Define.
Align the business need, role, must-haves, trade-offs and hiring priority.
Your recruiting team on the ground in Japan.
SAIYO BANTO joins your team as an embedded recruiting partner in Japan—aligning the hiring brief, finding candidates, running the process, and helping you make the right hires.
More agencies won’t fix
a hiring process that isn’t moving.
You can post more roles, add more agencies and do more outreach. But if no one owns the process locally—from role calibration to candidate follow-up—hiring still stalls.
- Roles stay open.
- Direct sourcing starts, then stops.
- Hiring managers get busy.
- Feedback takes too long.
- Candidates drop out.
Building your team
in Japan from scratch?
Your first hires in Japan shape the business. We help global teams turn a headcount plan into a hiring process that works in the local market.
From defining the first roles to market mapping, sourcing, interviews and offers, we act as your local recruiting team until the right structure is in place.
Explore Japan market entry hiring →An embedded recruiting team
in Japan.
We do more than source candidates. We work inside your hiring process and take ownership of the work required to move each role forward.
Find.
Use direct sourcing, job boards, referrals and recruitment agencies based on what the role needs.
Run.
Manage candidates, interviews, feedback and stakeholder alignment.
Close.
Handle candidate concerns, offer coordination and onboarding follow-through.
What we’ve delivered
in Japan.
Different hiring challenges. Same job: get the right process moving and make the hires.
CASE 01
Global apparel company
4 roles filledin ~3 monthsExecutive and specialist hiring across roles. Read case →CASE 02Global consumer goods company
8 specialist hiresin ~3 monthsBuilt the hiring process for an R&D organization. Read case →CASE 03Established Japanese B2B company
10 offersin ~4 monthsBuilt the recruiting function without an in-house team. Read case →Local market.
Global stakeholders.
Japan Market Entry Hiring
For global companies building their first team in Japan.
Role definition, local market mapping, sourcing, interview design and hiring execution.Embedded Recruiting
For companies with an existing Japan business that need additional talent acquisition capacity.
We work inside your team across multiple roles and hiring managers.Targeted Hiring Project
For a specific hard-to-fill role or a defined hiring target over a set period.
Focused execution without adding permanent TA headcount.Engagement is designed around your hiring needs. Contact us for pricing.
Questions, answered.
Can you support companies without a recruiting team in Japan?
Yes. We can work directly with global, regional or Japan-based business leaders and operate as the local recruiting function while your organization is being built.
Can you support a company entering Japan for the first time?
Yes. We support the recruiting side of Japan market entry, including role calibration, talent mapping, sourcing, interview design and hiring execution. We do not provide entity incorporation, EOR, payroll or legal employment services.
Do you replace recruitment agencies?
Not necessarily. We use the channels that make sense for each role. That may include direct sourcing, job boards, referrals and recruitment agencies.
Can you work with global stakeholders in English?
Yes. We can coordinate the hiring process across global, regional and Japan-based stakeholders in English and Japanese.
What types of roles can you support?
From senior leadership and specialist roles to multi-role hiring across functions. The scope is designed around the hiring challenge, not a fixed job category.
Hiring in Japan?
Let’s get it moving.
Tell us what you need to hire, what your Japan organization looks like today, and where the process is getting stuck.
Talk to us about hiring in Japan →