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Japan Entry Budget Calculator
Know which of 3 ways to enter Japan fits your budget
Most guides tell you to incorporate in Japan before you've sold anything. This calculator asks 6 questions and tells you which of 3 real entry paths fits: desk validation (under $2,000), cross-border selling with no legal entity ($3,000-10,000/yr), or a full entity plus local hire ($150,000+/yr). Built by Japan Brief, a newsletter for founders and operators evaluating a Japan market entry. Free, no signup, single static page.
Hey PH — made this after writing a $129 report on Japan-entry costs and realizing most of the value was in the decision logic, not the numbers themselves. Wanted a free version of "which path am I on" that anyone could use in under a minute. Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's actually sold into Japan.
About Japan Entry Budget Calculator on Product Hunt
“Know which of 3 ways to enter Japan fits your budget”
Japan Entry Budget Calculator was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #106 on the daily leaderboard. Most guides tell you to incorporate in Japan before you've sold anything. This calculator asks 6 questions and tells you which of 3 real entry paths fits: desk validation (under $2,000), cross-border selling with no legal entity ($3,000-10,000/yr), or a full entity plus local hire ($150,000+/yr). Built by Japan Brief, a newsletter for founders and operators evaluating a Japan market entry. Free, no signup, single static page.
On the analytics side, Japan Entry Budget Calculator competes within Productivity, GitHub, Personal Finance and Budgeting — topics that collectively have 705k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Japan Entry Budget Calculator performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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