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have permission to buy large companies where either there are no small ones in the sector, or where the investment opportunity seems especially attractive. In order to improve liquidity in its shares, in
November 2000 the Company had a 5:1 stock split. Since its incorporation, the Company has had two tranches of warrants issued and subsequently exercised. One distinctive feature of the Company is that it has had a series of continuation votes, which are now held annually.
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Japanese investment trust sector is now regarded as being divided into two: general Japan and small company Japan. The Company, despite its specialisation in medium and small sized companies, is categorised as a general trust given that it is not a pure small capital specialist. The managers do
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The Japan Trust, launched in 1981, is the longest established existing
Japanese investment trust, having survived the ebb and flow of corporate activity in the Japanese sector. The first specialist Japanese investment trust was launched in the early 1970s, as Japan, undergoing rapid economic
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expansion, eased its restrictions on foreigners owning shares. Several other trusts were launched over the next few years and by the time the
Company was listed in December 1981 there were five Japanese investment trusts in existence.
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