Casio Computer
Cite as: Japan IR Index, Casio Computer (6952), methodology GNT-BDS v1.1.1, reviewed 2026-10-23.
Findings and sources as of the review date shown. The company’s English disclosure may have changed since.
Where to start
Chosen from this company's lowest answers, easiest first. A quick fix uses material the company already has; a translation fix is usually met by translating a Japanese document (our note says whether this company has one). Questions that need a budget or a board decision are left out. Suggestions drawn from the research, separate from the scores.
F6 Multi-year financial data file (Excel or CSV) downloadable in English 0/5 Quick fix
Post the financial figures the company already publishes as an Excel or CSV file with English labels.
G6 Shareholder vote results disclosed in English 0/5 Quick fix
Publish the vote counts from the Japanese extraordinary report in English.
G5 AGM notice in English with sufficient lead time to vote 0/5 Translation
Post the English AGM notice at least three weeks ahead, with a voting route an English reader can use.
S3 English equity-story or investment-highlights page 3/5 Translation
Put the investment case, with figures, on one English page or section.
English disclosure assessment
All 34 questions reviewed by the editor against the public documents; this is not an independent audit. 14 answers corrected after re-checks (research errors) and 1 changed under a rule change between 21 Oct 2026 and 23 Oct 2026. These are changes to our record, not to the company’s disclosure. Changes to this record →
Compared with peers
| Peer group | Median | This company |
|---|---|---|
| Same sector (Electric Appliances) | 80.8 | 18 of 33 |
| Same size band (¥500bn–2tn) | 84.2 | 32 of 43 |
Compared with the companies covered here, not the whole market. Sector is the TSE 33-sector classification; market cap is from the TSE English-disclosure survey, Aug 2026; it only sets the size band, plays no part in the score, and is refreshed once a quarter. Ties share the higher rank.
Out of 100.
Of the 34 questions reviewed, 28 scored 3 or more and 4 found no qualifying English materials within the stated review scope. Read each score with its source and scope below.
Findings by question
F1Quarterly and full-year results summaries (tanshin) published in English5/5
Every quarter's tanshin is in English on the Japanese date (Q1 FY3/2027 31 Jul 2026, FY3/2026 14 May, Q3 29 Jan 2026, Q2 6 Nov 2025), each a whole translation with notes (see F2). Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
F2English results summary is a full translation, not an excerpt5/5
The English Q1 FY3/2027 tanshin is 11 pages, as is the Japanese 決算短信, with the same contents: summary, qualitative information, the forecast notes with FX assumptions, statements and notes. The whole tanshin, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
F3Financial statements including notes available in English5/5
The latest English tanshin (Q1 FY3/2027, 31 Jul 2026, 11 pp as in Japanese) has the quarterly balance sheet, income and comprehensive income statements and the notes (segment information, shareholders' equity, going concern, cash flows). Full statements and notes for the latest period, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
F4Annual securities report available in English in any form0/5
No annual securities report in English under any name: the English IR library (financial results, integrated reports) and IR news carry none, and the integrated reports carry no financial statements. Re-checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record also found nothing.
F5Segment revenue and profit disclosed in English, consistent definitions5/5
Every English tanshin gives sales and operating profit by segment (Q1 FY3/2027: Timepiece ¥51.0bn sales, ¥11.7bn profit; Consumer ¥21.2bn and ¥3.3bn) in the segment note, and the FY tanshin's 'Overview of Reportable Segments' defines the segments, their products and the change from four segments. Every period, definitions stated, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
F6Multi-year financial data file (Excel or CSV) downloadable in English0/5
No downloadable data file: the English IR financial pages and results library have no Excel or CSV link (the Japanese financial pages have none either); multi-year figures are HTML tables and PDFs. Re-checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record also found nothing.
