Fuji Media Holdings, which owns Fuji Television, revealed that it violated the foreign capital restrictions of the Broadcasting Law from 2012 to 2014.
Fuji Media Holdings, which owns Fuji TV, etc., has been certified as a "certified broadcasting holding company" under the Broadcasting Law, and foreign capital regulations have been established to limit the ratio of voting rights held by foreign corporations to less than 20%. Has been done.
However, as a result of recalculation, from the end of September 2012 to the end of March 2014, the ratio of foreign capital exceeded 20%, and it was in a state of violating foreign capital regulations.
Due to an error in the calculation of the total number of voting rights, the foreign capital ratio was 20.00042% to 00083% during this period.
Since the end of September 2014, it has fallen below 20%, which is appropriate.
President Osamu Kanemitsu, who had a press conference from 6 pm on the 8th, said, "For the past period, we have exceeded the standards for foreign investment regulations, even slightly, and have been in a state of violating foreign investment regulations, so many people including shareholders and investors are worried. I apologize for the inconvenience. "