Japan → Overseas | For Japanese companies
Considering a new market, facing challenges in an existing one, or wanting to start small: we offer three plans.
PLANS
Click a plan to see what it includes.
3 STEPS
We deepen our understanding of your product or service and its strengths, and build an export potential map using our fact-based trade data. We also assess market conditions and local needs in each country.
For countries with potential, we use first-hand local information to clarify why your product would sell there, and identify the winning path on the ground. We also build a long list of local companies and begin outreach.
As a member of your team, with your email address and business card, we approach real prospective local customers and build meetings through REM's public-sector connections and local partners. Most consultants stop once the meeting is set. REM makes a proposal tailored to each prospect and keeps at it patiently, even when the first response is poor.
FEES
We quote after hearing about your product or service, the number of target countries and where you are today.
THE WALL
Challenges of Japanese SMEs planning or considering overseas expansion (multiple answers, n=81)
Source: Shoko Chukin Bank, survey on SME overseas expansion and exports, April 2025 (n=4,384) / SME Agency, New Exporters 10,000 program, March 2025 / JETRO FY2025 survey (February 2026)
3 STEPS
We deepen our understanding of your product or service and its strengths. Our first priority is to sort out where and why the challenges are arising. We also assess market conditions and local needs in each country you already operate in.
We use first-hand local information to clarify why the challenges are arising in that country, and identify the winning path on the ground.
As a member of your team, with your email address and business card, we approach both existing and new prospective local customers and build meetings through REM's public-sector connections and local partners. Most consultants stop once the meeting is set. REM makes a proposal tailored to each prospect and keeps at it patiently, even when the first response is poor.
FEES
We quote after hearing about your product or service, the number of target countries and where you are today.
THE WALL
Challenges of Japanese SMEs already overseas (multiple answers, n=357)
Source: Shoko Chukin Bank, April 2025 (already overseas, n=357) / JICA ex-post monitoring, March 2022 / Japan Finance Corporation, February 2015 (2014 survey)
SMALL START
Start by building local connections with REM members who have deep overseas experience.
Companies that want to expand overseas but feel it is too early, and still want to start building connections now.
REM members with deep overseas experience (living there now or in the past) first build relationships in the local industry's inner circle.
By moving forward together, you start out with a first-hand feel for how real overseas projects are run.
FEES
Once your decision to expand firms up, you can move to the new market plan.
1. Free 30-minute online consultation → 2. We hear about your situation and identify the right plan → 3. We propose the approach and a quote