New: 🇯🇵 Japan Corporate Registry · 法人番号 NTA 国税庁 — Japan's 5M-corporation NTA registry as a clean JSON API

What it does

This actor wraps Japan's National Tax Agency 法人番号 (Corporate Number) Web-API v4 — the government source-of-record for every registered Japanese corporation, public body, association, and foreign firm with a JP branch. It returns a normalized record per company straight from the official CC BY 4.0 open-data system, with prefecture and corporate-type filters built in so you can run KYC sweeps or build B2B lists without scraping a portal.

Who it's for

KYC and customer-due-diligence teams, B2B SDRs and account-based marketers targeting Japan, M&A; analysts shortlisting JP targets, and anyone who needs the 13-digit 法人番号 as a canonical join key across NTA, METI gBizINFO, and J-PlatPat IP filings.

Sample fields / output

corporate_number — 13-digit 法人番号 (canonical Japanese corporate identifier)
company_name / company_name_kana / company_name_en — registered 商号, phonetic katakana, and English name
prefecture, prefecture_jp, city, address — full registered head-office location
corporate_type — normalized (kabushiki_kaisha, godo_kaisha, foreign_corporation, …) plus a higher-level category
status — active or dissolved; registration_date, last_change_date, source_url

Example use cases

KYC / due diligence — verify a Japanese counterparty's 法人番号, kanji name, and address before onboarding.
B2B list building — pull every active 株式会社 in Osaka registered since 2020 for SDR outreach and territory planning.
Japan subsidiary mapping — trace the JP entities behind a global parent using name search and the foreign-corporation filter.

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FAQ

Where does the data come from?

Japan's National Tax Agency (国税庁) Houjin-Bangou Web-API v4 — the official corporate-number registry, published under a CC BY 4.0 open-data license with no commercial-use restriction.

Do I need an API key?

An NTA application ID (free) is recommended for live lookups; without one the actor returns a curated reference set so you can prototype immediately.

What's the unique identifier I can join on?

The 13-digit 法人番号, which the NTA, METI procurement, and J-PlatPat IP records all share — making it the right primary key for any Japan-touching pipeline.