Bengo4 Japan Lawyer Directory Scraper

Scrape lawyer profiles from bengo4.com (弁護士ドットコム) — Japan's largest attorney directory with over 22,000 registered lawyers.

What does this actor scrape?

For each lawyer profile, the actor extracts:

• Name — kanji (清水 陽平), furigana reading (しみず ようへい), and English/romaji name when provided
• Bar registration — regional bar association (e.g. 東京弁護士会) and bar registration year
• Office details — name, full address (postal code + prefecture + city + street), phone number, and external website
• Practice areas — comma-separated list (e.g. 交通事故, 離婚, 企業法務, インターネット問題)
• Languages spoken — comma-separated list when declared (e.g. 英語, 中国語)
• English-capable flag — true when the lawyer handles English-language consultations
• Free-consultation flag — true when the lawyer offers 初回相談無料 (free initial consultation)
• Consultation fee — as described on the profile (e.g. "30分5,500円") when disclosed
• Career start year — year of bar registration
• Photo URL — lawyer headshot or office photo
• Review count and average rating — when available on the profile page
• Premium tier flag — true for 弁護士.com PRO / 有料会員 listings
• Profile URL and scrape timestamp

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of lawyer profiles to scrape (0 = no limit)	5
prefecture	string	Prefecture slug(s) to scrape, comma-separated. Leave blank for all 47 prefectures.	tokyo

Prefecture slugs

Use the English slug for each Japanese prefecture:

Slug	Prefecture	Slug	Prefecture
tokyo	東京都	osaka	大阪府
kanagawa	神奈川県	kyoto	京都府
aichi	愛知県	hyogo	兵庫県
saitama	埼玉県	fukuoka	福岡県
chiba	千葉県	hokkaido	北海道

All 47 prefecture slugs are supported (e.g. aomori, iwate, miyagi, akita, yamagata, fukushima, ibaraki, tochigi, gunma, niigata, toyama, ishikawa, fukui, yamanashi, nagano, shizuoka, mie, shiga, nara, wakayama, tottori, shimane, okayama, hiroshima, yamaguchi, tokushima, kagawa, ehime, kochi, saga, nagasaki, kumamoto, oita, miyazaki, kagoshima, okinawa, gifuken).

Example output

{
  "lawyer_id": "125916",
  "name_kanji": "北本 大志",
  "name_furigana": "きたもと ひろゆき",
  "name_english": "",
  "bar_registration_number": "",
  "bar_association": "第一東京弁護士会",
  "office_name": "日本橋総合法律事務所",
  "office_address": "〒1030027 東京都 中央区 日本橋2-3-21 八重洲セントラルビル8階",
  "office_phone": "05053488630",
  "office_fax": "",
  "office_url": "",
  "prefecture": "東京都",
  "city": "中央区",
  "practice_areas": "借金・債務整理, 労働問題, 不動産・建築, 離婚・男女問題, 企業法務・顧問弁護士, 交通事故, 遺産相続, 債権回収, 詐欺被害・消費者被害",
  "languages_spoken": "",
  "english_capable": false,
  "free_consultation": false,
  "consultation_fee_jpy": "30分ごとに5,000円（税別）",
  "career_start_year": 2001,
  "photo_url": "https://storage.bengo4.com/lawyer/images/125916_1.jpg",
  "review_count": 0,
  "average_rating": 0,
  "premium_tier": false,
  "profile_url": "https://www.bengo4.com/tokyo/a_13102/l_125916/",
  "source_url": "https://www.bengo4.com/tokyo/",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-24T16:23:32.335Z"
}

Use cases

• Legal tech vendor databases — build attorney rosters with practice-area and fee dimensions for LegalForce, MNTSQ, Hubble, and similar platforms
• Foreign law firm partner search — identify English-capable lawyers (filter english_capable: true) for inbound cross-border matters
• Legal staffing — find lawyers by specialty and region for ALSP, corporate counsel, and contract-attorney platforms
• Market research — analyze consultation fee structures, premium-tier distribution, and practice-area coverage by region
• Legal graph construction — combine with corporate registry (hojin-bangou) and EDINET filings data to map "lawyer corporate counsel" relationships

Scale

Bengo4 covers approximately 22,700 lawyers across 47 prefectures. Tokyo alone has over 3,698 listed lawyers on 185 listing pages. A full national scrape produces roughly 22,000 unique profiles.

Notes

• Data is scraped from publicly visible lawyer profiles on bengo4.com
• Review counts and ratings are captured when present on the server-rendered profile page
• Practice areas come from the profile's declared specialty sections
• The prefecture output field reflects the lawyer's office location as returned by bengo4.com