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Summary of Doing Business 2014: Japan

Core Content

The Doing Business 2014 report provides an analysis of business regulations in Japan and compares them with other economies across 11 key areas. These areas include starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, and employing workers. The report evaluates the ease of doing business using a standardized set of indicators, benchmarking performance against other economies.

Main Viewpoints

• Ease of Doing Business Index: Japan ranks 27th out of 189 economies, a slight drop of -4 from the previous year.
• Distance to Frontier (DTF): Japan's DTF score is 78.6, indicating it is close to the best practices but still has room for improvement.
• Comparative Performance: Japan's performance is compared with several economies, including Australia, Brazil, China, Korea, the Russian Federation, the United States, and the global best performers such as New Zealand and Singapore.

Key Information

Business Regulations Overview

Getting Electricity

Registering Property

Getting Credit

Protecting Investors

Trading Across Borders

Enforcing Contracts

Resolving Insolvency

Business Registration Process

The standardized company in Japan is a Godo Kaisha, located in Tokyo, with a paid-in minimum capital requirement of JPY 1, which is 0.0% of income per capita. The start-up capital is 10 times GNI per capita, and the turnover is at least 100 times GNI per capita.

Procedures to Start a Business

Methodology

• The report uses a simple average of percentile rankings across 10 topics to calculate the ease of doing business index.
• The distance to frontier measures how far an economy is from the best performance on each indicator.
• The starting a business indicators measure procedures, time, cost, and paid-in minimum capital.
• The data in the report are based on standard assumptions about the business and its procedures, including no prior contact with officials, no bribes, and a company with 10-50 employees.

Reforms in Japan

• No significant reforms were recorded by Doing Business in Japan from DB2009 to DB2014.

Conclusion

The report provides a comprehensive overview of Japan's regulatory environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and highlights areas where Japan is performing well and where it can improve. It emphasizes the importance of streamlining procedures, reducing costs, and increasing transparency to enhance the ease of doing business.