March 30, 2018
Financial Services Agency

Call for Public Comments on the
"Guidelines for Investor and Company Engagement" (Draft)

Financial Services Agency has now published the draft of the “Guidelines for Investor and Company Engagement” in accordance with the proposal “Revision of the Corporate Governance Code and Establishment of Guidelines for Investor and Company Engagement” by the “Council of Experts Concerning the Follow-up of Japan’s Stewardship Code and Japan’s Corporate Governance Code” (Chairman: Kazuhito Ikeo, Professor of Economics and Finance, Keio University)  and started to call for public comments in English.

1. Subject Document of the Call for Public Comments
    
    Guidelines for Investor and Company Engagement (Draft)

　  (Note) The Tokyo Stock Exchange has published the Revision Draft of the Corporate Governance Code
                 and started to call for public comments.

2. How to Submit Comments
    
     Please send your comments by email, being sure to include your name, address, and
   company/organization name.

     We translated the draft provisionally to English. (Japanese version is here.) Therefore, we would also
   welcome any suggestions for a better translation from those who have good language skills both in
   English and Japanese.

     Please use text format when sending comments via email.
  
     Email address: sccgfollowup1@fsa.go.jp
     Send to: Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division, Financial Services Agency

3. Deadline

      The draft is open for comment until 17:00 (JST), April 29, 2018.