Japan New Company Registrations Feed

Get a clean, English-labelled list of companies newly registered in Japan, every business day, straight from the official National Tax Agency (NTA) Corporate Number data. About 400–550 new companies are registered each business day (for example, 968 across 17–18 September 2026).

The Actor can also track name changes, address changes, closures, restorations and mergers of any Japanese corporation.

Who is it for?

• Sales and business development teams: reach newly founded Japanese companies before your competitors do. New companies need banking, accounting, office space, SaaS, recruiting and insurance.
• KYC, compliance and credit teams: watch for closures, mergers and address or name changes.
• Market researchers and investors: count company formations by prefecture and legal form.
• Data teams outside Japan: get Japanese registry data without reading Japanese-only government pages or handling Shift_JIS files.

Why use this Actor?

• Official source: the data comes from the NTA Corporate Number Publication Site. This Actor does not scrape third-party websites.
• English labels: each record includes English labels for its change type, legal form (for example, Kabushiki Kaisha or Godo Kaisha (LLC)), prefecture and closure reason.
• Search-friendly names: nameNormalized converts full-width letters, digits and spaces to their normal ASCII forms (ＲｅｓｉＬｉＮＸ → ResiLiNX). nameRomaji gives a best-effort Hepburn reading.
• Filters: filter by change type, prefecture, legal form and date window. Corrections to old records are excluded by default, so "new" means genuinely new.
• Fast and cheap: one day of data takes only a few seconds to process.

Tip: run it daily

Create an Apify Schedule that runs every weekday morning (Japan time) with the default input. Each run returns the most recent day's new companies. You can connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Make, Zapier or a webhook with Apify integrations.

Input

By default, the Actor returns only newly registered companies from the most recently published day. The following example returns new companies, name changes and address changes in Tokyo and Osaka for the last 5 published days:

{
  "changeTypes": ["new", "name_change", "address_change"],
  "daysBack": 5,
  "prefectures": ["Tokyo", "27"],
  "companyKinds": ["stock_company", "llc"],
  "includeCorrections": false,
  "maxItems": 0
}

Field	Description
changeTypes	Any of new, name_change, address_change, closed, restored, merger, other. Default: ["new"].
daysBack	The number of most recent published days to fetch (1–40).
dateFrom / dateTo	An inclusive YYYY-MM-DD range. If dateFrom is set, daysBack is ignored.
prefectures	English prefecture names (Tokyo, Osaka, …) or two-digit codes (13, 27, …).
companyKinds	Any of stock_company, llc, foreign_company, other.
includeCorrections	Set to true to also include corrections to earlier records.
maxItems	The maximum number of items to return. 0 means unlimited.

Output

One item is returned for each registry event. Empty values are null, and dates are ISO strings. Example:

{
  "corporateNumber": "1010003052706",
  "changeType": "new",
  "changeTypeLabel": "New",
  "processCode": "01",
  "isCorrection": false,
  "updateDate": "2026-09-17",
  "changeDate": "2026-09-17",
  "assignmentDate": "2026-09-17",
  "nameJa": "プラスエナジー合同会社",
  "nameNormalized": "プラスエナジー合同会社",
  "nameKana": "プラスエナジー",
  "nameRomaji": "Purasuenaji",
  "nameEn": null,
  "companyKind": "llc",
  "companyKindLabel": "Godo Kaisha (LLC)",
  "prefectureJa": "東京都",
  "prefectureEn": "Tokyo",
  "prefectureCode": "13",
  "cityJa": "千代田区",
  "cityEn": null,
  "streetJa": "永田町２丁目１１番１号山王パークタワー５階トラスティーズ・コンサルティングＬＬＰ内",
  "postalCode": "100-0014",
  "addressJa": "東京都千代田区永田町２丁目１１番１号山王パークタワー５階トラスティーズ・コンサルティングＬＬＰ内",
  "addressNormalized": "東京都千代田区永田町2丁目11番1号山王パークタワー5階トラスティーズ・コンサルティングLLP内",
  "addressOverseas": null,
  "closeDate": null,
  "closeCauseLabel": null,
  "successorCorporateNumber": null,
  "hidden": false,
  "nta_url": "https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/henkorireki-johoto.html?selHouzinNo=1010003052706",
  "source": "Source: National Tax Agency Corporate Number Publication Site (processed by this Actor)"
}

Pricing

You pay per result: each dataset item is one charged event. Because the default input returns only the latest day's new companies, a typical daily run returns a few hundred items.

Data freshness and limitations

• The NTA publishes diff files on Japanese business days. There are no files for weekends or public holidays.
• The source page offers roughly the latest 40 business days. Older history is not available through this Actor.
• The registry contains legal data only (name, address, legal form, dates). It does not include phone numbers, emails, representatives or capital.
• English names and English city names appear only when the company registered them with the NTA, which is rare for new companies.
• nameRomaji is generated from the official katakana reading. It is approximate, has no word breaks, and is not an official transliteration.
• Rows that the NTA marks as partially hidden remain in the dataset with hidden: true.

Attribution

Data from the National Tax Agency (NTA) under the Public Data License 1.0 (公共データ利用規約 第1.0版), processed and edited by this Actor. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NTA.