# Japan Company Lookup & KYB Report (Official Corporate Registry) (`mameta/japan-company-kyb`) Actor

Look up any of Japan's 5.78M registered corporations by corporate number (法人番号) or company name, against the official National Tax Agency registry. Full KYB mode adds lifecycle status, kana/romaji name readings, risk flags, and an English summary.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mameta/japan-company-kyb.md
- **Developed by:** [mameta](https://apify.com/mameta) (community)
- **Categories:** Agents, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 89.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $400.00 / 1,000 kyb reports

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Japan Company Lookup & KYB Report

Look up any of Japan's **5.78 million registered corporations** against the
official National Tax Agency (国税庁) corporate-number registry — by 13-digit
corporate number (法人番号) or by company name, in Japanese or English.

### What you get

**Full KYB report** (default) — everything for counterparty due diligence in
one run:

- the authoritative registry record (name, address, postal code, corporate
  kind, English renderings)
- corporate-number check-digit validation
- lifecycle **status** (`active` / `closed`), with closure cause and successor
  corporate number after mergers
- **name readings** — official カナ plus a romaji transliteration
- **risk flags** — `REGISTRY_CLOSED`, `HAS_SUCCESSOR`, `RECENTLY_REGISTERED`,
  `RECENT_REGISTRY_CHANGE`, `INCOMPLETE_ADDRESS`
- a one-line English summary and the dataset vintage (`data_as_of`)

**Lookup mode** (`fullReport: false`) — the raw registry record by number, or
name-to-number matching with a 0-1 confidence score.

### Example input

```json
{ "companyName": "トヨタ自動車株式会社", "prefecture": "愛知県", "fullReport": true }
```

### Use cases

Supplier onboarding & KYB, invoice fraud screening, sales-lead enrichment for
the Japanese market, CRM deduplication (名寄せ), compliance checks before
payments.

Data source: 国税庁法人番号公表サイト (commercial use permitted, attribution
included). Powered by the [agentic-jp.com](https://agentic-jp.com) Japan Data
APIs.

# Actor input Schema

## `corporateNumber` (type: `string`):

13-digit Japanese corporate number. Provide this OR a company name.

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Trade name in Japanese or English (e.g. トヨタ自動車株式会社). Used when the corporate number is unknown — resolved against the registry with a confidence score.

## `prefecture` (type: `string`):

Optional prefecture (e.g. 東京都 or Tokyo) to narrow name matching.

## `fullReport` (type: `boolean`):

When on, returns the complete due-diligence report: lifecycle status, kana + romaji name readings, machine-actionable risk flags, English summary, and dataset vintage. When off, returns the raw registry record (cheaper).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "corporateNumber": "7000012050002",
  "fullReport": true
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "corporateNumber": "7000012050002"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mameta/japan-company-kyb").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "corporateNumber": "7000012050002" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mameta/japan-company-kyb").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "corporateNumber": "7000012050002"
}' |
apify call mameta/japan-company-kyb --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mameta/japan-company-kyb",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/NmXmnJVZXudA3Dfe6/builds/boKjwcb9a2shrR5Du/openapi.json