| Asking price | ¥180,000,000 (asking price, stated as based on a reasoned valuation) |
| Annual revenue | ¥100,000,000 to ¥250,000,000 |
| Operating profit | ¥25,000,000 to ¥50,000,000 operating profit |
| Price vs profit | About 3.6 to 7.2 times operating profit (profit shown as a band). Fine at the top of the band, expensive at the bottom. Ask where the real number sits. |
| Location | Tokyo (23 wards), Kanto/Koshinetsu region |
| Industry | IT contract development, smartphone app and AI development, SES |
| Employees | 20 or fewer, including more than 10 engineers |
| Transfer type | share (譲渡対象 会社) |
This is a Tokyo-based IT company that mainly develops smartphone apps on contract, alongside SES staffing and AI-driven service development. It has operated for about eight years, winning large corporate clients entirely through SEO-driven inbound enquiries without ever employing a sales team, and has never gone without work in that time. The owner is selling because incoming enquiries now exceed the company's development capacity, and growing the team alone would take more time and capital than the company feels it can commit, so they are looking for a partner with sales strength and resources to capture the unmet demand.
Because this is a share sale, the buyer acquires the company itself, along with its existing contracts, bank account and any licences, rather than just the business assets.
If you stay overseas. No Japanese bank will lend to a new company whose director lives abroad. The realistic stack is your own cash plus asking the owner to take part of the price over 2 to 3 years. That one question is in every Deal Pack.
If you move to Japan. On a visa that lets you run a business, Japan Finance Corporation lends up to ¥72M at about 1 to 2 percent for exactly this. Once you have a Japanese company, the government pays two-thirds of due diligence and registered-broker costs, up to about ¥8M (round 16 closes 6 Nov 2026). The company's existing bank relationship comes with it.
What this listing says. The listing does not disclose interest-bearing debt, cash balance or net assets (these fields are hidden until the buyer registers), and it does not mention any loan guarantees, instalment terms or broker fee amount, so a buyer should ask about all of these directly before proceeding.
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Summary of a public listing as at 2026-10-06. Seller-reported figures, not verified. Listings sell fast, the original may already be gone. Nothing here is financial or visa advice. Free weekly email: Japan Deal Flow.