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Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
ORIX's holding in Tokyo-listed fashion retailer Baroque Japan fell to 11.96% from 13.11% after a steady run of on-market disposals from July into September, large enough to trigger a mandatory large-shareholding disclosure.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
ExaWizards will acquire 100% of a two-year-old Tokyo consulting firm for ¥704mn, keeping its current management in place as it tries to plug a nationwide shortage of business consultants who can pair with AI engineers.
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A 1.7% jump in exports covered for a 1% drop in business investment in the Cabinet Office's second look at April-June growth, released September 8, 2026.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1 min read
A nonprofit administering an Environment Ministry-backed subsidy for slow-speed electric shuttle vehicles has reopened applications for a second funding round, aimed at decarbonizing regional public transport while filling local transport gaps.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1 min read
INPIT's fourth funding round this year will help smaller Japanese companies and research institutions cover part of the cost of protecting patents, designs, and trademarks abroad, with the funding cap and deadlines held in a separate guideline.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The industrial-equipment trader will lift its annual dividend by ¥20 to ¥120 for the year ending March 2027, its first move under a new progressive-dividend policy, while it gradually unwinds cross-shareholdings that have kept daily trading value near ¥141mn.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo Growth-market holding company plans to put $3.5mn into a US solar installer that has been balance-sheet insolvent for three consecutive years, and it has already warned investors the shares themselves could need an impairment charge.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo Growth-market marketer swapped a ¥2mn profit forecast for a ¥1.1bn net loss after nearly ¥830mn of one-off costs and losses and a delayed China live-commerce launch, and its rebound plan for next year leans heavily on newly acquired companies.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The disability-support operator will delist from TOKYO PRO Market and Fukuoka PRO Market on October 12, then list on Nagoya's Next market and Fukuoka's Q-Board a day later, funding the move with a share offering whose price is still undecided and starting its first dividend since founding.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Terra Drone finished exercising its 21st warrant series on September 7, 2026, delivering 102,000 shares and closing a staged Mizuho Securities financing that landed ¥290.0mn above its original target.
Sep 7, 2026 · 1 min read
Canon spent ¥199,999,719,200 buying back 45.33 million shares under a board authorization that ran to January 2027, closing the program in early September with the yen budget almost fully used.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Oricon shareholders approved a 2,333,576-to-1 share consolidation with roughly 99.4% support, shrinking outstanding shares to five and confirming delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on September 28.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
State-owned Development Bank of Japan will pay ¥906.5mn for a 3.32% stake in Kurashiki plastics maker Hagihara Industries, with proceeds funding a roughly ¥1.0bn overseas capacity push through October 2028.
Sep 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Quantum Solutions has signed a ¥9.51bn contract for its first GPU server order for an Osaka data center, but only about ¥1.3bn is self-funded; the rest depends on an unfinished shareholder loan and customer prepayment arrangement, and the supplier can walk away if Japanese regulators force disclosure of its identity.
Sep 7, 2026 · 3 min read
The drinks group's Series 6 subordinated bond runs to 2061, lets Suntory defer interest at will without triggering default, and steps up its floating coupon in 2036 and 2051, terms it left blank until this week's amended EDINET filing.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Okumura plans to pay every subcontractor in full cash instead of 60-day promissory notes, funding the switch with its first social bond, whose framework JCR has just rated Social 1(F), its top tier.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Yusen has amended its bond shelf registration to pledge that a planned transition bond will fund LNG-fueled vessels entirely, backed by a framework reviewed by DNV Business Assurance Japan, but the bond's size, maturity and payment date remain undecided.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Digital Hearts' chairman and his holding vehicle already own 45% of the company; through his own bidding company he is now offering ¥1,060 a share for the rest, with the tender window closing September 24, 2026.
Sep 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo shortened the foreign-investment waiting period on Luxshare Precision Cayman's bid for Seed, letting purchases start September 4 and dropping one withdrawal clause tied to that review, while the ¥1.93bn dividend guardrail and the offer's price stay exactly as announced on August 27.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Shinko Shoji's board approved cancelling 1.66 million treasury shares and called an October 9 vote on a share consolidation that would delist the electronics distributor by October 29, completing a takeover it never fully endorsed on price.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's stake in Tokyo-listed en inc. has climbed to 13.45% from 12.41%, and its filing shows the fund has already proposed delisting the shares and a capital-policy change that could hand a third party majority control, with a broader agenda, including possible dismissal of the representative director, reserved for the next 12 months.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Paper is closing its wholly owned Hungarian subsidiary that makes a lithium-ion battery chemical, booking a roughly ¥5bn impairment as it blames shifting European and US EV subsidies and rules for killing the plant's economics after local production began in 2025.
Sep 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo Stock Exchange approval for Crasus Chemical's listing removes the sole condition on Resonac's planned October 1 split, under which shareholders get one new share for every Resonac share held on September 30 and a ¥303.9bn-revenue petrochemicals business comes off Resonac's consolidated books.
Sep 7, 2026 · 3 min read
The Singapore fund's stake in the department-store group crossed 10% of outstanding shares this week, and its regulatory filing now reserves the right to formally propose board changes, asset sales or a dividend overhaul.