Identity verification
built for Japan 
My Number Card, Driver's Licence, Japanese passport and Residence Card on one session, with FSA-aligned AML screening — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Japan.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Japanese identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-MyNumber attacks targeting the post-pandemic shift to remote eKYC under APTCP article 6 (ホ method — selfie + photo-ID), crypto-exchange onboarding pressure under the FSA's Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider regime, and Residence Card forgery across the 3M+ foreign-resident population. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds (APTCP, 犯罪収益移転防止法)
- APTCP Article 6 (eKYC ホ method — selfie + photo-ID)
- Payment Services Act
- Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI)
- Banking Act
- Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider regime (FSA)
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Japan.
FSA
Financial Services Agency — integrated supervisor for banks, securities firms, insurance carriers, payment service providers and Crypto Asset Exchange Service Providers. Sets remote-onboarding rules under the Banking Act and the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds (APTCP).
JAFIC
Japan Financial Intelligence Center — Japan's Financial Intelligence Unit, housed in the National Police Agency (NPA). Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under APTCP.
PPC
Personal Information Protection Commission — enforces the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), Japan's primary data-protection law. Governs how identity-verification data is collected, used, retained and disclosed.
METI
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry — governs e-commerce identity rules and the Specified Commercial Transactions Act. Sets baseline online-merchant identity-verification expectations.
National Police Agency
National Police Agency (警察庁) — oversees JAFIC and coordinates Interpol Japan Red Notice enforcement. Designated Anti-Social Forces (暴力団) lists flow through the National Public Safety Commission, which the NPA administers.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Works for every primary Japanese credential — My Number Card (with the IC chip read), Driver's Licence (new IC-chip format), Japanese Passport with the chip read on e-Passports, and the Residence Card issued to long-term foreign residents.
- Returns the name (kanji + katakana + Romaji), document number, date of birth and address — ready to drop into your database, ready to satisfy APTCP article 6 ホ method (selfie + photo-ID) for eKYC.
- My Number Card · Driver's Licence
- Japanese Passport — chip read on e-Passport
- Residence Card (在留カード) for foreign residents
Match the face. Prove it's a real person..
Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.
- Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
- Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks. The active flow + photo-ID combination is what APTCP article 6 ホ method explicitly recognises.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Japanese watchlists:
- Ministry of Finance, Japan — Economic Sanctions and Target Lists — persons and entities subject to Japanese government financial sanctions.
- FSA — Illegal Financial Companies / Unregistered Operators — entities flagged by the Financial Services Agency for operating without a licence.
- National Public Safety Commission — Designated Anti-Social Forces — bōryokudan (暴力団) groups and affiliated individuals designated under the Organised Crime Prevention Act.
- National Diet Library — Politically Exposed Persons — Members of the House of Representatives and House of Councillors.
- JAFIC — Japan Financial Intelligence Center — suspicious-activity references under APTCP.
- METI — Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry — export-control and debarment watchlist.
- Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) — designated subversive organisations under the Subversive Activities Prevention Act.
- National Police Agency — Interpol Japan — Red Notices and internationally wanted persons.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Cross-check is not yet exposed for Japan.
Japan does not currently expose a public consumer-grade identity-registry API the way India (Aadhaar) or Argentina (RENAPER) do — My Number lookups are restricted to specific government-authorised use cases under the My Number Act.
- The hosted flow already covers the APTCP article 6 ホ method (selfie + photo-ID) — the eKYC pathway the FSA recognises today.
- Didit ships Database Validation for 40+ countries; if you need a custom Japanese third-party data partner integrated, the Enterprise tier includes BYO-source onboarding.
Cross-check is not yet exposed for Japan — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Japan document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Japan.
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Common questions about Japan.
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