Japan

• Prefecture
• Municipality - City, Ku, or Town/Village
• Yubin (Postal)
• Sompo

Required information

These location information schemes require the following input address information:

• The Prefecture location information scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, and a valid three- to four-digit prefecture code or prefecture name in the Area field.
• The Municipality location information scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, and a valid five-digit municipality code or name in the Subarea field.
• The Yubin location information scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, and a valid seven-digit Yubin code or Yubin name in the Postal field.
• The Sompo location information scheme requires the country name, abbreviation, or code, and a valid Sompo code in the Subarea 2 field.

Applicable geocode match levels

Verisk Synergy Studio matches these sets of information at the following levels:

• At an AREA geocode match level, if you supply the country and prefecture (area) (Prefecture location information scheme)
• At a County centroid geocode match level, if you supply the country and municipality (subarea) (Municipality location information scheme)
• At a Postal Code centroid geocode match level, if you supply the country and Yubin (postal) (Yubin location information scheme)
• Sompo can be at several levels depending on the length of the matched Sompo code.

Resolution levels

The following table compares the resolution levels of the location information schemes for Japan: