Board Advisory — Overseas Shareholder Engagement

Japan·Industrial Manufacturing·Industrial & Precision Manufacturing·Posted 27 August 2026

TSE Prime Market issuer facing engaged overseas shareholders

The problem this seat exists to solve

The board has received a substantive letter from an overseas institutional shareholder on capital efficiency and board composition, and has no director who has been on the other side of that conversation.

The remit

Advise the board on the substance and sequencing of its response
Prepare directors for direct engagement with overseas institutional investors
Review the company's cost-of-capital disclosure against what those investors actually read
Advise on board composition implications, without conducting the search

What the sponsor will not compromise on

Direct experience of engaged or activist shareholder situations from the company side
Credibility with global institutional investors and proxy advisers
Understanding of Japanese board process and decision cadence
English required; Japanese an advantage

Terms

Engagement: Three to six months, approximately six days a month, with board attendance by invitation.
Compensation: Fee scoped on engagement; day rates in the JPY 400,000 – 700,000 range are typical.
Cross-border: An advisory engagement does not create an office of director and carries no appointment formalities or statutory liability.

Before you apply — an advisory engagement

No office of director, and no appointment formalities.

An advisory engagement creates no directorship in Japan. There is no registry filing, no regulator pre-approval, no residency arithmetic and no statutory director liability — which is why it is so often the right first step into a market you do not yet know.

On this brief: An advisory engagement does not create an office of director and carries no appointment formalities or statutory liability.
Independence: Where the engagement specifies independence from any search that follows, that is a requirement of the engagement rather than a courtesy — an adviser to a board is not a candidate for it.

How advisory engagements are scoped

How this works

Every seat here is applied for by a certified director.

That is the whole difference. A sponsor reading applications from this Exchange knows the pool has been tested — which is why the briefs are real and why an application gets read. Five steps, and the first three are free.

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Register — free
Read every brief, every regime map and both tools. Nothing is hidden behind the paywall and nothing ever has been. You can apply straight away — one application a fortnight.
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15 judgement questions on statutory duty, your functional depth and cross-border practice. Sitting it costs nothing and you see your band and a gap report either way — so you learn something about your own standing whether or not you go further.
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Pass, and you are certified — free, for 12 months
There is no fee to certify. A certified member applies to board, interim and advisory seats, one application a week. That alone is more than most directors act on in a quarter.
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Then, if you want the rate — Foresight InfinityUS$250 a month
Your application is collated, verified against your profile and carried to the sponsor every week instead of waiting out the seat’s priority period — and we search for you rather than waiting for you to look. Foresight Infinity Plus, US$500 a month, is carried first, the moment it is matched, with a document written for that seat and your score attached.
Monthly only — there is no annual term on either. One payment a month; nothing renews on its own.
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Your certificate and your membership are not the same thing
The certificate runs 12 months. A membership renews every month. If you stop paying you do not go back to the beginning — you keep the certificate you earned and return to one application a week until it expires.

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