Foreign IR Diagnostic Card details
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What the Diagnostic Card is
A 12-item, 24-point review of how a Japanese listed company's IR actually reads and sounds to foreign capital. One document, written for the IR / CFO / corporate-planning desk.
The card tells you, item by item, where foreign investors stop, what they ask twice, and what they walk away unsure about.
It is not a stylistic critique of your English. It is the structural review that should happen before a translation, a roadshow, or an activist response.
- 12-item, 24-point scorecard
- Top 3 communication gaps
- Specific evidence from your IR materials and observed meetings
- Recommended next fix — what to change first
- Built for IR / CFO office / Corporate Planning
The card on the right is a structural sample. Real diagnostics are written against your own materials and observed meetings.
Start with the IR materials you want foreign investors to understand.
Tell us whether the starting point is earnings materials, an English IR page, meeting Q&A, or a specific disclosure cycle.
Why diagnosis comes before translation
"How do we say this in English?"
Useful, necessary — but it doesn't decide whether the right argument is on the page in the first place, or in the right order.
"What does foreign capital need to understand before English even matters?"
Capital allocation, moat, growth premise — whether the investor is actually walking out of the room with the investment case. Translation and interpretation are implementation layers downstream of this.
Deliverables
The Diagnostic Card
12 items, 24 points, a single shareable document for IR / CFO / corporate-planning use.
Top 3 communication gaps
Where investor understanding is breaking down most — narrowed to three, not a long list.
Evidence and examples
Quotes from your IR materials and observed meetings showing exactly where the gap is happening.
Recommended fixes
What to fix in the next disclosure vs. what's a multi-quarter restructuring of the story.
Internal walkthrough session
A 60-minute working session to read the card with IR / CFO / Corporate Planning and align on next steps.
Optional implementation path
If you want to act on the findings — translation, review, interpretation, meeting prep — scoped against the diagnostic.
How the diagnostic turns into action
Materials and meeting observation
IR materials, English IR site, recent investor meetings — gathered as the input set.
Diagnostic Card
12 items, 24 points; Top 3 gaps; recommended next fix.
Priority fixes
Settle internally what to change next quarter vs. what is structural.
Disclosure / Q&A / meetings
Revised disclosure, meeting prep, interpretation — implementation layers, scoped to the findings.
Next-quarter feedback loop
Investor reactions feed back into the next diagnostic update.
When companies engage
First serious round of foreign investor meetings
Diagnose how the IR currently reads before walking into the room.
Foreign IR is happening but isn't converting
Meetings yes, capital no. Find out structurally what is — and isn't — landing.
Activist or material shareholder situation
Reset the explanation around capital allocation and shareholder return logic.
New mid-term plan or capital allocation policy
Make sure ROIC, growth premise and capital return reach foreign investors clearly.
Rebuild the English IR site or earnings deck
Fix the structure first; translate after the structure is decided.
Feed meeting feedback into the next quarter
Investor reactions in this cycle become structured changes in the next disclosure.
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Contact
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