Japan Corporate Number (Houjin Bangou) Company Lookup Scraper

Search Japanese companies by name and get their official 13-digit corporate number (法人番号 / houjin bangou), registered Japanese and English name, kana reading, Japanese and English address, prefecture, last-update date, full registered change history (name changes, address changes, mergers) and an active/closed status flag. Clean structured data for KYB, due diligence, lead generation and entity resolution.

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Corporate number official 13-digit ID

Japanese & English name, address, change history

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
KYB and onboarding	Fintech and compliance teams confirming a Japanese entity's official number
Due diligence	Analysts resolving company names to a canonical corporate number
Lead generation	Sales teams building lists of Japanese companies by name pattern
Data enrichment	Teams appending corporate numbers and addresses to existing records

How to use it

1. Enter a company name (Japanese or kana works best, for example トヨタ自動車, ソフトバンク, 楽天).
2. Choose a match type: partial (name contains the text) or prefix (name starts with the text).
3. Set Max Items and run. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it through the Apify API.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a corporate number (法人番号)? It is the official 13-digit identifier assigned to every registered company and organization in Japan. It is the canonical key for identifying a Japanese legal entity.

Can I search in Japanese? Yes. Searching by the Japanese or kana company name gives the best matches. The registered names are in Japanese.

How do I find one specific company? Use the exact name with prefix matching to narrow results, then pick the record whose address matches the entity you want.

Do I get the English company name and change history? Yes. When the entity has registered them, each record includes the official English name and English address, the last-update date, and the full registered change history (name changes, address changes, mergers) with an active or closed status flag. Leave the official-details option on to collect them.

How fresh is the data? Records are read live at run time, so each result reflects the registry at the moment of the run (see observedAt).

Example use cases

Ready-to-run example tasks, each preconfigured for a common scenario. Open one and press run, or use it as a template:

• Toyota group companies in Japan: Look up Toyota group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Sony group companies in Japan: Look up Sony group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Mitsubishi group companies in Japan: Look up Mitsubishi group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Hitachi group companies in Japan: Look up Hitachi group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Panasonic group companies in Japan: Look up Panasonic group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• SoftBank group companies in Japan: Look up SoftBank group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Rakuten group companies in Japan: Look up Rakuten group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Nintendo group companies in Japan: Look up Nintendo group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Mitsui group companies in Japan: Look up Mitsui group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.
• Sumitomo group companies in Japan: Look up Sumitomo group companies in Japan by corporate number with legal name, address and prefecture for KYB.

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

For AI agents: this Actor is available on x402, Apify's agentic payment standard built with Coinbase. An AI agent can discover, pay for and run it on its own with a funded wallet and a single HTTP request: no account, no subscription, no API key and no human in the loop. It also runs as an MCP tool inside Claude, Cursor and other AI clients out of the box. Learn more about x402 agentic payments on Apify.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the Japan National Tax Agency. It only accesses publicly available corporate-number data. Use the results in accordance with the source's terms.