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Step-by-step guide to setting up payroll for a new entity in Japan: Labour Standards Office, Hello Work, Japan Pension Service, bank account, and first payroll run.

Japan payroll rules for foreign employees: residency status, withholding rates, tax treaties, totalization agreements, social insurance, and departure settlement.

Understand Japan salary structure: base pay, commuting allowance, housing allowance, overtime premiums, sho-yo bonus, and retirement allowance.

Master Japan payroll operations: monthly cycle, annual compliance calendar, deductions, nenmatsu chosei, and year-end obligations for foreign companies.

What Japan's mandatory payroll compliance obligations mean for your software: social insurance (shakai hoken), year-end tax adjustment (nenmatsu chosei), My Number management, and residence tax withholding.

Side-by-side comparison of SmartHR, freee HR, and MoneyForward Cloud Payroll across features, pricing, English UI, compliance depth, and suitability for foreign-owned subsidiaries.