JAPAN: JPX to Launch of API Distribution Service “J-Quants API”

Wednesday July 6 2022

On 4^th July 2022, the Japanese Exchange Group (JPX) Market Innovation & Research, Inc. (JPXI) launched an environment through the J-Quants project which enabled retail investors to learn about investment analysis utilizing data, by providing financial data that professionals use such as historical stock prices and corporate financial data together with analytical methods for these data. Following its provision of financial data through application programming interface (API) as part of this initiative, such as stock price and corporate financial data, we received many requests for this to be continued. Accordingly, JPX decided to launch this service as a beta version.

The following data will be distributed through API. This will allow comparisons among listed companies and chronological stock price analysis from the user’s preferred perspective.

• Historical stock price data of listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (stock prices adjusted for stock splits, etc. (opening/high/low/closing prices) and trading volume, etc. from 2017
• Corporate financial data taken from earnings reports (summary information of quarterly earnings reports from 2017)
• Issue information
• Industrial sector information
• Planned financial results announcements for the next day

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