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# Japan (JP)
> Country guide for Japan company data including registry information, identifiers, legal forms, bilingual name handling, and data availability.
## Overview
**National Tax Agency (NTA)** corporate-number system
Backed by company registrations held by the Ministry of Justice's Legal Affairs Bureaus (法務局)
Japan corporate data is sourced from the National Tax Agency's corporate-number system. Search, Lite Profile, and Enhanced Profile are all supported across V1 and V2. Data quality varies by company size: listed companies expose their top 10 shareholders, and small private companies generally have no shareholder or director data.
**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
| Identifier | Format | Example | Notes |
| ---------------- | ---------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Corporate number | 13-digit numeric | `5010001060426` | Issued by NTA; globally unique. Consumption tax (Japan's VAT-equivalent) uses the same number — there is no separate VAT identifier. |
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.
| Japanese suffix | `legalForm.normalized` | English equivalent | Notes |
| -------------------- | ------------------------- | ----------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `株式会社` | `Private Limited Company` | Kabushiki Kaisha (K.K.) | The default Japanese corporate form; literally "stock company" by name but in practice \~99% are private. Can appear at the start (`株式会社リクルートホールディングス`) or end (`ソニーグループ株式会社`) of the name. Public / listed status is a separate axis determined by stock-exchange listing, not by the form itself. |
| `合同会社` | `Private Limited Company` | Godo Kaisha (G.K.) | Japanese LLC, introduced 2006. Often used by inbound subsidiaries (e.g. Apple Japan, Google Japan). |
| `有限会社` | `Private Limited Company` | Yugen Kaisha (Y.K.) | Legacy limited company. New registrations disallowed since 2006 but many existing entities remain. |
| (no matching suffix) | `Other` | — | Fallback for special-purpose or imported entities. `legalForm.normalized` is never null — `Other` is used when no specific value fits, and the raw suffix remains in `legalForm.original`. |
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
| Source value (Japanese) | `legalStatus.original` | `legalStatus.normalized` |
| ------------------------------ | ---------------------- | ------------------------ |
| `営業中` (eigyō-chū, "operating") | `Active` | `Active` |
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
JP `address` 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).
| V2 field | Populated | Notes |
| --------------------------------- | --------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `fullAddress` | ✓ | E.g. `"1-9-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo"` |
| `region` | ✓ | Prefecture, with the trailing ` Prefecture` removed |
| `city` | ✓ where present | Segment ending `-shi` / containing `City` |
| `municipality` | ✓ where present | Segment ending `-ku` |
| `streetName`, `streetNumber` | ✓ where present | Parsed from the street segment |
| `buildingName` | ✓ where present | Any building segment preceding the street segment |
| `country` | `"Japan"` | |
| `isoCode` | `"JP"` | |
| `postcode`, `secondaryPostalCode` | — | Not surfaced for JP |
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
| V2 field | V1 field | Content |
| -------------------------- | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `companyName` | `nameField` | **Japanese-script** registered name (e.g. `"株式会社リクルートホールディングス"`). For JP entities the source treats the Japanese name as primary, so it occupies `companyName`. |
| `englishName` | `englishNameField` | Latin-script English name (e.g. `"Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd."`) when distinct from `companyName`. |
| `aliases[]` (type: `Kana`) | `aliasesField` | Phonetic Kana variant of the name where the source surfaces one. |
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 V2 `capital` / `totalCapital` shape:
* Currency: typically `Yen`
* `totalCapital.type`: typically `Registered` — the registry reports registered-capital amount (rather than authorized or paid-in). See [Normalised values](/documentation/useful-information/normalised-values#totalcapitaltype).
## Representatives / directors
JP entities expose representatives on V2 `representatives.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
V2 `shareholdings[]` 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.
## Data Availability
| Data Point | Available |
| ------------------ | --------------------- |
| Company Name | Yes |
| Registered Address | Yes |
| Legal Form | Yes |
| Registration Date | Limited |
| Status | Yes |
| Representatives | Yes |
| Shareholders | Listed companies only |
| Share Capital | Yes |
| Activities | Yes |
| Contact Details | No |
| UBOs | No |
## Additional resources
* [Normalised values guide](/documentation/useful-information/normalised-values)
* [Company V2 API Reference](/company-v2/api-reference/overview)