The Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ) dropped two important documents on 31 March 2025: the “Schedule of Differences” and the “Table of Concordance.” Together, they provide a detailed comparison between Japan’s new sustainability standards and those issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
Last week the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ) rolled out its first-ever sustainability disclosure standards. They closely mirror the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) frameworks—IFRS S1 and S2—while adding a few jurisdiction-specific tweaks.
A recent working paper by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) investigates Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) materiality trends using XBRL data in Japan.
PwC Japan has recently published an analysis of this year’s trends in corporate governance, risk management and other hot topics, based on text mining of XBRL-based annual reports by Japanese public companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Is granular tagging of text more useful than large text blocks? That’s the question we consider in the final post in our series on Key Audit Matters (KAMS), analysing early digital data from Japan, the first country to require this information to be tagged using XBRL.
This is part of a short series on initial insights from our analysis of digital KAMs data being collected in Japan for the first time. For the first post and introduction, start here. In the earlier posts in this series, we used specific digitally tagged segments of Key Audit Matters (KAMs) — called “Critical Audit […]
This week, we bring you our third post analysing early XBRL-tagged Key Audit Matters (KAMs) from Japan.
This is part of a short series on initial insights from our analysis of digital KAMs data being collected in Japan for the first time. For the first post and introduction, start here. In the earlier posts in this series, we looked at how digital tagging of Key Audit Matters (KAMs) using XBRL is helpful […]
We have published the second post in our series analysing world-first digitally tagged Key Audit Matters (KAMs) data from Japan, exploring how the use of XBRL can help us get a better handle on the risks identified by auditors.
This is part of a short series on initial insights from our analysis of digital KAMs data, being collected in Japan for the first time. For the first post and introduction, start here. In the first post in this series, we began our analysis of XBRL data on Key Audit Matters (KAMs) from Japanese public […]
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