I was working for a small software engineering company (A Japanese
company of about 12 people) since June.  The owner ("CEO" as he likes
to be called) was always late paying employees' salaries.  As of
September he stopped paying salary altogether and doesn't even show up
at the office.

Anyway, after two weeks, not receiving my salary for September I quit
and went to the labor bureau and they had me write an official letter
and sent it by registered mail.  Essentially it gave him one week to
pay up - that means until tomorrow, Oct 31st.  If he doesn't (which I
do not think he will) I'm supposed to go back and they will try to
contact him and find out what the story is.

My next course of action, I was told, would be to bring him to small
claims court.  So, I'd like to know if anyone here has actually been
through this process before and if there is any advice which you might
have.