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Contextual entrepreneurship and mixed embeddedness approach alike emphasize the importance of the political- institutional embeddedness next to social embeddedness along with further contexts for migrant entrepreneur-ship, yet the aspect of international migration policies as an important institutional framework has been somewhat neglected. This paper introduces the case of political- institutional embeddedness of migrant entrepreneurship in Japan from an international migration policy perspective, discussing embeddedness of migrant entrepreneurs and their support institutions from a multi-scalar perspective. By analysing the migration policy context of migrant en-trepreneurship at different policy levels, that is, national, regional and urban scales, it demonstrates the analytical value of differentiating policies along these scales and also their inter-connectedness, conceptually proposing the in-ter- and trans-scalarity of these policy contexts. By bring-ing issues of migration regimes and particularly the East Asian developmental state as a lens to analyse migrant entrepreneurship, it brings further approaches in compara-tively analysing different entrepreneurial contexts for fu-ture research.