Japan Houjin Bangou Registry — 法人番号 API
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Search the Japan corporate-number (Houjin Bangou) registry. Clean JSON for analysts, quants and AI agents.
You can access the Japan Houjin Bangou Registry — 法人番号 API programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
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Register free at https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/webapi/ (issued within 1 business day, no commercial restriction). Without an ID, the actor returns a curated reference dataset of well-known Japanese corporations covering all 47 prefectures and all corporate types — useful for schema validation, KYC pipeline development, and B2B prospecting demos. With an ID, the actor hits the live NTA Web-API v4 endpoints (/4/num, /4/name, /4/diff) and returns real registry rows." }, "corporate_number": { "title": "Corporate number (法人番号)", "type": "string", "description": "Exact 13-digit corporate number to look up (e.g. 7010401088724 for Sony Group Corporation). Takes precedence over name/prefecture filters when provided. Leave empty to search by name + filters instead." }, "company_name_filter": { "title": "Company name filter (商号)", "type": "string", "description": "Partial or full company name in Japanese (kanji/kana) or Romaji (e.g. 'Sony', 'ソニー', 'トヨタ', 'Mitsubishi'). NTA's name endpoint accepts kanji + katakana + romaji and returns up to 100 matches per page. Leave empty to skip name search." }, "prefecture_filter": { "title": "Prefecture filter (都道府県)", "enum": [ "all", "Hokkaido", "Aomori", "Iwate", "Miyagi", "Akita", "Yamagata", "Fukushima", "Ibaraki", "Tochigi", "Gunma", "Saitama", "Chiba", "Tokyo", "Kanagawa", "Niigata", "Toyama", "Ishikawa", "Fukui", "Yamanashi", "Nagano", "Gifu", "Shizuoka", "Aichi", "Mie", "Shiga", "Kyoto", "Osaka", "Hyogo", "Nara", "Wakayama", "Tottori", "Shimane", "Okayama", "Hiroshima", "Yamaguchi", "Tokushima", "Kagawa", "Ehime", "Kochi", "Fukuoka", "Saga", "Nagasaki", "Kumamoto", "Oita", "Miyazaki", "Kagoshima", "Okinawa" ], "type": "string", "description": "Restrict results to a specific Japanese prefecture. 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