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Japan EDINET Disclosures provides the statutory event filings a Japanese-listed company makes to EDINET, the Financial Services Agency’s filing system: the extraordinary report (臨時報告書), the closest Japanese equivalent of a US 8-K, and the monthly buyback-progress report (自己株券買付状況報告書). Every extraordinary report carries the legal reason code it was filed under, classified into an event_type you can filter on.
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What you can use Japan EDINET disclosures for

Find out whether a major shareholder changed, whether the representative director (CEO) changed, whether a subsidiary was bought or sold, or whether a company declared a material hit to results. Read the per-resolution AGM vote count, which Japanese companies file as an extraordinary report. Follow buyback execution month by month.

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This is not the TDnet feed

Japan TDnet Disclosures is the exchange’s timely-disclosure wire: fast, earnings-driven, and a rolling window only weeks deep. This endpoint is the regulator’s filing system: fewer filings, about two years of history, and a statutory reason code on every extraordinary report that TDnet has no equivalent of. Use TDnet for “what did they announce this week”; use this for “did the CEO change” or “has a major shareholder moved”.

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Event types

Pass event_type to filter. Each is FocusAlpha’s label for the filing’s legal reason code; the raw code travels on every row as reason_code (for example 第19条第2項第9号), so you can always go back to the statute. The vocabulary, most frequent first: shareholders_meeting_vote_result (the per-resolution AGM vote, concentrated in late June), material_impact_on_results, stock_option_or_share_plan, subsidiary_change_specified, subsidiary_acquisition_or_disposal, major_shareholder_change, representative_director_change, material_impact_on_consolidated, absorption_type_split, accounting_auditor_change, securities_offering_overseas, business_transfer_or_merger, share_exchange_or_transfer, litigation, material_impact_related, consolidated_subsidiary_event, securities_issue, subsidiary_acquisition_by_subsidiary, share_transfer_decision, debtor_default_or_credit_event, public_offering_amendment, business_discontinuation_or_transfer, subsidiary_business_transfer, financial_covenant_change, subsidiary_merger, shareholders_meeting_amended_or_rejected. A value outside this list returns no rows. Set form=buyback_progress for the monthly buyback reports instead.
One filing can carry several reason codes and is returned once per code. Counting rows counts reasons, not filings — count distinct doc_id for filings.

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Key Japan EDINET disclosure fields

  • form — extraordinary_report or buyback_progress; is_amendment marks a corrected filing.
  • event_type, reason_code, reason_raw — the classification and the legal code behind it.
  • filed_on and submitted_at — the filing date and timestamp.
  • doc_id, doc_description and filing_url — the EDINET document.
  • body_chars — the total length of the filing’s text, returned on every row.
  • bodies — with include_text=true, an array of the filing’s text blocks, longest first, each with section, label_ja, n_chars and text. Null otherwise.
The text is clean but has no line breaks: tables are flattened into one run of characters, so a buyback report’s day-by-day share counts and yen amounts run together. Read the body as prose.

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Japan EDINET disclosure coverage

Coverage is a rolling window set by Japanese law: EDINET serves a filing only during its statutory public-inspection period — about two years for an extraordinary report and one year for a buyback report. Older filings are gone from the source, and a filing_url can stop resolving once a filing leaves that period even though the row is still correct. The coverage block on every response reports the measured window. These are statutory filings and are not frequent: a company with no AGM in the window, no CEO change and no major-shareholder move files nothing, so an empty answer is often correct.

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GET /v1/companies/{company}/jp/disclosures

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string
required
Tokyo symbol (6758.T or 6758), five-digit EDINET security code, EDINET filer code, ADR symbol (SONY), ISIN or company_id.
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string
One of the event types listed above, e.g. major_shareholder_change.
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string
extraordinary_report or buyback_progress. Omit for both.
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string
Earliest filing date, YYYY-MM-DD; date_lte sets the ceiling.
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string
default:"false"
true fills bodies with the filing’s text.
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integer
default:"50"
Rows per page, between 1 and 200, newest first. Page through with cursor, passing back next_cursor unchanged.
See also Japan TDnet Disclosures for the exchange wire, Japan Ownership for the 5% filings behind a major-shareholder change, Japan Officers for the board roster, and Japan IR Website Disclosures for AGM notices and releases posted on the company’s own site.