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Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Engine Corporation's 6UEC35LSGH hit a hydrogen co-firing ratio above 95% and cut emissions by the same margin against heavy-oil engines in factory tests witnessed by ClassNK, but the engine still has to survive installation on a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines vessel and at-sea demonstration testing from April 2028 before it counts as proven.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Exports and consumer spending kept growth positive even as business investment fell 1% in the quarter, the Cabinet Office's second look at the data shows.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's finance minister says the planned cut in the consumption tax on food will be funded without special deficit bonds, with bond issuance capped by a pledge to keep the debt-to-GDP ratio on a stable downward path.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Engine Corporation's 6UEC35LSGH cut emissions by 95% or more against a heavy-fuel-oil engine in factory trials, but the real test, an April 2028 sea demonstration aboard a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines vessel, is still nearly two years off.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's SME agency wants local commerce and industry societies and chambers of commerce to focus their advisory work on wage-raising and growth-bound small businesses, floating a ¥100mn sales target for the most ambitious, with comment open until October 7 and another revision already flagged for next year.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
The JFTC told SBI's tender vehicle it won't block the tender offer for BASE and cut the mandatory waiting period from 30 days to 18, but SBI says the correction changes nothing about the offer's actual purchase terms.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min read
A limited-liability company that held zero SAAF Holdings shares in June bought a 4.96% stake in two days, and SAAF's independent committee says it acted in concert with a dissident bloc whose voting power now tops 31% ahead of a September 14 warrant handout.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Oliver Corporation priced its Tokyo listing at ¥305 a share, the top of its range, but the entire offering is a secondary sale by three existing shareholders, and the Aichi chairmaker collects no proceeds from the deal.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management has already asked Infomart to consider selling assets and reshaping its board, disclosed plans to buy more than five additional percentage points within three months, and put delisting on its list of options for the next year.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Paper's voting stake in adhesive-materials maker LINTEC fell from 23.89% to 3.12% after a September 8 secondary offering, and a Mizuho greenshoe running to September 28 could wipe out what remains.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Nikkei's parent-only profit fell 43% even as consolidated revenue rose 4.3% on digital and event income, a gap disclosed in TDnet filings by Business Coach Inc. and TV TOKYO Holdings Corporation, two companies in which Nikkei is the largest shareholder.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Generative-AI datacenter demand pushed first-half net income at resin maker Miraial up 52% to ¥431mn, even as its April acquisition of a marine-instrument maker piled on ¥1.9bn of new borrowing and forced the company to introduce an adjusted-profit metric to smooth out the deal's goodwill and M&A costs.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min read
ALBIS shareholders are being offered a 51% premium to sell into Life Corporation's ¥3,780-a-share tender, but the price assumes they forfeit this year's dividend, and Mitsubishi Corporation, ALBIS's top holder, is staying on rather than cashing out.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
LECRE's Growth Market listing splits into a small ¥680mn primary raise for the construction-photo software maker and a far larger ¥3.86bn secondary sale by its founder, with final pricing still pending an October 5 decision.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1 min read
A single stock sale hands HI-LEX Corporation a ¥1.411bn one-off gain, part of ¥15.988bn in cross-shareholding disposals this fiscal year as the auto-parts supplier works to cut policy-held shares to 10% or less of consolidated net assets, with no word yet on whether earnings guidance will change.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
GreenEnergy & Company left its ¥21.5bn full-year sales forecast untouched but raised profit guidance 20%, saying its grid-scale battery storage unit got cheaper to build than it originally budgeted.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Global X Japan's China Tech Covered Call ETF closed at ¥1,120 on September 8 versus a ¥928.35 net asset value, a 20.6% premium the manager blames on buying demand meeting a suspended creation-and-redemption window and quiet market-maker quotes.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Finance Minister Katayama reaffirmed that Japan will pay for its planned food consumption-tax cut through spending and revenue reviews, not special deficit bonds, but left the size of next year's government bond issuance for a later stage of the budget process.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A three-part test, covering traits, wide-area distribution rights and formal registration, will decide which crop varieties count as 'important' under Japan's new varieties law, a label that steers priority budget treatment toward certified breeders and seed producers, with comment open until October 7.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min read
A draft ordinance out for comment would scrap eight summary forms filed alongside building-confirmation and inspection paperwork and let municipal ledgers carry the public-disclosure burden instead, but the change would not start until April 2028.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min read
An outside investigation found BlueMeme's former chief executive and former management-administration chief disguised a free transaction as a paid software licence to satisfy underwriter conditions for a since-abandoned 2020 listing, forcing provisional restatements across six fiscal years and a September 30 deadline for corrected filings.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Ajinomoto has used 79.58% of its ¥80bn repurchase budget but only 48.73% of its 30 million share cap, with the program set to run through November 30, 2026.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
ACSL raised about ¥5.17bn selling 4.18 million new shares to non-resident investors at ¥1,237.25 each, and because that price undercut the reference level in its stock-option terms, exercise prices on eight warrant series approved between 2017 and 2026 all move down from September 9.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
The Cayman fund acquired warrants priced at ¥0.14 apiece that the filing logs under a 41.14% holding-ratio entry, then exercised and sold into the market through August, trimming its combined stake to 33.39% from 41.97% by September 1.