Japan Company Scraper: 4.5M+ gBizINFO Records

Instant B2B prospecting and KYC compliance audits in Japan. Scrape the official Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) gBizINFO registry to extract verified corporate numbers, JPY capital, employee headcounts, and registered offices. Directly load structured profiles into HubSpot, Salesforce, or Airtable, skipping expensive commercial corporate databases and slow browsers.

Whether you are a global enterprise conducting compliance background checks on Japanese business partners, a B2B sales representative hunting for companies with capital exceeding ¥100M, or an academic research team mapping corporate subsidy and procurement allocations, this Actor delivers complete METI datasets on a scheduled basis.

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What does Japan Company Scraper do?

• Highly Optimized Performance: Connects directly to G-Biz's official government REST API endpoints, completely bypassing the massive compute and memory overhead of headless browsers (runs up to 100x faster than traditional page scrapers!).
• Comprehensive 4.5M+ Corporate Registry: Scrapes the entire active Japanese registry, enriched with government procurement contracts, patents, ISO/DX certifications, and subsidy details that standard registries skip.
• Pre-formatted CSV-Friendly Data: Automatically flattens complex nested sub-arrays (ISO registrations, subsidies, won contracts) into formatted pipe-separated strings (e.g., date | title | amount | awarder), ensuring Excel and CSV exports are perfectly clean and ready for immediate use.
• Frictionless Zero-Onboarding Setup: Ships with METI's public evaluation token out of the box, meaning you can run your first crawl instantly without any API token registration.

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Why use Japan Company Scraper?

gBizINFO is the de-facto open corporate database of Japan, operated officially by METI to increase business transparency and support B2B connections.

Use this Actor to:

1. Source Qualified B2B Leads: Build high-value corporate prospect lists filtered by JIS prefecture, corporate type, capital boundaries, and employee headcount ranges.
2. Perform KYC Compliance: Instantly verify registered addresses, corporate numbers (法人番号), representative titles, and current active/dissolved status.
3. Analyze Government Procurement: Identify which corporations are winning public contracts, from which ministries, and with what award values.
4. Track Corporate Subsidies: Map awarded subsidies and grants to track the expansion of innovative startups in Japan.

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How to Scrape G-Biz Data Step-by-Step

1. Open the Input tab in Apify Console.
2. Choose Search Mode:
   • bySearch to query by filter ranges (name partial-match, prefecture, corporate type, capital/employee limits).
   • byNumber to input an explicit list of 13-digit corporate numbers (法人番号).
3. Toggle optional Enrichment Flags (such as fetch certifications, subsidies won, or government contracts).
4. Click Start and export your clean dataset.

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Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
searchMode	string	bySearch (filter queries) or byNumber (lookup explicit corporate numbers list).	"bySearch"
corporateNumbers	array	List of 13-digit corporate numbers to fetch directly.	[]
nameQuery	string	Company name partial match. Accepts English or Japanese characters.	""
corporateType	string	Corporate type code (e.g., 301 for 株式会社, 305 for 合同会社). Comma-separate for multiple.	""
prefectureCode	string	JIS X 0401 2-digit prefecture code (e.g. '13' for Tokyo).	""
capitalMin / capitalMax	integer	Capital JPY range filters.	0
employeeMin / employeeMax	integer	Employee headcount size range filters.	0
existingOnly	boolean	Exclude companies with closed/merged registry status.	true
includeCertifications	boolean	Fetch certifications (adds 1 API sub-call per record).	false
includeProcurement	boolean	Fetch won public procurement contracts (adds 1 API sub-call).	false
includeSubsidies	boolean	Fetch awarded subsidies (adds 1 API sub-call).	false
apiToken	string	Optional personal token. Left blank defaults to METI's public test token.	""
maxItems	integer	Hard cap on total results returned.	50

