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

| Type | Japanese | Key items | |---|---|---| | income_statement | 損益計算書 (PL) | 売上高, 営業利益, 純利益 | | balance_sheet | 貸借対照表 (BS) | 総資産, 純資産, 負債 | | cash_flow_statement | CF計算書 | 営業CF, 投資CF, 財務CF |

Workflow

edinet-mcp search <company> → find EDINET code
edinet-mcp statements -c <code> -p <year> → view financial data
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