Tokyo university digital signage job-ad business, share sale, no bank debt

Asking price	¥30,000,000 + broker fee
Annual revenue	¥10,000 to ¥5,000,000 (listing range); business overview states approximately ¥1,300,000
Operating profit	¥0 to ¥5,000,000 (listing range); business overview states approximately ¥900,000
Price vs profit	Profit is shown as a band starting at ¥0, so the price is at least 6 times profit and could be any multiple. Ask for the real number before you get excited.
Location	Tokyo
Industry	Advertising and PR (WEB / digital marketing)
Employees	Around 2 operating staff (listing band shows 5 or fewer)
Transfer type	share (株式譲渡)

What is for sale

This business installs digital signage terminals inside university campuses and sells advertising space on them to companies recruiting new graduates, charging an annual listing fee per panel. It has already placed about 40 terminals across 12 universities, with 40 to 50 more universities waiting for installation. The business was started as a new venture by its parent company, and the seller is now looking for a partner with more capital and business infrastructure to fund further terminal rollout and accelerate growth.

Because this is a share sale, the buyer takes over the existing company itself, including its bank account, contracts and any licences, rather than starting fresh under a new entity.

What is included

Equipment (installed signage terminals)
Inventory
Know-how
Existing contracts with 12 universities
Client relationships with major companies (infrastructure, security, logistics, rail firms)
The operating company itself (share sale)

Strengths (as the seller states them)

Recurring, subscription-style revenue from annual per-panel advertising fees, giving high marginal profit once terminals are installed
Demand from universities outstrips current supply, with 40 to 50 schools on a waiting list
Already installed at 12 universities with about 40 terminals
Seller projects that expanding to 40 universities could generate roughly ¥24,000,000 revenue and ¥12,000,000 operating profit per year

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

Current revenue and profit are very small (in the low hundreds of thousands to a few million yen range), so financial history is thin
Further growth depends on new capital investment in terminals, which the buyer would need to fund
Detailed financials (retained cash, total assets, net assets, officer compensation) are hidden until the buyer registers as a member
No bank borrowing is mentioned, but buyers should confirm any other liabilities during due diligence
Seller wants a quick sale and states the transfer is time-sensitive

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.