Japan Law vs Legiscan — MCP Server Comparison | AllMCPs
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Japan Law vs Legiscan
In-depth architectural comparison of the Japan Law and Legiscan MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.
At a Glance & Executive Verdict
Japan Law
Legal · Local stdio
Quality: 49/100 (Fair) | Auth: No auth required
Legiscan
Legal · Local stdio
Quality: 49/100 (Fair) | Auth: No auth required
Verdict Summary: Choose Japan Law if you need specialized Legal tools running via a local process. Choose Legiscan if your workspace requires Legal integration with local subprocess execution. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.
Which MCP Server Should You Choose?
Choose Japan Law when:
You need dedicated capabilities in the Legal domain.
You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
Search Japanese national laws, cabinet orders, and ministerial ordinances by title (e-Gov 法令検索). PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "Japanese law on X", "日本の法律", finding a statute's official id/number. Returns each law's id (for get_law), law number (法令番号), title, and type. Accepts Japanese or romanized ke…
get_law
Fetch a Japanese law/ordinance by its e-Gov law id (from search_laws), e.g. "415AC0000000057". Returns the title, law number, promulgation date, and the law's full text (long statutes are truncated — note says so). Source: e-Gov 法令検索.
Legiscan Tools (3)
search_bills
Full-text search US state (and federal) legislation to find out what bills are about a given topic. Searches one state or nationwide (ALL) and returns matching bills with number, title, state, last action, and a LegiScan bill_id you can pass to get_bill. Example: search_bills({ query: "data privacy…
get_bill
Get the full detail for a single US legislative bill — status, sponsors (name/party/role), subjects, and links to the bill text. Use the bill_id returned by search_bills. Example: get_bill({ bill_id: 1234567 })
Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations
Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
Japan Law is categorized under Legal and uses a local stdio subprocess. In contrast, Legiscan belongs to Legal using local stdio subprocess. Select Japan Law when you need capabilities focused on legal and Legiscan when you require tools for legal.
List the legislative sessions for a US state (regular and special), with start/end years and session IDs. Useful to scope which session to track bills in. Example: list_sessions({ state: "NY" })