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 |
Production Environment Administrator, Food Safety Chamber, Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Bureau of Industrial Labor |
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| Notification for veterinary hospitals and clinics |
Veterinary Pharmaceutical Sanitation Administrator, Food Safety Chamber, Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Bureau of Industrial Labor |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Licensing of medical corporations |
Medical Safety Department, Medical Policy Division, Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health |
Guidance for the establishment of medical corporations |
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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 |
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| Jurisdiction of general construction and specified construction businesses |
Construction Business Department, Urban Architecture Division, Bureau of Urban Development |
Contact record of the Bureau of Urban Development |
| Designation of water supply equipment engineering business |
Water Supply Equipment Department, Water Supply Division, Bureau of Waterworks |
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| Registration of electrical engineering businesses for general and personal electrical works |
Environmental Preservation Department, Environmental Improvement Division, Bureau of Environment |
When more than two prefectures are involved, the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry will take charge. (048-601-1200) |
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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 |
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| Approval for the installation of general waste processing facilities |
General Waste Countermeasures Department, Waste Matter Countermeasures Division, Bureau of Environment |
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○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 |
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| ○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 |
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| Registration of liquid petroleum gas sales businesses |
Environmental Preservation Department, Environmental Improvement Division, Bureau of Environment |
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| Approval of hazardous engineering facilities |
Prevention Department, Fire Station |
Please contact the Tokyo Metropolitan Fire Stations in charge of your district |
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Others
| Main Business |
Bureau in charge |
Remarks |
| Registration of money-lending businesses |
Money-lending Business Registration Administrator, Money-lending Business Countermeasures Department, Financing Division, Bureau of Industrial Labor |
Registration at the Tokyo Metropolitan Money-lending Business Association |
| Notification of open air advertisement businesses |
Open Air Advertisement Administrator, Urban Planning Department, Urban Architecture Division, Bureau of Urban Development |
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| Authentication proceedings for the establishment of NPOs |
NPO Corporations Administrator, Administrative Corporations Department, Metropolitan Living Division, Bureau of Citizens, Culture and Sports |
Application document style |
| Registration of travel agencies (Class 2 and 3) |
Promotion Department, Tourism Division, Bureau of Industrial Labor |
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 |
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