Share buybacks, offerings, activist stakes, shareholder votes and board changes at Japanese companies.
G-INC HD will ask shareholders on June 29 to approve a shift in fiscal year-end from March 31 to May 31. If approved, the first year under the new timetable will run 14 months, from April 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027, and dividend and meeting record dates would move with it.
Evo Fund disclosed 2,007,700 shares in SANKO Marketing Foods, or 5.05% of the stock, and said it plans to buy a ¥300 million convertible bond plus 100,000 warrants on June 1. The filing is framed as pure investment, but the instrument mix leaves obvious room for dilution if exercised later.
Japan Lifeline plans to rename itself JLL Med from March 1, 2027, subject to shareholder approval in June 2026, while also adding an executive-officer framework and rewriting its articles to separate board supervision from day-to-day execution.