Long pieces on Japanese corporate disclosure, read in the original and written in English. Every figure traces to the source it came from, and every source is linked.
Everyone quotes the figure that 41 percent of the world's century-old companies are Japanese. The firm that published it revised the number to 50.1 percent in its next edition, and about three of the nine …
Activist-side shareholder proposals reached a record 52 Japanese companies this June, on one research house's count. Two proposals carried across the entire season, on another's.
Japanese companies held 366.7 trillion yen ($2.24 trillion) of currency and deposits at the end of March 2026, an all-time high and still a preliminary figure.