{"id":114323,"date":"2025-08-27T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114323\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:14:12","slug":"japan-eyes-raising-entrepreneur-visa-capital-threshold-to-200000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114323\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan eyes raising entrepreneur visa capital threshold to $200,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/japan-immigration\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan immigration<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Sixfold increase aims to prevent abuse, but risks deterring business creators<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20250825N Japan arrival\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The arrivals lobby of Narita Airport near Tokyo. Some have argued that the requirements for Japan&#8217;s business manager visa are too lax. (Photo by Sae Kamae)<\/p>\n<p>RUKA SHINOZAKI<\/p>\n<p>August 26, 2025 02:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212;\u00a0Japan plans\u00a0to tighten the\u00a0qualifications and capital requirements for the country&#8217;s business manager\u00a0visa, which is designed to attract foreigners\u00a0seeking to start new companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan immigration Sixfold increase aims to prevent abuse, but risks deterring business creators The arrivals lobby of Narita&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[5748,13914,28,46584,7667,158,8757,3471,38601,74464,1350],"class_list":["post-114323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-5748","tag-13914","tag-business","tag-capital","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-eyes","tag-japan","tag-raising","tag-threshold","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}