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Japan Officers provides a Japanese-listed company’s board and executive roster (役員の状況) and its officer pay (役員報酬), as disclosed in the annual securities report filed to EDINET. kind=people returns one row per officer; kind=compensation returns pay broken out by officer category.
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What you can use Japan officers for

See who sits on a Japanese board, their titles, ages and terms. Track how many shares each director holds from one year’s report to the next. Compare fixed against performance-linked pay for directors, auditors and outside officers.

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Officers (kind=people, the default)

One row per officer: officer_name, title (役職名, in Japanese), date_of_birth, term_of_office as printed (often a pointer to a footnote such as (注)６), and shares_held, the officer’s own holding in the company. period_end is the fiscal year of the report and filed_on its filing date. Rows come newest period_end first, largest holding first. period_end can be null on some reports; use filed_on to tell the years apart.
shares_held is the closest thing Japan has to insider ownership, and it is an annual snapshot, not a transaction feed. Japan publishes no equivalent of a US Form 4: two years of snapshots give a net change across the year, never the trades inside it. For dated ownership moves, see Japan Ownership — a director’s holding company that crosses 5% files there, with a trigger date.

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Compensation (kind=compensation)

Japan discloses pay by officer category, not by person. Each row is one category — officer_category such as DirectorsMember, CorporateAuditorsMember or ExecutiveOfficersMember — with total_remuneration, fixed_remuneration, base_remuneration, performance_remuneration, bonus, non_monetary and n_officers, the headcount the figure covers. Amounts are in yen. A column the filer did not tag is null. A per-person figure is disclosed only for the few officers paid ¥100 million or more.

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Japan officers coverage

The roster comes from the annual report, so it appears once a year and only for periods whose report is loaded. kind=compensation is sparser than kind=people: a filer with a single officer category reports one row. Every response carries a measured coverage block. These results are not paged: next_cursor is always null. Use period_end to select one year and raise limit if a roster is long.

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

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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
default:"people"
people (one row per officer) or compensation (pay by officer category).
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string
Exact fiscal period end, YYYY-MM-DD.
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integer
default:"100"
Maximum rows, between 1 and 500.
See also Japan Ownership for 5% holders and the top-ten shareholder table, Japan Report Sections for the full officer and governance narrative (InformationAboutOfficers, CorporateGovernance), and Japan EDINET Disclosures for statutory reports of a representative-director change.