Kaisha Shikiho (Japan Company Handbook) from Toyo Keizai is a quarterly magazine that provides up-to-date information, including business description, business performance, shareholders, executives, consolidated companies, financials, capital flows, stock prices, and earnings forecasts, on all listed companies in Japan.
An annual securities report is a report in which a company discloses information about itself, and can be viewed on electronic disclosure systems such as EDINET. For more information, please refer to Research NAVI, "Find Annual Securities Reports".
The conventional method of reporting balance sheets has long been to publish them in a daily paper or in an "Official Gazette(官報)" but with amendments to the Commercial Law, corporations can fulfill their obligations by posting balance sheets on their Web sites. Below are some leading sites that provide balance sheet information
Management indices are used to grasp the business status of a company and are used for management analysis and evaluation. The Annual Securities Report includes sections for trends in key management indices. To obtain and analyze data, try databases such as Nikkei ValueSearch, Nikkei NEEDS-FinancialQUEST, and eol.
Central Library and the Faculty of Commerce Library holds a large number of corporate histories. Try a keyword search in WINE using the company or organization's name. For holdings at other libraries and related information, refer to the following links.