Aomori used car dealer, share sale, key auction access included

Asking price	¥25,000,000 + broker fee
Annual revenue	¥75,000,000 to ¥100,000,000 (approx. ¥78,000,000 per listing detail)
Operating profit	¥0 to ¥5,000,000 (approx. ¥4,500,000 per listing detail)
Price vs profit	Profit is shown as a band starting at ¥0, so the price is at least 5 times profit and could be any multiple. Ask for the real number before you get excited.
Location	Aomori Prefecture, Tohoku region, Japan
Industry	Used car sales / automotive dealership
Employees	No staff; just the representative (1 person, the owner)
Transfer type	share (株式譲渡 / 譲渡対象会社)

What is for sale

This is a share sale of a community-based used car dealership in Aomori Prefecture with a high repeat customer rate and essentially no debt. The business holds hard-to-obtain rights to participate in major nationwide auto auctions and has purchasing routes with major new car dealers, plus a non-life insurance agency licence that generates ongoing commission income. The owner is selling due to a lack of a successor, but plans to stay on as a regular employee for about ten years after the sale to help transfer know-how and customer relationships.

Because this is a share sale, the buyer takes over the existing company itself, meaning its auction participation rights, insurance agency licence, bank account and lease continue without needing to be reapplied for.

What is included

Equipment
Inventory (stock)
Know-how
Auction participation rights
Insurance agency licence
Supplier/dealer purchasing routes

Strengths (as the seller states them)

Holds rare, hard-to-obtain rights to participate in major nationwide car auctions
Established purchasing routes with major new car dealers
Low fixed costs, rents office and workshop rather than owning property, and outsources mechanic work
Stable, ongoing commission income from insurance agency business

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

Buyer should confirm exact scope of what is included in the share transfer
Conditions for transferring the auction participation rights and insurance agency rights need to be checked, as these are hard to newly obtain
Current representative plans to stay on as a regular employee for about 10 years, so role division needs to be clarified
Detailed financials (cash balance, total assets, net assets, interest-bearing debt) are not visible until you register as a member
Listed as having a long-term loan of about ¥8,000,000 per the business model summary despite being described as 'virtually debt-free'

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.

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

Summary of a public listing as at 2026-09-23. 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.