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  "id": "jp/houmukyoku/limited-liability-company-establishment-registration-application",
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  "title": "Japan Godo Kaisha (Limited Liability Company) Establishment Registration Application",
  "description": "The Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局, part of the Ministry of Justice)'s Godo Kaisha Establishment Registration Application (合同会社設立登記申請書), filed with the local Legal Affairs Bureau/branch office/sub-office having jurisdiction over the company's registered head office, to legally bring a newly-incorporated godo-gaisha (合同会社, a membership company — mochibun-gaisha — commonly rendered in English as 'Godo Kaisha' or 'Limited Liability Company', e.g. as used by Amazon Japan G.K. and Apple Japan G.K.) into existence; as with a kabushiki-gaisha, Japanese company law makes incorporation effective only upon this registration (会社法第579条, 第49条). A Godo Kaisha has no shareholders, shares, directors, or board — it is owned and run by its 社員 ('members', a term distinct from 'employee' in this context), each of whom may be either an individual or, unlike a kabushiki-gaisha's directors, another corporation. This document models the Legal Affairs Bureau's own single published Godo Kaisha establishment template (unlike the Stock Company Establishment Registration Application, which the Bureau publishes as four distinct board/subscription-method variants, Godo Kaisha establishment has only one procedural shape). The application itself (this document's `fields[]`) is short: company identity, the 'matters to be registered' (登記すべき事項) content — trade name, head office, method of public notice, business purposes, capital amount, member/representative-member/performing-officer particulars — plus the signature/filing block. A real submission also encloses a substantial packet of supporting documents (articles of incorporation, the representative-member/head-office/capital decision document, capital-payment proof, and, where a member is itself a corporation, that corporation's own registered-matters certificate and performing-officer appointment papers) — modelled here only as `documents[]` attachment requirements; the internal content of each of those supporting documents (e.g. the articles of incorporation's own model articles) is out of scope, a candidate for a future companion-schedule cycle, mirroring the same scope decision already made for this registry's sibling `jp/houmukyoku/stock-company-establishment-registration-application`. GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Japan or the Ministry of Justice. See VERIFICATION.md for the full field-by-field source mapping, the mock-data test run, and every disclosed scope decision.",
  "status": "draft",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "country": "JP",
    "level": "national"
  },
  "authority": {
    "name": "Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局), Ministry of Justice",
    "abbreviation": "houmukyoku",
    "url": "https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/COMMERCE_11-1.html"
  },
  "process": {
    "type": "registration",
    "language": "ja"
  },
  "source": {
    "url": "https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/content/001249560.pdf",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-07-09",
    "documentRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書／Godo Kaisha (Limited Liability Company) Establishment Registration Application — blank application template ('申請書様式'), section '１　設立', row '1-5' of the Legal Affairs Bureau's own '商業・法人登記の申請書様式' ('Commercial/corporate registration application forms') index at https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/COMMERCE_11-1.html."
  },
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    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-07-09",
    "verifiedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "nextReviewBy": "2027-01-09",
    "notes": "GOV-2026: GovSchema Standard Research cycle. The task brief's own named National ID candidates (DE Steuer-ID, SG NRIC loss/damage + re-registration, NZ RealMe) and 'remaining voter registration' were re-checked first against the registry and confirmed already published in prior cycles (de/finanzamt/tax-identification-number, sg/ica/identity-card-replacement + identity-card-reregistration, nz/dia/realme-verified-identity; the outstanding voter-registration leads are all either closed or dated dead ends per CATALOG.md's own Known Gaps section) — this recurring issue's generic phased brief was treated as a prompt to re-scan the catalog fresh, not a literal to-do list, per this registry's established pattern. CATALOG.md's own Known Gaps section (item 6, added by GOV-2005/GOV-2019) explicitly flagged Japan's three sibling Stock Company incorporation variants and its Seal Registration Notification (印鑑届書) as the next candidates on the same houmukyoku.moj.go.jp index page that Japan's existing jp/houmukyoku/stock-company-establishment-registration-application was sourced from; this cycle instead found and pursued a stronger, previously-unflagged candidate on that same index page: the Godo Kaisha (合同会社) Establishment Registration Application, a wholly distinct company-type template (not a procedural variant of the Kabushiki Kaisha form), analogous to how this registry already models more than one company-formation entity type for other jurisdictions (e.g. Germany's business-registration and gmbh-formation-musterprotokoll). Fetched https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/content/001252889.pdf live with a browser User-Agent (HTTP 200, 494551 bytes) — found, exactly as GOV-2019 first discovered for the Kabushiki Kaisha form, to be the Bureau's own filled-in worked example ('記載例'), not a blank form. Traced to its own index-page row ('１　設立', row 1-5) to find the genuinely blank counterpart template, https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/content/001249560.pdf (HTTP 200, 454977 bytes, 12 pages). Both PDFs extracted with pdfjs-dist (pinned 3.11.174) via getTextContent with x/y-coordinate row-grouping, zero AcroForm/Widget annotations on every page (confirmed via getAnnotations()). `node tools/verify-sources.mjs registry/jp/houmukyoku/limited-liability-company-establishment-registration-application/1.0.0` reports 0 warnings; see VERIFICATION.md for the full source list, extraction diff, and every disclosed scope decision. This gives Japan a second Business Formation schema (its 3rd of 6 verticals already stood at 1, now deepened, not widened)."
