Standard specifications for data requirements and linkage requirements

In cooperation with related ministries and agencies, we are preparing standard specifications for data requirements and linkage requirements for mission-critical business systems.

What's New

• March 24, 2026
  • Links to specific business data, we posted materials showing "the version number of the whole version 2.0 or later (3.0 or later for the Population Survey Administrative System and the cremation permit system) stipulated in the whole version management of the standard specifications of the core business system of local governments".
• March 19, 2026
  • conformance verification website was updated.
• March 18, 2026
  • Detailed Explanation of Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements for Some Services was updated.
  • Updated FAQs about (Introduction) and (Specifics of Particulars in Standard Specifications for Local Government Information Systems Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements.
• February 27, 2026
  • Detailed Explanation of Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements for Some Services was updated.
• November 12, 2025
  • List of Next Revision Schedule of Standards for Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements (Details) is posted.

Links to Resources

• Links to the latest version of the specification
• Download Specifications
  • Introduction
  • Particulars
    • Bulk download by release date
    • Business segment data
    • Details FAQ
    • List of Next Revision Schedule of Standards for Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements (Details)
  • Common function
• conformance verification website

Links to the latest version of the specification

*For the disclosure history of each specifications, please refer to Local Public Body Information System Data Requirements, Linkage Requirements Standard Specifications (General Theory, Basic Data List, Linkage Specifications by function) Disclosure List (Excel / 29 kb) .

Updated March 18, 2026

Download Specifications

The following specifications can be downloaded.

• Introduction
• Particulars
• Common function

Introduction

• FAQs (as of March 18, 2026)
  • PDF(689KB)
  • Excel(156KB)
• Local Public Body Information Systems
  • For character standardization, please refer to Character Standardization in Local Public Body Information Systems .

Particulars

Detailed discussion Bulk download by release date

• Detailed Discussion March 18, 2026 (ZIP / 2,368 kb)
• Detailed Discussion Published February 27, 2026 (ZIP / 23,659 kb)
• Detailed Discussion September 30, 2025 release (ZIP / 27,879 kb)
• Detailed Discussion April 30, 2025 release (ZIP / 10,287 kb)
• Detailed Discussion Published February 28, 2025 (ZIP / 29,630 kb)
• Detailed Discussion November 29, 2024 release (ZIP / 7,850 kb)
• Detailed Discussion September 30, 2024 release (ZIP / 2,083 kb)
• Details released on April 30, 2024 (ZIP / 28,901 kb) (updated on May 31, 2024)
• Detailed Discussion Published February 14, 2024 (ZIP / 28,919 kb)
• Detailed Discussion November 30, 2023 release (ZIP / 503 kb)
• Detailed Discussion September 29, 2023 release (ZIP / 14,175 kb)
• Detailed Discussion July 31, 2023 release (ZIP / 12,816 kb)
• Detailed Discussion June 30, 2023 release (ZIP / 7,807 kb)
• Detailed Discussion Published June 5, 2023 (ZIP / 2,529 kb)
• Detailed Discussion Published May 31, 2023 (ZIP / 20,413 kb)
• Detailed Discussion April 28, 2023 (ZIP / 13,679 kb)
• Details released on March 30, 2023 (ZIP / 30,646 kb) (updated on July 18, 2023)
• Detailed Discussion Published August 31, 2022 (ZIP / 17,438 kb)

Links to specific business data

• JobID 001 to 009
  • 001 _ Basic Resident Register / 002 _ Seal Impression Registration / 003 _ Family Register / 004 _ Supplementary Family Register
  • 005 _ Election (Common) / 006 _ Voter Roll Administration / 007 _ Administering Late and Absentee Ballots / 008 _ Same-Day Vote Management / 009 _ Overseas Election Administration
• JobID 010 to 019
  • 010 _ Individual Inhabitant Tax / 011 _ corporation inhabitants tax / 012 _ Property Tax / 013 _ Light Motor Vehicle Tax / 014 _ Receipt Management (Tax)
  • 015 _ Arrears Management (Tax) / 016 _ Common Local Taxes / 017 _ Compilation of Age Register, etc. / 018 _ School Expense Subsidy / 019 _ Health Administration
• JobID 020 to 029
  • 020 _ Child Support Allowance / 021 _ Public Assistance / 022 _ Disability Welfare / 023 _ Care Insurance / 024 _ National Health Insurance / 025 _ Advanced Elderly Medical Care
  • 026 _ National Pension / 027 _ Child Benefit / 028 _ Support for Children and Childrearing
• JobID 030 to 040
  • 035 _ Receipt management (life insurance) / 038 _ Demographic Survey / 039 _ Cremation Permits / 040 _ Specific Medical Examination, etc.

