As a French expat living in Japan, creating a personal company in Japan was surprisingly easy (assuming you have a work visa of course). It was just a matter o

As a French expat living in Japan, creating a personal company in Japan was surprisingly easy (assuming you have a work visa of course). It was just a matter of filling a one-page form at the tax office. Filing tax was also very easy, I basically just went to city hall and they filed them for me. So despite its reputation as a bureaucratic country, Japan turned out to be much better than France. Of course, I can't help you with the U.S. side of things…