{"id":127488,"date":"2019-11-14T13:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=127488&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-11-14T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T04:47:41","slug":"jr-kyushu-to-buy-back-shares","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/jr-kyushu-to-buy-back-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Kyushu to Buy Back Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 5, JR Kyushu announced its intention to buy back shares by the end of March 2020. The company will repurchase up to 2% or \u00a510 billion of its stock. Aaron Stern, Managing Director of the major shareholder Fir Tree Partners, welcomed the decision of JR Kyushu after having proposed a buyback of up-to-10% company share at JR Kyushu&#8217;s annual general meeting in June. <strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXMZO51860580W9A101C1LX0000\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nikkei Shimbun<\/a>, 11\/6\/2019<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Kyushu_Shinkansen_800_series_Shin-Minamata_20041123.jpg?resize=900%2C506\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Kyushu_Shinkansen_800_series_Shin-Minamata_20041123.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Kyushu_Shinkansen_800_series_Shin-Minamata_20041123.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Kyushu_Shinkansen_800_series_Shin-Minamata_20041123.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Kyushu_Shinkansen_800_series_Shin-Minamata_20041123.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">MK Products<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 5, JR Kyushu announced its intention to buy back shares by the end of March 2020. The company will repurchase up to 2% or \u00a510 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":108886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-127488","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/127488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}