Profitable wood parts manufacturer in Shizuoka, major-brand clients

What is for sale

This is a Shizuoka-based manufacturer of small wooden products, making parts to order mainly for large corporate clients using several NC routers for precision machining. The company has spare production capacity and the current representative is willing to stay on to help the business run smoothly. The owner is selling because there is no successor in place.

Because this is a share sale, the buyer acquires the company itself, so its lease, licences and bank account should carry over, though loan guarantees still need to be sorted out.

What is included

• Multiple NC router machines
• Existing contracts/orders with major corporate clients
• Production facility and operations
• Owner's personally owned land (to be transferred at market value)
• Current staff (employment to be maintained)
• Representative available to stay on and support transition

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• Precision machining with NC routers allows production of complex-shaped parts
• Spare production capacity enables quick response to new orders
• Stable customer base of large corporate clients
• Representative can continue working, making the business easy to run independently

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• Buyer should confirm conditions for releasing the owner's joint personal guarantee on loans
• Deal assumes transfer of land personally owned by the representative, at market value, adding complexity to scope
• Employment of existing staff is expected to be maintained, limiting restructuring flexibility
• Continuity of relationships with existing clients needs to be confirmed during negotiation
• Detailed financials (cash, assets, liabilities, net worth) are not disclosed publicly and require membership registration to view

Paying for it

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 mentions a joint personal guarantee on loans that needs to be released as part of the deal, and that the owner's personally held land is expected to be included in the sale at market value; the broker's success fee follows a Lehman-style sliding scale with a minimum of ¥5,000,000, plus an interim fee of 30% of the success fee (minimum ¥1,500,000 plus tax) payable at basic agreement stage.

Full rundown, with the catches: japandealflow.com/money