Which Firms Publish Their Fees?

Most firms that help foreigners set up a company in Japan do not publish what they charge. That is the single most useful thing to know before you start contacting them, and it is not recorded anywhere else, so we record it here.

This page lists every firm in our directory by whether it states its prices publicly on its own website. It is generated from the same data as the listings themselves, so it changes when a firm changes.

Of the 54 firms in this directory, 16 publish their fees and 9 publish part of them. Everything below is taken from each firm's own website on the date shown; where a firm does not state a price publicly, we do not estimate one.

Publishes its fees (16)

Publishes some of its fees (9)

Does not publish fees (29)

This is not a criticism, and it does not mean these firms are expensive. It means you have to ask, and that you cannot compare them on price before you make contact.

ACROSEED Tax Corporation · AIC Tax · Alpadis Group · AXESS Accounting Office · Capital Tax · CIC Tokyo · Continental Immigration & Consulting · Daiichi Sogo Administrative Scrivener Law Firm · Entre Support · fabbit · Forvis Mazars Japan · GEOS International · Hello Office (Arealink) · HLS Global · i-socia Advisors · JustCo Japan · Kaori Fuchi Tax and Consulting · Koyano CPA Group · Kreston ProWorks · Nagamine & Mishima Consulting · Nakai Immigration Services LPC (RSM Shiodome Partners AS) · Nakashima International Tax and Accounting Office · RSM Shiodome Partners Tax Corporation · Samurai Immigration Law Firm · SBC Group · SmartStart Japan · Tanishima Legal Corporation · TOMA Consultants Group · Wing Administrative Scrivener Office

What “published” and “partial” mean here

Published means the firm states prices for its main services on its own site, in a form you could use to budget. Partial means some services carry a price and others do not — commonly an incorporation package is priced while the visa work is quoted on request.

We do not count a price given only in a downloadable brochure behind a form, and we do not count “from” figures that carry no service description. Where a firm publishes a fee page separately from its main services page, we read the fee page — we have found firms whose homepage says nothing about price while a dedicated page lists everything.

Why so few publish

Some of it is that the work genuinely varies. A Business Manager Visa application for a founder with clean documents and one with a complicated history are not the same job, and a firm that quotes a single number for both will be wrong in one direction or the other.

But some of it is simply convention. Publishing prices invites comparison, and a firm that has never had to compete on a published number has little reason to start. That is exactly why the firms who do publish are worth knowing about: it is a choice, and it tells you something about how they intend to work with you.

How to use this

An unpublished fee is not a red flag. It is a task. If you are comparing firms, ask each one for a written quote covering the same scope, and check what falls outside it — the expert verification of your business plan, the notarisation, the registration tax, the capital payment arrangement if you are incorporating from overseas. We break down which of those are fees and which are unavoidable government costs in what it actually costs to set up a company in Japan.

If you are a listed firm and you do publish your fees but this page says otherwise, tell us and we will correct it and re-date the listing. There is no charge for that, and it has nothing to do with advertising.