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