Gate Japan K.K.（Gate Japan株式会社）— Japan crypto-asset-exchange operator overview

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FSA registration No. Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00018号 · JVCEA member #1021 · registration date 2019-11-27

1. Legal entity / shareholders

• Trade name: Gate Japan株式会社（English: Gate Japan K.K.）
• Predecessors: 株式会社LastRoots → Coin Master株式会社（reaching the current trade name through successive name changes）
• Date of incorporation: 2016年6月2日
• Head-office location: Yaesu Central Tower 27F, Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, 2-2-1 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo（〒104-0028）
• Parent: the Singapore entity of Gate Group（the global operator of Gate.io）acquired all issued shares of the former Coin Master株式会社 in 2024年12月19日. The specific shareholding ratio / subsidiary structure is undisclosed
• Capital: approx. 22.4億円（including capital reserve; value stated on the official site）
• Number of employees: 21名（total of regular employees / dispatched employees / partners, as of 2026-05 ）

2. License / registration status

• Crypto-asset-exchange business: Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00018号（registration date 2019-11-27）
• Financial-instruments business / electronic-payment-instruments business / funds-transfer business: not obtained（per public information）
• JVCEA membership type: Type-I member（member number 1021）, crypto-asset-exchange business only
• JCBA membership type: full member

3. Listed assets

The former c0ban exchange primarily handled c0ban（RYO）, a proprietary Japan-originated token. In 2026年4月24日 it announced the discontinuation of c0ban handling and terminated the c0ban exchange service. The listed assets / quantities on the new platform were undisclosed as of 2026-05 （before service launch）. Gate Group as a whole claims to hold infrastructure supporting 3,600+ assets, but the listed-asset list for the individual Gate Japan company is said to be disclosed separately at a later date.

4. Scope of business

• Brokerage（販売所）（one-tap buy/sell, JPY-supported, from 1円）
• Exchange（取引所）（order-book trading, pro spec）
• OTC（large-lot trading）（individual block trades by dedicated staff）
• Corporate payment solutions（crypto-asset settlement）
• Margin / Derivative / Staking / crypto-asset lending: rollout on the new platform undisclosed（as of 2026-05 ）
• Fiat-deposit channel: undisclosed as the new platform is in preparation

5. Market share / trading volume

• Trading volume / number of accounts: not disclosed
• The former c0ban exchange was a domestic niche player specialized in trading c0ban（RYO）against yen, and its market share is presumed to be small compared with the major firms（bitFlyer・Jp Exchange Coincheck・GMO Coin, Inc. — Japan crypto-asset exchange operator overview, etc.）. For Gate Group’s Japan-re-entry pattern, see Domestic Crypto Asset Exchange M&A and Consolidation History (2018-2026) and Japan domestic VASP parent-company / shareholder-structure map
• Gate Group as a whole claims a global AUM on the order of 100億 USD / 3,400万 registered users（not the figures for the individual Gate Japan company）
• Customer base: assumed to be retail-facing as well as corporations / institutions via OTC

6. History / major events

Note: the FSA 第00018号 registration was completed under the LastRoots name in 2019-11-27. Gate Group’s entry（2024年12月）came about 5 years after registration, taking the form of inheriting the existing license through acquisition. The registration timeline and the timing of Gate-group affiliation are clearly divergent.

7. Strategic trends

• Building a new platform（as of 2026-05 ）: developing a dedicated trading platform for Japan residents / domestic corporations with pillars of brokerage / exchange / OTC / corporate payment solutions. The launch timing is undisclosed
• c0ban withdrawal（2026年4月）: discontinuing c0ban（RYO）, the proprietary token that was the former flagship product, and planning to migrate to Gate Group’s standard asset lineup
• Entertainment × fintech collaboration（2026年2月）: participating as a crypto-asset-exchange operator in a domestic entertainment-company consortium. Stated cooperation with the next-generation entertainment industry leveraging Web3 technology
• Relationship with Gate.io global: Gate Japan is the Japan entity of Gate Group, but operates independently as a separate legal entity from Gate.com（formerly Gate.io）. Gate.io global had halted new account openings for Japan residents in 2024年7月, hence a re-entry in the form of going through a domestic legal entity
• WebX 2025 title sponsor（2025年4月）: participated as a title sponsor of the global Web3 conference held in Tokyo

8. Related people

• Representative Director: Makoto Miyata（宮田 誠）
• Chairman of the Board: Lin Han（韩 林）（presumed to be a Gate Group affiliate; detailed background undisclosed）
• Director & CEO: Nicolas Jin（金 田）
• Directors: Harukuni Ito（伊藤 晴國）, Masakazu Suzuki（鈴木 雅和）
• Auditor: Akihisa Mizunoya（水野谷 明久）
• Public records on the management team during the LastRoots / Coin Master founding period are limited

Related

• japan-financial-regulation — the full picture of Japan’s financial regulation
• japan-bittrade-listing-process — general theory of the listing process
• japan-stablecoin-regulatory-landscape — related stablecoin regime
• jp-trust-type-sc-architecture — related SC regime
• global-vasp-regulatory-comparison-matrix — global VASP regulatory-comparison matrix
• jp-vasp-ma-consolidation-history — JP VASP M&A consolidation history
• jp-vasp-parent-company-map — JP VASP parent-company map

Sources

• Gate Japan company overview（official）（retrieved 2026-05-18）
• JVCEA member list（retrieved 2026-05-18）
• JCBA member Gate Japan（retrieved 2026-05-18）
• FSA crypto-asset-exchange-operator registration list（snapshot 令和8年4月1日 = 2026-04-01）
• Gate.io acquires Coin Master / enters the Japanese market（Atarashii Keizai 2024-12-23 report）
• Global major Gate.io acquires a domestic exchange and re-enters the Japanese market（CoinPost 2024-12-23 report）
• Gate Japan shareholder-change / trade-name-change notice（former Coin Master corporate site 2024-12-23）
• PR TIMES Gate Japan 株式会社 press-release list（retrieved 2026-05-18）