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  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "companyNameFurigana",
      "label": "Company Name — Furigana",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "フリガナ — the katakana reading of the company's trade name, excluding the part denoting the company type ('合同会社'). Per the worked example's own annotation, written left-justified with any internal spaces removed; this furigana is published via the National Tax Agency's corporate-number ('houjin bangou') publication site and does not itself appear on the resulting Certificate of Registered Matters.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, row 'フリガナ'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "companyName",
      "label": "Trade Name (Company Name)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "商号 — the company's registered trade name, including '合同会社' (either as a prefix or suffix per the members' choice). Reused verbatim as the 「商号」 line of the 登記すべき事項 (matters to be registered) passage and again in the signature/filing block below.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, row '商 号'; restated at 登記すべき事項 '「商号」' and in the filing block ('申請人 ○○商店合同会社')",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "headOfficeAddress",
      "label": "Head Office Address",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "本店 — the company's registered head office address. The source form provides one free-text block (no structured prefecture/city/block/number sub-boxes). Reused verbatim as the 「本店」 line of the 登記すべき事項 passage and again in the filing block ('印 ○県○市○町○丁目○番○号 (注1)→本店').",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, row '本 店'; restated at 登記すべき事項 '「本店」' and in the filing block (worked example, page 2, note 1)",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "incorporationProcedureCompletionDate",
      "label": "Date the Establishment Procedure Was Completed",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "description": "登記の事由 — the form's fixed reason-for-registration phrase is '[date]設立の手続終了' ('as of [date], the establishment procedure was completed'), i.e. the date every step of forming the Godo Kaisha (articles drafted, capital paid in, representative member selected, etc.) was finished. This is ordinarily the day before, or the same day as, the filing itself.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, row '登記の事由' ('設立の手続終了')"
    },
    {
      "name": "methodOfPublicNotice",
      "label": "Method of Public Notice",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "「公告をする方法」 — how the company will publish its legally-required public notices. Both the worked example and the model articles of incorporation this source publishes show the same value, '官報に掲載してする' ('by publication in the Official Gazette'), the default method under Companies Act art. 939 when a company's articles do not otherwise specify one of the Act's other statutory methods. Modelled as free text, not an enum, for the same reason disclosed in jp/houmukyoku/stock-company-establishment-registration-application: neither source document examined enumerates the Act's other statutory methods itself.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「公告をする方法」官報に掲載してする。'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "businessPurposes",
      "label": "Business Purposes (Objectives)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "「目的」 — the company's numbered list of business objectives, as they will appear on the Certificate of Registered Matters. The worked example's own three-item list ends with the standard catch-all clause '前各号に附帯する一切の事業' ('any and all business incidental to each of the preceding items'), a customary final entry. Modelled as one free-text field (numbered items separated by newlines/semicolons), per this registry's established GSP-0009 treatment of a source's own repeating/numbered list where GovSchema v0.3 has no native array type.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「目的」１ ○○の製造販売 ２ ○○の売買 ３ 前各号に附帯する一切の事業'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 2000 }
    },
    {
      "name": "capitalAmount",
      "label": "Amount of Capital",
      "type": "number",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "financial",
      "description": "「資本金の額」 — the company's capital at incorporation, in Japanese yen, equal to the total of every member's contribution. Japanese company law has had no statutory minimum capital requirement since the 2006 Companies Act reform (a company may incorporate with capital as low as 1 yen), so no floor beyond a positive amount is enforced here. The source's own registration-tax line computes 登録免許税 (registration and licence tax) as 0.7% of this amount with a ¥60,000 statutory floor — distinct from the ¥150,000 floor this registry's sibling Kabushiki Kaisha schema documents — but that computation is a pure arithmetic derivation with no independent input and is excluded as a field; see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「資本金の額」金５００万円'",
      "validation": { "minimum": 1 }
    },
    {
      "name": "managingMemberNames",
