Akira Kiyota, CEO of Japan Exchange Group, reported that Toshiba's report on last year's general meeting of shareholders pointed out that the company and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry had an unfair impact on some shareholders. At the meeting, we requested Toshiba to promptly investigate and disclose information.
The report points out that Toshiba and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have collaborated to have an unfair impact on some shareholders against the background of authority under the revised Foreign Exchange Law, and the company has four executives including outside directors. I have decided to retire.
Regarding this, Kiyota, CEO of Japan Exchange Group, which owns the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said at a press conference on the 16th, "As a serious problem in corporate governance, overseas investors see the Japanese stock market as bad. I am afraid that it will not be possible. Toshiba wants to promptly carry out the investigation and disclose the information appropriately. "
After that, when TSE approved the return of Toshiba to the first section in January, it was asked whether the examination was appropriate, but "Since there was an improvement in the response to past accounting fraud etc. , I think that the listing of the first section was approved. I did not make a mistake in the examination based on the information provided at that time, "he said.