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Output Example

{
  "corporate_number": "7010401022916",
  "name": "日本電気株式会社",
  "name_en": "NEC Corporation",
  "kana": "ニッポンデンキ",
  "representative_name": "取締役代表執行役社長兼CEO 森 田 隆 之",
  "postal_code": "1080014",
  "location": "東京都港区芝５丁目７番１号",
  "status": "-",
  "capital_stock": 427831000000,
  "employee_number": 21004,
  "company_size_male": 16869,
  "company_size_female": 5635,
  "business_items": "107,108,110,111,112,114,115,116,117,118",
  "business_summary": "社会公共事業、社会基盤事業、エンタープライズ事業、ネットワークサービス事業、グローバル事業",
  "company_url": "https://jpn.nec.com/inclusion-diversity/",
  "qualification_grade": "A、A、A、A",
  "date_of_establishment": "1899-07-17",
  "update_date": "2018-11-21",
  "certifications": [
    "2025-02-01 | ＤＸ認定制度 | 経済産業省",
    "2023-03-27 | 競争参加資格 | 法務省"
  ],
  "procurement": [
    "2021-07-20 | 海洋生分解性プラスチック of 技術開発 | 国立研究開発法人新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構"
  ],
  "subsidies": [
    "2022-09-13 | 老人保健事業推進費等補助金 | ¥27,953,000 | 厚生労働省"
  ],
  "commendations": [],
  "patent_count": 1820,
  "source_url": "https://info.gbiz.go.jp/hojin/ichiran/7010401022916",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-07T02:40:00.000Z"
}

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Data Fields Explanation

Field Name	Format	Description
corporate_number	text	Unique 13-digit legal corporate number (法人番号).
name	text	Corporate name in Japanese.
name_en	text	English corporate name (if registered).
kana	text	Phonetic reading in katakana.
representative_name	text	Name and executive title of the representative.
postal_code	text	Registered 7-digit postal code.
location	text	Registered headquarter address.
status	text	Active (-) or Closed/Merged/Liquidated (除).
capital_stock	number	Capital stock in JPY.
employee_number	number	Total employees headcount.
company_size_male	number	Male employees headcount.
company_size_female	number	Female employees headcount.
business_summary	text	Plain-text business description block.
company_url	link	Corporate website homepage.
date_of_establishment	text	YYYY-MM-DD legal founding date.
certifications	array	Approved certifications (pipe-separated Date, Title, Grantor).
procurement	array	Won public tenders (pipe-separated Date, Title, Value JPY, Awarder).
subsidies	array	Awarded grants (pipe-separated Date, Title, Value JPY, Grantor).
patent_count	number	Count of patented registries.
source_url	link	Canonical link to gBizINFO profiles.
scraped_at	date	ISO 8601 scraping timestamp.

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How Much Does It Cost to Scrape gBizINFO?

$1.00 per 1,000 results.

We offer the best value at an affordable price. Because this scraper queries official REST APIs directly without headless browsers, it uses negligible memory (<128MB) and runs at extreme speed. There are no proxy fees or CAPTCHA bypass costs. A typical 1,000 profile enrichment completes in seconds and incurs near-zero platform compute costs, keeping your profit margins exceptionally high.

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Advanced Options & Tips

• Obtaining a Personal Token: While G-Biz’s public demo token is pre-configured and works perfectly, METI recommends high-volume developers to register for a personal API token. You can obtain a free, permanent token in 5 minutes via the official form at https://info.gbiz.go.jp/hojin/various_registration/form.
• Auto-chunking & Pagination: Searching for extremely broad categories (e.g. all 株式会社 in Tokyo) may hit the API’s max pagination ceiling of 10,000. Apply narrower capital filters or city JIS codes to split large dumps cleanly.

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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Is scraping G-Biz ID legal?

Yes. gBizINFO is operated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) specifically as an open data portal under the government's digital transformation mandate to support public corporate lookup and API consumption.

Do I need proxies?

No. G-Biz API does not block or CAPTCHA requests under regular rates. The scraper automatically throttles requests to a respectful pace of ~5 req/s.

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Disclaimers & Support

This Actor is an independent data extraction tool and is not officially affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan, gBizINFO, or G-Biz ID. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses public APIs served by G-Biz. Users are responsible for complying with G-Biz ID API terms of service and local data regulations (e.g. Japan's APPI).

If you encounter issues or have custom requirements, please submit a report on our repository's Issues tab. For custom scraping or dataset services, contact the author's profile.