      "label": "Managing Members — Names",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "「社員に関する事項」「資格」業務執行社員「氏名」— the name(s) of every managing member (業務執行社員) at incorporation, including whichever one is separately designated representative member below. A managing member of a Godo Kaisha may itself be a corporation (as in the worked example's own '○○商事株式会社'), not only an individual — unlike a kabushiki-gaisha's directors. Modelled as one free-text field (names separated by semicolons), per this registry's established GSP-0009 treatment of a source's own repeating officer table.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項, two repeated rows '「社員に関する事項」「資格」業務執行社員「氏名」'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 500 }
    },
    {
      "name": "representativeMemberName",
      "label": "Representative Member — Name",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "「社員に関する事項」「資格」代表社員「氏名」— the member designated to represent the company (代表社員); one of the names already listed in managingMemberNames, but registered a second time together with an address because a representative member's address (unlike an ordinary managing member's) is itself a matter of public registration.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「社員に関する事項」「資格」代表社員「住所」... 「氏名」○○商事株式会社'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "representativeMemberAddress",
      "label": "Representative Member — Address",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "「社員に関する事項」「資格」代表社員「住所」— the representative member's address (or registered head office, when the representative member is itself a corporation), publicly registered.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「社員に関する事項」「資格」代表社員「住所」○県○市○町○丁目○番○号'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "representativeMemberIsCorporation",
      "label": "Representative Member Is Itself a Corporation",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Whether the representative member (代表社員) is itself a corporation (法人) rather than an individual — the worked example's own representative member ('○○商事株式会社') is a corporation, the common structure when a parent company forms a wholly-owned Godo Kaisha subsidiary. When true, the corporation must designate an individual 職務執行者 ('performing officer') to act in its stead, and the application must attach that corporation's own registered-matters certificate plus the officer's selection/acceptance papers (see performingOfficerName/Address and the corresponding documents[] entries).",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 note '（合同会社を代表する社員が法人である場合には、次の①から③までの書面が必要です。...）' (present on both the blank template and worked example)"
    },
    {
      "name": "performingOfficerName",
      "label": "Performing Officer — Name",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "representativeMemberIsCorporation", "equals": true },
      "description": "「職務執行者」「氏名」— the individual a corporate representative member designates to perform its duties as representative member (職務執行者, 'performing officer'), since a corporation cannot act in that capacity in person.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「職務執行者」「住所」... 「氏名」職務執行者 ○○○○'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "performingOfficerAddress",
      "label": "Performing Officer — Address",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "representativeMemberIsCorporation", "equals": true },
      "description": "「職務執行者」「住所」— the performing officer's residential address, publicly registered alongside the representative member's own particulars.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「職務執行者」「住所」○県○市○町○丁目○番○号'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "hasCorporateManagingMember",
      "label": "A Non-Representative Managing Member Is Itself a Corporation",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Whether any managing member (業務執行社員) other than the representative member is itself a corporation. The source's own attachment notes distinguish this case from representativeMemberIsCorporation: a non-representative corporate managing member requires only that corporation's own registered-matters certificate attached (not the fuller officer-selection/acceptance packet a corporate representative member requires) — see the corresponding documents[] entry.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 note '...また、業務執行社員が法人である場合には、次の①の書面が必要です。' (present on both the blank template and worked example)"
    },
    {
      "name": "applicationDate",
      "label": "Application (Filing) Date",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "description": "The date printed directly above the destination Legal Affairs Bureau line: '上記のとおり登記の申請をします。令和 年 月 日' ('As stated above, I hereby apply for registration. [date]').",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, filing block '令和 年 月 日'"
    },
    {
      "name": "legalAffairsBureauOffice",
      "label": "Destination Legal Affairs Bureau / Branch / Sub-office",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "「＿＿法務局＿＿支局／出張所 御中」— the specific Legal Affairs Bureau (or its branch/局, or sub-office/出張所) having jurisdiction over the company's registered head office, to which this application is physically or electronically filed.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, filing block '法務局 支 局 御中 出張所'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "contactPhoneNumber",
