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Outsource to Japan & Hire Offshore Talent

Hire Japanese and English-speaking professionals who understand local customers and global teams. Build dedicated offshore teams in Japan across sales, support, technology, localization, finance, and operations, with sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance supported by us.

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Outsourcing and Staffing Services in Japan

Your expansion into Japan may require one bilingual sales hire, a dedicated technical team managed by your company, or a managed customer support function. Our flexible outsourcing and offshore staffing solutions include staffing, BPO, direct hire, and EOR. We help you choose the right model based on how you want to engage and manage the talent.

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Sourcing & Vetting

We source professionals fluent in Japanese and English by role, industry, systems, location, and customer needs.

BPO Outsourcing

Build a team of three or more for Japanese customer support, localization, or operations under defined service levels.

Direct Hire

Recruit permanent employees for your Japan operation, with vetting and support through the local hiring process.

Employer of Record

Hire talent in Japan without opening an entity. Our EOR service manages local contracts, payroll, and compliance.

  • No upfront fees—pay only for successful hires.

Why Japan

Why Companies Hire Talent in Japan

Japan’s hiring market offers Japanese-language capability, knowledge of local customers, and experience across advanced technology and manufacturing industries. This combination is difficult to replicate elsewhere, making Japan particularly relevant when a role must connect domestic operations with an international team. Here are the key advantages we see firsthand when helping companies hire in Japan.
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01

Access to Specialized Bilingual Professionals

Japan is often the strongest fit for clients that need someone who can connect Japanese customers, partners, or employees with international teams. Bilingual professionals who work fluently in Japanese and English can handle local conversations while supporting documentation, reporting, and collaboration with global colleagues. This gives clients one person who can operate across both Japanese and international operations, reducing the need for translators or an added layer of coordination.

02

Deep Japanese Localization Expertise

Local expertise is one of the clearest reasons clients invest in localization talent in Japan. Japanese product experiences often require adaptation across terminology, interfaces, onboarding, help content, and support workflows, not just direct translation. That gives product localization, linguistic QA, UX, and customer support teams a better foundation for reducing user confusion, support friction, and onboarding drop-off.

03

Technical Talent at Competitive Costs

Japan stands out for clients hiring engineering talent when technical capability and cost discipline matter. Japan’s engineering market includes experience across embedded systems, industrial IoT, hardware-software integration, testing, and quality-focused development practices. This gives companies access to relevant technical experience for software, embedded engineering, QA, and industrial technology roles while keeping hiring costs competitive with major Western markets.

04

Process-Driven Engineering Talent

Process-driven engineering is one of the clearest reasons clients choose to hire in Japan. Japanese engineering practices are strongly associated with continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, standardized processes, and detailed documentation. That approach supports software, QA, manufacturing, and embedded engineering teams that need fewer process gaps, clearer handoffs, and more consistent execution.

05

Asia-Pacific Workday Coverage

One of the biggest reasons companies hire in Japan is direct coverage of the Asia-Pacific business day. Japan Standard Time is UTC+9 year-round, giving Japan-based teams consistent overlap with markets such as South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and eastern Australia. That makes Japan well suited for customer success, support, sales, and operations roles that require real-time regional coverage and predictable handoffs to teams in Europe or North America.

ROLES & FUNCTIONS

Common Roles and Functions to Hire in Japan

The Japan hiring needs companies bring to us most often fall within the five functions below. Japan’s technology and manufacturing clusters, bilingual professionals, local market knowledge, and Asia-Pacific working hours support these searches. We match dedicated, client-managed professionals by role, city, industry, systems, language proficiency, seniority, and schedule.

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Sales and Market Expansion

In our Japan hiring work, sales roles often center on local market development and relationship-led growth. We recruit across business development, enterprise sales, account management, partnerships, and sales operations. These hires commonly support market entry, pipeline development, and prospect conversion. We typically assess Japanese prospect engagement, English pipeline reporting, sales cycle experience, and market familiarity.

Featured roles we source:

  • Sales Development Representatives
  • Account Executives
  • Enterprise Account Managers
  • Partnerships Managers
  • Business Development Managers
  • Sales Operations Specialists

Japan is often considered for customer-facing roles where local-language support matters. Relevant backgrounds include customer success, onboarding, implementation, technical support, and retention. These hires commonly manage customer issues, onboarding, and account continuity. Candidate screening covers Japanese communication, English documentation, escalation handling, and risk reporting.

Featured roles we source:

  • Customer Success Managers
  • Customer Support Specialists
  • Technical Support Specialists
  • Implementation Specialists
  • Customer Onboarding Specialists
  • Customer Experience Specialists
We often recruit technical roles in Japan connected to domestic users, facilities, suppliers, and engineering partners. Relevant areas include software, data, AI, cloud infrastructure, embedded systems, and quality engineering. These hires typically support product, infrastructure, and engineering operations. We verify technical capability, Japanese requirement interpretation, and cross-border collaboration.

