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Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
An apparel and e-commerce group borrowed the full ¥2.16bn cost of a new activist stake in chemical maker Nippon Chemical Industrial, and its regulatory filing lists dividend hikes, divestitures, consolidation and a management buyout among the changes it wants.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's privacy regulator wants to end the practice of cyberattack victims filing separate reports to every ministry with a claim on the incident, proposing one common form for ransomware, DDoS and other attacks that would route straight to the national cyber centre from October 1, 2026, pending an August 14 comment deadline.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Nichirei confirmed a cyberattack on its servers and shut down group IT systems, halting refrigerated warehouse handling and frozen-food shipments while it checks whether customer data leaked.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Mizuho Financial Group is selling ¥209bn and ¥81bn tranches of unsecured perpetual bonds carrying debt-exemption and subordination clauses, the latest draw on a ¥3tn shelf registration filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Daimler Truck AG and Toyota Motor Corporation are selling down a combined 787.9 million ARCHION shares at an indicative ¥250 to ¥300 each, a stake sale worth up to roughly ¥236bn before an over-allotment option pushes it higher.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
NASA and Draper mutually cancelled the CLPS CP-12 lunar-transport task order on July 9, and ispace's US subsidiary now expects its own lander subcontract with Draper to follow suit, though the Tokyo-listed company says it already excluded that revenue from its forecast for the year to March 2027 back in March.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
CAC Holdings admitted nearly four months late that it had signed a ¥5bn, unsecured, ten-year syndicated loan arranged by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to fund acquisitions, a facility now bound by covenants on net assets and consecutive losses through 2036.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
V-cube's board is repaying ¥1.1bn in borrowings through a placement of 24 Class V preferred shares to AVA3 HD Co., Ltd., but the shares vote on every matter at general meetings just like ordinary stock, giving the buyer a governance foothold beyond the size of the deal.
Jul 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Demae-can now expects a ¥7.9bn operating loss for the year to August 2026, almost double its October guidance, after order volumes and gross merchandise value fell short through the third quarter.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Oki Electric Industry set no cap on how many employees aged 55 and older can take an enhanced retirement payout by October 31, 2026, only on their age and tenure, as it shifts headcount toward AI and digital-transformation work.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
JCR Pharmaceuticals will file for Japanese approval of givinostat, already sold for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the US, EU and UK, using foreign trial data instead of a fresh domestic pivotal study, with a 2027 launch in view after talks with Japan's drug regulator.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Orders from semiconductor companies near JSH's Kumamoto farm ran so far ahead of plan that the disability-employment and home-care operator more than doubled its profit forecast and unveiled its first medium-term plan, targeting operating profit of ¥1.321bn by the year to March 2029.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
PowerX and GPU-hosting operator Highreso have signed a memorandum to study battery storage, power trading and joint site development for AI data centers, an early-stage response to grid capacity strain rather than a signed project.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota Motor and Daimler Truck AG are selling down about 788 million ARCHION shares at a preliminary ¥250 to ¥300 each, split almost evenly between Japan and overseas buyers, with the final price capped at 95% of the stock's close on the pricing date set for sometime between July 22 and 27.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Daito Pharmaceutical is folding into a new joint venture to absorb Kyorin's generic drug business while telling lawmakers that three straight years of annual price cuts have made its dominant Parkinson's disease tablet impossible to produce at a profit.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Beating 37 other bidders four months after entering the defense business, Terra Drone's interceptor system now has weeks of trials to prove it can stop Shahed-type suicide drones before Japan's defense agency locks in a mass-production order.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Technoflex raised its full-year operating profit guide 50% to ¥6.0bn as clean-energy orders quadrupled and semiconductor-manufacturer sales rose 70%, more than making up for a planned 60% drop in semiconductor-construction orders.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
West Holdings' year-old battery storage arm turned ¥8.5bn of sales into ¥3.0bn of operating profit in nine months, covering a delivery slowdown in the company's older non-FIT solar business.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
GLP J-REIT is taking on ¥41bn in new bank debt to close a ¥40.7bn purchase of three warehouses priced around 8% below appraisal, and using CPI-linked rents to push its distribution forecast for the year to February 2027 up 3% and its underlying rent-growth target well past its own medium-term goal.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
CHIIKISHINBUNSHA says MTM Capital and its allies quietly built a 30.95% voting stake without filing the disclosures its takeover-defense policy requires, and the two sides are now trading tender-offer and defamation threats ahead of MTM's planned mid-August bid.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
East Japan Railway is lifting its holding in traction-equipment maker Toyo Denki Seizo to 20% through a ¥1.16bn treasury-share placement, and the supplier is sweetening its dividend even as it guides for a double-digit profit drop next year on China's rare-earth export curbs.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Kawasaki Heavy priced 37.35 million new shares at ¥2,609 each for ¥92.5bn net, earmarked by March 2029 for robotics-fitted plants making aircraft engines, gas turbines, semiconductor robots and hydrogen-carrier ships, alongside a separate ¥50bn zero-coupon convertible bond due 2031.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A pro-rated buyback into JX Metals' own tender offer trimmed ENEOS Holdings' stake from 42.38% to 35.28%, a shift worth roughly ¥194.8bn according to the filing's own disclosure.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
unbanked's board ordered an independent probe after allegations that an outside figure known only as 'Mr. A' shaped management, funding and legal decisions. Directors accused of ties to him refused to answer the company's own email inquiry.