      "label": "Contact Phone Number",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "連絡先の電話番号 — a daytime contact number printed directly under the filing block, with no explicit mandatory/optional marking on either source document; modelled as optional, consistent with how this registry treats an unmarked contact-number line elsewhere (e.g. jp/houmukyoku/stock-company-establishment-registration-application's contactPhoneNumber).",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, filing block '連絡先の電話番号'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 30 }
    },
    {
      "name": "filedByAgent",
      "label": "Filed by an Agent (Proxy)",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Whether an agent/proxy (代理人), rather than the representative member (or its performing officer) personally, files this application. Unlike the sibling Kabushiki Kaisha template — whose blank form prints an (unannotated) 代理人 row — this Godo Kaisha blank template's own filing block (page 2) prints no distinct 代理人 row at all; the agent pathway, its explanatory note ('代理人が申請する場合にのみ記載し、代理人の印鑑（認印）を押します。この場合、代表社員の押印は、必要ありません。'), and a worked value ('上記代理人 ○○○○') appear only in the worked example's own page 3, an extra page the worked example has that the blank template does not. Modelled as an optional field on the strength of that worked-example evidence, disclosed as a sourcing caveat rather than presented as a labeled blank-template row — see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書 (worked example only — not present on the blank template), page 3, filing-block annotation on the 代理人 (agent) row"
    },
    {
      "name": "agentName",
      "label": "Agent — Name",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "filedByAgent", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書 (worked example), page 3, filing block '上記代理人 ○○○○'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "agentAddress",
      "label": "Agent — Address",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "filedByAgent", "equals": true },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書 (worked example), page 3, filing block '(注4）→代理人の住所'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    }
  ],
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "articlesOfIncorporationFile",
      "label": "Articles of Incorporation (定款)",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '定款 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "representativeMemberHeadOfficeCapitalDecisionDocumentFile",
      "label": "Document Certifying the Decision of the Representative Member, Head Office, and Capital",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '代表社員、本店所在地及び資本金を決定したことを証する書面 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "representativeMemberAcceptanceOfAppointmentFile",
      "label": "Representative Member's Letter of Acceptance of Appointment",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '代表社員の就任承諾書 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "corporateMemberRegisteredMattersCertificateFile",
      "label": "Registered-Matters Certificate of a Corporate Member",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": {
        "any": [
          { "field": "representativeMemberIsCorporation", "equals": true },
          { "field": "hasCorporateManagingMember", "equals": true }
        ]
      },
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '①登記事項証明書 １通'; the worked example's own note allows this to be omitted when the corporate member's own registration is at the same Legal Affairs Bureau office, or replaced by citing that corporation's own company/corporate number instead"
    },
    {
      "id": "performingOfficerSelectionDocumentFile",
      "label": "Document Certifying Selection of the Performing Officer",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "representativeMemberIsCorporation", "equals": true },
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '②職務執行者の選任に関する書面 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "performingOfficerAcceptanceOfAppointmentFile",
      "label": "Performing Officer's Letter of Acceptance of Appointment",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "representativeMemberIsCorporation", "equals": true },
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '③職務執行者の就任承諾書 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "proofOfPaymentDocumentFile",
      "label": "Document Proving Payment of Capital",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '払込みがあったことを証する書面 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "capitalAmountCertificateFile",
      "label": "Representative Member's Certificate on the Recording of the Capital Amount",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '資本金の額の計上に関する代表社員の証明書 １通'; the worked example's own specimen (page 9, note 1) states this is unnecessary when the property contributed at incorporation consists only of cash"
    },
    {
      "id": "powerOfAttorneyFile",
      "label": "Power of Attorney",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "filedByAgent", "equals": true },
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "合同会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '委任状 １通' (present on both blank template and worked example); the qualifying note '（注）代理人に申請を委任した場合のみ必要です。' appears only on the worked example's own page 2"
    }
  ]
}