JURSIDICTION SNAPSHOT:



Country: Japan
Status: Full Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction Name : xbrl.jp
Website : http://www.xbrl-jp.org
Membership Count: 73
IFRS Adoption for Public Companies: not permitted

 

REGULATORS:
Companies Registrar:
Banking Supervisor: Bank of Japan
Securities Regulator: Financial Services Agency

 

PRINCIPAL EXCHANGES:

Osaka Securities Exchange
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Nagoya Stock Exchange

XBRL PROJECTS OVERVIEW:

Bank of Japan Mandatory Filing
Financial Services Agency Japan Mandatory Filing
National Tax Agency Japan Mandatory Filing
TSE-Tokyo Stock Exchange Mandatory Filing
XBRL Japan Development

JURISDICTION MEMBERSHIP:

Azsa&Co.
Bank of Japan
CCC Consulting
Daiwa Institute of Reserch Ltd.
DIAMOND, Inc.
DIVA Corporation
FUJITSU ADVANCED SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Fujitsu FIP Corporation
Fujitsu Ltd.
Fujitsu Research Institute
Fujitsu Software Technologies Limited
Future Architect,Inc.
Going dot com Inc.
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd.
HITACHI, Ltd.
I-N INFORMATION SYSTEMS.LTD
IBM Japan, Ltd.
ICS Partners CORPORATION
IFIS JAPAN LTD.
Information Services International-Dentsu , Ltd
Infoteria Corporation
J. Trust Co., Ltd.
Japan Digital Laboratory
Japan Finance Corporation for Small and Medium Enterprise
Japan Information Tech Svc Ind Assoc
Jiji Press, Ltd.
Justsystems Corporation
Kinmei Printing Co., Ltd.
KPMG Business Resource Management KK
Matsushita Electric Works Information Systems Co Ltd
Metlogy, Inc.
Microsoft Co., Ltd.
Miroku Jyoho Service Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS Co.,Ltd.
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
Nihombashi Corporation
Nihon ICS CO.LTD
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
Nihon Unisys, Ltd.
Nikko Systems Solutions, Ltd.
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
NTT Data Corporation
NTT DATA Institute of Management Consulting, Inc.
OBIC Business Consultants Co., Ltd.
Oracle Corporation Japan
OSK Co., Ltd.
PCA Corporation
PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata
Pronexus, Inc
QUICK Corp.
SAP Japan Co., Ltd.
Seiko Epson Corporation
Shin Ginko Tokyo, Limited
Shin Nihon & Co.
Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
SWaN corporation
Takara Printing Co., Ltd.
TATEMURA co., ltd
TCONNECT Inc.
Teikoku Databank, Ltd.
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
The Japanese Institute of CPAs
TKC Corporation
TOA System Co., Ltd.
Tohmatsu & Co.
Tokyo Certified Public Tax Accountants Assoc
Tokyo Shoko Research, Ltd.
Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.
TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Toyo Keizai Inc.
ZOICCS Co.,Ltd


PROGRESS REPORT:

Since April 2001 when XBRL Japan was established, the
members of XBRL Japan have been promoting XBRL by
creating awareness and encouraging adoption. Now in Japan
as of 2008, XBRL is adopted and used in production by key
governmental and public organizations for filing in the XBR
format. We at XBRL Japan are now tackling various projects
to explore advanced use of XBRL.
o Public Symposium, or “XBRL Japan
Conference,” planned for Q1, 2009.
o Monthly seminars for members of XBRL
Japan
o Working group activities: Marketing
and Communications WG, Domain WG,
Financial Services WG, Education WG
o Membership growth - XBRL Japan now
has 82 voting members.


FSA’s XBRL for EDINET
Major effort to XBRLize the FSA filing system for listed
companies called EDINET, or Electronic Disclosure for
Investor’s Network, was completed and put into production
on March 17, 2008. It is the largest scale implementation
of XBRL at this moment in the world; About 5,000 listed
companies and about 3,000 mutual funds that are required
to submit filings in electronic form are now required to do so
in XBRL format for financial statements in securities reports
submitted annually and quarterly. Detailed information is

available at the following URL:
FSA’s EDINET - http://info.edinet-fsa.go.jp/
EDINET taxonomy - https://info.edinet-fsa.go.jp/E01EW/
BLMainController.jsp


TSE’s XBRL for TDnet
Major effort to XBRLize the TDnet, or Timely Disclosure
network, for production was completed on July 7, 2008, at
Tokyo Stock Exchange. Earnings reports and corporate
governance reports are submitted in XBRL format under
the timely disclosure policy, which applied to about 4,000
listed companies at the stock exchanges in Japan. Detailed
information is available at the following URL:
Timely disclosure browsing services - https://www.
release.tdnet.info/inbs/I_main_00.html
Corporate governance information browsing services
- http://www.tse.or.jp/tseHpFront/HPCGDS0701.
do?method=init


NTA (National Tax Agency)
NTA’s electronic tax filing system called e-Tax started
accepting financial statements for corporate tax in XBRL
2.0 format in June 2004. NTA announced to start accepting
financial statements in XBRL 2.1 format in September 2008.
Detailed information is available at the following URL: e-Tax -
http://www.e-tax.nta.go.jp/index.html
XBRL Jurisdictional Leader: Kiyoshi Kanai, Chairman of
XBRL Japan (JICPA)


Contact information:
Nobuyuki Sambuichi, Jurisdiction representative to ISC
website: http://www.xbrl-jp.org