Investment Qualifications

As a table on investment qualifications, it provides contents such as foreigners, foreigner-investing companies, and operators of facilities for improving the foreign investment environment, etc.
Foreigner
  • Individuals with foreign nationality
  • A corporation established under foreign law (foreign corporation)
  • International Economic Cooperation Organization
Foreigner-investing Company
  • Companies invested by foreign investors or non-profit corporations contributed by foreign investors
Foreigner-investing environment improvement facility operator
  • Foreign schools, medical institutions, housing, business incubators for foreign investors, etc.
  • A person who operates facilities to improve the foreign investment environment
Domestic Company
  • Domestic and U-turn companies

Investment procedure

Foreinger investment Type

As a table on the types of foreign investment, the acquisition of stocks or shares of domestic companies, long-term loans, and contributions to non-profit corporations are provided.
Acquisition of stocks or shares in domestic companies
  • Exceptions are not recognized acknowledged about the amount of investment, but the ratio of foreign investment is acknowledged exceptionally.
long-term loan
  • Loans of 5 years or longer to be loaned to the foreigner-investing company by the foreigner-investing company’s overseas parent company and a company that has a capital investment relationship, such as owning 50/100 or more of the total number of stocks or the total investment of the overseas parent company
Application to non-profit corporations
  • Foreign schools, medical institutions, housing, business incubators for foreign investors, etc.
  • A person who operates facilities to improve the foreign investment environment
Application to non-profit corporations
  • A person who is equipped with an independent research facility in the field of science and technology, as a holder of a bachelor’s degree in science and technology, and
    • – has 3 or more years of research experience
    • – Ans there should be at least 5 full-time employment of research personnel with a master’s degree or higher in the science and technology field

Foreign Investment Report

Provide the contents of reporting items, remarks, etc. as a table on foreign investment reporting.
Reporting Item Remarks
Prior Declaration Foreigner investment declaration and investment content change declaration by way of the application method or the acquisition method of new stocks.
Foreigner investment declaration and investment content change declaration by way of acquisition of new stocks etc. Exceptionally, in the case of acquiring stocks of listed corporations, within 30 days of acquisition
Foreigner investment declaration of long term loan and declaration of change of content.
Post Declaration
  • Declaration of acquisition of stocks by merger, etc.
    • – When the stocks have been acquired through a free capital increase of foreigner-investing companies’ reserves and revaluation reserves
    • – When the stocks have been acquired through merger, corporate split-up, comprehensive stock exchange/transfer, etc.
    • – When investing the profit(dividend) from acquired stocks
    • – When acquired through purchase, inheritance, bequest, or giftdonation
    • – Conversion of, exchange with, acquisition of, or takeover of convertible bonds (CB) Exchangeable bonds (EB) and Stock depository certificates
Within 30 days from the date of acquisition
Declaration onof transfer of stocks, etc. Within 30 days from the date of signing the contract
Notification period to declare a decrease in stocks, etc. Within 30 days from the end date
Registration of change of registration of foreigner investing corporation and application for termination of registration Within 30 days from occurrence date of the cause