Overview
Registry
National Tax Agency (NTA) corporate-number systemBacked by company registrations held by the Ministry of Justice’s Legal Affairs Bureaus (法務局)
Data quality improvements in progress. JP responses are being refined for richer structured data and improved standard-value mappings; release notes will follow when updates ship.
Company identifiers
In V2, the corporate number is the
companyNumber and is also the registry-encoded portion of the V2 id. In V1, it appears as codeField.
Legal form
JP source data does not include a discrete legal-form field;legalForm.normalized is inferred from the Japanese-script company-name suffix, and legalForm.original carries the literal Japanese suffix where present.
Despite 株式会社 literally translating as “stock company”, it maps to
Private Limited Company rather than Public Limited Company. Japan’s statutory regime treats 株式会社 as a unified umbrella corporate form, with listing being a separate state — unlike China where joint-stock (股份有限公司) is statutorily distinct from LLC (有限责任公司) and only the former can be publicly traded.Status
Other status values are uncommon in the observable JP sample.
Activity / industry codes
JP activities are returned as a comma-joined string of numeric industry codes (e.g."110,111,112,115,...,315") on activities[].description. No standardised classification scheme (NACE / NAICS) is provided for JP — activities[].code, activities[].classificationScheme, and activities[].type are typically null.
Address
JPaddress is returned in the standard V2 structured shape on both Lite Profile and Enhanced Profile (most other Asia-Pacific jurisdictions return only the flat fullAddress on Lite — JP is the exception).
Typical Latin form:
"1-9-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo". Typical Japanese form: "東京都千代田区丸の内１丁目９番２号".
Company names
For JP entities you should treat
englishName (not companyName) as the Latin-script form for display in English-language contexts.
Capital
JP entities populate the standard V2capital / totalCapital shape:
- Currency: typically
Yen totalCapital.type: typicallyRegistered— the registry reports registered-capital amount (rather than authorized or paid-in). See Normalised values.
Representatives / directors
JP entities expose representatives on V2representatives.individuals[] with the Latin and Japanese name pair populated. Roles are free-text labels (e.g. "President and CEO", "Director"). JP companies typically surface a single representative even for very large listed entities.
Shareholders
V2shareholdings[] is populated for listed companies (and many mid-caps) but capped at the top 10 shareholders. For listed entities, the per-shareholder percentages typically sum to 40–60% rather than 100%.
Shareholder names occasionally carry Japanese-language parentheticals such as "(Permanent Agent: …)" or "(Standing Proxy: …)" on custody-bank and foreign-institutional holders. These are returned as-is.