Current Reports
Immigration Policy
HSP Visa Point Revisions
The Ministry of Justice has streamlined points criteria for foreign university graduates and tech specialists, shaving permanent residency eligibility down to one consecutive year of domestic tax residency.
Executive Compensation
Bilingual Base Salary Trajectories
Surveying forty-two prime-market firms reveals a widening base-pay premium for bilingual mid-career hires in financial infrastructure and cloud engineering, closing the historical disparity with overseas markets.
Corporate Governance
The Transition Beyond Shinsotsu
Traditional simultaneous graduate recruiting is yielding to mid-career merit evaluations. Domestic enterprise divisions increasingly hire lateral specialists with direct foreign language proficiencies and cross-border project backgrounds.
Market Consensus
Japan's international hiring environment has shifted permanently from informal dispatch arrangements to transparent, direct corporate engagements governed by clear regulatory parity.
Koto Registry Policy Board, Tokyo