Know your business checks for companies in Japan
Verify Japanese and foreign corporate customers, trace ownership to the natural person in control, and screen the entity and its owners in one record
- 130+countries
- 300+sources
- 1,000+watchlists
- 24hrefresh
A sample company check: a registry search result, an ownership tree and a screened ultimate beneficial owner.
Screening in production for
What every business check returns
Registry verification
Confirm the company and registered details
Ownership mapping
Trace chain through holdings
UBO identification
Name the controlling person
Owner screening
Screen entity and each owner
Registry documents
Request and store filings
Risk assessment
Score domicile and activity
Confirm the company against its registry
Search by name or registration number, choose the jurisdiction, and request documents or the enhanced profile
- 130+ countries and states
- 300+ data sources
- Documents stored as evidence
A sample registry search: matching companies with registration numbers and one selected result.
Follow ownership to the controlling person
The enhanced profile returns shareholders and owners through layered structures, so each person is screened as an individual
- Intermediate holdings mapped
- UBO data gaps recorded
- Structure retained
A sample ownership tree: a company, its shareholders by share and a flagged ultimate beneficial owner.
Screen the entity and each owner
The company, its beneficial owners and officers are screened against sanctions, PEP and adverse media in the same record
- Entity and owner screening
- One record
- Foreign PEP flagged
A sample matching result: name variants scored against a threshold, with weak matches filtered out.
Registry verification and beneficial ownership for Japan
- 130+
- Countries and states covered
- 300+
- Registry and data sources
- 1,000+
- Registry document types
- 24h
- Watchlist refresh cycle
Assurance
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
ISO/IEC 27701:2019
GDPR
DORA
Three ways to run a check
Web app
Interface in English and Japanese
Batch upload
CSV or XML with preview
REST API
Screening inside your systems
Common questions
How far does beneficial ownership have to be traced in Japan?
To the natural person who controls the legal person. Article 4 of the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds does not allow the check to stop at the first corporate shareholder.
What proves someone can act for a Japanese company?
A letter of attorney, or a certificate of registered matters naming them as a representative officer. An employee ID card on its own is not accepted as proof of authority.
Which Japanese registry sources are covered?
Registry coverage varies by country and data source. Talk to our team about the Japanese and cross-border registry data your onboarding needs, and we will confirm what is available for your use case.
How is this different from the global KYB page?
The product is the same. This page covers how it applies to corporate customers in Japan: tracing beneficial owners under Japanese law, evidencing authority to act, and the stricter checks for high-risk transactions. The global page describes the product for every market.
Further reading
More for Japan
See MemberCheck in action
A short walkthrough of screening, verification and ongoing monitoring in one platform, set to the thresholds and jurisdictions your programme actually uses.