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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.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
SBI Holdings filed for a ¥170bn unsecured note and a separate ¥50bn dual-tranche bond on the same day, both charged against one ¥800bn shelf registration that still shows ¥610bn unclaimed while both payments await settlement.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Comments close August 19 on draft rules requiring designated infrastructure operators to notify Tokyo about sensitive computer systems and report qualifying cyber incidents under Japan's cyber-response law.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Closing the Aethon acquisition on July 14 pushed five entities over the 10% capital threshold that makes them reportable specified subsidiaries, from a $2.2bn Houston holding company to a $142mn Delaware asset-holder.
Jul 14, 2026 · 1 min read
A weaker yen and slow-to-arrive integration synergies force Askul to erase most of the goodwill it booked buying office-supply group AP67 back in 2023.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Invincible Investment Corp fixed borrowing costs of 1.98% to 2.63% on ¥35.03bn of debt via swaps with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Mizuho, and separately refinanced ¥41.15bn of maturing loans, with ¥15.33bn routed through green-loan terms tied to three hotel properties.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's communications ministry is taking comment on a plan to stretch AM suspension trials toward October 2028, open up extra FM spectrum below 90 MHz under specific conditions, and drop the requirement that broadcasters announce a shutdown over the air.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Sincere is lending its controlling shareholder Yukaria an unsecured ¥1.0bn at a fixed 6.0% rate, due back by September 30, with three independent directors vouching that the terms don't shortchange minority holders.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
WIZE has built a Solana stash worth more than ¥1.0bn at an average cost of ¥15,053 per token, and because it marks the holding to market every quarter, price swings will flow straight into reported profit, an effect the company says it has not yet quantified.