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  "id": "jp/houmukyoku/stock-company-establishment-registration-application",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "title": "Japan Stock Company Establishment Registration Application (No Board of Directors, Incorporation by Promoters)",
  "description": "The Legal Affairs Bureau (法務局, part of the Ministry of Justice)'s Stock Company Establishment Registration Application (株式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 kabushiki-gaisha (株式会社, stock company) into existence — Japanese company law makes incorporation effective only upon this registration (会社法第49条), unlike jurisdictions where incorporation and registration are separate steps. This document models the 'no board of directors, incorporation by promoters' (取締役会を設置しない株式会社の発起設立) variant: the promoter(s) themselves subscribe for all shares to be issued at incorporation (発起設立, as opposed to 募集設立, a public-subscription variant where third-party subscribers are also solicited), and the company will not install a board of directors (取締役会を設置しない会社), so a representative director is designated directly by the promoters/shareholders rather than elected by a board. This is the Legal Affairs Bureau's own simplest of its four published stock-company-incorporation variants (the other three — board-installed + promoter subscription, board-installed + public subscription, and no-board + public subscription — are each a distinct, separately-published template and out of scope for this v1.0.0) and the typical path for a small, closely-held company. 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, share capital structure, the share-transfer-restriction clause, and officer particulars — plus the signature/filing block. A real submission also encloses a substantial packet of supporting documents (articles of incorporation, promoters' resolutions/consents, capital-payment proof, identity/seal certificates, and, if an agent files on the company's behalf, a power of attorney) — modelled here only as `documents[]` attachment requirements; the internal content of each of those supporting documents (e.g. the articles of incorporation's own 28 model articles) is out of scope, a candidate for a future companion-schedule cycle, mirroring how this registry already splits the Czech Republic's income tax return from its own Přílohy annexes. 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/001249317.pdf",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-07-09",
    "documentRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書（取締役会を設置しない会社の発起設立）／Stock Company Establishment Registration Application (company with no board of directors, incorporation by promoters) — blank application template ('申請書様式'), item 1-3 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-2019: GovSchema Standard Research cycle. Two prior cycles (GOV-2005, GOV-2012) had already screened and flagged houmukyoku.moj.go.jp's Stock Company Establishment Registration Application as Japan's remaining, genuinely open, well-sourced Business Formation candidate — this cycle executed on it directly rather than re-screening. Fetched the flagged PDF (https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/content/001331002.pdf) live with a browser User-Agent (HTTP 200, 608301 bytes, matching the byte count recorded when this candidate was first flagged) and found it is the Legal Affairs Bureau's own filled-in worked example ('記載例') of one specific procedural variant (取締役会を設置しない株式会社の発起設立 — no board of directors, incorporation by promoters), not a blank form. Traced that PDF back to its own index page (https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/COMMERCE_11-1.html, section '１　設立', row '1-3') to find the genuinely blank counterpart template this document is actually modelled from (申請書様式, https://houmukyoku.moj.go.jp/homu/content/001249317.pdf, HTTP 200, 574954 bytes) plus a Word edition at the same row, confirming the worked example and the blank template are companion publications of the identical procedural variant, not different forms. Both were extracted with pdfjs-dist (pinned 3.11.174) via getTextContent with x/y-coordinate row-grouping; both PDFs have zero AcroForm/Widget annotations on every page (confirmed via getAnnotations()) but a full, genuine Japanese text layer. The two extractions were diffed line-by-line: the blank template's header block (フリガナ／商号／本店／登記の事由 date) is genuinely blank, while its 登記すべき事項 body retains the identical '○○商事株式会社' placeholder content seen in the worked example — i.e. that body is itself a fixed worked-example annotation showing the required wording/structure of a passage the applicant separately drafts and submits (per the Legal Affairs Bureau's own linked guidance on submitting 登記すべき事項 via an attached printout, a CD-R, or the online registration/deposit system: https://www.moj.go.jp/MINJI/minji06_00051.html and https://www.moj.go.jp/MINJI/MINJI50/minji50.html), not a set of boxes on the printed page itself. `node tools/verify-sources.mjs registry/jp/houmukyoku/stock-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 closes Japan's Business Formation vertical — Japan now stands at 3 of its 6 verticals (Visa, National ID, Business Formation)."
