Check any Japanese company.
Free company verification and import tools built on the official Japanese registers — the National Tax Agency invoice registry, gBizINFO, customs notices, METI/MIC databases and Japan Post data.
Company search — T-number & license check
One search for everything: a company name (all 5.79M registered companies — kanji, kana or romaji), a T-number / corporate number (invoice status and licenses together), or browse by license type.
What license data is included?
License and certification data is combined from several official sources:
- gBizINFO notifications & certifications (METI, ~132,000 records / 128 types, monthly): FSA financial licenses (securities, moneylenders, banking & insurance, funds transfer, crypto-asset exchanges…), METI / SME Agency certifications (DX, management-improvement and business-continuity plans…), MHLW certifications (Youth Yell, Monisu…).
- Unified government bidding qualification (統一資格): when you look a company up by number, its qualification (grades per category) is checked against the official GEPS roster and cached — full coverage, not just the gBizINFO subset.
- Construction business licenses (建設業許可): loaded prefecture by prefecture from the official prefectural rosters, matched to corporate numbers (currently 秋田県; more prefectures are added on the monthly refresh). A few records confirmed from official rosters are added manually and marked as such.
- Representative names: from gBizINFO basic info (monthly; available for ~43,000 companies — mostly larger/active ones).
⚠️ Real-estate licenses, electrician registrations and construction licenses of prefectures not yet loaded are not searchable here — verify those in MLIT's official search system.
Invoice-registration status: NTA Qualified Invoice Issuer Publication Site, refreshed daily. Contains processed data from gBizINFO (METI) and the GEPS procurement system.
Everything here is also a free JSON API (attribution required).
Import tools
Customs FX rates (weekly)
The official Japan Customs weekly exchange rates used for import valuation — as a page, a free JSON API and an embeddable widget. Not the market rate: the rate customs actually applies.
Open the tool →Tariff finder & landed-cost calculator
Japan's import tariff by HS heading in plain English, plus a calculator for duty, consumption tax and total landed cost.
Open the tool →Import compliance wizard
PSE, PSC, Giteki radio approval, food sanitation and more — answer a few questions and see which Japanese regimes apply to your product and who must act as importer.
Open the tool →Giteki certification checker
Search Japan's radio-equipment certification (技適) database in English — by brand, model or certification number.
Open the tool →Japan address toolkit
Postal-code lookup API and a converter that turns a full Japanese address into a correctly formatted English shipping label.
Open the tool →Why these tools?
Generic currency APIs and foreign tariff sites don't match what Japan Customs actually applies. These tools republish the official Japanese sources — customs notices, METI/MIC registers, Japan Post data — in formats importers can actually use.
About this site →Top suppliers to the Japanese government
By total national-government (GEPS) contract value since FY2013. Each profile shows registry data and award history.
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- アクセンチュア株式会社
- 株式会社日立製作所
- 前田建設工業株式会社
- 清水建設株式会社
- 株式会社三菱総合研究所
- 東芝デジタルソリューションズ株式会社
Full awards database on Japan Tenders → Supplier due-diligence guide →
Guides for selling into Japan
Importer of Record (IOR) in Japan
Who can act as importer, what a non-resident importer is, and the routes available when you have no entity in Japan.
Read the IOR guide →The ACP system (税関事務管理人)
How an Attorney for Customs Procedures lets a foreign company clear customs in its own name — appointment, scope and limits.
Read the ACP guide →Import duties & consumption tax
Customs duty, the 10% consumption tax on imports, de minimis relief, and how registered foreign businesses recover import JCT.
Read the tax guide →Selling in Japan without an entity
Distributor, the ACP/IOR route, or your own subsidiary? The three routes compared — control, cost and whether you can recover the import tax.
Read the decision guide →Bonded warehouses (保税蔵置場)
How the bonded system defers duty and tax, storage time limits, and when bonded storage beats clearing everything upfront.
Read the bonded guide →Exporter of Record from Japan
Buying goods in Japan and shipping them out with no local entity: export declarations, the exporter code, and using an ACP for exports.
Read the EOR guide →