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Binance Japan Co., Ltd. — Japanese crypto-asset exchange service provider overview

Confidence: Likely Updated 2026-05-18 Review by 2026-08-08 Sources 6 Machine-translated Original (JA)
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FSA registration number Director-General of Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00031号 · JVCEA member #1016 · registration date 2022-10-14

1. Corporate / shareholders

  • Trade name: Binance Japan Co., Ltd. (English name: Binance Japan Co., Ltd.)
  • Established: 2022年 (predecessor entity: Sakura Exchange BitCoin Co., Ltd., established 2017年)
  • Head-office location: 〒102-0084 9-3 Nibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
  • Parent: Binance Holdings Limited (global Binance group)
  • Listing status: unlisted
  • Capital: 9,900万円 (disclosed value)
  • Major shareholders: Binance group (majority shareholder), PayPay Corporation (acquired approximately 40% of shares in 2025年10月, became an equity-method affiliate)
  • Corporate number: 9120001205916

2. License / registration status

  • Crypto-asset exchange business: Director-General of Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00031号 (registration date: 2022-10-14)
  • Financial instruments business: not registered (not disclosed)
  • Electronic payment instruments business: not registered (not disclosed)
  • Funds-transfer business: not registered (not disclosed)
  • JVCEA member type: Type I member (crypto-asset exchange business only, JVCEA member number: 1016)
  • JCBA member category: regular member

3. Supported currencies

  • Number of listed assets: 65 assets or more (as of 2026年1月)
  • Major assets: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB (first domestic listing), SOL, ADA, AVAX, and many more
  • Characteristics: a larger number of listed assets compared with other domestic firms, and with the global Binance group’s listing track record as a backdrop, a relatively earlier tendency to list new assets. Rich in altcoins. At service launch (2023-08) it offered 34 assets and claimed the “most in Japan.”

4. Scope of business

  • Spot trading (spot): offered centred on Japanese-yen-denominated trading pairs. Trading fee a flat 0.1% (common to maker/taker).
  • Crypto-asset lending (Simple Earn): a service to deposit held crypto-assets and receive rewards.
  • Auto-purchase (Auto-Invest): a periodic, fixed-amount automatic accumulation function.
  • NFT marketplace: supports Ethereum and the BNB Chain.
  • Binance Japan Card: a JCB-affiliated credit card in partnership with Life Card (released 2026年1月). A fixed percentage of the payment amount is rebated in BNB.
  • Futures / derivatives / leveraged trading: not currently offered, owing to Japanese legal constraints.
  • Fiat deposit channels: bank transfer, PayPay Money (expanded support from 2026年4月).

5. Market share / trading volume

6. History / major events

Unregistered-foreign-operator era (until 2022年)

  • Latter half of 2017年 – 2018年: global Binance developed Japanese-language services and acquired Japanese users. Continued service while unregistered with the FSA.
  • 2018年3月: the Financial Services Agency (FSA) issued a warning letter to Binance Holdings Limited (at the time understood to be located in Hong Kong) as an unregistered operator (1st time 1).
  • 2018年: Binance announced a policy of relocating its operating base to Malta. The Japan-base plan was effectively abandoned.
  • 2021年6月: the FSA re-warned Binance (2nd time 2). It pointed out that continuous service provision to Japanese residents had been confirmed. Binance countered that it was not actively soliciting.

Japanese-entity establishment / registration (from 2022年)

  • 2022年7月: the Binance group invited Takeshi Chino, former representative of Kraken Japan, as its Japan representative. Began full-scale legal re-entry into Japan.
  • 2022年10月14日: newly registered as a crypto-asset exchange service provider with the FSA’s Kanto Local Finance Bureau (registration number 第00031号).
  • 2022年11月30日: the Binance group acquired all shares of the existing registered operator Sakura Exchange BitCoin Co., Ltd. (SEBC, established 2017年). Acquisition amount undisclosed. This was the first license acquisition in East Asia. On the same day, the global Binance.com halted new user registration from within Japan.
  • 2023年8月1日: officially launched services for the Japanese domestic market under the “Binance Japan” brand. Initially offered 34 assets (including domestically first-listed BNB).
  • 2023年12月1日: global Binance.com’s service for Japanese residents completely ended.

Legal issues at global Binance (2023年)

  • 2023年11月21日: global Binance (the corporation) and founder CZ (Changpeng Zhao) admitted criminal liability for violations of anti-money-laundering law, US sanctions, and the like in a plea agreement with the US Department of Justice. As a corporation, a fine of 43億 dollars (approximately 6,400億円). CZ stepped down as CEO, with a personal fine of 5,000万 dollars. Richard Teng assumed the post of successor CEO.
  • 2024年4月30日: CZ was sentenced to 4 months’ imprisonment.
  • Note: these are issues pertaining to the Binance global corporation, and no direct administrative action or the like has arisen against the business operations of Binance Japan registered with the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (not disclosed).

Recent trends (from 2025年)

  • 2025年10月9日: PayPay Corporation acquired approximately 40% of Binance Japan’s shares. Announced a capital and business alliance. PayPay became an equity-method affiliate of Binance Japan.
  • 2026年1月: released the “Binance Japan Card” (JCB) in partnership with Life Card. Reached 65 listed assets.
  • 2026年4月: PayPay-linked services expanded. Advance deposit via PayPay Money became possible.
  • PayPay linkage (from 2025年): through the capital and business alliance with the PayPay group, a customer-referral / cross-sell strategy with PayPay’s user base of over 3,000万 is underway. As of 2026年4月, direct PayPay Money deposit support has been realized.
  • Expansion of listed assets: expanded from 34 assets at the 2023年8月 service launch to over 65 assets by 2026年1月. Promotes continuous asset additions leveraging the global Binance listing track record.
  • Credit-card entry (from 2026年): seeks to expand retail payment touchpoints through the “Binance Japan Card” in partnership with Life Card / JCB.
  • Derivatives-entry plan: not currently offered under Japanese law. No publicly announced entry plan could be confirmed (not disclosed).
  • Takeshi Chino — Representative Director. Graduated from Keio University, completed an MBA at the University of Oxford. After joining the Tokyo Stock Exchange, led the OTC-derivatives clearing project at the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC). After the PwC Japan CEO Office, joined Kraken in 2018年. Representative of Kraken Japan from 2020年3月. Assumed the post of Binance Japan representative from 2022年7月. Has served as JVCEA Vice-Chair and JCBA director.
  • Changpeng Zhao (CZ) — global Binance founder and former CEO (stepped down 2023年11月). Sentenced to 4 months’ imprisonment by a US federal court in 2024年4月.
  • Richard Teng — current CEO of global Binance (assumed office after CZ’s departure in 2023年11月).
  • Gabriel Abed — Chairman of the Board (outside director). Based on public information.

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