{"id":109,"date":"2026-04-08T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:02:23","slug":"japan-smaller-capitalization-fund-insider-files-form-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/109\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund insider files Form 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEC Form 3<br \/>\n   FORM 3UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<br \/>Washington, D.C. 20549<\/p>\n<p>INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES<\/p>\n<p>Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934<br \/>or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940<\/p>\n<p>OMB APPROVALOMB Number:3235-0104Estimated average burdenhours per response:0.51. Name and Address of Reporting Person*WORLDWIDE PLAZA309 WEST 49TH STREET(Street)(Country)2. Date of Event Requiring Statement<br \/>\n         (Month\/Day\/Year)<br \/>04\/01\/20263. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol<br \/>\n      <br \/>JAPAN SMALLER CAPITALIZATION FUND INC<br \/>\n     [ JOF ]<br \/>\n   3a. Foreign Trading Symbol<br \/>\n\t\t <br \/>5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed<br \/>\n         (Month\/Day\/Year)<br \/>4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer<br \/>\n      <br \/>(Check all applicable)Director10% OwnerOfficer (give title below)XOther (specify below)CEO to the Adviser of JOF6. Individual or Joint\/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)<br \/>\n      XForm filed by One Reporting PersonForm filed by More than One Reporting PersonTable I &#8211; Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned1. Title of Security (Instr.<br \/>\n      4)<br \/>\n   2.<br \/>\n      Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr.<br \/>\n      4)<br \/>\n   3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr.<br \/>\n      5)<br \/>\n   4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr.<br \/>\n      5)<br \/>\n   Table II &#8211; Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned<br \/>(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr.<br \/>\n      4)<br \/>\n   2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date<br \/>\n      (Month\/Day\/Year)3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr.<br \/>\n      4)<br \/>\n   4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security<br \/>\n   5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr.<br \/>\n      5)<br \/>\n   6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr.<br \/>\n      5)<br \/>\n   Date ExercisableExpiration DateTitleAmount or Number of SharesExplanation of Responses:No securities are beneficially owned.\/s\/ Shoichi Ohkoshi04\/08\/2026** Signature of Reporting PersonDateReminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person,<br \/>\n                  see<\/p>\n<p>                  Instruction<br \/>\n                  5<\/p>\n<p>                  (b)(v).** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations<br \/>\n                  See<\/p>\n<p>                  18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient,<br \/>\n                  see<\/p>\n<p>                  Instruction 6 for procedure.Persons who respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number.* Form 3: SEC 1473 (03-26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEC Form 3 FORM 3UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,48,45,8,42,43,33,47,46],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-form-3","tag-initial-beneficial-ownership","tag-insider-ownership","tag-japan","tag-japan-smaller-capitalization-fund","tag-jof","tag-nihon","tag-sec-filing","tag-shoichi-ohkoshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}