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# Methodology & citation

Page updated: 2026-10-08

## Scope and sources

The published dataset covers 9 issuers and 54 climate, energy and nuclear-policy shareholder proposals in the 2024–2025 AGM seasons. It is a selected coverage set, not a complete inventory of Japanese shareholder proposals.

The primary vote source is the issuer’s EDINET extraordinary report (臨時報告書; document type 180). Proposal titles and formal shareholder-proposer counts may come from issuer convocation notices. NGO disclosures provide secondary corroboration. Every proposal page links to its original evidence, document ID and filing date.

## Rates, basis and quality

- Support rates reproduce company-disclosed percentages; they are not recalculated. Issuer denominators differ, so sorting by rate is an exploration tool, not a ranking on a common basis.
- value_status: confirmed = checked against the primary vote filing; estimated = approximate secondary figure; unknown = not established; not_applicable = no applicable vote.
- support_rate_basis: identifies the recorded basis, including company_disclosed. Read the basis note for the issuer’s denominator definition.
- Human-checked evidence and machine extraction are separate. A confirmed vote record does not mean every linked document was reviewed by a person. Current human-checked vote coverage: 27/54 (50%).
- Unchecked LLM-only vote extractions cannot support confirmed production comparisons. CDP A-list membership is withheld until a human-checked official primary CDP source is linked; candidate values are not published as established facts.
- Formal legal proposers are shareholders. Civil-society organizations listed as involved are not thereby identified as the legal proposers.

## Interpretation

No composite scores, rankings, ratings, investment advice or causal claims are produced. Year-over-year deltas describe the same proposal theme only when both rates are confirmed with a known basis. Votes do not establish investor motives or transition-risk pricing.

## Citation and downloads

gx.finance, Japan Climate Shareholder Proposal Tracker, company / proposal name and year, specific proposal URL, EDINET document ID and filing date, accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

Verify the cited figure against the linked original before publication. Include the rate, basis and quality status together; cite the proposal page rather than only the home page.

[JSON](https://gx.finance/dataset.json) · [CSV](https://gx.finance/proposals.csv) · [Dataset reuse terms](https://gx.finance/terms/)