The short answer
To check a Japanese company, MarketPrior resolves it against NTA Houjin Bangou, then screens it against the 4 global sanctions lists (OFAC SDN list, EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions, UN Security Council Consolidated List, UK Sanctions List), a PEP screen, global news and web signals. In total 28 catalogued sources apply to Japanese companies: 1 specific to Japan and 27 global. Every finding links to the record it came from, and gaps are shown rather than filled in.
At a glance
- Japanese sources
- 1
- Sources that apply in total
- 28 (incl. global)
- Company register
- NTA Houjin Bangou
- Officers & directors
- Not from a national register
- Financial figures
- Not from a national source
- Sales triggers
- 3 (0 Japanese-specific)
How do you check a company in Japan?
Japanese corporations are identified by a thirteen-digit Corporate Number published by the National Tax Agency (Houjin Bangou).
In MarketPrior, a Japanese company is first resolved to the right legal entity — using its national identifier and, where it has one, its LEI — so that every later lookup is about the same company. The report then combines what the Japanese sources publish with global sanctions, PEP, news and web signals, and every finding is cited to its record.
Which Japanese sources does MarketPrior read?
| Source | Provides | Updates | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTA Houjin Bangou company registry (JP) | company profile, searchable company corpus | weekly | Japan Government Standard Terms of Use 2.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible) |
What else applies to every Japanese company?
Some of the most important checks are not national. These global sources are applied to every Japanese company:
- Sanctions: OFAC SDN list, EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions, UN Security Council Consolidated List, UK Sanctions List — with every hit tiered confirmed, probable or possible.
- Politically exposed persons: a PEP screen built on Wikidata.
- Identity and ownership: GLEIF LEI records and GLEIF Level 2 parent and subsidiary links.
- Adverse media: GDELT global news, classified for relevance, sentiment and materiality.
- Growth signals: public job boards, GitHub, web traffic rank, web-archive history, tech stack and app listings.
Which sales triggers cover Japanese companies?
There are no Japanese-specific registry triggers yet. These triggers work for companies in any country:
- Hiring spikes
- Tech adoption
- Website launches
What is not covered for Japan?
Public records are uneven between countries. Where a source is missing or thin, a MarketPrior report says so instead of filling the gap with a guess.
- Officers and directors are not read from a Japanese register feed. They can still appear from the company’s own website (team and leadership pages) and, for the largest groups, from global identifiers.
- Financial statements are not read from a Japanese source, so the financials section of a report will usually be empty for private Japanese companies.
- Beneficial owners are not read from a Japanese register. Ownership links come from GLEIF Level 2 parent and subsidiary data where the company has an LEI.
- No Japanese court or regulator feed is wired. Enforcement and litigation findings rely on global news (adverse media) and global sanctions lists.
- There are no Japanese-specific registry triggers yet; only the any-country triggers (hiring spikes, tech adoption, website launches) apply.