We identify your Japanese counterparties, reach their decision-makers in native Japanese, verify what's real, and report back in clear English. Delivered with a consultant's structure and the speed of AI.
Two ports. One crossing. Between a foreign company and the Japanese market lies a channel most never cross alone — language, keiretsu, the unwritten rules of the room.
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE · LIVERPOOL → YOKOHAMA · 1866
Pier Head Japan is the harbor pilot for that channel. We don't hand you a list and wish you luck — we take the wheel: identify the right counterparties, call their decision-makers in Japanese, verify what's real, and report back in English you can act on.
A small, specialist firm. Not a do-everything agency — three services, executed deeply, with AI as the lever that makes a one-person operation move like a team.
Translation, minutes, AI automation and deck-building live inside these — as capabilities, not separate storefronts.
Identify Japanese partners, distributors and buyers → reach decision-makers in native Japanese → verify → introduce → into a live conversation.
Source-backed, triangulated intelligence. Market sizing, competitor maps, beneficial-owner and decision-maker identification — every claim cited.
The whole crew on monthly retainer — research, minutes, localization, decks and outreach, run as one continuous operation in two languages.
A selection, anonymized. Every one was invoiced and paid.
Not a translator, not an AI shop. Japanese-market access × the structuring discipline of management consulting × the speed of AI — held in one operator.
Named decision-makers identified, meetings released on success fees, retainers renewed. The numbers are the pitch.
We say what we don't do. Past clients stay anonymous. Reports carry their sources so you can check them.
You buy a deliverable with a defined finish line — not a meter. Scope is fixed before we sail.
Sectors crossed so far — SaaS · manufacturing · real estate · travel · legal · materials. NDA available · English-written reporting · source-backed →
Field notes on entering Japan, cross-border execution and AI-accelerated research.
The counterparty that answers fastest is rarely the one that closes. How to read the silence.
Three independent sources beat thirty scraped links. The method behind our reports.
Why we lead with email and form, in Japanese — and what actually gets a reply.
Tell us where you're trying to land in Japan. The first conversation is a free chart of the crossing.