Kuroda Electric vs. Murakami Fund
Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting on 21st
A general view of Kuroda Electric Co.'s building in Tokyo, Japan on August 18, 2015. A group including Murakami, C&I Holdings Co. have taken a 16 percent stake in the electronic-parts trading company and called for the appointment of four new directors at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on August 21. The activist investors, who include Yoshiaki Murakami, are pushing for better shareholder returns and want the Osaka based company to pay all its profit to shareholders for three years. Kuroda Electric's current board are opposed to the changes. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)