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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.

EDINET index, reader's guide / Disclosure rules

How to Read EDINET's Index

EDINET's document list is a free JSON file, one per calendar date, and it is the entry point the Financial Services Agency provides for retrieving …

9 Sep 2026 · 11 min · 20 sources

Toyota7203 · Sony Group6758 · Nintendo7974 · Mitsubishi Heavy Industries7011 · Nippon Steel5401 · FUJIFILM Holdings4901 / Risks

What Changed in the Risk Pages

Every Japanese annual securities report carries a section headed 事業等のリスク, business and other risks, and since an ordinance amendment of 2019, applied …

7 Sep 2026 · 18 min · 27 sources

Thirty-four large filers, June 2026 annual reports / Employment

What Japan's Biggest Companies Pay

Every Japanese listed company prints its average annual salary, average age and average length of service in its annual report.

6 Sep 2026 · 4 min · 37 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

The Column Names the Reporter

A hundred and twenty-four large-shareholding documents in one week. The index's securities-code column is filled eleven times, and every time it …

29 Aug 2026 · 4 min · 13 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

The Correction to the Correction

Ten corrections to internal control reports across five days, and five of them correct a correction.

26 Aug 2026 · 3 min · 11 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

The Same Field, Twice

Three hundred and ninety-three investment-trust registrations across two weeks, and the commonest ceiling is the same number in both.

25 Aug 2026 · 4 min · 10 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

Listed Twice, Described Differently

Four semi-annual reports appear on one week's index under two different terms. The specification says which listing is the corrected one — and that …

4 Sep 2026 · 5 min · 16 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

The Annual Report That Covers Half a Year

One hundred and eighty-two annual securities reports from investment trusts in one week, and the median period is 182 days.

20 Aug 2026 · 4 min · 13 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

The Ceiling on the Cover

Two hundred and seventeen investment-trust registrations in nine days, each printing the largest amount it may offer.

19 Aug 2026 · 9 min · 13 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

The Form That Prints What It Withdraws

Thirty-one correction reports on one nine-day list, and a block printed for the version being withdrawn.

19 Aug 2026 · 10 min · 18 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

One Week, One Extra Column

A search of the twenty-three change reports EDINET listed for one week returns the heading 譲渡の相手方 — the name on the other side of the transfer — from …

16 Aug 2026 · 12 min · 20 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

Four Spellings of Nothing

EDINET's list for five business days in August carried 198 confirmation letters, each with a second section headed 特記事項 — matters to be specially …

16 Aug 2026 · 8 min · 14 sources

Fragment / Disclosure rules

The Thirty-First of July, Printed 166 Times on One Route

Japan's large-shareholding reports print in more than one form. In one week of EDINET filings, 166 of the 170 that name Article 27-26's special …

15 Aug 2026 · 11 min · 16 sources

Hikari Tsushin9435 / Disclosure rules

The One-Point Band

Fourteen large-shareholding documents, fourteen different issuers, eleven days. Twelve of them print a before-and-after ratio, and ten of the eleven …

15 Aug 2026 · 12 min · 17 sources

Lifenet Insurance7157 /

The Page Is Still Called ev.html

Lifenet Insurance files audited numbers under two accounting regimes, then keeps the figures it manages by — a company-defined capital measure, two …

13 Aug 2026 · 16 min · 13 sources

Sony Group6758 /

The Same Twelve Months, Twice

On 18 June 2026 Sony described its year to March twice — once on Japan's securities-report form, once on the SEC's Form 20-F.

12 Aug 2026 · 16 min · 11 sources

Nippon Paint Holdings4612 /

The Goodwill Exceeds the Check

Nippon Paint Holdings paid ¥332,017 million (US$2,027 million) for AOC and booked ¥458,314 million (US$2,798 million) of goodwill against it.

12 Aug 2026 · 15 min · 14 sources

Rigaku Holdings268A /

The Form Asks for Five Years

Rigaku Holdings files a five-column annual report on a five-year corporate life. The dashes mark where the form and the filer do not yet overlap.

11 Aug 2026 · 14 min · 15 sources

Sharp6753 /

The Heading That Stops at Registration

A table in Sharp's annual report puts 74.51% of the holdings under a single heading.

10 Aug 2026 · 21 min · 15 sources

ASICS7936 / Regions

Which Japan Grew

ASICS prints two growth rates for one country over one year, and a third table yields a third. All three are correct.

9 Aug 2026 · 17 min · 13 sources

Daiichi Sankyo4568 / Alliances

The Field That Does Not Widen

Daiichi Sankyo's biggest products are developed and commercialised with someone else.

5 Aug 2026 · 13 min · 11 sources

Trend Micro4704 / Software

Trend Micro Keeps Two Calendars

Deferred revenue in current liabilities of ¥236,085m (US$1,441.3m) at 31 December 2025 sits against ¥275,984m (US$1,684.9m) of revenue recognised in …

2 Aug 2026 · 17 min · 15 sources

Daikin6367 / Air conditioning

Eight Regions, Six Regions, and Six Other Regions

Daikin's consolidated note counts the United States. Its results presentation counts the Americas, for one segment.

2 Aug 2026 · 13 min · 13 sources

Shiseido4911 / Cosmetics

One of the Places Is Not a Place

Shiseido put a country and a sales channel into one reportable line, restated the prior year onto the new axis, and changed what a segment profit …

2 Aug 2026 · 10 min · 13 sources

H.U. Group4544 / Clinical testing

Same Year, Same Three Segments, Two Totals

H.U. Group's segment names have not changed since 2021, and the prior year's segment figures are the same in both filings that print them.

