What is “SKH”?
SKH (Religious juridical person) is a nonprofit organization used primarily in Japan. It signals limited liability and private ownership.
Where it's used
SKH appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:
What it tells you about the company
Equivalent forms around the world
These are the closest structural equivalents to SKH in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “SKH” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme SKH” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "Acme SKH", "country": "jp"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme skh",
"legal_type": null,
"tokens": [
"acme",
"skh"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Frequently asked questions
What does SKH mean?
SKH means "Religious juridical person".
Is a SKH public or private?
A SKH is a private entity — its shares are not publicly listed or traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a SKH?
Owners of a SKH have limited liability. Their personal assets are protected, and their exposure is capped at the amount they invested.
Which countries use SKH?
SKH is used in Japan.
Need to normalize SKH at scale? The Ambect API handles it across 100+ countries in under 5 ms.
Try the live normalizer free →