F7Guidance disclosed in English with the basis explained5/5
The English Q1 tanshin states the FX assumptions (US$1 = ¥155, €1 = ¥180), and the English Q1 briefing (31 Jul 2026) explains the upward revision of the first-half and full-year forecast by segment (Timepiece sales +¥5.0bn, operating profit about +¥5.0bn), with the revision notice the same day. FX, segment basis and explained revisions, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
F8English financial disclosure current to the latest Japanese filing period5/5
English results for the three months to 30 June 2026 published 31 July 2026, the same period and day as the Japanese. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S1Medium-term management plan in English with numerical targets4/5
The current Medium-Term Management Plan (FY3/2027-FY3/2029, announced 14 May 2026) is in English, 26 pages, with its targets. The English file now in the library was re-issued on 31 Jul 2026 with an appended note on the forecast revision, so its first English posting date could not be confirmed; the English news list has no plan item on 14 May. Complete, publication timing unconfirmed, so held at 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S2IR presentations published in English5/5
Every quarter has an English briefing report, a Q&A summary and an English video presentation (irwebmeeting.com), the same set as the Japanese (whose Q1 決算参考資料 cell is empty). So 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S3English equity-story or investment-highlights page3/5
No 'why invest' or at-a-glance page in English. The plan and Integrated Report 2025 describe the strengths (G-SHOCK and CASIO WATCH brands, education calculators) in running text, with few figures and no market rank. A company overview doing the job, so 3. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S4Growth drivers identified and quantified in English5/5
The English plan names the drivers (two core watch brands, growth regions India and Brazil, education, structural reform) and attaches sales and operating-profit targets by business for FY3/2029. Named drivers with numbers, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S5Results-briefing transcripts or Q&A published in English5/5
An English 'Summary of Q&A' for each briefing, as the Japanese 主な質疑応答 (Q1 FY3/2027: English 5 Aug 2026, Japanese 4 Aug, server dates). Every briefing, a day behind, as SMC (6273), so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
S6Integrated or annual report available in English4/5
The Japanese 統合報告書2026 was issued on 9 Oct 2026; the English library still offers Integrated Report 2025 (53 pp), covering FY3/2025. The complete report, one edition behind the Japanese, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
S7Progress against the previous plan, including misses, explained in English5/5
The English plan (p.2) sets the previous plan's FY3/2026 targets against results (net sales ¥274.0bn target, ¥276.3bn actual; operating profit ¥22.0bn and ¥23.1bn; margin 8.0% and 8.4%; ROE) and p.4 explains the achievements and remaining issues by business. Targets against actuals, explained, so 5. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G1Corporate governance report available in English5/5
The Corporate Governance Report is in English, 'Last Update: July 2, 2026', with all five sections of the filed report (We to V). It calls itself an 'excerpt translation', but no section is missing. Current, so 5. The English file was created on 25 Aug 2026, which R2 counts. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
G2Director biographies in English with tenure, expertise and independence5/5
There is no English AGM notice, but the English Corporate Governance page lists the 'Number of years in office' for all nine directors after the June 2026 AGM (e.g. Chairman 15 years, President 11 years, one outside director appointed June 2026), with the skills matrix of their expertise, and the English Corporate Governance Report designates the outside directors as independent with the reasons. Every director with all three elements, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
G3Board skills matrix published in English5/5
The English Corporate Governance page carries the board's skills matrix as composed after the June 2026 AGM (it includes the director appointed that month). Current, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
G4Executive remuneration structure and its performance linkage explained in English4/5
The English Corporate Governance Report sets out the structure (fixed pay, performance-linked pay, restricted stock), the KPIs (operating income, net sales and ROE, sustainability indicators, relative TSR) and FY3/2026 amounts by type (directors excluding committee members ¥172m: fixed ¥83m, performance-linked ¥89m incl. ¥35m non-monetary). No weights between the measures, so 4 under v1.1.1. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
G5AGM notice in English with sufficient lead time to vote0/5
No English AGM notice: the English IR site has no shareholders' meeting page (world.casio.com/ir/meeting/ returns 404) and the English IR news lists none. The Japanese page has the 70th notice (electronic provision from 2 Jun 2026) and earlier ones, Japanese only. Re-checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record also found nothing.
G6Shareholder vote results disclosed in English0/5
No English vote results: the Japanese meeting page has the 70th 決議ご通知 and the 臨時報告書 on the resolutions, with no English counterpart anywhere on the English site. Re-checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record also found nothing.