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    {
      "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 ('株式会社'). 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": "株式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 '株式会社' (either as a prefix or suffix per the promoters' 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": "株式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 ... (商号)')",
      "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 ('申請人 (本店)').",
      "sourceRef": "株式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 ('申請人 (本店)')",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "incorporationProcedureCompletionDate",
      "label": "Date the Incorporation-by-Promoters Procedure Was Completed",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "description": "登記の事由 — the form's fixed reason-for-registration phrase is '[date]発起設立の手続終了' ('as of [date], the procedure for incorporation by promoters was completed'), i.e. the date every step of the 発起設立 procedure (share subscription, officer selection, capital payment, etc.) was finished. This is ordinarily the day before, or the same day as, the filing itself.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, row '登記の事由' ('令和 年 月 日発起設立の手続終了')"
    },
    {
      "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 (e.g. of annual accounts). 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 (a daily newspaper, or electronic public notice). Since neither source document in this cycle's review enumerates those other statutory methods itself, this field is modelled as free text rather than a fabricated enum — see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "株式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": "株式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": "totalAuthorizedShares",
      "label": "Total Number of Authorized Shares",
      "type": "integer",
      "required": true,
      "description": "「発行可能株式総数」 — the total number of shares the company is authorized to issue (its 'authorized capital' share ceiling), not the number actually issued at incorporation.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「発行可能株式総数」８００株'",
      "validation": { "minimum": 1 }
    },
    {
      "name": "totalIssuedShares",
      "label": "Total Number of Issued Shares",
      "type": "integer",
      "required": true,
      "description": "「発行済株式の総数並びに種類及び数」 — the total number of shares actually issued at incorporation. The source heading itself also asks for the shares' 'type(s)' when a company issues more than one class of share; the worked example populates only a single running total ('「発行済株式の総数」２００株') consistent with a single class of ordinary shares (普通株式), the common case for a small closely-held incorporation. A multi-class share breakdown is out of scope for this v1.0.0 — see VERIFICATION.md.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「発行済株式の総数並びに種類及び数」「発行済株式の総数」２００株'",
      "validation": { "minimum": 1 }
    },
    {
      "name": "capitalAmount",
      "label": "Amount of Capital",
      "type": "number",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "financial",
      "description": "「資本金の額」 — the company's capital (share capital) at incorporation, in Japanese yen. 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.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「資本金の額」金１０００万円'",
      "validation": { "minimum": 1 }
    },
    {
      "name": "hasShareTransferRestriction",
      "label": "Shares Subject to a Transfer-Approval Restriction",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "description": "「株式の譲渡制限に関する規定」 — whether acquiring the company's shares by transfer requires the company's prior approval. Virtually universal for a small, closely-held incorporation of this kind (both source documents show the restriction clause present); a company without a board of directors that opts out would omit this registered matter entirely.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 heading '「株式の譲渡制限に関する規定」'"
    },
    {
      "name": "shareTransferRestrictionClause",
      "label": "Share Transfer Restriction — Clause Text",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "hasShareTransferRestriction", "equals": true },
      "description": "The restriction's exact wording as it will appear on the Certificate of Registered Matters. Both source documents show the identical standard clause: '当会社の株式を譲渡により取得するには、当会社の承認を受けなければならない。' ('A person who wishes to acquire the Company's shares by transfer must obtain the Company's approval.') — a company without a board of directors, as this variant models, has that approval given by the shareholders' meeting (its only decision-making body) by default.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「株式の譲渡制限に関する規定」当会社の株式を譲渡により取得するには、当会社の承認を受けなければならない。'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 500 }
    },
    {
      "name": "directorNames",
      "label": "Directors — Names",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "「役員に関する事項」「資格」取締役「氏名」— the full names of every director (取締役) at incorporation, including whichever one is separately designated representative director below. The source's registry entry discloses only each director's name (not address); 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": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項, two repeated rows '「役員に関する事項」「資格」取締役「氏名」○○○○'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 500 }
    },
    {
      "name": "representativeDirectorName",
      "label": "Representative Director — Name",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "「役員に関する事項」「資格」代表取締役「氏名」— the director designated to represent the company (代表取締役); one of the names already listed in directorNames, but registered a second time together with an address because a representative director's address (unlike an ordinary director's) is itself a matter of public registration.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「役員に関する事項」「資格」代表取締役「住所」... 「氏名」○○○○'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "representativeDirectorAddress",
      "label": "Representative Director — Address",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "「役員に関する事項」「資格」代表取締役「住所」— the representative director's residential address, publicly registered (unlike an ordinary director's address, which is not).",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 1, 登記すべき事項 '「役員に関する事項」「資格」代表取締役「住所」○県○市○町○丁目○番○号'",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "hasAuditor",
      "label": "Auditor Appointed at Incorporation",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": false,
      "description": "設立時監査役 — whether the company additionally appointed an auditor at incorporation. Not present in the worked example modelled here (this no-board variant does not require one), but the source's own attachment notes explicitly address the auditor case (e.g. the identity-verification-document note: '設立時監査役を選任した場合には、設立時監査役について...本人確認証明書を添付します。'), so it is modelled as an optional gate rather than omitted outright.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 note on 本人確認証明書 ('設立時監査役を選任した場合には...')"
