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Oct 26, 2026 · 4 min read
The communications ministry's draft, open for comment until 24 November, recommends tools from demonetisation to AI labels but leaves the choice to each platform; the legal teeth sit in the annual disclosure duty.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
CHANGE Holdings says five of the 4,454,097 affected Furusato Choice members lost more data than first disclosed, including card details for two, while the total count is unchanged and the effect on earnings is still being assessed.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
A third party planted malicious programs on customer servers at GMO Internet's Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, and trading-account login details stored there may have been misused. All plans stay offline, with no restart date and 26,739 servers potentially affected.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft health ministry order would give workers five years to claim compensation for cerebrovascular and heart disease, mental illness and asbestos-related disease, with comments due November 23 and a planned April 1, 2027 start.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo Steel's operating loss of ¥3.543bn in the half to September came despite 12.3% higher sales, and ¥6.184bn of special gains kept net income at ¥2.389bn, with management counting on price revisions to lift the year to an operating profit.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Taisei Corporation's 120-day suspension, from November 7 to March 6, applies only to nationwide private-sector civil-engineering work, and the company has decided to withdraw its Supreme Court challenges to the Japan Fair Trade Commission's cease-and-desist order.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i Holdings set coupons of 2.435%, 2.848% and 3.568% on ¥110bn of three-, five- and ten-year bonds, with ¥60bn of proceeds planned to repay a note due on 2 November.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's market watchdog says a former Toho Zinc employee sold 1,800 shares in November 2024, before the company announced it would end zinc refining and issue new shares, and has recommended a ¥530,000 surcharge.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Sanko Gosei's US unit has signed to buy Cumberland Plastic Systems' Alabama injection-molding business, which had $48.418mn of sales in 2025, with closing scheduled for November 2 at an undisclosed price and a minor expected earnings effect.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
A web server flaw at Paycloud subsidiary Value Design let a third party take IDs, PINs and balances on 1,424,748 Value Card records, 569,224 of them issued IDs; the company reports no actual damage from misuse and no personal data exposed.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Park24 expects a ¥5.5bn extraordinary loss for goodwill payments and breach response costs, lowering its net-profit forecast 12.5% to ¥38.5bn while keeping its sales, operating profit and ¥65 dividend forecasts unchanged.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Otsuka says its final two-year VISIONARY data show one composite kidney event among 259 VOYXACT patients against 28 among 251 on placebo, and a supplemental FDA filing seeking full approval is complete.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Micro Science now expects half-year operating profit of ¥1.132bn, down from ¥3.6bn, as a US water-treatment order is now expected in the second half and a Korean project's costs rose, while full-year sales and operating profit guidance are unchanged.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Fenwal Controls of Japan will replace all 4,001 HPR-510 release devices after a minus-20-degree discharge test failure, and the NFCV-1 container valve has lost its type approval; HPR-400 and HPR-500 devices passed testing.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Nagano Keiki lifted its forecast operating profit for the year to March 2027 to ¥10bn from ¥6.8bn, saying pressure-sensor demand from semiconductor-related facilities rose sharply.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Moriroku's board approved selling all equity in its Guangzhou auto-parts subsidiary to a Hong Kong holding company, with transfer planned for mid-December 2026 and the price withheld under a confidentiality clause.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's trade ministry says it will set up a team of elite testers at the Information-technology Promotion Agency within next month to run AI-assisted simulated attacks on systems, while smaller firms get subsidy-backed security services and a supply-chain evaluation scheme starting in March.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
KOA now expects ¥8.31bn of operating profit this fiscal year, up from ¥5.36bn, citing AI-related, automotive and industrial demand, and it raised its year-end dividend forecast to ¥46.50 a share.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
K Line raised its forecast for the year to March 2027 by ¥55bn to ¥190bn in net profit, while operating profit moves only ¥6bn; the company ties the larger lift to stronger container conditions at affiliate ONE.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
METI's draft rules would have household water-heater makers and importers set and publish their own fossil-energy target for the year beginning April 2034, guided by a 5,605 MJ per unit, per person figure; comments close November 20 and the start is planned for April 2027.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Hokko Chemical says degraded concrete at one Okayama synthesis plant and a cracked buried pipe at another are suspected sources of July's benzene wastewater leak, with groundwater countermeasure construction targeted for completion by around March 2027.
Oct 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Futaba Corporation has agreed to buy 91.9% of an Iwate-based surface-drone maker for ¥698mn including estimated costs, with the transfer planned for October 30, to pair it with its aerial drones; the effect on results is called minor.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
An NBIM presenter told the FSA's disclosure working group that five of six Japanese companies studied filed their securities report within a week of the AGM, and floated moving record dates; members were divided and nothing was decided.
Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read
FANUC raised its full-year net profit forecast to ¥228.3bn after first-half operating profit rose 35.7%, lifted its interim dividend to ¥72.54 a share and authorized buybacks of up to ¥50bn through April 2027.