From ¥100 per employee/month · Free plan🇯🇵
Japanese HR software suite with AI job-posting drafts, AI suggestions for internal placement and AI-based expense receipt reading.
AI tools in Japan
32 tools are among the strongest in Japan: home market, a large share of customers or revenue, local data centers or many named customers.
What businesses in Japan should know · Rules for HR teams
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Strong in Japan (32)
Strong means the markets where a tool is strongest: home market, customer or revenue share, market leadership, local data centers or many local customers. It is not a statement about data protection. How we review
Contact for pricing · Free trial🇯🇵
Japanese AI interview platform that runs candidate interviews around the clock with an avatar, asks follow-ups and writes structured evaluation reports.
Contact for pricing · Free trial🇺🇸🇩🇪🇯🇵and 1 more country
SAP's HCM suite with the Joule AI assistant for recruiting, payroll, workforce planning and HR service.
From ¥10,000 per month🇯🇵
Japanese expense management where AI and a team of operators digitize receipts and pre-check claims against policy.
From ¥30,000 per month · Free trial🇯🇵
Japanese back-office suite from LayerX for expenses and invoices whose AI reads receipts, pre-reviews claims and suggests journal entries.
Usage-based🇯🇵
Sansan's invoice receiving service for Japanese companies that collects every invoice centrally, digitizes it with AI and suggests entries.
From ¥5,480 per month · Free trial🇯🇵
Japanese cloud accounting for small and midsize firms that reads documents with AI and proposes entries learned from past postings.
Contact for pricing · Free trial🇯🇵
Japanese web interview platform by ZENKIGEN with AI conversation analysis, AI interviews, and fairness analysis.
From ¥980 per month · Free trial🇯🇵
Japanese invoice receiving service with public prices and AI agents that fetch invoices and read them by custom rules.
Per employee · Free trial🇯🇵
Japanese talent management platform, first by market share in Japan according to a 2024 ITR report, unifying personnel data for analytics, skills and performance evaluation.
Contact for pricing🇯🇵🇺🇸
AI platform for in-house legal teams from Tokyo and San Francisco: playbook-based contract review, assistant, contract vault and AI agents.
Contact for pricing🇯🇵
Japanese cloud for budgeting, budget-versus-actual and forecasting whose AI finds variances and summarizes reports.
Freemium · Free trial🇯🇵
Japanese cloud HR software with an AI assistant, automatic resume reading and AI-based similar-employee search for staffing decisions.
From ¥24,000 per month · Free trial🇯🇵
Salesforce-based back-office suite from Tokyo for attendance, labor rules, expenses and project hours, with AI shift planning.
Contact for pricing🇰🇷🇯🇵
Korean recruiting platform with AI agents trained on more than 10 million matching data points, AI resume screening, and Korea-Japan talent matching.
From ¥30,000 per month · Free trial🇯🇵
Cloud expense system from Japan's RAKUS for claims, approvals, storage and journal entries, with AI OCR reading photographed receipts.
Per user🇯🇵
Japanese cloud for budget-versus-actual and management reporting from the Money Forward group whose AI flags anomalies in ledger data.
Contact for pricing🇯🇵
Japanese engagement platform with surveys, a benchmark built on data from 14,400 companies and an AI diagnosis that interprets results and suggests actions.
Contact for pricing🇯🇵
Accounting AI from Tokyo that reads invoices and receipts, checks them against entries and reviews expenses, plus Peppol.
From ¥34,800 per year · Free trial🇯🇵
Cloud accounting from Japanese vendor Yayoi for small companies, with AI account suggestions, entries from plain text and document reading.
Contact for pricing🇯🇵
AI interviewer from Tokyo that evaluates entry sheets and runs first-round interviews for large Japanese employers.
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Image-based AI for vehicle damage: triage at first notice of loss, preliminary estimates, claim review and subrogation for insurers.
Contact for pricing🇯🇵
Robot controller from Tokyo with real-time perception and motion planning for palletizing, depalletizing and picking.
Short entry🇯🇵
Recruiting automation suite from Tokyo that screens applications and runs AI avatar interviews for Japanese enterprises.
Short entry🇯🇵
Sourcing service from Tokyo that builds engineer profiles from public activity on GitHub, Qiita, Zenn and similar sites.
Short entry🇯🇵
Applicant tracking system from Thinkings in Tokyo for graduate and experienced hiring in Japan.
Short entry🇯🇵
Document capture service from Money Forward that turns scanned receipts, invoices and bank statements into journal data.
Short entry🇯🇵
Talent management system from Plus Alpha Consulting in Japan for data-driven placement, succession and attrition prevention.