    },
    {
      "name": "auditorNames",
      "label": "Auditors — Names",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "hasAuditor", "equals": true },
      "description": "The name(s) of any auditor(s) (監査役) appointed at incorporation, when hasAuditor is true. Modelled as one free-text field (names separated by semicolons) for the same repeating-table reason as directorNames.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 note on 本人確認証明書 ('設立時監査役を選任した場合には...')",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 500 }
    },
    {
      "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": "株式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": "株式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 on other Japanese government forms (e.g. jp/j-lis/individual-number-card-issuing-application's phoneNumber).",
      "sourceRef": "株式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 director personally, files this application. The worked example's own annotation states the agent's block is 'completed only when an agent files the application' ('代理人が申請する場合にのみ記載し...'), and that in that case the representative director's own seal is not required on the application.",
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書 (worked example), 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": "株式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": "株式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": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '定款 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "promotersConsentLetterFile",
      "label": "Promoters' Consent Letter on Shares Issued at Incorporation",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書 (worked example), page 2, 添付書類 '発起人の同意書 ○通' and its note: needed only if the articles of incorporation do not already fix each promoter's allotted shares/payment amount, share-issuance terms, or authorized-share total, or the capital/capital-reserve amounts"
    },
    {
      "id": "representativeDirectorSelectionDocumentFile",
      "label": "Document Certifying Selection of the Representative Director at Incorporation",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '設立時代表取締役を選定したことを証する書面 １通'; applies when more than one director is appointed and one of them is separately selected as representative director, as in the worked example's own selection-resolution specimen (page 11)"
    },
    {
      "id": "acceptanceOfAppointmentLettersFile",
      "label": "Letters of Acceptance of Appointment (Directors and, if any, Auditors)",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '設立時取締役（及び設立時監査役）の就任承諾書 通'; the worked example's own note states this may be omitted when the director-selection resolution document itself already records each appointee's on-the-spot acceptance"
    },
    {
      "id": "sealCertificatesFile",
      "label": "Seal Certificates",
      "category": "identity-document",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '印鑑証明書 通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "identityVerificationDocumentsFile",
      "label": "Identity Verification Documents",
      "category": "identity-document",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '本人確認証明書 通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "investigationReportAndAttachmentsFile",
      "label": "Directors' (and Auditors') Investigation Report and Its Own Attachments",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '設立時取締役（及び設立時監査役）の調査報告書及びその附属書類 １通'; the worked example's own note limits this to when the articles of incorporation contain a Companies Act art. 28 extraordinary-incorporation matter (e.g. an in-kind contribution)"
    },
    {
      "id": "proofOfPaymentDocumentFile",
      "label": "Document Proving Payment of Capital",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '払込みを証する書面 １通'"
    },
    {
      "id": "capitalAmountCertificateFile",
      "label": "Representative Director's Certificate on the Recording of the Capital Amount",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "constraints": { "mediaTypes": ["application/pdf"] },
      "sourceRef": "株式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設立時代表取締役の証明書 １通'; the worked example's own specimen (page 16, 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": "株式会社設立登記申請書, page 2, 添付書類 '委任状 １通', note '（注）代理人に申請を委任した場合のみ必要です。'"
    }
  ]
}