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Forval RealStraight shareholders approve seven-seat director slate

Shareholders backed four directors, including President Naoki Haga, and three Audit and Supervisory Committee members, but the filing does not say whether the lineup marks continuity or a deeper governance change.

Jun 30, 20262 min read
Abstract illustration of a seven-seat corporate board layout with three oversight seats set apart from four management seats.

Forval RealStraight has secured shareholder approval for a seven-person director lineup after its June 29 annual meeting, with President Naoki Haga included among four directors elected and three more directors chosen for the Audit and Supervisory Committee.

Board slate approved
Names as stated in Forval RealStraight's extraordinary report after the June 29 annual meeting.
Board groupSeats approvedNames
Directors4Naoki Haga; Ayumu Satomura; Shinichiro Hayakawa; Koji Kato
Audit and Supervisory Committee directors3Shizuo Miura; Masayuki Yoshikawa; Kimishige Nagai

The filing turns a routine annual-meeting vote into a formal governance record. Alongside Haga, shareholders approved Ayumu Satomura, Shinichiro Hayakawa and Koji Kato as directors. Shizuo Miura, Masayuki Yoshikawa and Kimishige Nagai were elected as directors serving on the Audit and Supervisory Committee.

One modest clue on continuity is that Haga signs the report as representative director and president and also appears on the approved director slate. Hayakawa likewise appears both as an elected director and as the filing's contact person. That suggests at least part of the company's current executive layer remains embedded in the post-meeting lineup.

The practical signal, though, is narrow. The disclosure confirms who has shareholder approval to occupy board and oversight seats, but it does not say whether any of the appointees are new, re-elected, independent or tied to a broader strategy shift. In other words, it is a governance confirmation, not yet a roadmap for how the company plans to use that board.

The company says it submitted the extraordinary report because the resolutions were passed at the annual meeting, under the disclosure rules governing such reports. One caveat matters: the packet excerpt includes the heading for the vote-result section, but not the underlying figures, so it does not support claims about approval margins, dissent levels or turnout.