13-year-old Tokyo LLC shell company, no employees, tax filings current

What is for sale

This is a Tokyo-based limited liability company (goudou gaisha) established in April 2013, originally set up to run an export business overseas, but the plan stalled before operations really began and the company has had little real activity since. It briefly did some consulting for overseas companies, and since around June 2026 has been running a small consignment resale business of client inventory clearance goods on Mercari Shops. The owner is selling because they no longer plan to use this company for a future new business and want to consolidate management of multiple entities to focus resources on their main business.

Because this is a full transfer of the LLC's membership interests, the buyer takes over the existing legal entity itself, including its incorporation history, though bank account continuity and any licences are not guaranteed and must be reconfirmed with the relevant institutions.

What is included

• 100% of the LLC's membership interests (the whole company)
• Company website
• 13 years of incorporation and filing history
• Current small-scale Mercari Shops consignment resale activity
• Tax filings and payments kept up to date each year

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• About 13 years of operating history as a registered company
• Tax filings and payments have been made every fiscal year without interruption
• No employees, so there is no staff handover burden
• The company owns its own website

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• Revenue is ¥0 and the company is currently operating at a loss
• No continuing customers or suppliers come with the sale; existing clients cannot be carried over
• Bank account continuity after the change of representative is not guaranteed and depends on the bank's own review
• Detailed financials (cash, assets, liabilities, net worth) are hidden until registered members log in
• Registered capital is listed as ¥1,000,000 but this does not mean an equivalent amount of cash will be transferred; actual cash and other assets/liabilities will be confirmed at the balance sheet date and the price may be adjusted accordingly

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