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Daily Brief ESG: Without Fundamental Solutions and more

By September 24, 2026 No Comments

In today’s briefing:

  • Without Fundamental Solutions, Tackling Issues by Comparing to Other Countries Is the Usual Pattern


Without Fundamental Solutions, Tackling Issues by Comparing to Other Countries Is the Usual Pattern

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Companies should consider that things may not go according to the assumption that showering individual shareholders with shareholder benefits will lead them to vote in favor of the company’s proposals.
  • Discussions of trading one share at a time based on trading conditions in other countries or comparative competitiveness fail to address the fundamental issue of inequality in shareholder rights.
  • Unless the fundamental issues are addressed, these measures will be ineffective, and—just as with TSE’s market reforms—it will take a long time to reach a fundamental solution.

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