Japan Kanpou Gazette — Bankruptcy & Dissolution Scraper

Extract structured notices from Japan's Official Gazette (官報, Kanpou) — the government's sole legally recognized publication for corporate insolvency filings, dissolution notices, court announcements, and government procurement alerts. Returns notice text, entity name, 13-digit corporate number (法人番号), court names, claim deadlines, and trustee contact information from the 90-day rolling online archive.

What does the Kanpou Japan Gazette Scraper do?

• Scrapes the Kanpou online portal at kanpou.npb.go.jp for notices within the 90-day rolling archive
• Returns notices filterable by issue type (standard edition, supplement, government procurement, special supplement) and notice category (bankruptcy, civil rehabilitation, dissolution, liquidation, auction, etc.)
• Extracts 13-digit corporate numbers (法人番号, hojin bangou) from structured notices — directly joinable to the Japan Legal Entities Registry and corporate registration databases
• Optionally extracts full PDF body text for structured field parsing (extractPdfText: true)
• No proxies required; no authentication needed

What data does it extract?

Field	Description
issue_date	Publication date (ISO 8601)
issue_date_wareki	Publication date in Japanese imperial calendar
issue_type	Edition type: honshi (standard), gougai (supplement), seifu_chotatsu (procurement), tokubetsu_gougai (special supplement)
issue_number	Official gazette issue number
notice_id	Unique notice identifier
notice_category	Category: hasan (bankruptcy), minji_saisei (civil rehab), kaisan (dissolution), seisan (liquidation), koubai (auction), kokuji (government notice), etc.
notice_subcategory	Subcategory label within the notice category
title	Notice title
body_text	Full extracted notice text (populated when extractPdfText: true)
entity_name	Name of the corporation or individual subject to the notice
entity_address	Registered address of the entity
entity_corporate_number	13-digit 法人番号 (hojin bangou) — links to corporate registries
court_name	Issuing court name (bankruptcy and civil rehab notices)
case_number	Court case number
trustee_name	Bankruptcy trustee or liquidator name
trustee_contact	Trustee contact information
claim_deadline	Creditor claim filing deadline (ISO 8601)
pdf_url	URL to the source PDF page
source_url	URL to the notice detail page

How to use it

Set dateFrom and dateTo within the 90-day rolling window. Select issueTypes and noticeCategories to scope the run. Enable extractPdfText: true to populate structured fields like entity_corporate_number, court_name, and claim_deadline — required for insolvency workflow integrations.

Field	Type	Default	Description
dateFrom	string	—	Start date in YYYY-MM-DD. Must be within the last 90 days.
dateTo	string	—	End date in YYYY-MM-DD.
issueTypes	array	all	honshi, gougai, seifu_chotatsu, tokubetsu_gougai
noticeCategories	array	all	hasan, minji_saisei, kaisan, seisan, koubai, kokuji, seirei, shourei, all
extractPdfText	boolean	false	Parse notice PDF for structured fields (entity name, corporate number, deadlines). Required for most structured data use cases.
maxItems	integer	—	Maximum notices to return

Use cases

• Credit risk monitoring — Run weekly with noticeCategories: ["hasan", "minji_saisei"] and extractPdfText: true to receive all new Japanese corporate bankruptcy and civil rehabilitation filings. A 30-day window typically yields 200–400 insolvency notices across all categories.
• Corporate registry enrichment — Use entity_corporate_number (13-digit 法人番号) to join bankruptcy and dissolution notices directly to the Japan Legal Entities Registry (houjin.go.jp) for automated credit bureau updates.
• Accounts receivable and supplier monitoring — Filter by claim_deadline to identify notices where your company may have an open trade receivable; the actor returns trustee_name and trustee_contact for immediate follow-up.
• Government procurement monitoring — Use issueTypes: ["seifu_chotatsu"] to extract all public procurement tender notices from the official gazette; structured parsing via extractPdfText: true returns entity name and deadlines.
• Regulatory and compliance research — Archive government notices (kokuji) and cabinet orders (seirei) with full body text for regulatory change monitoring across the 90-day rolling window.

FAQ

What is Kanpou (官報)? Kanpou is Japan's Official Gazette — the government's sole legally recognized publication for mandatory corporate announcements. Under Japanese law, companies undergoing bankruptcy, civil rehabilitation, dissolution, or liquidation must publish official notices in Kanpou. Court auctions, government procurement notices, and cabinet orders are also published here. The online archive covers the most recent 90 days; earlier issues are not available via the portal.

How do I get Japanese corporate bankruptcy data? Set noticeCategories: ["hasan"] and enable extractPdfText: true. The actor returns all bankruptcy opening decisions published in Kanpou within your date range, with court name, case number, trustee details, and claim deadline. For civil rehabilitation (Japan's equivalent of Chapter 11), use minji_saisei instead.

What is the 法人番号 (hojin bangou) and why is it useful? The 13-digit corporate number (法人番号) is a unique identifier issued to all legal entities in Japan — analogous to an EIN in the US. When extracted from Kanpou notices, it provides a direct join key to the Japan Legal Entities Registry (houjin.go.jp/csv), corporate registration databases, and credit bureau records. Not all notices carry a corporate number; individual debtors and foreign entities may not have one.

Results are available for export in JSON, CSV, and Excel formats from the Apify dataset tab.