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Japan's Freelance Act has been in force since 1 November 2024, and in the year to March 2026 the Japan Fair Trade Commission took formal measures in 1,552 cases. Here is what the Act requires of the client side — the written notice, the 60-day payment rule, the duration thresholds — and the one question about foreign companies the official guidance does not answer.

Almost everything written in English about gyomu itaku is written for the person receiving the work. This is the other side of the table: what a foreign company has to put in the contract, what the Freelance Act has required of clients since 1 November 2024, and where the arrangement stops being outsourcing.