• The Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) is Japan’s main credit rating agency providing ratings to corporate and financial bond issuers in Japan.

  • JCR also provides rating advice for over 200 foreign issuers.
  • In addition to the rating guide, JCR is a source of economic and financial research, which it regularly publishes.
  • JCR provides rating advice to over 60% of Japan’s 1,000 publicly rated corporate issuers and over 70% of Japan’s financial industry.
  • JCR was officially registered in the US as a nationally recognized statistical rating organization in 2007 and certified in the European Union in 2011.
  • JCR uses two rating scales; one long-term and one short-term, with a long-term rating scale similar to that of S&P and Moody’s.
  • JCR is expanding its global network by entering into alliances with foreign rating agencies, as well as obtaining approval as a rating agency in various countries.