2 Aug 2026 · 12 min · 13 sources

MonotaRO3064 / B2B commerce

Eighty-Two Percent Foreign, Fifty Percent One Name

The seven categories of MonotaRO's register add to their printed total, and the year's 0.97 point of operating margin splits cleanly in two.

2 Aug 2026 · 14 min · 13 sources

Keyence6861 / Sensors

One Segment, Eight Digits

Keyence's 57th annual report carries one reportable segment, no customer at ten per cent, four listed facilities — and an average salary given to the …

31 Jul 2026 · 13 min · 16 sources

FANUC6954 / Factory automation

A Line That Moves Without a Level

FANUC's year of order intake occupies one line of one document, and the balance those orders accumulate into is not printed in any of the filings …

31 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 19 sources

Nintendo7974 / Entertainment

Two Hundred Nine Million Units, One Noun

Nintendo counts consoles in 台 and games in 本. The English presentation calls both "units," which makes the addition valid and the sum unusable.

31 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 13 sources

K Line9107 / Shipping

One Line in the Non-Operating Section

K Line's operating income fell 18.2 per cent and its ordinary income fell 64.6 per cent.

31 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 13 sources

SMC6273 / Pneumatics

One Row for 880,000 Items

SMC reports a whole year of sales on a single line of its annual securities report. The finer cuts live in a voluntary deck, and the report itself is …

31 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 13 sources

Chugai4519 / Pharmaceuticals

Eliminated on the Other Side

Chugai's Japanese results give ¥724,053 million (US$4,420.3 million) of sales to Roche, ¥258,731 million (US$1,579.6 million) of purchases and …

31 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 13 sources

Tokyo Electron8035 / Semiconductor equipment

The Percentage Column

Tokyo Electron's Japanese-only percentage column turns out to be one division the English filing leaves the reader to perform, inside a sub-section …

30 Jul 2026 · 13 min · 14 sources

Kioxia285A / Memory

The Guarantee With No Number

Sixty-eight percent of the units in Kioxia's own ownership table sit in its foreign categories, and the English version of the annual report is a …

30 Jul 2026 · 16 min · 19 sources

SoftBank Group9984 / Holding companies

The Ratio Is in the Other Document

SoftBank Group's English shelf is unusually heavy for a Japanese issuer — a 93-page earnings report, a 112-page integrated report, a 149-page …

30 Jul 2026 · 15 min · 16 sources

MUFG8306 · SMFG8316 · Mizuho8411 / Banking

Three Banks, One Word, Three Formulas

Japan's megabanks disclose net business profits, an expense ratio and a foreign ownership ratio.

30 Jul 2026 · 13 min · 18 sources

All 83 listed banks, measured / Banking

Every Listed Japanese Bank, Measured

Foreign ownership across the 83 listed banks, as we compute it from their own filings, runs from 50.46 percent down to 0.00 percent.

30 Jul 2026 · 12 min · 22 sources

The English rule / Disclosure

What the Rule Translates

Tokyo's English-disclosure obligation covers earnings and timely disclosure. We measured foreign ownership across 3,167 filers and then checked 24 of …

29 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 19 sources

Nitto Denko6988 / Films

Three Sentences and a Currency Effect

Nitto Denko's optical film segment lost 13.4% of its profit, and the annual report explains it in three sentences and one number.

28 Jul 2026 · 12 min · 18 sources

Tokyo Ohka4186 / Chemicals

The Four Liquids

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo publishes a table of wavelengths, a 24.7% share and a customer worth a third of sales.

28 Jul 2026 · 12 min · 25 sources

Murata6981 / Components

The Company That Counts Everything Except Its Own Parts

Murata says a phone holds about a thousand ceramic capacitors and that it makes more than a trillion pieces a year.

28 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 20 sources

Lasertec6920 / Inspection

Lasertec Discloses the Wavelength, Not the Units

One segment, no unit counts, and no quarterly order book since 2024. What the company still prints decomposes anyway — into services, output and a …

28 Jul 2026 · 17 min · 24 sources

SUMCO3436 / Wafers

The Third Bucket

Operating profit fell 96.4 percent in 2025, and Sumco publishes a four-part bridge to explain it. Depreciation gets a line of its own.

28 Jul 2026 · 13 min · 19 sources

Ajinomoto2802 / Materials

Filed Under Healthcare and Others

A twenty-micrometre insulating film supplied about two-thirds of the group's profit increase.

28 Jul 2026 · 14 min · 25 sources

Janome6445 / Robotics

Fewer Machines, More Money

A sewing machine company sold 9 percent fewer machines and took 3.5 percent more revenue for them, its robot shipments more than doubled, and its own …

27 Jul 2026 · 20 min · 25 sources

Star Micronics7718 delisted 2026 / Machine tools

The Year Star Micronics Shipped More Machines and Booked Less

Machine tool units rose 1.9 percent in 2024 while segment revenue fell 17.2. The company's own tables print two different average prices for Japan …

27 Jul 2026 · 14 min · 23 sources

Shareholder proposals / Activism

The Shallow End of the Filing

Activist-side shareholder proposals reached a record 52 Japanese companies this June, on one research house's count.

26 Jul 2026 · 14 min · 18 sources