Featured roles we source:

  • Software Engineers
  • AI and Machine Learning Engineers
  • Data Engineers
  • Cloud and DevOps Engineers
  • Embedded Systems Engineers
  • QA Automation Engineers
Our localization hiring in Japan often starts where translated products need stronger alignment with local language and usability expectations. Relevant backgrounds include product localization, linguistic QA, interface testing, Japanese copywriting, and localization project management. These roles commonly address language, interface, and adaptation issues. We assess how candidates identify problems, recommend changes, and explain decisions to global product teams.

Featured roles we source:

  • Localization Specialists
  • Localization Project Managers
  • Localization Engineers
  • Linguistic QA Testers
  • Japanese Copywriters
  • Product QA Analysts
Finance and operations searches in Japan often arise around local entities, workforces, and vendor networks. We recruit across accounting, financial analysis, payroll, compliance operations, and business operations. These hires typically manage recurring local records, reporting, and operational requirements. We assess document interpretation, recordkeeping, exception handling, and communication with global leaders.

Featured roles we source:

  • Accountants
  • Financial Analysts
  • Payroll Specialists
  • Finance Managers
  • Business Operations Managers
  • Compliance Operations Specialists
The 1840 Difference

Why Choose 1840 for Hiring and Outsourcing in Japan?

Our global talent expertise, proprietary hiring technology, and flexible workforce solutions help companies find, hire, and manage top offshore talent in Japan faster, more efficiently, and with less risk.

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Japan-Focused Search

We target your search by city, industry cluster, role, compensation, language use, and availability rather than treating Japan as one uniform talent market.

Choose How You Hire

Choose offshore staffing, direct hire, or EOR for client-managed talent. For a defined function, we can build a BPO team of three or more under agreed service levels.

Build Your Team Faster

Our AI Talent Cloud supports targeted matching. Review vetted profiles in 3–5 business days and typically hire in 1–2 weeks, depending on availability and notice periods.

Pre-Vetted Bilingual Talent

Before your interview, we assess how candidates use Japanese and English for customer conversations, reporting, documentation, and collaboration with international teams.

Employer of Record (EOR)

Our EOR service lets you hire full-time talent without establishing a Japanese entity. We manage local contracts, payroll, and compliance while you direct the work.

Build Beyond One Role

Begin with one dedicated offshore hire and add roles as your Japan operation develops. We can support expansion across sales, support, technology, localization, and finance.

Frequently Asked Questions

Still have questions about hiring or outsourcing talent in Japan? Talk with our experts.
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Yes. Our staffing model provides full-time professionals dedicated to your company rather than shared resources or freelancers. You manage their day-to-day priorities, tasks, and performance, while we handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, compliance, and ongoing workforce support.

We evaluate language ability against the work the role requires. A sales hire may need to manage prospect conversations in Japanese and report pipeline activity in English. A support hire may need to resolve issues in Japanese and document escalations for an international team. We assess language use in context rather than relying on résumé claims alone.

We commonly support searches tied to local customers, market entry, technology, localization, finance, and operations. These include sales, customer success, software engineering, AI, product localization, accounting, and business operations. We narrow each search by role, seniority, industry, systems, language use, location, and schedule.

The right model depends on who should employ the talent and who should manage the work. Dedicated staffing fits when you want full-time talent managed by your team. Direct hire is appropriate when the worker will become your employee, while BPO is designed for a managed function with three or more dedicated resources. If you want to hire in Japan without establishing a local entity, EOR can employ the worker locally while you manage their day-to-day responsibilities.

We offer optional remote team security measures such as confidentiality agreements, BYOD policies, and a secure VPN. We can also work within your existing requirements for devices, access, and information security. This gives you a clearer security framework for dedicated remote talent while keeping your internal systems and permissions under your control.

We can typically source, vet, and present candidate profiles within 3 to 5 business days. Most clients complete interviews, selection, and hiring within 1 to 2 weeks. Japan-specific factors such as notice periods, bilingual requirements, seniority, and location can extend the timeline.

Hiring costs vary by role, seniority, city, compensation expectations, statutory employment costs, benefits, and engagement model. A bilingual enterprise sales hire in Tokyo will have a different cost profile from an operations or technical hire in a regional market. We scope these variables before recommending staffing, direct hire, BPO, or EOR.

Yes. Japan-based professionals can support local customers and partners during Japan Standard Time while coordinating with teams in North America, Europe, and elsewhere in Asia-Pacific. We account for required overlap, handoff points, and communication expectations when scoping the role so the schedule fits how your team operates.
TESTIMONIALS

What Our Clients Are Saying

1840 & Company provided us with more transparency into our sales calls at a time when we really needed it. They provided QA tools, improved our value proposition, and sales coaching which greatly improved our customer interactions and sales process.

