000, made $86,500. At The Kitchen, a painting by Auerbach sold for over five times its stated $8,000 retail value, and Kassay’s painting soared past its $14,000 value to make $94,000. It is unknown whether either of these artists had asked for a portion of the sales price, but, ironically, far from getting a measly tax deduction on materials, they stood to make more from their work at a benefit auction than they would have if they had sold it through a dealer.

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japanese Snack review : Social change and the family

apanese Snack review : Social change and the family

Hunting and gathering society was the first time in a small nomadic bands and later in some places in the larger settlements and greater depths, (Wenke 1984) ตัดสินจากกลุ่มของ! Kung, Native American, Australian, and other lifestyles that are relatively rich in history, a group of hunters to keep their small - and quite likely to be equally cooperative. Although the alliance of marriage with a band that gathers hunters - the value of collaboration among their members more than continuing with the residents of a single band and fluidly may move from one band associated with one to and (Quale 1988), by ecologists, they are ideal for holding the value of living in harmony with other life forms, instead of striving to dominate and exploit them. However, the integration of families into modern life tends to be a long and difficult process. Most of the farming and pastoral Nomads tend to have a family, patriarchal, and the trend toward polygyny (Schneider and Gough 1961; Maccoby 1966) The effectiveness of the work of women tends to be limited to the herding of animals. and dairying, and food processing and preparation (Quale 1988), exchange relationships will be set in place over the area to spread widely, with the marriage may be strategically located, and the exchange of the daughter of. Marriage may help to cement an alliance economy. All these movements are difficult to integrate them because it interferes with the education of their children and health care as a member. A purity of family homelessness may be the exception rather than the rule Dinka of Sudan, for example, the growth is about one-third and collect and hunt a two-thirds of the type of food they consume (Zeitlin 1977), women's and men Dinka old. tend to be sedentary throughout the year, while young men are nomadic pastoralists to become part of the year (Deng 1972). Society participation in traditional agriculture, crafts, and trade has been divided into those landowners and local communities and landowners are personal training (Caldwell and Caldwell 1990) Most of the population of Europe and Asia to make change. Central to the owners of private land from 4,000 to 5,000 years ago in response to the accumulation of excess significance of agriculture can be a wealth of other sources, such as copper mining in sub - Saharan Africa,. separated by deserts and the growing conditions that do not favor the accumulation of surplus community land ownership is still dominant. Polygyny, a form of hosts is well suited for agriculture to move the abundance of low yield land, the community's culture of technology workers (Caldwell and Caldwell 199 ()) the wife more, and her children to the family farm, its great. and to achieve economies of scale in labor and trade. The family, which is headed by the husband and the elders of his lineage, starting with a wife and increasing the accumulation of wealth that are needed for each bride. Wives and children, this unit is larger and more lucrative it becomes. Wife's sexual fidelity is not the highest priority and every child born to bring the illusion of legitimacy of his men. Social form of this family appears to place the cultural and religious backgrounds in child-bearing by Quale (1988), it may not be appropriate to think of all the people of Agriculture as early as this format. on agricultural development in the topsoil that is rich in deposits, localized flooding of the river every year. Monogamous marriage with a strong culture for the protection of women's sexual fidelity is crucial for the maintenance of traditional subsistence farming to private farming. Land that their families will be passed to heirs male of paternity is beyond question. For greater security in the transmission of land, the cross-cousin marriage may be needed. Brother married with children, gathered in the land and other property to be inherited separately. Cousin marriage has been common in many cultures with the current rates of about 60 percent of her total claimed for Pakistan (1992 DHSL Education / Institute of the population) may also help reduce the feuds property. related to social integration between farmers and other farmers in the Middle East (Sweet 1970). In spite of the ethnographic model of agriculture is known as a family. These global institutions are organized around the family settled on agricultural production, traditional crafts, or other family business ventures, they have a large network of relatives and regulatory authority hierarchy. All of these manufacturers, employers, consumers and social welfare agencies in one. And families tend to be well developed. The maximum value is the responsibility of the family (Doherty, 1992). The relative maximum a person can be tracked fairly closely with the expectation that 50 (Quale 1988), the hierarchical structure of Yoruba descent (ch. 7), located from 20 to 2,000 member groups. together in a walled compound in The family unit in view of the people living and working under the watchful eye of the head of the compound. Marriage and family institutions as a partner rather than a romantic relationship. Children are more likely to be worth it for the next student and manager of the land in the family and the workplace. Current and historical records indicate. However, both past and present day farming families living in institutions, often do not have large housing units.economy close to their families and community members and in their attitudes toward family life (Hareven 1987). The evolution of the family. According to them, family and community structures to adapt to the physical and social conditions of production (Wenke 1984) a similar evolutionary forces lead to changes in the dynamics of families and children. Parents to raise their children's behavior to the risk they perceive in their environment that they expect their children to be mature and cultural and economic expectations. they have their children (Levine 1974; Levine, Miller and West 1988) the interplay between the powerful technology of social structure and values ​​of society is the family. But technology is not the chief cultural strengths. Same production technology, and ecological conditions to support changes in family organization, management style and emotional climate. In Indonesia, for example, Java is known for its warmth toward children (ch. 7), while their Alorese that have been reported to be low nurturance of children in the coastal West African Yoruba and Ibo of Nigeria, there are different hierarchical patrilineal, the settlement of family and gender roles. The inheritance is matrilineal Akan of Ghana, both American and Japanese industry. But different cultures. Similar changes in technology to stimulate a change in the family in a similar direction. But from a different starting point and a variable

apanese Snack review : Social change and the family

Japanese snack review : Japanese Culture for Children– fun facts, food, music, language,game

