Build in Japan Membership
Bilingual playbooks, templates, and async answers covering incorporation, visas, fundraising, and hiring. Ask one real question—get an answer in days, not months.
Tech Builders Japan · For international founders
Build in Japan, from anywhere.
Practical guidance, trusted experts, and meaningful connections for founders building in Japan.
- Bilingual playbooks for company, visa, funding, and hiring
- Founder Office Hours twice a month—recorded, any timezone
- Warm referrals into a vetted Trusted Expert Network
Founding members now onboarding
Build in Japan.Build for the World.
What's inside
Everything you need to build in Japan.
Not another event calendar—an operating system: trusted answers, clear paths, and the right people, available from any timezone.
Founder Office Hours
Two recorded Zoom clinics every month with experienced founders and experts. Every session becomes templates and recordings in the library.
Trusted Expert Network
Vetted lawyers, gyoseishoshi, accountants, and partner spaces. Warm introductions exactly when you need a human.
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Ask
One real question at a time, async by default.
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Templates
Every answer becomes a reusable document.
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Experts
Vetted professionals answer on rotation.
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Referrals
Warm introductions when you need a human.
Soft landing
When Japan becomes your launchpad.
For founders choosing Japan as the place to build next—remote first, in person only when it matters. Arrive with clarity and start sooner.
Move
Which visa actually fits—Startup, Highly Skilled Professional, or J-Find—plus housing, banking, and a first-90-days checklist.
Build
KK or GK? Incorporation, taxes, accounting, and hiring your first teammates—handled with vetted bilingual professionals.
Raise
Grants and public programs—J-Startup, NEDO, JST—plus the angels and VCs who actually back foreign founders.
Connect
Warm introductions to founders, investors, partner spaces, and the people who make progress possible.
We are not a law firm or an agency. We map your route and hand you to our Trusted Expert Network—vetted lawyers, gyoseishoshi, accountants, and more.
Founder Office Hours 001 · Online · Recorded
TBJ / 001Bring one real problem. Leave with a path.
One founder. One expert. One hour.
Recorded clinics with async follow-up—no need to be in Tokyo. In-person meetups happen with partner spaces and communities.
Request an invitationBuild in Japan Membership
Building something difficult, headed for Japan?
Tell us what you are building and what you need to figure out—visa, company, funding, or hiring. Every note is read personally.
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