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Director Change Registration in Japan (役員変更登記): Documents, the 2-Week Deadline, and Foreign-Resident Director Quirks

Director Change Registration in Japan, AQ Partners

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Director Change Registration in Japan (役員変更登記): Documents, the 2-Week Deadline, and Foreign-Resident Director Quirks

How to register a director change in Japan: the six events, resolutions, documents from abroad, the 2-week deadline, tax, fine, and the notices that follow.

Yuga Koda

Founding Director

Director Terms of Office in Japan: The 2-Year Default, the 10-Year Extension, and Fines for Late Re-Election

Director Terms of Office in Japan, AQ Partners

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Director Terms of Office in Japan: The 2-Year Default, the 10-Year Extension, and Fines for Late Re-Election

Director terms in a Japanese KK: the 2-year default, the 10-year extension, what reappointment costs, and the fine and dissolution risk when a term lapses.

Yuga Koda

Founding Director

Annual Shareholders' Meeting for a Foreign-Owned KK: What Must Happen, When, and What a Sole-Shareholder Subsidiary Can Skip

Annual Shareholders' Meeting for a Foreign-Owned KK, AQ Partners

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Annual Shareholders' Meeting for a Foreign-Owned KK: What Must Happen, When, and What a Sole-Shareholder Subsidiary Can Skip

What a wholly owned Japan KK must do each year: the written resolution under Article 319, the agenda, ten-year records, public notice, and what a GK skips.

Yuga Koda

Founding Director

Corporate Secretarial Obligations for a Foreign-Owned KK or GK in Japan: The Annual and Event-Driven Checklist

Corporate Secretarial Obligations for a Foreign-Owned KK or GK in Japan, AQ Partners

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Corporate Secretarial Obligations for a Foreign-Owned KK or GK in Japan: The Annual and Event-Driven Checklist

Every annual and event-driven duty of a foreign-owned Japan KK or GK: resolutions, two-week deadlines, registration taxes, fines, and deemed dissolution.

Yuga Koda

Founding Director

Converting a Japan Branch or Representative Office into a Subsidiary

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Converting a Japan Branch or Representative Office into a Subsidiary

No conversion exists: a group incorporates a Japan KK or GK, transfers assets, employees, contracts and licences, then closes the branch. Tax mechanics, steps, owners.