Tokyo web design and ad creative company, ready to operate

Asking price	¥7,500,000 to ¥10,000,000
Annual revenue	¥5,000,000 to ¥10,000,000
Operating profit	¥0 to ¥5,000,000
Price vs profit	Profit is shown as a band starting at ¥0, so the price is at least 1.5 times profit and could be any multiple. Ask for the real number before you get excited.
Location	Tokyo (23 wards), Kanto/Koshinetsu region
Industry	Web design, digital marketing and advertising creative production
Employees	5 or fewer
Transfer type	share (譲渡対象会社)

What is for sale

This is a Tokyo-based company providing web design and digital marketing support, including landing pages, websites, ad creative, video production and ad operation support. The company has run under its current structure with a production team and know-how built around advertising-driven creative work. The owner is selling as part of a strategic review, wanting to focus management resources on expanding a separate business.

Because this is a share sale, the buyer takes over the company itself, including its legal entity, any lease, licences and bank account, rather than just buying selected assets.

What is included

Corporate entity (kabushiki gaisha)
Production know-how and workflows
Production team structure, including use of external production staff
Business processes for planning, design and implementation
Owner support during handover period for knowledge transfer

Strengths (as the seller states them)

Creative production built specifically around driving advertising results, not just general web design
End-to-end capability from planning and structure through design and implementation
External production staff network allows flexible scaling for increased order volume
Work can be done fully online, so buyer location does not matter

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

Existing customers are generally not included in the sale, only the entity, know-how and production structure transfer
Buyers should confirm exactly which assets and ongoing conditions are included before proceeding
Detailed financials such as officer compensation, depreciation, cash balance, total assets, interest-bearing debt and net assets are hidden until registration
Owner plans to stay on for a transition period to hand over know-how, but exact duration, workload and compensation for this are still to be negotiated
Whether the business can run without the owner's involvement was left unanswered in the seller questionnaire

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. Nothing stated about debts, guarantees or payment terms, though detailed figures on interest-bearing debt and net assets are hidden behind member registration.

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

Summary of a public listing as at 2026-10-07. 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.