10 ready-made document templates for Japan: read the full text online, switch optional sections, fill in the fields and download a PDF.
10 templates
Culturally standard employee guarantor agreement obtained at hiring — under the April 2020 Civil Code (民法) reform (根保証 rules), a guarantee that does not state a maximum liability amount (極度額) is void…
Signed employment contract, typically combined in practice with the Notice of Working Conditions ("労働条件通知書兼雇用契約書") — a written contract is not itself required by the Labor Standards Act (労働基準法), but…
Service agreement with an individual freelance sole proprietor, plus the mandatory written notice of terms required under Article 3 of the Freelance Act (フリーランス保護法, formally 特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律),…
Statutory written notice of working conditions that every employer must issue to every employee at hiring, under Article 15 of the Labor Standards Act (労働基準法, Article 5 of its Enforcement Regulations…
Privacy policy required de facto under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (個人情報保護法, "APPI") Articles 17-21 and 32 — since the 2017 reform there is no minimum records-held threshold, so…
Booking, cancellation, and no-show policy for restaurants, salons, and hotels — recommended given the scale of no-show damage in Japan, estimated at approximately ¥200 billion per year in a METI (経済産…
Mandatory Rules of Employment for any workplace (事業場) with 10 or more employees, counting part-timers, under Articles 89-90 of the Labor Standards Act (労働基準法) — must be filed with the Labor Standards…
Sanitation control plan required for all food businesses under the Food Sanitation Act (食品衛生法) — "HACCP-based sanitation management" (HACCPの考え方を取り入れた衛生管理), mandatory since June 2021, with a simplifie…
Mandatory seller-disclosure page for any online sale (通信販売) under Article 11 of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions (特定商取引法) — required for online shops, restaurants taking online orders or…
Combined Employee Register (労働者名簿), Wage Ledger (賃金台帳), and Attendance Book (出勤簿) that every employer must maintain under Articles 107-109 of the Labor Standards Act (労働基準法), from the first employee…