Among the standards common to each local public entity information systems prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Act on Standardization of Local Public Entity Information Systems, based on the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Order Providing for the Ensuring of Inter-operability of Terms and Codes Used in Electronic or Magnetic Records and Other Standards Related to the Ensuring of Inter-operability of Local Public Entity Information Systems, the Public Notice Providing for the Basic Data List and Linkage Specifications by function (Digital Agency and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Public Notice No. 14 of 2026) 's "Among Basic Data List and Linkage Specifications by function posted on the Digital Agency website, the entire version provided for in the overall version management of the standard specifications of the core business system of local public entities is version 2.0 or later (in the case of the Population Survey Administration System (meaning the system pertaining to the processing of affairs prescribed in Article 7, item (iii) of the Order Providing for Affairs Specified by the Order of Digital Agency and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Order No. 1 of 2022) (hereinafter referred to as the" Inter-Ministerial Order ")) and the Cremation, etc. Permit System (meaning the system pertaining to the processing of affairs prescribed in Article 7, item (iv) of the Inter-Ministerial Order), version 3.0 or later)" is as follows. Digital Agency Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

• All versions of the Standard Specifications for Core Business Systems of Local Governments: Version 2.0 or later (Version 3.0 or later for the Population Survey Administrative System and the cremation permit system) (PDF / 595 kb) (published on March 24, 2026)

001 _ Basic Resident Register

002 _ Seal Impression Registration

003 _ Family Register

004 _ Supplementary Family Register

005 _ Election (Common)

006 _ Voter Roll Administration

007 _ Administering Late and Absentee Ballots

008 _ Same-Day Vote Management

009 _ Overseas Election Administration

010 _ Individual Inhabitant Tax

011 _ corporation inhabitants tax

012 _ Property Tax

013 _ Light Motor Vehicle Tax

014 _ Collections Management (Tax Systems)

015 _ Delinquency Management (Tax Systems)

016 _ Common Local Taxes

017 _ Compilation of Age Register, etc.

018 _ School Expense Subsidy

019 _ Health Administration

020 _ Child Support Allowance

021 _ Public Assistance

022 _ Disability Welfare

023 _ Care Insurance

024 _ National Health Insurance

025 _ Advanced Elderly Medical Care

026 _ National Pension

027 _ Child Benefit

028 _ Support for Children and Childrearing

035 _ Receipt Management (Public Assistance)

038 _ Demographic Survey

039 _ Cremation Permits

040 _ Specific Medical Examination, etc.

Details FAQ

• FAQ on "Standard Specifications for Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements for Local Government Information Systems (Details)" (as of March 18, 2026)
  • PDF(423KB)
  • Excel(56KB)

List of Next Revision Schedule of Standards for Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements (Details)

• List of Next Revision of Standards for Data Requirements and Linkage Requirements (Details) (ZIP / 896 kb)

Common function

Link to business-specific data

• 029 _ Claim Management / 031 _ Alien Number Management / 032 _ Federated Addresses / 036 _ Unified Containment Management / 037 _ Integrated Delinquency Management

029 _ Claim Management

031 _ Alien Number Management

032 _ Federated Addresses

036 _ Unified Containment Management

037 _ Integrated Delinquency Management

conformance verification website

We have published the implementation procedure manual of the conformance verification test for data requirements and linkage requirements and a list of conforming systems on the conformance verification website (updated on March 19, 2026).