Outdoor advertising business registration requirements
Updated: July 2026, 8
To be registered as an outdoor advertising business, you must meet the following requirements:
① Appointment of operations chief
Outdoor advertising companies must appoint a "business manager" for each business office where they operate as a person who has knowledge about outdoor advertising materials.
The operations manager is the person in charge of overall supervision of outdoor advertising operations, including ensuring the proper execution of construction work and ensuring safety related to the installation of advertising materials.
The following people can become a business manager:
(10) Outdoor advertising person (person who has passed the examination in Article 2, Paragraph 3, Item XNUMX, A of the Outdoor Advertising Act)
(2) Those who have completed the outdoor advertising material training course
(3) Persons who have a vocational training instructor license related to advertising art finishing based on the Vocational Ability Development Promotion Act, who have passed a skill test, or who have completed vocational training, etc.

*Please note that the operations manager does not necessarily have to be a full-time employee of the business office, but must be able to engage in work at the business office during normal working hours, as per the employment contract, etc. yeah. (In principle, concurrent positions between offices or offices are not permitted.)
<The above is a partial quotation from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Urban Development website>
② Not applicable to the reasons for disqualification
Outdoor advertising companies cannot be registered if they fall under the "Requirements for Disqualification for Registration."
The main disqualification requirements are as follows.
(2) If the person is a person for whom two years have not passed since the date of the cancellation of registration.
(30) A person who was an officer of an outdoor advertising business 2 days before the date of the cancellation of registration, and two years have not yet elapsed since the date of the cancellation.
(3) When the person has been ordered to suspend business and the period of suspension has not yet elapsed.
(2) A person who has been sentenced to a fine or severer punishment for violating the outdoor advertising regulations of another prefecture, etc., and for whom two years have not yet passed since the day the sentence was completed or the person ceased to be subject to the sentence. One day.
(5) When a business manager has not been appointed for each office.
(6) Legal representatives of corporate officers or minors who do not have the same capacity to act as adults in the outdoor advertising business.
A legal representative (including an officer if the legal representative is a corporation) meets any of the above disqualification requirements.
When applicable.
(7) There are falsehoods regarding important matters in the application form or attached documents, etc., or important facts have been stated.
When information is missing. etc

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