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Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
The Bank of Japan will settle a ¥13.98tn disbursement on July 21 under its climate-response funding operation, a one-year loan that lifts the facility's outstanding balance to ¥24.94tn and keeps cheap, BOJ-backed money flowing to banks' green and transition lending books.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
EQT's buyout vehicle for Kakaku.com lifted its tender offer to ¥3,450 a share and pushed the deadline to August 3, betting that Bain Capital and LY Corporation's rival ¥3,500 headline price is unworkable under KDDI's existing non-tender contract.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
A Texas federal jury ruled that Kioxia's US and Japan subsidiaries infringed a Viasat patent, setting provisional damages of about $229mn (¥37.1bn) that Kioxia says it will contest.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Medipal Holdings' stake in PALTAC has climbed to 97.79% after a completed tender offer, and it is now forcing out the rest of the shareholders at ¥6,650 a share, a move that will end PALTAC's Tokyo Stock Exchange listing next month.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group registered ¥257bn of new 10-year subordinated bonds in two same-day filings, yet ¥227bn of that debt is left out of its own shelf-usage tally until the notes settle on July 31.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-registered issuer is pulling ¥35bn of two-year, ¥55bn of five-year and ¥30bn of ten-year unsecured bonds from a ¥500bn debt program that had ¥350bn of headroom left before this filing.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Katsu Corporation, the holding company tied to Art Vivant founder Katsumi Nozawa, has agreed to keep its 33.76% stake out of Orsay Co.'s buyout tender while promising to vote afterward for a squeeze-out that would leave only Orsay and Katsu Corporation as shareholders.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i Holdings says discussions on a Polish convenience-store investment are real, but nothing has been decided, after media reports the company did not authorize.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The London-based activist fund sold ¥31.49bn of Nikon shares between mid-June and mid-July, dropping its stake from 7.08% to 6.06%, while its regulatory filing still reserves the right to press for bigger dividends, buybacks and board changes.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
STYLE BLEACH borrowed the entire ¥2.16bn behind its new 5.07% stake in Nippon Chemical Industrial from a Singapore-based lender, and it has told regulators it may push for anything from higher dividends to taking the company private.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Shofu booked an ¥832mn gain selling cross-held shares in July, pushing its cumulative gain for the year to March 2027 to ¥1.96bn, with earnings guidance unchanged for now.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings hit the yen cap on its May-approved share buyback by July 15, spending close to ¥30bn on 6.55 million shares and finishing more than three months before the October 29 deadline it had set.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Kobe Bussan paid about ¥1.68bn for a 13.28% stake in Makiya to cement a franchise alliance, but it signed a standstill barring further accumulation above the closing-level ratio, plus a lock-up and right of first refusal favoring Makiya.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The Hiroshima chemicals group is handing its 20.7% stake in Zhejiang Huayuan to co-investor Zhejiang Shenghua for roughly ¥3.48bn, freeing money for its mobility, AI and environmental materials push while it keeps buying pigments from the venture it is leaving.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Marusan Securities says preliminary quarterly operating profit rose to ¥1.75bn from ¥395mn a year earlier, crediting higher stock brokerage commissions and investment trust sales fees, with audited figures due July 30.
Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's biggest reuse retailer is buying Garage Bank, whose cashari app lets users cash out possessions via leaseback instead of selling them, even though the startup lost ¥242.6mn last year on ¥1.05bn of revenue.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Hitotohito Holdings is buying Saitama security-staffing firm SPD for ¥3.16bn, funding the whole deal with bank debt that carries covenants tied to the target's own cash flow and net assets from 2028 onward.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
LOGOS Holdings will absorb distressed homebuilder Aera Home into a new subsidiary on Oct. 1, keep its name and its outgoing chief, but the sponsor deal discloses no purchase price.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
A March ransomware attack is still slowing COTA's books four months later: the TSE Prime-listed company says its first-quarter results will miss Japan's 45-day disclosure window, with no new date set, while its delayed full-year results are now due July 30.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
MTM Capital, holding 13.14% of the regional newspaper publisher, has asked the Chiba District Court to block a board-approved rights allocation it calls an unfair takeover defense; Chiki Shimbunsha says its twice-ratified governance history makes the challenge groundless.
Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read
BitcoinJPN, the company formerly known as textile wholesaler Marusho Hotta, is issuing convertible bonds and warrants to EVO Fund worth up to ¥9.7bn, with a conversion price that resets every two trading days and no ceiling, to fund a rare-earth mine, a robot-rental unit and more bitcoin after its first warrant round this year raised barely half its target.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Occupancy held at 98% and renewal rents rose 7.0%, the steepest increase since Nippon Prologis REIT listed in 2013, but net income still fell 6.2% for the year to May 2026 because gains on property sales were smaller than a year earlier. The REIT is also swapping a Funabashi warehouse for one in Ichikawa with Japan Logistics Fund in three stages running through February 2027.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Kenedix's asset manager is preparing a new listed REIT for houses and row houses, and it rewrote its internal rules so the newcomer ranks third, not first, for ordinary apartment deals.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamato Holdings' board has set up a six-member Corporate Value Enhancement Committee, five outside directors plus CEO Toshiyuki Sakurai as chairman, tasked with reviewing past investment decisions and drafting market-facing action plans outside the time and procedural limits of its normal board meetings.