HashKey Japan Co., Ltd. (formerly Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd.) — Japanese crypto-asset exchange operator overview
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FSA registration number Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00027号 · JVCEA member #1032 · registration date 2021-06-18
1. Corporate / shareholders
- Trade name: HashKey Japan Co., Ltd. (Japanese: HashKey Japan株式会社; formerly Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd.)
- Date of establishment: 2018年2月9日
- Capital: 4億3125万円
- Head office: 〒100-0005 2-chome 3-2号 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (3 minutes’ walk from JR Tokyo Station; a financial-district location atop Tokyo Station)
- Shareholder: HashKey Digital Asset Group Limited (invested 100%, unlisted)
- Parent company: HashKey Group (Hong Kong headquarters). HashKey Japan is the group’s Japanese entity.
2. License / registration status
- Crypto-asset exchange business: Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00027号 (registration date 2021-06-18)
- Within the FSA and JVCEA lists reviewed on 2026-07-29, the registration confirmed for the company in this entry is its crypto-asset exchange business registration.
- JVCEA: Type 1 member (member number 1032). Registered for crypto-asset exchange business only; has not obtained derivatives-business registration
3. Supported currencies
- Supported assets: The official product page retrieved on 2026-05-18 showed Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). Use the live product page for current availability.
4. Scope of business
- Spot trading: BTC · ETH buy/sell service (started 2021年9月)
- Crypto-asset lending service: a consumption-loan transaction in which customers lend out their held BTC · ETH for a fixed period and receive a lending fee. Annual rates differ per transaction (the official guidance cites past cases of 4.5%-6.5% annual rate)
- Product and funding conditions are bounded to the official product page retrieved on 2026-05-18; this entry does not assert that unlisted functions do not exist.
- Seminars: held regularly for institutional / corporate / individual investors (themes such as Web3.0, NFT, DeFi, mining)
5. Market share / trading volume
- The HashKey Japan and JVCEA materials reviewed on 2026-07-29 contain no company-level trading-volume or account-count figures comparable across firms. This entry does not infer customer composition, market rank, or scale. For the parent group’s home-jurisdiction regime, see HK SFC VASP licensing overview.
6. History / major events
The table below is based on the company’s profile and official notices and the FSA register. The parent group’s Hong Kong approval is distinguished from the Japanese entity’s registration or any action against it, and the June 2026 trade-name change is reflected in the current entity’s history. ^[Sources: https://www.tokyohash.co.jp/company/profile/; https://www.tokyohash.co.jp/news/; https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/kasoutuka.xlsx.]
| Period | Item |
|---|---|
| 2018-02-09 | Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd. established |
| 2021-06-18 | Crypto-asset exchange business Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00027号 registration |
| 2021-09-13 | Crypto-asset trading service (BTC · ETH) launched |
| 2021-12-15 | Crypto-asset lending service launched |
| 2022-01-05 | Crypto-asset lending service 1th application round opened (annual rate 6.5%) |
| 2022-02-10 | Crypto-asset lending service 2th application round opened (annual rate 4.5% or more) |
| 2022-05-09 | The parent HashKey Group announced that it had obtained Hong Kong SFC approval in principle to operate a virtual-asset trading platform |
| 2024-05-31 | Officer change |
| 2025-04-24 | Officer change |
| 2025-11-27 | Officer change |
| 2026-06-15 | Trade name changed from Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd. to HashKey Japan Co., Ltd. |
Within the company profile, official notices, and FSA register reviewed above, this review did not identify a statement showing an administrative action, hack, or large-scale system outage. This is not an assertion that no such event exists.
7. Strategic developments
- The company changed its trade name from Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd. to HashKey Japan Co., Ltd. on 2026-06-15. Future product plans are added only when supported by a dated official notice.
8. Related people
- Representative Director: Deng Chao. At HashKey Group, also concurrently serves as President of the Singapore entity and CEO of HashKey Capital (per the HashKey Group official profile). Tenure confirmed after the 2025-04-24 officer change.
- Directors: Zhu Minghua, Li Yingchen
- Outside auditor: Takayuki Fukuda
Related
- japan-financial-regulation — Japanese financial regulation overall
- japan-bittrade-listing-process — general theory of token-listing process (distinct from individual companies’ listing activity)
- japan-stablecoin-regulatory-landscape — related stablecoin regime
- jp-trust-type-sc-architecture — related SC regime
- hk-sfc-vasp-licensing-overview — parent HashKey Group’s home HK SFC VASP license
- global-vasp-regulatory-comparison-matrix — global VASP regulatory comparison matrix
- jp-vasp-parent-company-map — JP VASP parent-company map
Sources
- Tokyo Hash company profile (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Tokyo Hash service page (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Tokyo Hash news list (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Tokyo Hash group-companies introduction (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- JVCEA member list (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- FSA crypto-asset exchange operator registration list Excel (snapshot 令和8年4月1日 = 2026-04-01)
- HashKey Group About (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- HashKey Group: SFC approval-in-principle for licensed virtual-asset trading platform
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