Accounting services for foreign companies in Japan is very important for international business. This is especially for the western companies because Japan is the fourth largest export market of the US. Japan has also invested more than 250b USD in America making it the second largest investor of America next to the United Kingdom. It’s because of Japan’s dominance in the world economy which attracts investors from around the globe, making accounting services very important. Language has always been a barrier to the accounting services. Due to these barriers bilingual accounting in Japan a very sought after service. There are many companies in Japan who provides bilingual services to the worldwide clients. Mainly the accounting and payroll services are provided to over 700 companies mainly in Asia, the US and Europe.  The English-Japanese bilingual speaking professionals are highly sought after. With a high level of knowledge and communication skills.

There are many firms in Japan that offer bilingual accounting services in Japan, here are some of the important ones.

1. Ascendant Business Solutions: specializes in Outsourcing, Consulting, and Technology working. They focus in helping foreign national companies who are expanding their business in Japan and Asia, through back office support such as banking, payroll, accounting, consulting like, risk, compliance, finance, and human resources. Presently, they give full support international businesses whether from the Fortune 500 companies or from small companies who are venturing in Japan.

2. InterGest Japan: It has been in the worldwide network since 1997. They help companies with import and export products in and out of Japan, through the difficult administrative regulations, cultural barriers and language barriers between other countries and Japan. Their services are on financial and tax consulting, cash management services, payroll services and many other administrative services.

3. Okamoto & Company:  It is one of the premier accounting service providers for companies expanding to Japan. They have professional bilingual Accountants, Social Insurance and Labor Specialist, Certified International Auditors, CFEs and CISAs.

4. BPM Associates: Outsource service for accounting, bookkeeping, H.R. payroll, Management Support Services, Development & Sales of computer software

When the New Year is arriving you can see that Japan is decorated as one of the best in the world. All these celebrations and decorations starts from the 15th of December. Most of the people give the greeting cards on the New Year eve to their friends and family members.  December is regarded as the busiest month in Japan. You can see that there are many different parties and functions are taking place around in Japan. Most of these parties and functions are done by the organizations to give appreciations to the employees and co-workers. The owners will give different gifts to the employees.

There are many different traditions that the Japanese people follow on the first day of New Year. First of all the Japanese people eat a traditional dish known as kabocha. This is specially done because the people think it as a ritual that will help them to stay healthy in the winter season, by eating the nutritious food items.

At the end of the year the most important thing that the Japanese people do is to clean their houses and offices. This is a traditional ritual that the Japanese people follow. It is an extensive cleaning and will do by almost every family before the start of New Year. This is done because the Japanese people think that they have to welcome a New Year with the clean and clear state. After all the cleaning the next thing that the Japanese people do is to decorate their houses and office places from both inside and outside.

The next thing that the Japanese people do on the 1st of January is to eat the rice cake. This is a traditional dish that every Japanese love to eat and their New Year will not kick off without this dish. There are many different ways of making this rice cake. In now days world there are many automatic mocha-pounding machines with which you can make these cakes on home. This is just one simple dish but there are many others that the Japanese people made to welcome New Year.