Japanese snack review : Japanese Culture for Children– fun facts, food, music, language,game

Unlike other countries, the Japanese must be very beautiful, like a chef, Japanese food, so be very careful in preparing food on the table, rice, main dish will be provided in many Japanese eat rice cakes, crackers. the rice and mix in a variety of lentils, fish and vegetables, rice is usually a ball full of fish, meat or vegetables and wrapped in dried seaweed, called onigiri, are popular. For lunch and snacks. The rice wine is also required. The most important meal of pasta and fermented foods. Noodle dish to eat for lunch and snacks. Japanese food, pickles and pickled vegetables they eat every time. The importance of the curd, tofu, soybeans are used in many different forms, including the Ice Cream Donuts and miso, fermented fish paste to flavor soups and soy and rice. Soy is also turned into a sauce. Breakfast together in a bowl of rice, a bowl of Japanese miso soup, pickles and a side dish of fish. Dinner will be similar to breakfast. However, there are three side dishes. Each side dish will be cooked in different ways. The food is unique to the Japanese sashimi and sushi. Both are made with raw seafood. I eat sashimi dipped in soy sauce and sushi rice are included. Japan's traditional drink green tea can be served hot or cold. It 'also canned and sold in stores, such as drinks, in the West. Clothing A traditional Japanese kimono as a garment that is worn by men and women. However, in modern Japanese kimono is normally reserved for special occasions, even if you can see older women wearing them. Young men and women like to dress up the West, it is less expensive and more convenient. Kimono is tied to a long, wide belt that is wrapped around the waist and tied Obi obi.The back. Single women and women wear a special type called a long-sleeved kimono Furisode is made of colored fabric and tied with colorful kimono Yukata Obi is known as the wear on the beach and hot springs. Girls and women often wear the colors of summer festivals in yukatas IEAK แ IEK. Plain, a black kimono worn by men and women for the funeral. Even if the black dress of the day will be accepted marriage brides wear a traditional white kimono, embroidered with elaborate headdresses are made from luxurious silk kimono decorated with the bride in black face of the family. Kimono wearing sandals with band called zoris thonged sandals or wood that has been called the Plat Geta Zoris can be made of straw or wood Geta laminate is made up of wood, flush with the wooden stick. the subject. Only one near the heel and the other near the bow, 4 to 5 cm in height Geta Zoris plates touch the ground must wear an official of the geta to wear with yukatas. Festivities and celebrations.

           fromToshigami. Visit God's blessings for the new year. New business card for the customer and the person who sent it to everyone they know. These will be brought to the post office in December, which will be held for delivery on January 1, people also exchange gifts and give money to children. The end of the month for me - the - year (bounenkai) to host a New Year's Eve and New Year will be spent quietly with family New Year's Eve, listening to 108 the budget of the temple. Bell cleanse us from all sins and lead a new life. While the West has until midnight, the Japanese are beginning to see the sunrise before. They also eat spaghetti that will bring good luck this year. New Year, including a trip to the court and the family dinner special. Obon is a festival for the dead is celebrated in mid-August. The Japanese believe that the spirit of their dead back to life the world to visit their families during this time. House cleaning in preparation for the visit. The hanging lamp, home to receive and guide the soul. Families also visit the tomb where they prayed and the place of flowers, food and beverages. Community arts dance called Bon Odori, which will be held in a high-rise wood structures (Yagura) house music. Yagura, dance, dance in a circle around the end of Obon lanterns float over the place for the organization to guide the souls of the water at home. The famous The famous story is about a God who Okuninushi eighty brothers. Everyone wants to marry a princess, and took a trip to visit her. I found a rabbit with no hair, and pain. They say that a rabbit might be a good swim. The pain worsens when he said that Okuninushi the rabbit to bathe in water. Once this is achieved, the rabbit is really a reward from God for his marriage with Princess Okuninushi. Another of the popular children's story about a parrot that awards a master of his life thriving. But the punishment of his wife after he had cut the tongue of a sparrow.

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           Kendema Japanese children and I like to play in elementary school as a way to develop hand-eye coordination to play Kendema with a wire attached to it and three cups. The goal of the game is to throw the ball in the air and catch it in the end of a stick or a cup. Teens who love to play board games like chess and shogi, the two are similar. But more complex. This is different from playing chess with a computer program that is not good to be. However, organizations that offer financial rewards for the development program for the first player to win the championship.

