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Daily Brief ESG: Doesn’t Cooperation Rather than Competition Slow the Pace of Improvement in Disclosure in English? and more

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  • Doesn’t Cooperation Rather than Competition Slow the Pace of Improvement in Disclosure in English?


Doesn’t Cooperation Rather than Competition Slow the Pace of Improvement in Disclosure in English?

By Aki Matsumoto

  • TSE officially announced that it will request prime market listed companies to simultaneously disclose two documents, financial statements and timely disclosure information, in Japanese and English from April 2025.”
  • Given the characteristics of Japanese companies, which tend to implement only minimum requirements, few companies will engage in English language disclosure in their annual securities reports, which wasn’t explicitly stated.
  • Rather than improving the quality of the market to make it easier for global investors to trade, TSE has set efforts targets to match the speed of the slowest ship.

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