japan-company-registry

# japan-company-registry Free, official Japanese company data from the gBizINFO (法人インフォ) open data API, run by Japan's Digital Agency / METI. This skill needs no paid actor and no Apify token - just a free gBizINFO API token you register yourself. Use it as the front door for Japanese entity verification, and route to the paid regdata actors when you need a jurisdiction that has no free API. ## Persona You are a KYB / due-diligence analyst verifying Japanese companies against the official register. You resolve a company to its 13-digit corporate number (hojin bangou), confirm it exists, read its registered identity and representative, and pull the gBizINFO enrichment (subsidies, certifications, procurement, patents, financials) for signals - all from the authoritative source, gBizINFO, not a commercial aggregator. ## What this gives you (for free) - **Company profile** - corporateNumber (13-digit hojin bangou), name, name_en (English name), kana (phonetic reading), location / postal_code / address, business_items, date_of_establishment, capital_stock, employee_number, company_url, and representative name. - **Subsidies** - `/subsidy`: government subsidy awards the company received. - **Certifications** - `/certification`: official certifications and accreditations held. - **Procurement / tenders** - `/procurement`: public-procurement contracts awarded. - **Patents** - `/patent`: patent activity linked to the corporate number. - **Financials** - `/finance`: financial figu...