Masaki Noda, Daichi Iinaga and Takato Masuda co-authored the Japan chapter of Practical Law Global Guide 2021: Tax on Transactions, published by Thomson Reuters.

This article, in Q&A format, provides a high level overview of tax in Japan and looks at key practical issues including, for example: the main taxes, reliefs and structures used in share and asset sales, dividends, mergers, joint ventures, reorganizations, share buybacks, private equity deals and restructuring and insolvency.