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Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Amova Asset Management stopped taking new creation and redemption orders for two globally invested ETFs on July 10, 2026, after Taiwan's stock exchange shut for the session because of a typhoon.
Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Katsumi Nozawa's Orsay vehicle is offering ¥1,900 a share for Art Vivant, up from the ¥1,670 that failed to clear its minimum threshold last year, and this time top shareholder Hiroyuki Maki has signed a pledge to tender his full 39.93% stake.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Celsys now expects half-year operating profit of ¥2.22bn, up 38.9% from its February forecast, after CLIP STUDIO PAINT's version 5.0 upgrade beat sales targets worldwide, though its full-year outlook stays unchanged.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Abalance told investors on July 10 that a patent fight with Jinko Solar over eight subsidiaries was settled in December and dismissed in California and Texas by February, and pinned the months-long reporting delay on management turnover disrupting communication with its subsidiaries.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Timee will launch a bank-agent service with SBI Sumishin Net Bank and push into elder-care staffing through Benesse Carioc, but ventures outside spot work are set to run at a ¥1.8bn deficit next year.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Axelspace Holdings says its new GRUS-3 constellation cleared critical orbital checks three days after launch, and the earnings forecast due July 14 already assumes the milestone holds.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Optoelectronics breached financial covenants on ¥587.6mn of bank loans and widened its interim net loss to ¥287mn, triggering a going-concern flag it says its ¥5.15bn cash pile and steady lender relations resolve for now.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
OSG has raised its full-year operating-profit guide by 36% to ¥30bn and lifted its dividend to ¥115 a share, citing a weaker yen and steady demand for cutting tools in India, Germany and the US.
Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A former accountant at Mikuni's Taiwan subsidiary moved company funds into a personal account for years, and the discovery has forced the Tokyo auto-parts maker to correct five annual securities reports plus eight half-year and quarterly filings.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Okinawa Electric Power wants Japan's industry ministry to lift its five-year grid-wheeling revenue cap by ¥15.7bn to ¥362.1bn, blaming inflation and interest costs its 2023 plan never priced in, with new rates targeted for November 2026 pending approval.
Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The Japanese auto-parts maker is spending up to ¥1.5bn on a share buyback even as debt from its Hi-Lex Act deal pushes its equity ratio down to 58%, and it is closing plants in the US and Spain while reorganizing all 13 of its domestic factories by 2028.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Yoshinoya's US subsidiary is paying $28.7m for 70% of Kizuki International, with more than a quarter of that funded by 380,500 newly issued treasury shares rather than cash, plus an earn-out tied to Kizuki's results through 2029.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Securities took up 87% of a planned share allotment, handing GO Inc. about ¥6.99bn to fund its autonomous-taxi project with Waymo and Nihon Kotsu, with any leftover cash reserved for taxi and logistics acquisitions rather than marketing spend until 2029.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Takeuchi Mfg. passed on less than half of a ¥3.54bn US tariff increase this quarter, cutting operating profit 9.3% even as orders from American rental firms surged 59% and full-year guidance stayed unchanged.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Daicel is committing roughly ¥2bn to a 50-50 joint venture with Formosa Plastics in Kaohsiung to supply Taiwan's semiconductor industry, but Formosa's own board has not yet signed off, and the plant won't start operating until January 2029.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Post Insurance wants to hand decades-old, pre-privatization underwriting risk to a reinsurance vehicle SCOR would build and run, taking a stake capped below half the voting rights, but the companies have signed only a memorandum, not a final deal.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A core IT system migration and European restructuring costs cut quarterly operating profit by a fifth at Yaskawa Electric, even as semiconductor and data-centre-linked investment pushed revenue up 10.6%.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A monthly filing shows Tokyo Electron spent ¥11.47bn to retire only 2.76% of the shares authorized under its new buyback, already using 7.65% of the ¥150bn budget the board approved in May.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Fujikura and its China unit will hand over their full 60% holding in a Wuhan optical-fiber preform venture to co-founder FiberHome Telecommunication for ¥7.97bn and ¥3.99bn, with the deal closing by late September 2026.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
East Japan Railway is selling ¥50bn in unsecured bonds across three-, five- and ten-year tranches, the fourth drawdown from a shelf programme that runs until March 2027.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥162.7bn loan-funded tender offer has taken Medipal Holdings' stake in PALTAC past 90%, and the wholesaler now plans to force out remaining shareholders at the same ¥6,650-a-share price.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Aeon Financial Service's net profit for the quarter to May more than doubled to ¥8.97bn as Japanese loan and card-fee income rose and Malaysia and Hong Kong expanded, yet the group's forecast for a 28.9% full-year profit decline is unchanged.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Storage-Oh's board has told shareholders to tender into Arealink's ¥1,340-a-share offer, a 42.25% premium over the pre-announcement price, with major holders already locked in and a squeeze-out ready for anyone who holds out.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan Display's board has voted to dissolve JDI Hong Kong Limited after the unit's revenue collapsed from $636.6mn to $79.2mn in two years; operations stop September 30, 2026, as part of a wider overseas sales reshuffle.