Casey H

Manger Of Training, Homelight

Although we had several partners with more tenure, it was 1840 & Company that used their analysis team to open up our opportunities with NPS score, resulting in 50%+ improvements.

Danielle R

VP of Client Services, Pentius

The team completes tasks on time and goes above and beyond. I’ve been pleased with everything so far.

Mike M

Owner, Carve Financial

We selected 1840 based on our needs and their ability to source and onboard offshore talent. We were impressed with their clear and concise communication.

Andrew C

VP Finance, Bluestone Lane

They consistently find people that fit the client’s requirements for each position. Moreover, the resources they provide are usually ready to work right away. They’re like a matchmaker for staff; they provide exactly what we’re looking for.

Undisclosed

CEO, Startup Incubator

The team sourced candidates for us from the Philipines to do data verification for our company and now we work with them to do payroll. They moved quickly and provided quality candidates.

Undisclosed

HR Manager, Tech Company

They achieved KPIs, closed B2B sales, and exceeded our sales expectations with monthly growth. The team shows a willingness to adapt and take over additional LOBs and provided efficient management. Great communication and quick, good results.

Undisclosed

Senior Vendor Manager, Ooma

The team sourced candidates for us from the Philipines to do data verification for our company and now we work with them to do payroll. They moved quickly and provided quality candidates.

Undisclosed

HR Manager, Tech Company

1840 & Company provided us with more transparency into our sales calls at a time when we really needed it. They provided QA tools, improved our value proposition, and sales coaching which greatly improved our customer interactions and sales process.

Casey H

Manger Of Training, Homelight

Although we had several partners with more tenure, it was 1840 & Company that used their analysis team to open up our opportunities with NPS score, resulting in 50%+ improvements.

Danielle R

VP of Client Services, Pentius

The team completes tasks on time and goes above and beyond. I’ve been pleased with everything so far.

Mike M

Owner, Carve Financial

We selected 1840 based on our needs and their ability to source and onboard offshore talent. We were impressed with their clear and concise communication.

Andrew C

VP Finance, Bluestone Lane

They consistently find people that fit the client’s requirements for each position. Moreover, the resources they provide are usually ready to work right away. They’re like a matchmaker for staff; they provide exactly what we’re looking for.

Undisclosed

CEO, Startup Incubator

They achieved KPIs, closed B2B sales, and exceeded our sales expectations with monthly growth. The team shows a willingness to adapt and take over additional LOBs and provided efficient management. Great communication and quick, good results.

Undisclosed

Senior Vendor Manager, Ooma

They achieved KPIs, closed B2B sales, and exceeded our sales expectations with monthly growth. The team shows a willingness to adapt and take over additional LOBs and provided efficient management. Great communication and quick, good results.

Undisclosed

Senior Vendor Manager, Ooma

The team sourced candidates for us from the Philipines to do data verification for our company and now we work with them to do payroll. They moved quickly and provided quality candidates.

Undisclosed

HR Manager, Tech Company

They consistently find people that fit the client’s requirements for each position. Moreover, the resources they provide are usually ready to work right away. They’re like a matchmaker for staff; they provide exactly what we’re looking for.

Undisclosed

CEO, Startup Incubator

We selected 1840 based on our needs and their ability to source and onboard offshore talent. We were impressed with their clear and concise communication.

Andrew C

VP Finance, Bluestone Lane

The team completes tasks on time and goes above and beyond. I’ve been pleased with everything so far.

Mike M

Owner, Carve Financial

Although we had several partners with more tenure, it was 1840 & Company that used their analysis team to open up our opportunities with NPS score, resulting in 50%+ improvements.

Danielle R

VP of Client Services, Pentius

1840 & Company provided us with more transparency into our sales calls at a time when we really needed it. They provided QA tools, improved our value proposition, and sales coaching which greatly improved our customer interactions and sales process.

Casey H

Manger Of Training, Homelight

1840 & Company provided us with more transparency into our sales calls at a time when we really needed it. They provided QA tools, improved our value proposition, and sales coaching which greatly improved our customer interactions and sales process.

Casey H

Manger Of Training, Homelight

Although we had several partners with more tenure, it was 1840 & Company that used their analysis team to open up our opportunities with NPS score, resulting in 50%+ improvements.

Danielle R

VP of Client Services, Pentius

The team completes tasks on time and goes above and beyond. I’ve been pleased with everything so far.

Mike M

Owner, Carve Financial

We selected 1840 based on our needs and their ability to source and onboard offshore talent. We were impressed with their clear and concise communication.

Andrew C

VP Finance, Bluestone Lane

They consistently find people that fit the client’s requirements for each position. Moreover, the resources they provide are usually ready to work right away. They’re like a matchmaker for staff; they provide exactly what we’re looking for.

Undisclosed

CEO, Startup Incubator

The team sourced candidates for us from the Philipines to do data verification for our company and now we work with them to do payroll. They moved quickly and provided quality candidates.

Undisclosed

HR Manager, Tech Company