When you want to enter into a business transaction with a Japanese company. You may need to check the status of that Japanese company. 

ow to CHECK?

 

Read the info below and find the answer together.

 

 

Summary:

 

1. Website:

https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/en/setsumei/

 

2.  INFO  vs. RESULTS

Info	Results
Japanese Company Name+ Post Code	YES
Japanese Company Name+ Japanese Address	YES
Corporation Number	YES
English Company Name+ Post Code	YES( provided that such info has been registered)
English Company Name+ English Address	YES( provided that such info has been registered)

 

 

 

Tips:

 

• Even with the correct address translated from Japanese and with the translated English Company name, if such Company name and the address are not registered in English in NTA, we cannot get the info and check the status.

 

• Each corporation is assigned a single Corporate Number (13-digit) and notified at its registered address.

The Corporate Number is designated to: 

1. Corporations which have been registered for incorporation under provisions of the Companies Act or other laws and regulations (corporations registered for incorporation); 

2. National government organs; 

3. Local public entities; and 

4. Corporations other than those mentioned earlier(including foreign corporations) or associations or the like without juridical personality but with the duty to file and pay corporate and consumption taxes or to withhold income tax on salary and the like. 

 

• Branch offices and places of business of corporations, sole proprietors, are not assigned a number

 

 

 

Examples:

（1）

Japanese Company Name+ Japanese Address: YES

 

 

 

（2）

Japanese Company Name+ Post Code: YES

 

 

（3）

ONLY Post Code: NO

 

 

(4 )

ONLY Japanese Address: NO

 

 

 

（5）

English Company Name( not registered)+ Japanese Address: NO

 

 

（6）

Corporation Number in English Site:

-related English info is NOT REGISTERED: NO

 

 

 -related English info is REGISTERED: YES

 

 

（7）

Corporation Number in Japanese Site: YES