City of Sendai

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Company profile

City of Sendai assigns its Economic Bureau Innovation Planning Division to planning and coordination related to the formation of research complexes. The same division promotes exchanges with research complexes and related organizations overseas. It also handles business-location promotion subsidies when they are related to research-complex formation. Promotion of growth industries and planning and coordination for industry-academia collaboration are additional responsibilities identified for the division. Through these functions, City of Sendai's stated economic-development work connects research-complex planning, overseas exchange, business-location support, growth-industry promotion and industry-academia collaboration within the same municipal organization.

Exhibits

City of Sendai is exhibiting with a booth at SEMICON Taiwan 2026. The semiconductor exhibition activity is being carried out jointly with Miyagi Prefecture to support companies in Miyagi Prefecture that want to enter semiconductor-related industries. The joint participation includes six companies from the prefecture, four of which are companies from within Sendai City. The exhibition described by City of Sendai covers semiconductor manufacturing technology, packaging, equipment, materials and other related technologies and products. The city's participation therefore combines a joint prefectural exhibitor booth with support for regional companies seeking semiconductor-industry entry and exposure to a show spanning manufacturing, packaging, equipment and materials. City of Sendai also presents location-incentive information relevant to companies considering research, development or manufacturing activity in the city. An older Research & Development Facility Establishment Promotion Subsidy page, for which new applications have ended, described support for new facilities, expansions and relocations within the city. Under that older R&D-facility scheme, the basic support for establishment was an amount equivalent to 100% of fixed-asset taxes and related taxes on new investment, with no stated upper limit. The old R&D-facility scheme specified a three-year support period, with an additional one year in added-support areas and an additional two years in priority added-support areas. Its employment addition provided 1,000,000 yen for each newly hired or transferred full-time employee residing in the city, with no stated upper limit. For newly hired or transferred full-time employees residing outside the city, that older scheme provided 100,000 yen per person, with a stated upper limit of 50,000,000 yen. Eligibility described on the page included research or development establishments in manufacturing, information and communications, and specified medical or pharmaceutical research categories, as well as specified technical-service establishments conducting businesses related to semiconductor manufacturing. The old R&D-facility scheme required invested fixed assets equivalent to at least 10,000,000 yen. It also required prior consultation before an expression of location intent and, in principle, submission of the designation application at least 30 days before starting the project. After the final subsidy payment year, the old R&D-facility framework required operating-continuation reports for five years and allowed repayment to be requested if reporting or continued operation requirements were not met. A renewed Corporate Location Promotion Subsidy framework effective Reiwa 8, April 1 abolished the employment addition and expanded support tied to taxable fixed-asset values and office rent. The renewed framework also shortened the subsidy payment period to between one and four years so that the support schedule could respond more quickly to business development. For new investment in land and buildings, the renewed scheme lists a one-time grant equal to 5% to 32% of the fixed-asset-tax assessment value. For newly invested depreciable assets, the renewed scheme lists a one-time grant equal to 4% to 7% of the fixed-asset-tax assessment value. For office occupancy, the renewed scheme lists support equal to three months to 36 months of monthly rent. When the facility is a research and development facility, the renewed scheme also lists a one-time grant equal to 3% to 5% of the fixed-asset-tax assessment value for newly invested depreciable assets. When the special addition for occupancy in a city wet lab applies, leased equipment can also be covered by the renewed subsidy framework. For equipment renewal by small and medium-sized manufacturers in the city, the renewed scheme lists a one-time grant equal to 1.4% of the fixed-asset-tax assessment value of newly invested equipment. The renewed framework sets out a procedure that proceeds through prior consultation, a subsidy designation application, a notice of operation start, a subsidy payment application, and finally submission of an invoice and receipt of the subsidy. It also specifies continued-operation obligations after operations begin, with listed periods including 10 years, four to eight years, or five years from the start of equipment use depending on the applicable category. A separate older Manufacturing Industry Establishment Promotion Subsidy page, also marked as closed to new applications, described support for manufacturing establishments locating, expanding or relocating within the city. Under that former manufacturing-location scheme, the basic establishment subsidy was an amount equivalent to 100% of fixed-asset taxes and related taxes on new investment, with no stated upper limit. The former manufacturing scheme specified a three-year support period, with an additional one year in added-support areas and an additional two years for the listed reconstruction special-zone addition in the specified area. For equipment renewal by small and medium-sized businesses in the city, that older manufacturing scheme provided an amount equivalent to 100% of fixed-asset taxes and related taxes on new investment, with a 10,000,000 yen upper limit for one year. Its employment addition provided 600,000 yen per newly hired or transferred full-time employee and required at least 20 such employees for the addition to apply. The former manufacturing subsidy identified establishments classified under the major Manufacturing category of the Japan Standard Industrial Classification as eligible businesses. The stated invested-fixed-asset threshold was at least 100,000,000 yen, reduced to at least 10,000,000 yen for small and medium-sized businesses in the city. Like the former R&D scheme, the former manufacturing scheme required prior consultation before an expression of location intent and, in principle, a designation application at least 30 days before starting the project. It likewise required operating-continuation reports for five years after the final subsidy payment year and allowed repayment to be requested when reporting or continued-operation conditions were not satisfied.

Capabilities and products

• Planning and coordination for research-complex formation
• Promotion of exchanges with overseas research complexes
• Planning and coordination for growth-industry promotion
• Planning and coordination for industry-academia collaboration
• Promotion of joint research through industry-academia collaboration
• Commercialization support using ICT-related technologies
• Support for entry into semiconductor-related industries
• 5%-32% subsidy for new investment in land and buildings
• 4%-7% subsidy for new investment in depreciable assets
• Building-rent subsidy equal to 3-36 months of monthly rent
• 3%-5% subsidy for new depreciable-asset investment at R&D facilities
• Subsidy for leased equipment upon occupancy in city wet labs
• 1.4% subsidy for equipment renewal by local SME manufacturers

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