Sony Group’s board proposed on May 14, 2025 to move 1.095 trillion yen out of capital reserves

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Sony Group said in a Form 6-K filed on May 14, 2025 that its board of directors had resolved that day to ask the 108th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, to be held on Jun 24, 2025, to approve a reduction of its capital reserves. A Form 6-K is a report that a company based outside the US, a foreign private issuer, files with the SEC. The full amount of the reserves, 1,095,049,917,184 yen, was to be reduced, and the same amount transferred to other capital surplus. Sony gave its purpose as ensuring agility in its future capital policy.1^,2^,3^,4^,5

Sony described the move as a transfer between accounts within net assets (assets less liabilities) and said it would affect neither the total amount of net assets nor the financial results.6

The notice laid out a timetable in which every step after the board’s resolution on May 14, 2025 was marked as planned. The shareholders’ meeting was planned for Jun 24, 2025, a public notice for creditors’ objection statements for Jul 7, 2025, the deadline for those statements for Aug 7, 2025 and the effective date for Aug 31, 2025.7^,8^,9^,10^,11

Sony Group, a holding company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is the parent of Sony Interactive Entertainment, which publishes God of War Ragnarök and Helldivers 2, among other games. Whether the shareholders approved the proposal on Jun 24, 2025 is outside this account.12^,13^,14^,15^,8