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Major Businesses Requiring Licenses
[Within the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Jurisdiction (Health Centers and Police not Included) ]

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Medical services, Medicine, Hospitals, Welfare

Main Business Bureau in charge Remarks Manufacturing and import registration of poisonous or toxic substances, jurisdiction for professional sales of drugs by distribution Pharmaceutical License Administrator, Pharmaceutical Affairs Department, Health Safety Chamber, Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health Pharmaceutical Affairs Index (Total Information Site) Jurisdiction for manufacturing, import and sales of pharmaceutical products Pharmaceutical Products Evaluation Administrator, Pharmaceutical Affairs Department, Health Safety Chamber, Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health Pharmaceutical Affairs Index (Total Information Site) Sales of agrochemicals(Japanese only) Production Environment Administrator, Food Safety Chamber, Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Bureau of Industrial Labor   Notification for veterinary hospitals and clinics (Japanese only) Veterinary Pharmaceutical Sanitation Administrator, Food Safety Chamber, Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Bureau of Industrial Labor   Notification for admission-paid nursing homes for the aged Facility Management Administrator, Facility Support Department, Aged Society Countermeasures Division, Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health(Japanese only)   Designation related to care insurance businesses Aged Society Countermeasures Division, Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health Online System for Tokyo Metropolitan Nursing Care Insurance Businesses’ Designation (Japanese only) Licensing of medical corporations Medical Safety Department, Medical Policy Division, Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health(Japanese only) Guidance for the establishment of medical corporations(Japanese only)

Real Estate, Construction, Facilities, Engineering Works

Main Business Bureau in charge Remarks Building lots and buildings transaction business licenses License Administrator, Real Estate Business Department, Bureau of Urban Development(Japanese only)   Jurisdiction of general construction and specified construction businesses Construction Business Department, Urban Architecture Division, Bureau of Urban Development (Japanese only) Contact record of the Bureau of Urban Development(Japanese only) Designation of water supply equipment engineering business Water Supply Equipment Department, Water Supply Division, Bureau of Waterworks   Registration of electrical engineering businesses for general and personal electrical works Environmental Preservation Department, Environmental Improvement Division, Bureau of Environment(Japanese only) When more than two prefectures are involved, the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry will take charge. (048-601-1200)

Waste Matters, Hazardous Materials

Main Business Bureau in charge Remarks Jurisdiction of industrial waste processing businesses Industrial Waste Countermeasures Department, Waste Matter Countermeasures Division, Bureau of Environment(Japanese only)   Approval for the installation of general waste processing facilities General Waste Countermeasures Department, Waste Matter Countermeasures Division, Bureau of Environment (Japanese only)   ○Approval for manufacturing (repair) and sales of hunting guns, manufacturing and sales of explosives ○Notification of compressed gas sales businesses Environmental Preservation Department, Environmental Improvement Division, Bureau of Environment(Japanese only)   ○Approval for Class 1 manufacturing businesses, notification for Specific Class 2 and Class 2 manufacturing businesses of compressed gas Environmental Preservation Department, Environmental Improvement Division, Bureau of Environment(Japanese only)   Registration of liquid petroleum gas sales businesses Environmental Preservation Department, Environmental Improvement Division, Bureau of Environment(Japanese only)   Approval of hazardous engineering facilities Prevention Department, Fire Station Please contact the Tokyo Metropolitan Fire Stations in charge of your district

Others

Main Business Bureau in charge Remarks Registration of money-lending businesses Money-lending Business Registrati(Japanese only)on Administrator, Money-lending Business Countermeasures Department, Financing Division, Bureau of Industrial Labor (Japanese only) Registration at the Tokyo Metropolitan Money-lending Business Association(Japanese only) Notification of open air advertisement businesses Open Air Advertisement Administrator, Urban Planning Department, Urban Architecture Division, Bureau of Urban Development (Japanese only)   Authentication proceedings for the establishment of NPOs NPO Corporations Administrator, Administrative Corporations Department, Metropolitan Living Division, Bureau of Citizens, Culture and Sports (Japanese only) Application document style (Japanese only) Registration of travel agencies (Class 2 and 3) Promotion Department, Tourism Division, Bureau of Industrial Labor(Japanese only) For registration of Class 1, contact the Tourism Promotion Department, Planning Promotion Division, Kanto District Transport Bureau (045-211-7204) Notification of manufacturing, sales and repair businesses of specific measurement equipments, registration of measurement and lighting businesses Tokyo Metropolitan Measurement Authorization Office(Japanese only)

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