Japan Digital Notarizaition Authority (English)

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J-Notary as a Trusted Third Party(TTP)

Founded in April, 2000, Digital Notarization Authority (J-Notary) is Japan's leading provider of the internet-based electronic document notarization service.

The Internet is becoming part of our lives. With electronic files rapidly taking the place of conventional paper documents, we are increasingly witnessing important documents being shared and exchanged in a digital format, whether you are in the office or at home.

In the meantime, we hear the news of hacking and other computer crimes on a daily basis, and many of us still feel uncomfortable in exchanging confidential and/or valuable documents over the Internet.

With electronic files, it is difficult to tell the difference between the original and its copies. In addition, in the network environment, transactions are made without seeing each other's face. This makes it hard in cyberspace to verify "what", "who", "when", and "whom", the attributes easily verifiable in real-life transactions.

In order to remedy this insecurity and risk, Digital Notarization Authority (J-Notary), as a trusted third party, with strict neutrality and objectivity, offers two web-based services.

Digital File Certification Service: dPROVE

Digital Certificate Issuing Service: iPROVE
( iPROVE is a government certified service.)

Japanese government has licensed J-Notary since Dec.14th, 2001, in the field of digital certificate issuing.