
Data Note 003 — A Computational Substrate Audit of GHG Disclosure across 89 Japanese Prime Market Firms This data note examines whether corporate sustainability disclosure provides a computable substrate for downstream analysis. Using 89 Japanese Prime Market firms, the study constructs a Computability Support Score (CSS) over three verified primary axes: machine readability, unit normalization, and API accessibility. The central finding is diagnostic rather than dismissive. Corporate disclosure is not uniformly non-computable; instead, computability support is unevenly distributed across infrastructure axes. Machine readability and unit normalization are substantially stronger than an initial machine-only classification suggested, with pass rates of 92.1% and 88.8%, respectively. By contrast, API accessibility emerges as the primary bottleneck, with a pass rate of 47.2%. Manual verification of voluntary PDF disclosures corrected 35 false-zero classifications in the unit-normalization axis, demonstrating that a structured-filing-only audit can overstate substrate failure if it ignores evidence available in voluntary reporting artifacts. The resulting three-axis Primary CSS has a conservative lower-bound mean of 0.760 and a median of 0.667, indicating that the median firm passes two of three verified axes while failing on API accessibility. Audit trail is retained only as a secondary lower-confidence diagnostic axis, and time-series retrievability is treated as exploratory rather than quantitative due to mixed evidence classes. The note argues that CSS should be read as a diagnostic instrument that localizes where computational substrate integrity breaks, not as a blanket verdict that disclosure is unusable.
sustainability reporting, ESG disclosure, API accessibility, Japanese listed firms, data infrastructure, computational audit, GHG disclosure, machine readability
sustainability reporting, ESG disclosure, API accessibility, Japanese listed firms, data infrastructure, computational audit, GHG disclosure, machine readability
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