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Github - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo
Heroku - Infrastructure-as-a-service; recently bought by Salesforce
Pivotal Labs - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo; nice Mori Tower office
Google - Consistently ranked best place in Japan to work; nice Mori Tower office
Amazon - I THINK they now hire some developers
Microsoft - English-friendly with chances to speak Japanese; apparently have some interesting projects; nice Shinagawa office
Kaizen Platform - Pretty awesome company developing A/B testint as a service / analytics services; I think most people there speak English; has an office in San Francisco
Treasure Data - Awesome company developing data analytics/logging products (fluentd etc); some of them probably speak English; has an office in San Francisco
CyberAgent (and CyberZ) - Big company; rich as hell; lots of foreigners; considered one of the best mid-sized Japanese tech companies to work for
DeNa - Big company; rich as hell; lots of foreigners; might be kinda black though, depending on the team; nice Hikarie office
Goldman Sachs - Self-explanatory; nice Mori Tower office
Barclay's - Self-explanatory; nice Mori Tower office
Morgan Stanley - Self-explanatory, might require Japamese (the other major investment banks don't really)
Nomura - Might require some Japanese
etc. (I'm not too familiar with the investment bank-type/gaishikei companies)
Smartnews - Might require Japanese but if not it's a great company; runs one of the top Japanese news apps; actually hard tech interview; free food; nice Shibuya office
Gunosy - Might require Japanese; Post-IPO and profitable; runs another very popular news app and a large ad network; nice Mori Tower office
Recruit Holdings - This company is massive and can be awesome if you get the right team; there MIGHT be a couple of teams that don't require Japanese ability; look around you on the train, half the ads you see will be for this company's services

Recruit Marketing Partners
Recruit Career
Recruit Lifestyle
Recruit Communications


MediWeb - Decent place to work supposedly; 100% pair programming
Voyagin - Small start-up that runs a travel recommendation service; around half foreigners; recently bought by Rakuten so less risky than some other start-ups
Cookpad - Insanely popular recipe sharing service; I've heard it's kind of black from multiple Japanese people, but there are definitely good positions for foreigners; sweet Ebisu Garden Place office
VoyageGroup - Runs a bunch of different services; pretty decent place to work from what I've heard
Abeja - Start-up that does analysis of people's shopping patterns in stores using cameras and stuff, sounds interesting; might not require Japanese
Rakuten - Self-explanatory; I hear the research lab is great, the rest of the company is hit-or-miss by team; definitely English-friendly
Gengo - Translation service, lots of foreigners; wouldn't require Japanese I don't think
LINE - I've heard it's black but it definitely depends on the team
Finc - Mobile health tech; might be English-friendly
M3 - I think they require Japanese, but it's a very impressive company; they run a social network for doctors
Wantedly - Progressive job-search service with female ex-facebook CEO; might be English-friendly
Crowdworks - Crowdsourcing, kind of like Japanese MechanicalTurk; very profitable
Mercari - Incredibly successful "flea market" app; might require Japanese
Spee - Adtech etc; fairly successful apparently
Indeed - Self-explanatory
--- from here down most require Japanese ---
peroli (Mery.jp) - Runs Mery, recently aquired by DeNa
Eureka - Makes everyone's favorite Japanese tinder clone, "Pairs"; recently had an IPO
FreakOut - Highly profitable company doing ad tech etc.
Pixiv - Kind of like the Japanese deviantart
Freee - Cloud accounting startup, recently raised $30M
Retty - Makes a popular restaurant search app
Yahoo - Self-explanatory
MoneyForward - Makes apps that help you manage your money and stuff I think
Fast Retailing - Parent company for Uniqlo and others; pays fairly well apparently
DMM - Started as a porn company but has branched out
Degica - eCommerce platform; might not require Japanese
GMO - Huge company; might have something good somewhere
Gree - Lots of foreigners but apparently very black (likely depends on team though); pays pretty well
Kakaku.com - Runs Kakaku and Tabelog; pays pretty well; might be kinda black
Lang-8 - Runs Lang-8 and HiNative; might be English-friendly
iKnow - Runs language-learning service iKnow; recently aquired by DMM

Links


Companies that allow remote work in Japan
Hacker News job threads - Lots of remote job opportunities
Forkwell - Japanese job search site; tons of jobs with min. salary of 5-6 million or more; filter by programming language
WeWorkRemotely - more remote jobs
Vorkers - Japanese Glassdoor basically; to get full access you need to either write a review (which is a huge pain in the ass), or pay for a premium membership; can still get overall rating without signing up though
Wantedly - Lots of start-up jobs and some from bigger companies; literally just click a button and interested companies will respond
Indeed
Heikin Nenshuu - check salary stats for companies (any public company should be listed); e.g. Cookpad, M3, Cyberagent, Recruit
I won't link to specific recruiters because there are a million, they're easy to find, and everyone likes different ones