Brokers Based in Japan

WIKILIX records 129 brokers with a registered address in Japan, and this page lists every one of them, ordered by overall score. Almost all are securities houses and online forex firms supervised by Japan's Financial Services Agency, so the page reads less like a shortlist of retail CFD brands and more like a roll call of the domestic industry: bank-affiliated securities arms alongside the online forex names Japanese traders already know.

The spread of scores is worth stating before you scroll. Only 17 of the 129 clear 50 points, the median sits at 18.5, and the highest score, 74.5, belongs to Hokuhoku Tokai Tokyo Securities, a bank-linked house that also records a UK FCA entry. Below it sits a cluster of eleven firms tied at 58.1, among them Daiki Securities and The Imamura Securities Co., which has traded since 1921.

What "based in Japan" means on this page

Home country here is the registered address, nothing more. It does not tell you where a firm holds its licence, and it does not tell you whether it will open an account for someone outside Japan. Most of these firms record a licence from the FSA, Japan's own regulator, yet a few are registered in Japan while their only recorded licence sits offshore: six list a Cayman Islands (CIMA) licence and two record one from Abu Dhabi's ADGM. A Japanese address is the start of a check, not the finish.

Age is the other thing the address reveals, and these are old companies. Thirty-five of them record an opening date before 1950, including Matsui Securities (1918), Nomura (1925) and Daiwa (1943), while the oldest date on the list, 1864, sits against the Societe Generale entry. Seven firms hold licences from two or more authorities. Six carry a status worth reading first: four are marked as suspicious clones and two as operating without regulation, one of them an entity recorded as Barclays Securities Co., Ltd.

The firms you came for that may not be here

Search for forex brokers in Japan and most lists hand you names like Pepperstone or FOREX.com. Those are real brokers, but they are not headquartered in Japan, so they belong on other countries' pages rather than this one. This list is the opposite selection: firms whose head office is in Japan, which skews heavily toward domestic securities companies instead of the globally marketed CFD brands. If it is the online forex specialists you want, GMO CLICK Securities, DMM.com Securities and SBI FXTRADE are all present, each capping leverage at 1:25.

The FSA, and what a Japanese licence involves

Japan supervises retail forex tightly. The Financial Services Agency licenses firms under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, and it is the recorded regulator for 114 of the 129 brokers here. One visible consequence of that regime is leverage: 32 of these firms cap it at 1:25, the domestic ceiling for retail currency trading, far below the 1:500 or more advertised by offshore venues. Registration also brings a firm inside Japan's investor-protection arrangements. You can confirm any firm's current standing on the FSA's own register before you deposit.

Checks worth making before you fund a Japanese account

• Match the company name exactly. Several firms here share a parent's name but are separate registered entities, and one flagged case borrows a global bank's name outright.
• Confirm the licence on the FSA register rather than trusting the address, because domicile in Japan does not guarantee FSA oversight, as the CIMA-licensed entries show.
• Check the leverage the specific entity offers you. A 1:25 cap binds the Japanese licensed company, not necessarily an overseas arm trading under the same brand.
• Read the recorded status first. Six firms on this list carry a clone or no-regulation marker in our records.

This page reflects the addresses and licences WIKILIX holds on record today. It describes where these firms are registered rather than recommending any of them, and it says nothing about spreads, platforms or whether a given firm will accept you as a client.