Asia
BetaCompany data from the Japan business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads gBizINFO government corporate-data publication and National Tax Agency corporate-number register and returns the company profile of Japan companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Government aggregation of published corporate data, including EDINET capital, workplace information and selected annual securities reports. Field coverage and originating publication dates vary. It is not the commercial register.
Official publication of corporate numbers, registered names and addresses, with published name/address changes and closure information. This is basic identity information, distinct from the Ministry of Justice commercial register.
Request a company by its Corporate Number (法人番号, Hōjin Bangō) as the id, with countryCode set to JP. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.