A fixed-price, fixed-deadline research brief on your competitors, pricing, regulation and go-to-market channels in Japan — written for founders who need a decision-ready answer, not a 40-page slide deck from a consulting firm.
Delivered in 2–6 business days · Fully async, no calls · Fixed price, no hourly billingJapan's competitor sites, pricing pages and user reviews are almost entirely in Japanese. Generic research gigs skim the surface; enterprise consultants price themselves out of reach for a pre-Series-A team.
Japanese competitors rarely show up in English search results. Their pricing, reviews and positioning are locked behind a language wall.
List prices on a Japanese site don't reflect real market rates once discounts, bundling and local norms are factored in.
Import rules, industry licensing and ad regulations differ enough from the US/EU that a wrong assumption can cost months.
Every report is written by a Japan-based researcher, AI-accelerated for speed and fact-checked against primary Japanese sources — not machine-translated summaries.
An excerpt from a sample brief prepared for a US project-management SaaS evaluating entry into Japan.
| Competitor | Entry tier | Mid tier | Notable term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backlog (Nulab) | ¥2,970 | ¥17,600 | Priced per space, not per seat |
| Asana (JP site) | ¥1,475 | ¥3,300 | Annual billing assumed by default |
| direct.jp (local tool) | ¥980 | ¥2,480 | Bank transfer still preferred over card |
The same process runs every time — that's what makes the deadline reliable.
A short intake form: your product, target customer, home-market pricing, and the specific decision this report needs to inform.
AI-assisted collection across Japanese competitor sites, review platforms and regulatory sources, verified line-by-line by a native-Japanese researcher.
If anything in your brief is ambiguous, we email you before finalizing — no call needed. On Standard and Deep-Dive, written follow-up questions after delivery are included too.
A clean PDF, sources cited throughout, delivered by the promised business day — every time.
Native Japanese speaker, based in Japan, with collaborators across the US, Europe and Thailand.
I've spent 15 years running businesses inside Japan — across heavy industrial chemicals, advertising, import/export trading, and entertainment. That range means I've negotiated with Japanese suppliers, run campaigns for Japanese consumers, and structured cross-border deals myself — not just read about how Japanese business works from a research desk.
Every report is researched and fact-checked by me, a native Japanese speaker, then stress-tested with a small network of collaborators across the US, Europe and Thailand — so the analysis holds up both to how the market looks from inside Japan and to how it reads to a founder approaching it from outside.