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A timesheet app for Japan should help you record who worked, which day they worked, start and stop times or reliable daily totals, break time, project or client, approval status, and notes that explain corrections. Japan requires employers to ascertain each worker's working-hour status under the Industrial Safety and Health Act, but the law does not prescribe one required software system.
The Industrial Safety and Health Regulations point to time cards, computer-use records, or other objective and appropriate methods, and those records must be preserved for three years. A practical app should keep the weekly view easy to review while preserving the daily detail behind it. That detail matters when payroll, HR, or a manager needs to confirm whether the week reflects actual working time.
Japan's standard working-hours limit is 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week, excluding break time. A useful timesheet setup keeps ordinary hours, overtime, day-off work, and night work visible before payroll is finalized. The record should also connect to the wage ledger process, since employers must prepare a wage ledger for each workplace and enter wage-calculation information without delay each time wages are paid.
Overtime review needs more than a weekly total. An employer may extend working hours or require work on days off only with a written and filed Article 36 agreement. The ordinary Article 36 overtime limit is 45 hours per month and 360 hours per year, with different lower limits for certain variable working-hour systems. Timesheets should preserve the data needed to compare daily, monthly, and annual patterns.
Employee time records identify workers, so they are personal data under Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information. Businesses handling personal information must specify the purpose of use and must not use it beyond that purpose without advance consent unless a statutory exception applies. A timesheet app should support clear retention, access, and review practices instead of turning basic time entry into broad monitoring.
Japan-facing payroll and billing outputs normally use Japanese yen. A weekly entry such as 7.5 project hours for a client support task should carry the worker, date, project, billable status, approval status, and JPY rate or amount when the record feeds billing. The app should make corrections traceable, because edited time after approval creates payroll questions and client billing friction.
A free or simple weekly tool is enough when you need one clean period total, a downloadable record, or a quick check before invoicing a small client. It works best when one person owns the data and the record does not need repeated approvals, lock rules, or recurring handoff to payroll and accounting.
A managed workflow becomes the better fit when several people submit time, managers approve or reject entries, payroll needs locked periods, and client billing depends on project-level detail. Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let managers approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted time before the numbers feed billing or payroll review.
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Japan requires employers to ascertain each worker's working-hour status, but it does not require one named app or software format. The Industrial Safety and Health Regulations recognize time cards, computer-use records, and other objective and appropriate methods, with records preserved for three years.
A Japan timesheet should capture worker name, date, working time, break time, project or workplace, overtime category, day-off work, approval status, and correction notes. Payroll-facing records should also support wage-calculation information because employers must maintain wage ledgers for each workplace each pay period.
Article 36 matters because overtime or work on days off generally requires a written agreement with the majority union or majority representative, filed with the relevant government agency. Timesheets give the employer the daily and monthly evidence needed to compare actual work against the agreement and overtime caps.
Weekly totals alone are too thin for most payroll review. Japan's standard working-hours limit is stated per day and per week, and overtime caps also depend on monthly and annual totals. Keep daily records behind the weekly summary so reviewers can check breaks, night work, day-off work, and corrections.
The most costly mistake is approving a clean weekly total without preserving the daily detail behind it. Overtime beyond 60 hours in a month requires at least a 50% premium, and work between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. requires at least a 25% night premium. Missing daily detail makes those checks harder.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, so managers can review submitted time before payroll or billing. Managers can approve, reject, partially approve, and lock entries, which creates a clearer approval trail for corrected or finalized periods.
Use Everhour Timesheets to collect weekly hours, review submissions, lock approved periods, and keep payroll or billing handoff grounded in approved time records.
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