G7Cross-shareholdings in English with reduction schedule and rationale3/5
The English Corporate Governance Report (2 Jul 2026, Principle 1.4) gives the policy and the board's periodic review, with no figures and no target. Integrated Report 2025 (English, Strengthening of Management Foundation) adds the numbers: listed cross-shareholdings cut from 53 issues in March 2015 to 13 in March 2025, 4.2 billion yen and 1.9% of net assets, with the yearly series. No reduction target or schedule. The deemed holdings in the Japanese securities report are not disclosed in English. Re-checked 21 Oct 2026; the September index record scored 4 without a note. Policy and numbers, no target, so 3. Source document →
O1English IR section reachable within two clicks of the English homepage5/5
'Investor Relations' is in the English corporate site's menu, one click to the IR top. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O2English document links resolve to English documents4/5
Sampled English documents: Q1 FY3/2027 and FY3/2026 tanshin, Q1 briefing report and Q&A, the plan, the Corporate Governance Report, Integrated Report 2025, timely notices from the IR archive. All English. Held at the September 4 for a Japanese item among the English links that this sample did not reproduce. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O3English IR archive free of dead links5/5
Every one of the 56 English PDFs linked from the results library (FY3/2023 to FY3/2027 tanshin, briefing reports, Q&A summaries) returned 200 on 23 Oct 2026, as did the other sampled documents and the older governance-report file. No dead links, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
O4English IR pages render without blank JavaScript failures4/5
The English IR lists (results library, integrated reports, IR archive) are script-loaded and rendered in the browser; held at the September 4 for a widget that did not render (the stock chart page was not re-tested). Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O5Single page listing all English IR documents by date and type4/5
The English IR archive is one dated list by year (2021-2026), every item labelled just 'IR', and it leaves out the governance report and integrated reports. One dated list, untyped and missing types, so 4. Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
O6English archive genuinely populated, not an unverifiable shell5/5
The English results library holds tanshin, briefing reports, Q&A summaries and videos for FY3/2023 to FY3/2027; integrated reports from 2019; IR news by year from 2021. Several years across types, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
O7Named English IR contact published4/5
A dedicated English IR enquiry form (secure.casio.jp/ir_en/contact/) linked from the English IR pages. Dedicated and obvious, so 4 (O7 is capped at 4). Checked 23 Oct 2026; the September record gave the same score without a note. Source document →
R1Earnings materials published in English simultaneously with Japanese5/5
The English tanshin and briefing report were posted the same day as the Japanese (Q1 FY3/2027: both 31 Jul 2026, server times within minutes; FY3/2026: 14 May 2026 in both news lists). So 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 4 without a note. Source document →
R2Median lag in days between Japanese and English statutory publication2/5
Lags, English against Japanese. Q1 FY3/2027 tanshin 31 Jul / 31 Jul = 0. FY3/2026 tanshin 14 May / 14 May = 0. Corporate Governance Report: Japanese 2 Jul, English file created 25 Aug 2026 = about 54. AGM notice (Japanese 2 Jun 2026): no English, over 90. Securities report: no English, over 90. Sorted 0, 0, 54, >90, >90: median about 54 days, so 2. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 3 without a note. Source document →
R3Timely disclosures published in English5/5
Compared the Japanese 投資家 news (Oct 2025-Oct 2026) with the English IR archive: buyback decisions and status (29 Jan, 2 Feb, 2 Mar, 18 Mar, 14 May, 1 Jun, 1 Jul, 28 Jul), restricted-stock disposal and payment (26 Jun, 24 Jul), lawsuit conclusion (16 Jul) and the forecast revision (31 Jul) all have same-day English releases. The one Japanese item without English, the public notice (公告) of the restricted-stock board resolution (2 Jul), is excluded from R3 under the owner's ruling of 23 Oct 2026. All, same day, so 5. Source document →
R4English disclosure free of machine-translation accuracy disclaimers5/5
No machine-translation notice on the rendered English IR pages or in the English documents. The September record cited the tanshin's 'translated ... for reference purposes only ... the Japanese original shall prevail', which is human-translation precedence language and belongs to R5. Nothing presented as machine-translated, so 5. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 3 without a note. Source document →
R5English version stated as authoritative, not subordinate to Japanese2/5
'For reference purposes only ... the Japanese original shall prevail' is on the tanshin, briefing report, plan and Corporate Governance Report; the Q&A summary carries no such statement. Subordinated on most documents but not every one, so 2. Re-opened 23 Oct 2026; the September record scored 1 without a note. Source document →
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Changes to this record
- Rule change 23 October 2026 · R3: 4 → 5. Every timely disclosure has a same-day English release; the only gap is a statutory public notice, now excluded from R3.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F3: 4 → 5. Full statements with notes are in English for the latest quarter.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F5: 4 → 5. Segment sales and profit every quarter, with the segments defined in the year-end notes.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · F7: 4 → 5. The forecast comes with FX assumptions, and the revision is explained by segment in English.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · S5: 4 → 5. An English Q&A summary for every briefing, a day after the Japanese.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G1: 4 → 5. The Corporate Governance Report is in English with all its sections, last updated 2 July 2026.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G2: 4 → 5. The English governance page gives every director's years in office and expertise; the governance report gives independence.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · G3: 4 → 5. The English governance page carries the current skills matrix, updated after the June 2026 AGM.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · O6: 4 → 5. The English archive holds several years of results, briefings, reports and news.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · O3: 4 → 5. All 56 English results-library files and the other sampled links opened; no dead links.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R1: 4 → 5. The English tanshin and deck were posted the same day as the Japanese.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R2: 3 → 2. Lags 0, 0, about 54, and two documents never in English: median about 54 days.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R4: 3 → 5. Nothing on the English site is presented as machine-translated; the 'original shall prevail' line belongs to R5.
- Research error 23 October 2026 · R5: 1 → 2. The 'Japanese prevails' line is on most documents but not on the Q&A summary.
- Research error 21 October 2026 · G7: 4 → 3. The English governance report and integrated report give the policy and the holdings (13 listed issues, 4.2 billion yen) but no reduction target. The September record had no note.
Every change is labelled as a research error, new evidence supplied, improved disclosure or a rule change, with its date and the previous score. Change log →
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