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Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Quantum Solutions never signed a contract or paid a yen to Rubin Tech Inc. for its planned GPU servers; it has now committed $60.99mn to an unnamed Kanto vendor to nearly quadruple its server count for an Osaka AI data center, funded partly by a $2.6mn loan from a Hong Kong shareholder that will not disclose its own finances.
Sep 9, 2026 · 1 min read
pluszero says its miraio phone-answering AI is live at four companies, including a securities brokerage, with seven more still in preparation, as nine-month operating profit rose 29% to ¥509mn.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management now holds 14.41 percent of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical and has told regulators it may propose dismissing the representative director, changing the board, delisting the company, or clearing the way for an outside buyer to take majority control within 12 months, none of which has been agreed or announced.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Nichirin's first-half revenue rose 18.3% to ¥42.3bn, but its North America segment swung to a ¥250mn operating loss as US tariffs added a separate ¥400mn cost in the profit bridge; the company still held its full-year guidance unchanged.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
The precision-parts maker now expects ¥14.5bn in full-year net profit, up 45% from its June guidance, on hybrid-vehicle motor-core and leadframe demand and a weaker yen, though it warns the second half will fall short of the first on cost pressure tied to Middle East tensions.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Miraial's interim profit rose 52% on AI-linked semiconductor demand for its plastic components, but a debt-funded marine-instrument acquisition added ¥826.7mn of goodwill and a ¥1.9bn covenanted loan, pulling its equity ratio down to 71.3% from 85.7%.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
China has provisionally imposed anti-dumping duties of up to 99.2% on Japanese suppliers of dichlorosilane, a gas used in chip manufacturing, and Japan's trade minister confirms that only about a fifth of the $550bn Japan-US investment initiative is accounted for by projects announced a year after it was signed.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Meiji Holdings' new Shanghai dairy-sales subsidiary, capitalized above 650 million yuan and wholly owned indirectly, crossed the size threshold that forces disclosure under Japan's securities law.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Link and Motivation will absorb chatbot maker SELF on October 1 using only treasury shares and a shareholder-vote-free simplified exchange, even though SELF's net assets are still slightly negative.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Life Corporation is paying a 51% premium to take Hokuriku supermarket chain Albis private after five rounds of price haggling, and Mitsubishi Corporation is staying on as a 16.6% shareholder rather than selling out.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Daiwa, Nomura and Mizuho will underwrite a Kansai Electric transition bond earmarked for nuclear-restart safety work, hydrogen co-firing research and grid renewal, but the utility still has not disclosed how large the issue will be.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's antitrust watchdog recommended that Toridoll Holdings repay ¥147.4mn skimmed from small food manufacturers through a wholesaler's 'system usage fee,' with 14.6% annual interest due on any deductions taken this year.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
JFE Holdings priced a ¥20bn, five-year bond at 2.703% on September 9, with net proceeds set aside entirely to redeem part of a bond maturing nine days later, not to fund new capital spending.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
ispace's board approved a ¥3bn loan from Shizuoka Bank for mission-development working capital, unsecured and on a three-year bullet repayment, but the loan requires the company to keep at least ¥3bn in cash and positive net assets at every fiscal year-end.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
FUJIFILM is selling its Chinese printing-plate subsidiary and ceding sales rights outside Japan, the US, Canada and Mexico to Huangshan Jinruitai Technology, shrinking a unit that made up less than 1% of group revenue while it weighs a broader spin-off of the segment.
Sep 9, 2026 · 1 min read
FLIGHT SOLUTIONS says a repeat customer's new order for its Incredist Trinity Mini is worth at least 10% of last year's revenue; the exact price is confidential under an agreement with the buyer, and the company says the deal is already baked into its existing guidance.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Daiwa Motor Transportation is placing ¥999.8mn of new shares with homebuilder Daiwa House Industry, which becomes its largest shareholder at 9.76% while agreeing to redevelop the taxi firm's Ginza land under a lease structure that keeps construction costs off its books.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
A roughly ¥500mn writedown on an unlisted stake halved Besterra's interim net profit even as operating profit more than doubled, and the demolition contractor still cannot quantify the cost of an April crane accident that killed four people at a Kawasaki steel mill.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Ending a duplicate-warehouse cost overlap helped Beauty Garage nearly double quarterly operating profit to ¥475.8mn, but its online store still can't take credit cards at checkout seven months after a suspected data leak, with a fresh outside investigation launched in August yet to find a cause.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
ASICS Corporation's board capped a new buyback at ¥70bn and 20 million shares (2.82% of the register) running through March 2027, while separately cancelling 25 million treasury shares this month to head off dilution concerns.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
ANYCOLOR grew Nijisanji-driven revenue 5.4% in the quarter to July, but a heavier events calendar pushed costs up and operating profit fell 8.8% while the margin dropped six points, and the company still expects profit to fall for the full year while cutting its dividend to ¥62 from ¥75.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
A real-estate leasing company founded by AS ONE Corporation's former representative director has tendered 2.5 million shares into the company's own buyback, but settlement doesn't start until October, so the reported 12.63% joint stake it holds with a family-member director stays unchanged for now.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
A second nationwide funding call running September 7 to October 16, 2026 covers up to half the cost of electric vehicles capped under 20 km/h for regional transport gaps.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
The subsidy pays part of the cost for small and midsize businesses to register patents, trademarks, designs, or utility models abroad, but the public listing withholds the funding rate, cap, and application dates, sending applicants to separate guidelines for specifics.