Pier Head Japan is small on purpose — one accountable operator, a consultant's discipline, an AI operation behind it. Here's exactly who you're dealing with, and how work from overseas gets handled.
One operator, a fleet's worth of output. A management-consulting background, paired with an AI operation that compresses the busywork — so a foreign company gets someone who can size a market, call a Japanese executive, write the deck, and localize the site, at the speed of a team.
Fluent in written English and Japanese; outreach and calls run in native Japanese. Overseas work isn't new territory — an earlier bilingual freelance career cleared US $20,000+ across translation and business development.
To be the crossing a foreign business can trust — so no company has to enter Japan alone.
Built on a simple pattern: deep experience, a strong point of view, someone genuinely stuck, a niche worth owning — and the will to build the playbook from zero.
The questions a foreign company asks before sending work to Japan — answered up front.
We'll sign yours, or provide one, before anything sensitive is shared.
All correspondence and reporting in clear written English by default.
Replies within one Japan business day, with time-zone handoffs flagged clearly.
Invoiced in your preferred currency where possible; terms agreed before work starts.
Research data and client materials are kept confidential, full stop.
Findings carry their sources, so you can verify them — not take them on faith.
Outreach leads with email and web form, in Japanese — respectful, and it works.
Async and written by default; calls only when they genuinely move things forward.
No account layers, no hand-offs. Send a brief and you'll be talking to the person who does the work.