There are hundreds of subsidies in Japan, and whether or not you can apply for them depends on the timing of the public offering and the nature of your business activities. Here are some representative examples. Of course, these are all subsidies available for foreigners.
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1. Business restructuring subsidy（事業再構築補助金）
Features
This subsidy supports the necessary expenses when conducting new business to rebuild the management of companies affected by COVID-21.
What does it cover?
- building cost
- Equipment and system construction costs
- Technology introduction fee
- Professional expenses
- transportation cost
- Cloud service usage fee
- Outsourcing cost
- Expenses related to intellectual property rights, etc.
- Advertising and sales promotion expenses
- Training fee
How much does it cover?
2/3~3/4 of the costs, up to 150 million yen.
※Depending on the application quota and the number of employees.
Deadline
9th public offering ~2023/3/24
All the details are here(https://jigyou-saikouchiku.go.jp/)
2. Manufacturing subsidy（ものづくり補助金）
Features
This subsidy supports capital investment, etc. for innovative service development, prototype development, and production process improvement that SMEs and small businesses are working on.
What does it cover?
- Equipment and system construction costs
- Technology introduction fee
- Professional expenses
- transportation cost
- Cloud service usage fee
- Outsourcing cost
- Expenses related to intellectual property rights, etc.
- Advertising and sales promotion expenses
- Training fee
How much does it cover?
2/3~3/4 of the costs, up to 15,000,000 yen.
※Depending on the application quota and the number of employees.
Deadline
11th public offering ~2023/04/01
All the details are here(https://portal.monodukuri-hojo.jp/index.html)
3. IT introduction subsidy（IT導入補助金）
Features
IT introduction subsidies are subsidies that subsidize part of the expenses for introducing IT tools that meet the needs and challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises and small businesses.
What does it cover?
- Software license purchase fee
- cloud usage fee
- introduction-related expenses
How much does it cover?
1/2~3/4 of the costs, up to 4,500,000 yen.
※Depending on the application quota
Deadline
Waiting for announcement until March 2023.
All the details are here(https://www.it-hojo.jp/)
4. Small Business Sustainability Subsidy（小規模持続化補助金）
Features
The Small Business Sustainability Subsidy is intended to subsidize part of the expenses for initiatives such as market development and efforts to improve operational efficiency in conjunction with such initiatives, based on a plan for sustainable management.
What does it cover?
- Expenses for machinery and equipment
- public relations expenses
- exhibition expenses
- travel expenses
- development expenses
- materials purchase expenses
- miscellaneous service expenses
- rental fees, expert rewards
- expert travel expenses
- equipment disposal expenses
- consignment expenses
- outsourcing expenses
How much does it cover?
1/2~2/3 of the costs, up to 2,000,000 yen.
※Depending on the application quota
Deadline
Waiting for announcement until March 2023.
All the details are h
PROFILE
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