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Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A looming 2027 energy-efficiency deadline pushed Japanese households to replace air conditioners early, lifting Yamada Holdings' operating profit 16.8% in the June quarter even as its homebuilding arm's profit fell 88% on higher material costs and marketing spend.
Aug 6, 2026 · 3 min read
From March 2027, patients filling prescriptions for 77 active ingredients also sold over the counter will pay an extra quarter of the drug cost, unless they are children, cancer patients, or otherwise exempted.
Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Daiwa Asset Management is guiding unit holders toward a ¥5 per-unit distribution for its TOPIX High Dividend Yield 40 ETF ahead of the August 10 period-end, a fraction of the ¥38 and ¥15 estimates flagged for its two US Treasury ETFs, and all three figures can still move before the books close.
Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A single notice from Global X Japan spans the extremes of income investing: its Japan-equity pricing-power fund is estimated to pay ¥1,300 per 100 units, while its China tech fund is estimated to pay nothing at all.
Aug 6, 2026 · 3 min read
The FDA cleared Takeda's oral drug oveporexton to restore the orexin signaling missing in narcolepsy type 1, not just mask its symptoms, but a scheduling review by the US Drug Enforcement Administration still stands between approval and the first sale.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Marubeni raised its three-year shareholder-return target by ¥200bn to ¥900bn and approved a ¥100bn buyback after first-quarter net profit rose 20.7% to ¥186.4bn, already a third of the way to its full-year goal.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Yusen raised its interim and year-end dividend forecasts by ¥20 each, taking the full-year payout to ¥240 per share, ¥40 above the plan it set in May and ¥10 above last year's actual dividend.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
JMDC's April-June profit rose 17% on faster-than-planned pharma demand for its health data, and the company broke its own rule against forecasting the first half, even as it keeps its full-year target unchanged.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Nitto Boseki's operating profit jumped 84.8% in the June quarter and the company raised its full-year forecast to ¥30.0bn, crediting demand for specialty glass used in AI servers and semiconductor package substrates.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Okuma's record ¥75.3bn in first-quarter orders, up 38.9% year on year, is feeding through to a full-year profit forecast now 53.8% higher and an annual dividend raised to ¥120 a share from ¥100.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Hakuhodo DY's operating profit jumped 19.4% in the quarter to June on strong Japanese finance and tech ad spending, but its North American business stayed weak enough to widen the overseas unit's operating loss to ¥3.75bn, and full-year guidance was left unchanged.
Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
JFE Holdings has replaced the undecided first-half guidance it published in May with hard numbers: ¥65bn in profit, more than double last year's ¥26.7bn, alongside a fixed ¥40-and-¥40 dividend split and a roughly ¥45bn land sale at its Kawasaki steelworks.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Suzuki lifted its full-year revenue forecast to ¥6.90tn and net profit to ¥420.0bn, but cut operating-profit guidance to ¥540.0bn because it expects Middle East-driven raw-material inflation to outweigh an ¥80.0bn boost from currency and operational gains.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
A weaker yen added ¥60bn to Astellas Pharma's quarterly revenue and helped core operating profit jump 55.6% to ¥221.4bn, but strong sales of PADCEV and newer cancer drugs did the rest of the work, and the company is still not raising its full-year forecast.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Kao's first-half operating profit rose 38.5% to ¥95.8bn, with ¥11.5bn of that from a land sale tied to a logistics overhaul; even excluding the gain, profit was the strongest since 2019, and the company raised its full-year operating-profit target to ¥190bn from ¥182bn.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
AI-linked semiconductor and data-center battery orders doubled operating profit at Omron's automation unit last quarter, pushing the group to raise its full-year profit target to ¥80.0bn from ¥62.0bn.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Civil aircraft-engine and defense demand pushed IHI's underlying quarterly operating profit to a record ¥33.1bn, and three separate Tokyo property sales worth ¥40.0bn combined took the reported figure to ¥73.2bn, prompting a ¥10.0bn increase to the full-year profit forecast.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Paper withdrew its ¥1.22tn sales forecast for the year to March 2027 after a fatal tank collapse at its Washington-state unit and earthquake damage shut its Kumamoto mill, and it has not said when a new number will arrive.
Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
From August 7, Japan's Financial Services Agency splits its main supervisory bureau into banking-and-securities and asset-management-and-insurance arms, and creates a standalone division for cryptoassets and stablecoins, so firms with pending filings need to find the new address for their paperwork.
Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
SUBARU's revenue rose to ¥1.25tn in the quarter to June 2026, but operating profit fell ¥33.8bn to ¥42.6bn as sales incentives rose ¥24.9bn and raw-material conditions stayed weak, even after a cut in the US auto tariff rate eased cost pressure by ¥32.9bn.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Governor Kazuo Ueda skipped the June policy meeting and filed a written opinion instead, while the Bank of Japan kept trimming bond purchases and left the overnight rate parked just above 0.72 percent.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's health ministry has put the pricing of Oncolys BioPharma's newly approved esophageal cancer therapy on the agenda for the Chuikyo panel that deliberates national insurance drug prices, with the company still targeting a launch within the current fiscal year even as the earnings impact stays under review.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo's communications ministry is taking comment until September 8 on rules that would add earth-observation and space-research satellites to the interference checklist for high-altitude base stations, on top of existing rocket-launch coordination duties.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Sales at the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed connector maker rose 26.8% and operating profit jumped 35.6% in the quarter to June, but net profit rose just 1.4% after a corporate-tax increase tied to a transfer-pricing assessment, even as management lifted its full-year outlook.