Japanese snack review : Japanese Culture for Children– fun facts, food, music, language,game

Japan snack review : Social Problems in Japan

Japan snack review  : Social Problems in Japan

Traditionally, Japanese culture is organized around groups. Adults view children that have problems with group behavior and interpersonal relationships as the deviant ones. Adults most highly value social cooperativeness in children because they hold this trait to be more important than individual interests. The "bad" children are those who reject the life of the group in favor of an egocentric, individualistic existence. Little emphasis is placed on teaching children to think of themselves as individuals within society. Japanese children that are extremely group oriented may have acquired those values of obedience and conformity at the price of autonomy and social understanding.



        This is an even bigger problem when combined with modern Japanese parents' obsession with creating an academically superior child. The good child is considered to be the one who can respond to adult expectations and excel in school by receiving high grades. This has caused extreme competitiveness among Japanese students. This competitiveness, and the conflicting expectations for modern children to be the best in school but also serve the traditional purposes of the group, confuses children and causes frustration. This contributes to other social problems such as bullying and truancy.

CLASSROOM DISINTEGRATION
        The elementary school system in Japan had enjoyed a long history of success until recently. There has been a breakdown of discipline in classrooms that is referred to as Gakkyu hokai, or class disintegration. Teachers are unable to control their classrooms and chaos often erupts. Researchers argue that the traditional teaching methods of elementary school are too inflexible and that lessons have become too boring for today's Japanese youth. The strict rules and regulations that are in place stifle children's opportunities to construct their own standards of appropriate behavior. Elementary school life is controlled to the smallest detail. Also, class size may be too large for one teacher to both educate and teach social values. Educators have suggested that schools must not only hire more teachers and reduce class size, but also rethink the system of forcing scheduled lessons on children, and instead explore more interesting teaching methods. For more on recent educational reform, go to the Elementary School page

Japan snack review : Original Art on Auction for Japan

Japan snack review : Original Art on Auction for Japan

Add art auction online for a list of creative ways that people are raising money to help with disaster response in Japan, Christina Conway, artists, Louisiana as an exhibition curated by the Japanese American National Museum. National institutions and other selected artists to create original works of art that will be useful for online auctions in Japan. The auction is available online here. All payments will be increased to cope with a disaster of Japan Give2Asia. Artists associated with the task of creating a "EMA" Ema is a small speck of Japanese wood has left the shrine with the image on one side and a prayer, the other to help relieve the discomfort. Lahore, Japan, and to spread awareness of the EMA support, and hope that artists are creating for you a sincere, positive image of their artists for the auction in favor of the Japanese earthquake rescue and relief fund for tsunami Give2Asia during the day. 19 pieces of original artwork at auction, and 15 artists have signed on to present the results of their work. In the weeks after the disaster on March 11, in Japan, "Japanese assistance" has gone from a popular movement for community artists to create art and discussions for survivors in Japan. The idea of ​​the "Japanese Support" was caused by Dice Tsutsumi, artistic director of the Pixar studio has been working with Give2Asia for the event in 2008 for the Totoro Forest Fund. Since the disaster, the Japanese tried to roll it brought together several hundred artists. In addition to online auctions. Christina 'Conway of the events that occur for Japanese artists to help.

japanese snack review : Moral Education in Japan

japanese snack review  : Moral Education in Japan

In the United States, moral education has been always at issue in schools, although the methodology and the content have changed over the past years. Especially after World War II, moral education was largely impacted on by social and cultural change, and it also had a huge influence on the society.
Today, moral education became one of the biggest concern of the public since our society is facing an increasing amount of juvenile crime. According to the twenty seventh annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, the American public has pointed out to "lack of discipline" as what it sees as the biggest problem for local public schools (Elam & Rose, 1995). In 1983, 2,951 children and teens in the United States died from gunfire. Ten years later, in 1993, 5,751 people under the age of 20 died at the hand of a gun - a 94 percent of increase. A new report by the Children's Defense Fund, based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics, reveals that
the "morally unthinkable" killing of children by guns has not only become common, it continues to escalate. The report also finds that the 5,751 youths killed in the United States in 1993 were more than three times the total number of gun homicides in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and Finland combined.
Furthermore, more preschoolers than police officers or US soldiers shot in the line of duty were killed by guns in 1993 (The Christian Science Monitor, 1995). James Fox, Dean of the criminology department at Northeastern University, says teens are much more threatening than adults because they will kill over trivial matters - a jacket, some sneakers, a dirty look, and murder is just not the taboo for them that it once was (Urschel, 1995). Today, the most urgent task is to build a moral society, and educators ought to take the leading roles in it.
This paper is intended to present the essence of Japanese moral education in a historical and philosophical context and give implications for American education in such trouble. Japan is one of industrialized countries, implementing moral education under the strong administration of the government.
Sometimes Japanese moral education is viewed as the counterpart of the one in the United States in terms of the perception of values. Japanese education aims to preserve social values and transmit them to the next generation, while American schools try to be neutral in terms of values. Often the philosophical foundation of Japanese education is introduced to other countries with some distortion due to the unpleasant period in the modern history and cultural misunderstandings. However, Japanese moral education currently implementing can give meaningful suggestions to American education facing moral confusion

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