West Japan Railway completes share buyback, announces cancellation

West Japan Railway Company announced the completion of its own share acquisition program and the cancellation of treasury shares, as resolved by its Board of Directors on May 2, 2025. The company acquired 2,200,100 shares of common stock in September 2025 for 7,426,357,100 yen, bringing the total acquisition to 15,448,500 shares for 49,999,966,200 yen between May 7 and September 19, 2025.

These acquired shares, totaling 15,448,500 common shares and representing 3.3% of outstanding shares before cancellation, will be cancelled on September 30, 2025. Post-cancellation, the total number of issued shares will be 455,561,300. The original May 2 resolution allowed for the acquisition of up to 20.0 million shares, or 4.2% of issued shares, at a maximum cost of 50.0 billion yen.