>> There’s no way for a user to simply download its entire database. “So we made a web crawler,” says Mizuno. “It’s a tool that goes to their website, searches

>> There’s no way for a user to simply download its entire database. “So we made a web crawler,” says Mizuno. “It’s a tool that goes to their website, searches for a company, and downloads that one company’s business relationship list. it's not smart IMO to admit this publicly since almost certainly website TOCs would prohibit it and if the counterparty is sufficiently motivated, they could sue successfully (there was a recent Oracle documentation scraping case IIRC). Japan has laws allowing scraping but likely the jurisdiction of the target doesn't.