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Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Marubeni's ¥60bn share-buyback authorization rounds to 100.00% of its value ceiling while covering only 58.83% of the shares targeted, and the trading house is running a second, ¥100bn authorization at the same time, through March 2027.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Two Los Angeles-based advisers, Capital Research and Management Company and Capital International, Inc., jointly hold 66.9mn Nintendo shares, just above the threshold that triggers Japan's large-shareholding disclosure rule, with 8.29mn American depositary receipts in the mix converting into only 2.07mn of those shares.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
A joint EDINET filing shows Nomura Securities, Nomura International and Nomura Asset Management holding just under 50 million JFE Holdings shares between them, with over 13 million tied to bonds carrying share-subscription rights rather than a takeover push.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's discount clothing chain is taking over site rights and select assets at 21 stores run by a Sumitomo Corporation-owned supermarket operator, but not its debts, supplier contracts, or the price paid.
Sep 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Solar and wind already cover more than seven in ten units of demand at times in Hokkaido and Kyushu, and a new jGrants-listed subsidy would fund grid-scale batteries to store the surplus.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Hokkaido Electric Power priced a 3.458% coupon on ¥30bn of new 10-year bonds and is routing the proceeds to its grid subsidiary for renewable-linked network upgrades, including expansion of the undersea interconnection with Honshu.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Investigation Division 2 has accepted unbanked's criminal complaint against five former trading partners over a gold bullion deal that left ¥1.34bn uncollected, a figure the company now puts at ¥1.36bn across 61 bars, while stressing the complaint's acceptance alone will not move its earnings.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Star Seeds' server-resale subsidiary will book about $42.9mn (¥6.7bn) from a second data-center hardware sale to Taiwan's Inventec Corporation, at least a tenth of prior-year group revenue, but pricing details stay confidential and the sale is already baked into existing guidance.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Skylark Holdings' established restaurants grew August sales 4.6% year on year as traffic rose just 0.4% and almost the entire gain came from a 4.2% increase in what customers spend per visit; network-wide sales, lifted by new openings, rose 7.2%, and the group opened its first overseas Shinpachi Shokudo restaurant, in Singapore.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Storm-damaged roads and a slow-moving power permit process have pushed Nittetsu Mining's copper mine project in Chile past its July-to-September target, and the company still won't say when output will begin or what it will cost.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Senshu Electric lifted its full-year profit forecast and raised its annual dividend to ¥170 from ¥160, citing a recovery in orders from semiconductor equipment and machine-tool customers.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
METI has selected TIER IV as an indirect recipient of a subsidy covering two-thirds of a requested ¥6.0bn budget to adapt its Autoware software for autonomous buses in Saudi Arabia, but the formal grant decision and final amount are still pending.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Twinbird's board opposed Japanet Holdings' tender offer proposal, and Twinbird says Japanet's own September 2 statement made clear the deal has been withdrawn; the two companies dispute how the talks unfolded.
Sep 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Kanamoto's nine-month operating profit rose 31.6% against just 2.6% sales growth amid rental-rate optimization and productivity gains, and the equipment renter used results day to acquire a Kanto site-facilities and event-rental group for an undisclosed cash price.
Sep 4, 2026 · 3 min read
A METI draft would add new cybersecurity requirements to the economic-security certification scheme covering batteries, battery materials and manufacturing equipment, with public comment open only through October 5, 2026.
Sep 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Sumitomo Forestry raised ¥243.5bn across three subordinated bond tranches maturing between 2061 and 2066, with coupons as high as 4.343% and full discretion to defer interest payments; the proceeds repay short-term debt taken out for its Tri Pointe Homes acquisition.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
METI has approved a revised wheeling-charge revenue forecast for Shikoku Electric Power Transmission & Distribution, with new unit prices due from November 2026, but the parent still hasn't decided whether the revision will reach retail electricity bills.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Roughly three and a half months after buying a majority stake in Vietnamese device maker USM Healthcare, Nissha is selling the whole position back to USM's own director at an undisclosed price, having found circular-transaction accounting that predates the deal.
Sep 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management's stake in Tokyo-listed SMS CO.,LTD climbed to 24.65% from 22.38% after a single off-market block trade of roughly 1.6 million shares, funded entirely from fund money, and the Cayman activist tells regulators it is already pressing proposals on board changes, asset sales and delisting, with more planned over the next year alongside dialogue on AI, pricing and portfolio strategy.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Sony Music Entertainment has agreed to buy all 12.01 million GungHo Online Entertainment shares held by SON Financial, paying ¥28.6bn in cash, with a December 30 closing target and new consent rights over the game maker's share issuance in the meantime.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Dentsu Group has pledged not to tender its majority stake into VIC LLC's planned takeover of Dentsu Soken, teeing up a share-consolidation squeeze-out once the tender offer, targeted for early November, settles.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
SoftBank Group set terms on a ¥1 trillion, seven-year bond at 4.75%, and roughly half the ¥988.5bn raised will simply refinance bonds due this month and next spring, while the rest is conditional funding for the ABB robotics acquisition, with a fallback to bridge-loan repayment if that deal slips.
Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Specified Skilled Worker program is 52.9% filled overall, but the split is stark: food service has used 98.1% of its quota while road transport and rail sit at 2.5% and 2.2%, immigration data for June 2026 show.
Sep 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Investigators counted 844 confirmed quality-misconduct cases at Nidec, most of them manufacturing changes made without the required customer notification or approval, and blamed unrealistic profit targets and the founder's centralized management, with cases concentrated in three business units.