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ISO 22301 certification in Tokyo

Achieve ISO 22301 certification in Tokyo with Sterling: 8,100+ client engagements in 60+ countries, 20+ years.

  • Accredited certification
  • Tokyo office team
  • Effivity software included
  • Academy training included

Clients include

  • Allianz
  • Emirates Flight Catering
  • Etihad Rail
  • Haier
  • Whirlpool
  • Emerson
In short

ISO 22301 certification in Tokyo at a glance

For a Tokyo business the question behind business continuity is concrete: what if the office, the data centre, the supplier or the airport route is unavailable for a day? The Haneda terminal operator runs an R&D hub aimed at airport operations, financial firms in the Global Financial City policy depend on uninterrupted systems, and headquarters in six special-zone areas run on shared services. ISO 22301 gives a way to answer: a business impact analysis, recovery strategies, plans, exercises and review. Sterling's Tokyo office works with your operations team to set priorities, write plans people can actually follow and run exercises, recording actions in Effivity.

Why here

Why ISO 22301 in Tokyo

  • Financial and fintech firms in the Global Financial City programmeThey must keep core processing and customer service running through disruption.
  • Haneda-linked airport, logistics and service operatorsAirport operations and the businesses around them depend on tightly timed activity.

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Local drivers

What drives ISO 22301 in Tokyo

Demand is buyer-led: financial customers, group parents and tenders ask for resilience evidence; no Tokyo authority sets it.

Requirements

What ISO 22301 requires

Strip away the vocabulary and ISO 22301 requires a company to prove six things about how it keeps operating when something goes wrong.

You know what must keep runningA business impact analysis identifies your priority activities and how quickly each one must be resumed after disruption.
Leadership owns continuityTop management sets continuity policy and objectives, assigns roles and backs the programme with people and budget.
You assessed what could disrupt youRisks of disruption to priority activities, and to the resources they depend on, are assessed and treated.
Plans are written and readyResponse and recovery plans, and a defined incident response structure, exist for the scenarios that matter most to you.
You have tested themPlans are exercised, and lessons from exercises and real incidents are fed back into them.
You keep the programme currentContinuity performance is evaluated, internal audits and management reviews take place, and the programme improves over time.

The detail is on the global hub: ISO 22301 explained →

How Sterling delivers

How Sterling delivers ISO 22301 in Tokyo

Sterling's Tokyo office runs impact-analysis workshops and desktop exercises with your teams. One team carries the work from scoping to certificate.

Included in every engagement
  • End to end, from one team
  • Effivity ISO & GRC software
  • Preferential Sterling Academy access, with complimentary awareness training for your people
  • Internal auditor training for your audit team, as applicable to your standard
  • Vulnerability assessment on ISMS engagements

The Sterling Promise: 100% on-time completion, 100% success, 8,100+ client engagements.Sterling does not certify. Certification decisions stay with independent bodies.

Law and accreditation

Regulations and accreditation for ISO 22301 in Japan

The laws, regulators and accreditation route for ISO 22301 apply across Japan, Tokyo included. They are set out on the country page: ISO 22301 certification in Japan →

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ISO 22301 in Tokyo: questions clients ask

Who in Tokyo asks for ISO 22301 evidence?

Financial and fintech firms, outsourced service providers, airport-linked operators and headquarters teams whose customers examine resilience. Requests normally arrive as questionnaires or tender clauses. A certificate answers many of them at once, but the plan and exercises behind it are what matter when something goes wrong.

What should a Tokyo headquarters office test first?

Start with the few activities that must resume first, such as payroll, customer contact and key systems, and test whether staff can reach the tools they need from home or another site. A short exercise with a realistic scenario exposes gaps faster than a long document review.

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Sources

  1. Finance, fintech and sustainable finance — investtokyo.metro.tokyo.lg.jp (accessed 8 Oct 2026)
  2. Airport and aviation-linked operations — tokyo-airport-bldg.co.jp (accessed 8 Oct 2026)

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