Japan Company Lookup | Search by Name or Corporate Number

Japan Company Lookup by Name or Corporate Number | Japan Corporate Registry (Official Registry Data)

Apify actor that looks up Japanese companies in the official corporate registry （法人番号， houjin bangou): search by company name or corporate number and get the registered name, address, entity type, and status — public registry data, no account or cookies required. Results come from a JSONL dataset file you point the actor at; the actor ships with a 20-record fictional sample and performs no network access. It does not contain the live registry and does not download anything.

Cost, up front: pay-per-event — $0.10 per actor start + $0.01 per result item. Your maximum charge for a run is fixed before you start: $0.10 + (maxResults × $0.01). The sample run below (10 results) costs $0.20. There is no rental or subscription. If a run returns zero result items, no per-item charge applies — you pay only the $0.10 actor-start charge.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	(required, no default)	Company name or corporate number to search for. The console prefill is 株式会社.
maxResults	integer	10	Maximum number of results to return. Minimum 1, maximum 1000.
datasetPath	string	./data/houjin_sample.jsonl	Path to the JSONL file of registry records, relative to the actor root.

If the query is all digits after spaces and hyphens are stripped, it matches the corporate_number field exactly. Otherwise it performs a case-insensitive substring match against the record name (Japanese) or name_en (English). Matching records are sorted by corporate_number ascending and capped at maxResults. An empty result set is a valid outcome.

Output

Each result object has exactly these 10 fields:

Field	Meaning
corporate_number	The corporate number of the matched record
name	The registered company name in Japanese
name_en	The registered company name in English
entity_type	The raw registry entity type code
prefecture	The prefecture of the registered address
city	The city of the registered address
street_address	The street address line
postal_code	The postal code of the registered address
address	prefecture + city + street_address concatenated into one string
status	active, or closed when the record has a closing_date

Sample output (before the pricing section, on purpose)

Produced by running this actor (version 0.1.0) on the bundled 20-record fictional sample — the same run the Apify console test performs. Query 株式会社, maxResults 10 → 10 items. First three:

corporate_number	name	name_en	prefecture	city	status
1010001000001	株式会社あおぞら製作所	Aozora Seisakusho Co., Ltd.	東京都	渋谷区	active
1020002000002	山田商事株式会社	Yamada Shoji Co., Ltd.	大阪府	大阪市中央区	active
1030003000003	株式会社グリーンテック	Green Tech Co., Ltd.	京都府	京都市中京区	active

The first result, in full:

{
  "corporate_number": "1010001000001",
  "name": "株式会社あおぞら製作所",
  "name_en": "Aozora Seisakusho Co., Ltd.",
  "entity_type": "301",
  "prefecture": "東京都",
  "city": "渋谷区",
  "street_address": "1-2-3",
  "postal_code": "150-0002",
  "address": "東京都渋谷区1-2-3",
  "status": "active"
}

Dataset format

JSONL, one JSON object per line. Fields mirror the National Tax Agency registry record in English. The actor ships with a bundled sample file of 20 fictional records at data/houjin_sample.jsonl. For real use, supply a full registry JSONL file in the same record shape and point datasetPath at it.

Verifying the output

Every result carries the official 13-digit corporate number, so any record can be checked line by line against the National Tax Agency's public registry （法人番号公表サイト）. The data is an official public registry — no scraping, no accounts, no cookies.

Local development

npm install
npm run test:local

Syntax-check the actor sources with:

node --check src/main.js
node --check src/search.js

Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE) only. Monthly rentals no longer exist on Apify. Creators keep 80% of event revenue.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.10
Per result item	$0.01

Worked examples: 10 results = $0.10 + (10 × $0.01) = $0.20. 100 results = $0.10 + (100 × $0.01) = $1.10. Your spend cap is maxResults — a run can never return (or charge for) more items than you set.

Support

Questions, or a run that does not match this description? Open the Issues tab on this actor's page — issues are answered within 24 hours. If an output does not match its description, we refund first.