| Asking price | ¥16,500,000 (negotiable) |
| Annual revenue | ¥10,000,000–¥25,000,000 |
| Operating profit | ¥5,000,000–¥10,000,000 |
| Price vs profit | About 1.6 to 3.3 times operating profit (profit shown as a band). Within the usual 2 to 5 times for small Japanese businesses. |
| Location | Kanto/Koshinetsu region, Japan |
| Industry | Website / web media / affiliate marketing |
| Employees | No employees (2 outsourced contractors) |
| Transfer type | asset (譲渡対象：事業／譲渡資産：ウェブサイト・アプリ、取引先（ASPの紹介）、マニュアル、業務委託（２名）、サーチコンソール、広告アカウント（Google）、コンテンツ) |
This is an affiliate-model web media business in the entertainment niche, publishing comparison articles, rankings, and explainer content that earns commission by referring readers to partner services. It has been run for a long time, building up a bank of well-ranked articles and search traffic. The owner is selling because they want to focus on other business ventures.
This is a business (asset) transfer, so the buyer acquires the website, content, and related assets directly rather than the seller's company, and will need to set up accounts, contracts, and ad accounts in their own name.
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). You start a bank relationship from zero.
Full rundown, with the catches: japandealflow.com/money
Summary of a public listing as at 2026-09-13. 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.