Address Verification adds the CURRENT_CHOUMEI_AZA_CODE to the output address when you select the Japan enrichments and you verify the address in batch or interactive mode. You can then submit the code in address code lookup mode to retrieve the current version of the address.

Previously, you used the NEW_CHOUMEI_AZA_CODE to retrieve a code that represented any updated version of an address. You then submitted the code in address code lookup mode to return the updated address. Because a Japan address can have multiple versions, you previously needed to perform the steps multiple times to confirm the latest address version.

The Choumei Aza code enrichments have the following meanings:

Address Verification transliterates Japan address data from the Kana character set.

Previously,

Address Verification

transliterated Japan address data from the Kanji character set.

Address Verification changes the manner in which it calculates the element result status values for a Japan address when you set the

ElementAbbreviation

attribute to

true

or

1

.

When you set

ElementAbbreviation

to

true

or

1

for Japan addresses, Address Verification can combine Street 1, Street 2, and House Number values in a single field. Address Verification can return an element result status for each value in the appropriate position in the status code, although the field that the position represents might not contain any data in the output address.

Address Verification changes the manner in which it calculates the mailability score for a Japan address.

Address Verification

returns a mailability score of 3 when the following conditions are true:

Address Verification

copies the unverified Chome, Ban, and Go information to the output address.

Address Verification

returns a mailability score of 2 for other process status codes.

Previously, an address that contained Chome, Ban, and Go information that was not present in the reference data returned a mailability score of 2.