Corporate base registry

It will improve the convenience of administrative agencies, businesses, and residents, and improve the efficiency of administrative operations. First of all, it will be provided to administrative agencies to reduce the burden of obtaining certificates of registered matters (commercial and corporate) of government officials and citizens (businesses).

Notice

• March 30, 2026 Information on the Information from the review meeting was posted on the Base registry The Fifth Meeting of the Advisory Group (March 30, 2026)
• Corporate base registry became available on March 24, 2026.

Table of Contents

• About corporate base registry
• Effects of policies by corporate base registry
• Date recorded in corporate base registry
• Number of corporate base registry rooms used
• Example of use
• Information for business operators
• Information from the review meeting
• Related Information

About corporate base registry

Corporate base registry is a database of the names, addresses, and other information of corporations that can be referenced for many procedures across different systems. It currently records commercial corporation registration information and can be accessed online by administrative agencies.
As administrative agencies will be able to access commercial corporation registration information online, it will be unnecessary to attach a "certificate of registered matters" for various procedures, which will reduce the burden on businesses to obtain and attach a certificate of registered matters. In addition, in government officials, it will be unnecessary to request a certificate of registered matters ("request for public use") from the "Legal Affairs Bureau" to confirm corporate information in various administrative affairs.
Linking the systems will further improve convenience and efficiency of administrative work. By automatically displaying (pre-printing) the same application items as the certificate of registered matters on the application system of the administrative organ in advance, it will reduce the time and effort of the business operator's input and eliminate the need to check the application information with the certificate of registered matters by government officials.
In addition, if the name, address, etc. of a corporation changes, it is usually necessary to apply for registration of the change and then submit notifications under various systems separately. However, if an administrative organ, etc. obtains information related to the registration of the change through data linkage using corporate base registry, these notifications will not be necessary.
With the development and use of corporate base registry, about 20 million procedures per year will be made more efficient, and a cumulative burden of about 44.78 billion yen will be reduced over five years.

*Please refer to the " Public Basic Information Database Development and Improvement Project " for specific applications and processes.

Effects of policies by corporate base registry

The targets of the cumulative policy effects up to fiscal 2030 are as follows.

*Due to rounding, the total of policy effects for each fiscal year may not match the total column.
*Based on the 2024 Expert Committee for Policy Evaluation and Administrative Project Review (disclosure process), the results were disclosed using the 2024 Administrative Project Review Sheet.

Date recorded in corporate base registry

It is as follows.

• Record item
  • Trade name
  • Purpose
  • The addresses of the head office and branch offices;
  • The amount of stated capital;
  • The names of the directors;
  • The names and domiciles, etc. of the representative directors, and other matters to be registered pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations, such as the Commercial Code (Act No. 48 of 1899) and the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005)
• Method of Collecting Recorded Information
  • Provided by Ministry of Justice

Number of corporate base registry rooms used

The number of pre-orders as of March 2026 is as follows.

Example of use

This section introduces examples of the use of corporate base registry to omit the attachment of certificates of registered matters, which was required in various procedures such as permission and subsidy applications.

• Detailed materials are being prepared.

Digital Agency will promote the reduction of the burden on citizens and government officials by providing "corporate base registry". We are inviting local governments to declare their active utilization.

Information for business operators

We will announce a call for opinions on the introduction of corporate base registry for administrative procedures as soon as it is ready.

Information from the review meeting

• Working Group of the Digital Ad Hoc Administrative Investigation Committee (abolished on October 6, 2023)
  • The 13th meeting of the Working Group of the Ad Hoc Committee on Digital Administration (held on August 30, 2022)
  • The 18th meeting of the Working Group of the Digital Ad Hoc Administrative Study Group was held on February 22, 2023.
  • Working Group of the Digital Ad Hoc Administrative Study Group (19th meeting) (held on March 28, 2023)
  • The 20th meeting of the Working Group of the Digital Ad Hoc Administrative Investigation Committee was held on April 26, 2023.
  • The 21st meeting of the Working Group of the Ad Hoc Committee on Digital Administration (May 17, 2023)
• The Digital System Reform Review committee
  • The Digital System Reform Review committee (1st meeting) (November 22, 2023)
• Expert Group on Base Registry Promotion
  • Base registry First Meeting of the Advisory Group (March 31, 2025)
  • The Second Meeting of the Expert Group for the Promotion of Base Registry (April 25, 2025)
  • Base registry Third Meeting of the Advisory Group (May 26, 2025)
  • Base Registry The Fourth Meeting of the Advisory Group for the Promotion of CDM (held on February 18, 2026)
  • Base registry The Fifth Meeting of the Advisory Group (March 30, 2026)

Related Information

• Press Conference by Minister Matsumoto (March 24, 2026)
• Reducing the burden on counters and residents by omitting the attachment of four certificates Efforts of Tagawa City in Digital Agency Prefecture and Administrative Procedures Changed by "corporate base registry" (Fukuoka News)
• Looking for members to promote a base registry that connects society with corporate, real estate, and address data (Digital Agency official note)
• Changes in corporate base registry Administrative procedures are completed digitally and administrative efficiency is improved (Digital Agency News)
• Exploring the needs of users Promoting the use of "corporate base registry" challenged by data product managers (Digital Agency official note)