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Base Registry

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In order to promote digitalisation throughout the country, it is essential to develop a digital infrastructure as a social infrastructure. In Digital Agency, we are developing and utilizing a database as a social infrastructure as a base registry in order to promote information coordination among administrative agencies and data utilization including private sector. This will lead to the promotion of once-only (eliminating the need to submit one document twice) in administrative procedures and DX in private sector.

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What is the Base Registry?

A base registry * is a database consisting of data that can be referred to in many procedures across systems, such as addresses, locations, and names of corporations. The development of a base registry contributes to improving the convenience of citizens and the efficiency of administrative operations. The development of a base registry makes it possible to perform various procedures more conveniently, such as eliminating the need to obtain certificates and other documents, eliminating the need for manual input, and eliminating the need for procedures themselves.
*Under the law, the official name of the Base Registry is defined as the "Public Basic Information Database." In order to systematically and comprehensively develop and improve the Base Registry, Digital Agency submitted a bill to revise the Base Registry (a bill to partially revise the ordinary Diet Registry) to the 213th session of Basic Act on the Formation of a Digital Society, and the bill was passed by the National Assembly on May 31, 2024.

The first phase of the "Plan for Development and Improvement of the Public Basic Information Database" stipulated in the Act is scheduled to be formulated by the summer of 2025.

Activities and efforts

Development of the base registry

For individual base registries, there are Items for which maintenance has already been completed , and Items currently being developed, and Items to be considered for improvement. For individual data and the status of consideration, please see the following.

Items for which maintenance has already been completed

Items currently being developed

Items to be considered for improvement

The overall discussion (general remarks) on the base registry, the commercial registration and real estate registration database, and the address and location database are being examined in the following review meetings.
From March 2025, the "Expert Panel on the Promotion of the Base Registry" will be established, and from then on, it will be discussed at the panel.

General remarks
Commercial registration and real estate registration database
Database related to address and location