---
id: "jp_cn"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["companies"]
country: ["JP"]
langs: ["ja"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/jp_cn"
---

# Japanese corporate number (hōjin bangō) (`jp_cn`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

法人番号 (hōjin bangō), the 13-digit Corporate Number that the National Tax Agency gives to corporations, government bodies and other organisations in Japan. The first digit is a check digit and is never 0.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Companies/business/organizations (companies)
- Countries: Japan (JP)
- Languages: Japanese (ja)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[1-9]-?\d{4}-?\d{4}-?\d{4}$
```

## Examples

- `1878613755182` — Real-world value published online
- `2506450764947` — Real-world value published online
- `1-8786-1375-5182` — The first example in its printed form
- `18786137551827` (invalid example) — One character too many

## Mappings

- orgid: `JP-JCN`
- purview: `Japanese My Number Corporate`, `Japan My Number - Corporate`
- stdnum: `jp.cn`
- wikidata: `P3225`

## Supported by tools

- `azureailanguage`
- `dataprep`
- `microsoftpurview`
- `pythonstdnum`

## Translations

- ja: 法人番号

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Number>
- doc: <https://www.nta.go.jp/taxes/tetsuzuki/mynumberinfo/houjinbangou/>
- other: <https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.jp.cn.html>
- other: <https://docs.dataprep.ai/user_guide/clean/clean_jp_cn.html>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3225>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/jp_cn.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/JP/companies/jp_cn.yaml>