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Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Satsudora Holdings swung to a ¥157mn operating loss and dropped its full-year outlook as the drugstore chain's buyout tender offer clears the way for delisting, with store traffic, inbound sales and margins all softening in the quarter.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Net Protections' operating subsidiary pushed the maturity on a ¥5bn term loan and a ¥7bn credit line to December 2026, with covenants unchanged, while it negotiates a new funding framework with related financial institutions.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
An outside-lawyer investigation found the director rerouted subsidiary WhiteBox's marketing contracts to a company he personally controlled, and Information Strategy and Technology has set an October 9 record date for a shareholder vote on dismissing him, even as the company says further allegations remain under review.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
FANUC completed its share-buyback program on September 17, 2026, having spent ¥49,999,790,800 of its ¥50bn cap, well ahead of the April 2027 deadline the board originally set.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Bridgestone retired 42,649,100 treasury shares on September 18, cutting its outstanding share count to 1,291,387,942 under a board plan approved in February, a cancellation of shares held in treasury rather than a new buyback.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority is proposing to lift the statutory cap on the fees it charges nuclear operators for regulatory inspections from ¥9.41mn to ¥40.72mn, adding labor costs that were never counted before and updating materials and travel unit prices, with public comment open until October 17 and the change slated to take effect in April 2027.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Itochu Corporation and Norinchukin Bank funded ¥12bn of new non-voting Tokyo Century class shares on September 18, but a same-day cut to capital and capital reserves swept the whole amount into other capital surplus, leaving the company's formal capital figures unchanged from before the deal.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Quantum Solutions canceled its first AI data-center hardware contract days after paying $8.3 million upfront, after the supplier said supply constraints would push delivery out to about 36 weeks, and the refund is still working its way back to the company's account.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
akippa's first earnings disclosure as a Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard company showed first-half operating profit running 78% ahead of its internal budget, past the 30% overall threshold it uses to trigger forecast revisions, yet the parking marketplace held its full-year guidance steady, with the board set to review the numbers once August results and autumn event bookings are known.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Seiki closed its ¥9.98bn ToSTNeT-3 share buyback on September 18 at essentially its board-approved ceiling, and Alps Alpine sold its full 3,000,000-share block into the deal. Alps Alpine plans to record a roughly ¥6bn special gain for the quarter, a figure that could still shift once transaction costs are finalized; separately, the effect on its full-year forecast remains under review.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Rakuten Group has registered up to ¥600bn in bond capacity running through September 2028, covering ordinary unsecured notes as well as dated and perpetual subordinated structures, though the filing leaves every coupon, price and issue size undetermined until specific offerings are priced.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Daito Trust Construction will borrow ¥105bn across three loan agreements with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Bank that require the homebuilder to keep net assets above half of last fiscal year's level and, on two of the loans, keep ordinary income out of the red.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Ichigo Office REIT is selling its last two retail buildings, in Shibuya and Kamata, for as much as 1.8 times their book value, and using an estimated ¥2.5bn in combined gains to lift its per-unit distribution forecast 28% to ¥7,293, completing a pure-play office portfolio of 80 buildings.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
LaSalle Logiport REIT is selling four logistics buildings in deals closing between this month and September 2027, and used the same disclosure day to raise its distribution forecast for the period to next February by a third to ¥4,282 per unit, crediting the sale gains and a unit buyback that shrinks its outstanding count to about 1.6 million units.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
OTAKE Corporation's special investigation committee found that trades routed through a rival probably breach Japan's Antimonopoly Act, a conclusion that forces a ¥477 million cut to reported sales for the year to May 2026 while leaving ordinary profit unchanged, with recurrence-prevention measures still to come.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A former finance chief at Sanyo Trading's US subsidiary, Sanyo Corporation of America, is suspected of diverting about $3.9 million (roughly ¥609mn) between June and September, caught only when staff matched bank records against the books, and the parent has now empanelled outside lawyers while the hit to earnings and any recovery remain undetermined.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Advance Create's shareholders' equity turned negative by ¥276mn and the Osaka insurance agency now expects a ¥391mn net loss for the year to September, reversing a previously guided ¥450mn profit, after a third-party investigation into improper accounting at an advertising subsidiary forced write-downs and a restatement of prior results.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's stake in Infomart has climbed to 20.13% from 19.00%, and the fund has already proposed asset disposals and a board reshuffle while reserving the right to push for delisting or a transaction handing an outside party majority voting control within the next year.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Kanematsu Electronics is buying full control of Yokohama's IDAJ, a model-based design and simulation software specialist, for about ¥39.4 billion, a bet that trading-house manufacturing IT can move upstream into engineering design work, even though two of the target's smaller units are lossmaking with negative net worth.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamaichi Electronics will spend about ¥6.5bn on a fourth Philippine factory, at roughly 30,000 square meters bigger than its existing three plants combined, to assemble semiconductor test sockets and connectors for AI-server, automotive and industrial demand it expects to grow, though the plant will not open until the second half of the fiscal year ending March 2029.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry capped its growth-investment subsidy for Asahi Yukizai's ¥11.81bn semiconductor-valve project at ¥3.9bn, conditional on the company lifting employee pay by 6.2% a year from the year the new production equipment begins operating in 2029 through 2032.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Cosel says demand for AI-related semiconductor manufacturing equipment helped its quarterly orders jump 155%, prompting Japan's power-supply maker to raise full-year operating-profit guidance by 72% to ¥2.3bn just three months after its last forecast.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Kansai Electric powered down the Mihama Unit 3 reactor after workers found water dripping at three drops a second from a feedwater-heater valve fitting they could not isolate without a shutdown, and the utility has not set a restart date or identified a cause.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Bank for International Cooperation is lending up to $171mn as part of a $285mn syndicate with Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to fund equipment for JFE Steel and JSW Steel's Karnataka joint venture making high-grade grain-oriented electrical steel for India's power grid.