The Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, Ltd. (TSE:8361) announces a share repurchase program. Under the program, the company will repurchase up to 5,000,000 shares, representing 1.42% of its total shares outstanding excluding treasury shares, for a total of ¥2,000 million. The purpose of the repurchase program is to put efforts into raising share value through profitable returns to the company's shareholders.

The repurchases will be in accordance with article 156 in lieu of article 165, section 3 of the Companies Act. The share repurchase program is valid until December 17, 2015. As of September 30, 2014, the company has 352,640,966 shares outstanding excluding treasury shares and had 678,009 shares in treasury.