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Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
An overseas client froze a major console project at Tose with no restart date and no payout for the idle staff, prompting the outsourcer to consider penalty clauses in future contracts. Tose also confirms several of its 2026 titles are built for Nintendo's Switch 2.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
CyberStep Holdings is returning the AI subsidiary it fully absorbed in January after deciding the ¥1.25bn deal's original business assumptions no longer hold, and the seller is sending back every yen.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
WingArc1st's board told shareholders its stock trades at an "extremely insufficient" level and authorized buying back up to 3.45% of shares outstanding, capped at ¥3.0bn, through May 2027.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
TSI Holdings' quarterly sales rose 30% and operating profit rose 66% on the back of two acquisitions, but Freak's Store operator Daytona International and umbrella maker Waterfront pulled gross margin down 1.2 points, a trade-off the apparel group is covering with sharper cost cuts rather than pricing power.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A&D Co. lost its status as a designated verification body for specified measuring instruments effective July 14, cutting off a service its parent says will have only a minor financial impact while it lines up outside help for customers.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Towa Bank plans to sell about ¥11.3bn of securities for a ¥5.5bn gain, using it to absorb most of a ¥5.8bn uncollateralized loss from a single borrower, Zentoshin, and says its profit forecast for the year to March 2027 holds for now, subject to review at its August 4 earnings release.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
A three-week gap between detection and disclosure left the SMS gateway of Fabrica Holdings' subsidiary Media 4u compromised, with hackers stealing management-console data on 95,412 accounts and sending 280 unauthorized text messages before the company went public with the breach.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Camera sales jumped 20% and duty-free revenue hit a nine-month record as Bic Camera's operating profit rose 35.8% to ¥33.3bn for the nine months to May, even as television sales kept sliding.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A dual-bookkeeping scheme at mobile-shop operator Toshin Holdings' handset subsidiary broke loan covenants, drew a Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting warning and ended with a court appointing trustees to run the company under corporate reorganization.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A ¥23.1bn share purchase from activist investor Oasis Management lifts RAKUS's stake in HR-software maker Plus Alpha Consulting to 22.21%, but a signed memorandum locks the buyer into a standstill, one board seat and a right of first refusal for the target.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
QPS Holdings booked an ¥833mn operating loss for the year to May 2026, kept net income positive with subsidy income, and is guiding to a ¥300mn operating profit next year once a ¥69.7bn, five-year Ministry of Defense satellite contract lands its first full year of revenue.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has priced a ¥197.4bn stock and convertible bond sale, accepting conversion premiums up to 49.98% to fund robotics, physical AI and a liquefied hydrogen supply chain through the early 2030s.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
HCMA Alpha sold its entire 13.03% stake in FTGroup on June 30, 2026, and neither filing says who bought it, leaving parent Hikari Tsushin as the only sizeable shareholder still on the register.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Kinden Corporation used one session, June 23, to buy 33.5 million shares for ¥223.68bn, using up 99.99% of the buyback its board approved in April.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota Tsusho bought back 118.1 million of its own shares at ¥5,620 apiece, settling 99.99% of the ¥663.7bn repurchase its board authorized in April.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Yuji Yamamoto financed his entire ¥576.5mn stake in Sakurajima Futo with his own money and then lent all 224,000 shares to Rakuten Securities and SBI Securities.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
CHIIKISHINBUNSHA will hand ordinary investors new common shares while confining seven shareholders holding a combined 30.95% stake to restricted rights, a defense the board still needs shareholders to ratify after the fact this November.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Eisai and Biogen can now sell a weekly, 15-second self-injection as the starting treatment for early Alzheimer's disease, not just the maintenance dose already approved last year.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed accounting-software group turned a ¥2.2bn net loss into a ¥553.7mn profit for the six months to May, then used the report to lift its full-year revenue and profit targets for a second time.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's loss-making autonomous-driving software developer fixed its offer price and lined up Morgan Stanley and SMBC to sell shares abroad, funneling the proceeds into custom AI chips and mass-production supply chains.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Operating income at the Japanese food group rose 24% to ¥20.02bn, but net profit fell to ¥13.21bn because a ¥12.07bn gain from selling assets a year earlier shrank to just ¥22mn this time.
Jul 13, 2026 · 1 min read
Nippon Paint says a Bloomberg report on its bid for AkzoNobel's architectural paint unit is accurate at €7.5bn, but insists no acquisition has actually been agreed.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
YCP Japan's ¥392.4mn purchase of 600,000 depositary receipts on July 13 pushes the Tokyo Growth-market company's cumulative buyback to ¥2.28bn, close to the cap on a mandate that runs to December 30, 2026.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
From October 1, operators newly designated as special critical infrastructure providers will file a cyberattack report on one of three standard templates instead of whatever paperwork each ministry previously demanded.