Japan

Stewardship, voting and corporate scandal: Governance in Japan

Jul 08, 2019

The introduction of both a Stewardship Code in 2014 and a Corporate Governance Code a year later in Japan has pushed investors to...Read more

Jul 01, 2019

Looking back to the Bank of Japan’s adoption of negative interest rates in 2016, this move proved to be the spur for many investors in...Read more

Feb 19, 2019

Japanese share buybacks have hit a record for the current fiscal year, which closes at the end of March, with the trend set to...Read more

Sep 10, 2018

Asian companies have seen the most shareholder activism campaigns so far this year, outside of the US, according to new data from...Read more

Aug 16, 2018

‘Domestic investor relations in the western sense is practically non-existent, but the twin desires of foreign firms to tap Japanese...Read more

Jun 22, 2018

For the first time in six years, shareholder activism in Japan is largely being driven by outside activists, according to new data...Read more

Mar 15, 2018

Investors putting their money into hedge funds are setting their sights on equities in 2018 – with emerging markets strategies coming...Read more

Sep 26, 2017

Tokyo-headquartered Sosei Group, an international biopharma company, has named Chris Cargill as its new head of IR and corporate...Read more

The introduction of both a Stewardship Code in 2014 and a Corporate Governance Code a...Read more

Looking back to the Bank of Japan’s adoption of negative interest rates in 2016, this...Read more