Hanatour Japan Co., Ltd. (TSE:6561) announces a share repurchase program. Under the program, the company will repurchase up to 110,000 shares, representing 1% of its share capital, for ¥253 million. The company will repurchase its shares in order to improve capital efficiency and enable the implementation of a flexible capital policy by allocating shares to be issued along with the introduction of a stock option plan. The share repurchase program will run until December 20, 2018. As of June 30, 2018, the company had 11,000,000 shares outstanding (excluding treasury shares) and 0 shares in treasury.