Short entry🇯🇵
Personality and fit assessment from Tokyo that compares candidates and employees with a company's or department's character.
Short entry🇯🇵
Bookkeeping automation for accounting firms that processes invoices, receipts and bank statements in more than 200 languages.
Short entry🇯🇵
Engagement survey platform from Atrae in Tokyo that measures team condition, culture and stress in Japanese organisations.
https://jolene.pro
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The market in Japan in numbers
32strong in Japan
28headquartered in Japan
27with a Japanese interface
32 tools count as strong in Japan, and 28 are headquartered there. Most of them cover expense management, accounts payable automation and bookkeeping.
8 of 32 show a price on the vendor website and 13 offer a free plan or trial. 27 have a Japanese interface.
Made in Japan: AI面接官 (VARIETAS), Bakuraku, Bill One, freee Accounting, harutaka, HRMOS, invox, JAPAN AI HR, Kaonavi, LAPRAS SCOUT, LegalOn, Loglass, Manageboard, Mitsucari, Motivation Cloud, Mujin, PeopleX AI Interview, SmartHR, sonar ATS, Steward (Fast Accounting), STREAMED, Talent Palette, TeamSpirit, Tofu, TOKIUM Expense, Wevox, Yayoi Kaikei Next, 楽楽精算 (Rakuraku Seisan).
Own survey by ai-toolfinder, last checked October 2026. Every figure is sourced on the tool profile.
What businesses in Japan should know
- Sending personal data to vendors abroad needs consent or equivalent safeguards. Under the APPI, transfers to a third party in a foreign country need the person's prior consent, with the destination country named. No consent is needed for the EU and UK, which the PPC recognised as adequate, or when the recipient keeps protection equal to the APPI, for example through a contract or APEC CBPR certification. The Personal Information Protection Commission enforces the rule. DLA Piper, Data Protection Laws of the World: Japan · as of October 2026
- Japan's AI Act has no penalties and no dedicated regulator. The AI Promotion Act was enacted on 28 May 2025 and fully in force on 1 September 2025. It contains no penal provisions and sets up no AI enforcement authority. The Cabinet adopted the AI Basic Plan on 23 December 2025, and the non-binding AI Guidelines for Business Ver. 1.2 followed on 31 March 2026. DLA Piper, AI Laws of the World: Japan · as of October 2026
General information with sources, not legal advice.
What HR teams in Japan should know
- APPI under review, amendments expected by 2027. Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) is reviewed every three years. The Personal Information Protection Commission is preparing amendments, expected to take effect around 2027, including a new administrative fine system, so employers should expect stricter enforcement of HR data rules ahead. APPI review, IAPP · as of September 2026
- AI Promotion Act favors guidelines over hard rules. Japan's AI Promotion Act, in force since June 4, 2025, is a framework law that sets national direction without binding rules or penalties for private companies. Employers are expected to follow non-binding AI Governance Guidelines for Business from the trade and communications ministries, which recommend bias testing and human oversight but carry no fines. AI Promotion Act, White & Case · as of September 2026
- No works councils, but Article 36 agreements cover many workplaces. Japan has no general works council system. Where there is no majority union, the Labor Standards Act requires employers to reach a written agreement with an elected majority representative before requiring overtime or holiday work, the main formal channel of employee voice relevant when AI scheduling or monitoring tools change working hours. Labor Standards Act Art. 36, Japanese Law Translation (MHLW) · as of September 2026
General information with sources, not legal advice.
Questions about AI tools in Japan
Which AI tools are strongest in Japan?
AI面接官 (VARIETAS), Bakuraku, Bill One, freee Accounting and harutaka, plus 27 more. A tool counts as strong in Japan when it is its home market, a large share of its customers or revenue is there, it runs local data centers or it names many local customers.
Which AI tools are made in Japan?
28 tools in the directory have their headquarters in Japan: AI面接官 (VARIETAS), Bakuraku, Bill One, freee Accounting, harutaka, HRMOS, invox, JAPAN AI HR, Kaonavi, LAPRAS SCOUT, LegalOn, Loglass, Manageboard, Mitsucari, Motivation Cloud, Mujin, PeopleX AI Interview, SmartHR, sonar ATS, Steward (Fast Accounting), STREAMED, Talent Palette, TeamSpirit, Tofu, TOKIUM Expense, Wevox, Yayoi Kaikei Next and 楽楽精算 (Rakuraku Seisan).
Do AI tools in Japan publish their prices?
8 of 32 tools strong in Japan show a price on the vendor website, the others quote on request. 13 offer a free plan or a free trial.
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