Japan Tobacco

Shareholders

Foreign ownership · FYE Dec 2025: 13.5%
Financial institutions: 14.5%
Other corporations: 1.5%
Individuals & others: 32.9%
Ten largest, combined: 58.8%
Shareholders: 912,124

Ownership mix Government Financial institutions Securities firms Other corporations Foreign corporations Foreign individuals Individuals & others

Share of the company held by each class of owner, as filed each year (%). The seven classes add up to the whole company.

Ownership by holder class, every year on record (%), 2019–2025. Scroll sideways for earlier years.
Fiscal year	Unit	2019 ^*1 FYE Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Government	%	33.4%	33.4%	33.4%	33.4%	33.4%	33.4%	33.4%
Financial institutions	%	18.2%	15.3%	15.0%	15.2%	14.6%	14.8%	14.5%
Securities firms	%	4.1%	6.2%	5.4%	5.0%	4.5%	4.5%	4.2%
Other corporations	%	1.3%	1.5%	1.7%	1.7%	2.1%	1.9%	1.5%
Foreign corporations	%	15.6%	12.2%	12.1%	12.1%	9.8%	9.3%	13.4%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Individuals & others	%	27.5%	31.4%	32.4%	32.6%	35.6%	36.0%	32.9%
Shareholders	holders	505,610	638,716	691,779	722,051	835,441	948,772	912,124

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed

Foreign ownership Foreign holders, combined Foreign corporations Foreign individuals

How much of the company sits with holders outside Japan (%). Almost all of it is institutional: overseas individuals rarely hold Japanese stock directly.

Foreign holdings by fiscal year (%), with the year-on-year move in percentage points.
Fiscal year	Unit	2019 ^*1 FYE Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Foreign holders, combined	%	15.6%	12.2%	12.1%	12.1%	9.8%	9.4%	13.5%
Change	pp	—	-3.4pp	-0.1pp	0.0pp	-2.3pp	-0.4pp	+4.1pp
Foreign corporations	%	15.6%	12.2%	12.1%	12.1%	9.8%	9.3%	13.4%
Foreign individuals	%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Foreign corporate holders	holders	749	754	713	695	665	647	663

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed

Concentration Ten largest, combined Largest holder

How much of the company the ten largest shareholders hold between them (%). Japanese filings list trust banks and custodians under their own names, so a single line here often stands for many underlying investors.

Combined stake of the ten largest shareholders, and of the single largest, by fiscal year (%).
Fiscal year	Unit	2015 ^*1 FYE Dec	2016 ^*1 FYE Dec	2017 ^*1 FYE Dec	2018 ^*1 FYE Dec	2019 ^*1 FYE Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Ten largest, combined	%	49.4%	49.0%	49.6%	54.8%	54.7%	54.1%	57.0%	59.6%	58.0%	58.0%	58.8%
Change	pp	—	-0.4pp	+0.6pp	+5.2pp	-0.1pp	-0.6pp	+2.9pp	+2.6pp	-1.6pp	0.0pp	+0.8pp
Largest holder	%	33.4%	33.4%	33.4%	37.2%	37.6%	37.6%	37.6%	37.6%	37.6%	37.6%	37.5%

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — ten largest shareholders, as filed

Holders and shares by class

The counts behind the percentages: how many shareholders sit in each class, and how much stock they hold. Shares are in trading units (tan'i) as filed — one unit is usually 100 shares.

Shareholder counts and holdings by class, every year on record. Treasury stock and odd-lot holdings are excluded, so the classes may not sum exactly to the issued total.
Fiscal year	Unit	2019 ^*1 FYE Dec	2020 ^*1 FYE Dec	2021 ^*1 FYE Dec	2022 ^*1 FYE Dec	2023 ^*1 FYE Dec	2024 ^*1 FYE Dec	2025 ^*1 FYE Dec
Government — holders	holders	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Financial institutions — holders	holders	263	223	201	171	181	190	174
Securities firms — holders	holders	61	53	47	44	71	66	61
Other corporations — holders	holders	2,860	3,552	3,656	3,679	4,526	4,829	4,361
Foreign corporations — holders	holders	749	754	713	695	665	647	663
Foreign individuals — holders	holders	388	627	778	886	1,350	1,988	2,022
Individuals & others — holders	holders	501,288	633,506	686,383	716,575	828,646	941,050	904,841
All holders	holders	505,610	638,716	691,779	722,051	835,441	948,772	912,124
Government — shares	units	6,669,262	6,669,252	6,669,252	6,669,252	6,669,282	6,668,882	6,668,882
Financial institutions — shares	units	3,637,574	3,064,320	3,003,341	3,040,110	2,925,193	2,957,370	2,901,736
Securities firms — shares	units	813,705	1,235,391	1,081,756	998,367	898,672	901,874	845,457
Other corporations — shares	units	249,622	302,040	348,279	347,743	412,620	384,626	306,172
Foreign corporations — shares	units	3,123,835	2,435,771	2,411,501	2,418,690	1,955,070	1,864,204	2,681,515
Foreign individuals — shares	units	1,816	2,596	3,127	3,782	4,485	4,690	4,576
Individuals & others — shares	units	5,502,438	6,285,864	6,476,701	6,512,584	7,117,629	7,190,720	6,559,030
All shares	units	19,998,252	19,995,234	19,993,957	19,990,528	19,982,951	19,972,366	19,967,368

*1 Securities report (yuka shoken hokokusho) — status of shares by holder category, as filed

日本語版 — the named list of major shareholders → The ten largest holders are filed under their registered Japanese names — trust-bank omnibus accounts and transliterated custodian names that have no English equivalent — so they are not reproduced here. The Japanese edition carries the full name-by-name table, year by year.

Figures are the ownership breakdown as filed in each year's securities report, at that fiscal year's record date. Treasury stock and odd-lot holdings are excluded from the class percentages, so a company that holds much of its own stock will show classes summing to slightly under the whole.

Read the company history → Financial history → 日本語版（詳細）— full shareholder data in Japanese →

Disclaimer

This page is provided for general information only and is not investment advice, nor a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Figures are compiled independently and include our own estimates, approximations and machine-processed data; we make no warranty as to their accuracy or completeness.
Sources are primarily each company's securities reports and other public filings, but errors and omissions may remain.
Ownership changes continuously; a filed breakdown describes one record date, not the position today.
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