2026 Japan Corporate Governance Report
Governance scores on all 4,020 Japanese listed companies — now available in English for the first time. Built from mandatory regulatory filings, with no translation cost and no sampling bias.
Prepared by Fugaku / Shinonome Engineering · May 2026 · Free to download
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What's inside the report
Every data point sourced directly from mandatory regulatory filings. No survey bias, no sampling.
Board Independence Analysis
Independent director ratios, nomination committee structures, and gender diversity across all 4,020 listed companies — benchmarked by sector and index.
Cross-Shareholding Analysis
764 companies score in the bottom band on Fugaku's cross-shareholding dimension. Full breakdown by company, counterparty, book value, and stated purpose.
Compensation Structure Analysis
CEO pay ratios, performance-linked remuneration adoption, and clawback policy disclosure — segmented by company size and listing category.
Overall Governance Scores
Composite scores across five dimensions: board independence, compensation, cross-shareholdings, transparency, and shareholder returns. Top 100 and bottom 100 ranked.
Activist Signal Detection
Large shareholding filings, short position disclosures, and M&A signals — the data foreign activist investors need before they can act.
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Who this report is for
Activist Investors
Identify governance gap targets before your competitors do. Cross-shareholding schedules and board independence data in English.
Foreign Institutional Investors
Japan exposure without Japanese reading ability. Structured governance scores replace manual document translation.
Proxy Advisors & ESG Teams
Process hundreds of Japanese AGM candidates in the time it used to take to read one filing.
Read what you couldn't read before.
Fugaku is a Japan equity intelligence platform that converts mandatory corporate disclosures into structured English intelligence — governance scores, activist signals, financial highlights, and AI-powered filing summaries — for foreign institutional investors who cannot read Japanese.
4,020 companies. Updated daily. From $12.99 per report or $14,999/year for unlimited access.