EDINET: Japanese Financial Statement Analysis

Search Japanese public companies and analyze their financial statements via EDINET (金融庁 電子開示システム). Supports income statements (PL/損益計算書), balance sheets (BS/貸借対照表), and cash flow statements (CF/キャッシュ・フロー計算書) with 161 normalized labels across J-GAAP, IFRS, and US-GAAP.

Use Cases

• Look up any Japanese public company by name or stock code (証券コード)
• Retrieve and compare income statements across companies
• Analyze balance sheet composition and trends
• Review cash flow patterns (operating, investing, financing)
• Compare financials across different accounting standards (J-GAAP/IFRS/US-GAAP)
• Screen multiple companies by ROE, profit margins, and other metrics

Commands

Search companies

# Search by company name (Japanese or English)
edinet-mcp search トヨタ
edinet-mcp search ソニー

# Search by stock code
edinet-mcp search 7203 --limit 5 --json-output

Financial statements

# Income statement for Toyota (E02144), filed in 2024
edinet-mcp statements -c E02144 -p 2024 -s income_statement --format json

# Balance sheet
edinet-mcp statements -c E02144 -p 2024 -s balance_sheet --format json

# Cash flow statement
edinet-mcp statements -c E02144 -p 2024 -s cash_flow_statement --format json

# All statements as CSV
edinet-mcp statements -c E02144 -p 2024 --format csv

Screen companies (compare metrics)

# Compare Toyota, Sony, Honda by financial metrics
edinet-mcp screen E02144 E01777 E02529

# Sort by ROE
edinet-mcp screen E02144 E01777 E02529 --sort-by ROE

# JSON output
edinet-mcp screen E02144 E01777 --format json

Test connectivity

edinet-mcp test

Statement types

Workflow

1. edinet-mcp search <company> → find EDINET code
2. edinet-mcp statements -c <code> -p <year> → view financial data
3. edinet-mcp screen <code1> <code2> ... → compare multiple companies

Important

• The -p (period) parameter is the filing year, not the fiscal year. March-end companies file in June of the next year: FY2023 data → -p 2024.
• 161 normalized labels across J-GAAP / IFRS / US-GAAP.
• Results include 当期 (current) and 前期 (prior) periods.
• Rate-limited to 0.5 req/sec by default. Screening 10 companies takes ~1-2 minutes.
• Maximum 20 companies per screen request.

Setup

• Requires EDINET_API_KEY environment variable
• Free API key: https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/
• Python package: pip install edinet-mcp or uv tool install edinet-mcp