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Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Okano Valve now expects ¥2.6bn of consolidated operating profit for the year to September 2026, up from ¥1.95bn, citing extra Shimane Unit 2 inspection orders and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 7 projects brought forward, and lifts its annual dividend forecast to ¥110.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Koike Sanso Kogyo has postponed its November 9 interim results because systems remain disrupted after an October 5 cyberattack, and it expects the announcement to pass the 45-day statutory deadline; the notice gives no new date.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Effissimo Capital Management reports an 18.90% Tamron holding, up from 18.54%, and says it has no specific plan to add more than 5 percentage points, though takeover proposals including Sony's could lead it to buy more.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Visitors to Japan fell 5.0% to 3,103,700 in September on JNTO's preliminary estimate, with China down 44.5%; South Korea, Taiwan and the Middle East set September records that offset only part of the drop.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
BASE's largest shareholder puts his stake at 28.36% in an amended report, with ¥10.52bn of margin credit in the funding, and says he may vote against directors and plans to propose a nominating-committee board once SBINM's tender offer ends.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Infroneer priced 47.8 million new shares at ¥2,179.5, a 3.00% discount to its reference price, and now expects net proceeds of up to ¥114.1bn, all for short-term loan repayment by December 2026.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
A large diversified J-REIT lifted its distribution slightly to ¥3,012 per unit for the half to August 2026, and guides to ¥3,000 for the next half even as forecast net income falls 17.1%, with reserve reversals filling the gap.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamazen lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥17.9bn from ¥15.0bn, saying chip, AI, data-centre and defence demand ran above plan and that some products are due to ship earlier than expected.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Digital Arts says stolen operating credentials gave a third party access to its cloud environment, with traces dating to around July 2025; as of noon on October 21 it had not confirmed data exfiltration, and it asks users of six cloud services to change passwords.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
Draft health ministry amendments would extend labeling and safety-data-sheet duties to 35 more substances from April 2029, while diethyl phthalate would leave the list and its exposure rules from February 2027; comments are due 18 November.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
METI is requesting government industrial investment in Rapidus over 2027 to 2029, which the minister put at ¥400bn on his recollection, and says Tokyo is pressing the EU to treat Japanese EVs as equivalent to EU-made ones.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
A second meeting in early 2027 is meant to produce an interim summary and public-private roadmap on on-chain finance, after the FSA's study group was scheduled to hear Nomura and Securitize Japan on 20 October; four payment and settlement pilots remain trials.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
Preliminary figures put July to September inbound spending at ¥2.2076tn, up 3.2%, as higher per-head spending and gains from Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong outweighed a 39.8% fall in Chinese spending.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's exports rose 16.7% in September, but imports rose 18.9% on more expensive crude oil, LNG and electronic parts, pushing the preliminary trade deficit to ¥536.6bn from ¥277.7bn a year earlier.
Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min read
Only shochu fermented and distilled in Japan in single-distillation stills, then stored and bottled there, could carry the honkaku label under a draft the tax agency opened for comment until 20 November.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Olympus expects no additional hit to results for the year to March 2027 from FDA import alerts that restrict certain products from three of its facilities from entering the US until further notice.
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's finance minister said the government is not aware of loans or bank accounts opened using leaked identity documents, yet the FSA has already asked financial institutions to verify customers by reading ID chips and to police their contractors.
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read
The Environment Ministry's draft notification would change odor-sampling equipment, panel screening and index calculation, with comments open until November 18 and the revised method planned to apply from April 1, 2028.
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read
The Environment Ministry's draft would extend Ise-Shima National Park's marine ordinary zone from 1km to 5km offshore, adding 53,528 ha, while land area changes by only 35 ha; comments close in mid-November.
Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min read
BlackRock Japan confirmed the iShares MSCI Japan SRI ETF will end on 25 November after a holder vote, with final trading on 20 November and redemption payments planned from 30 December.
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read
LaSalle Logiport cut its forecast total payout for the half to February 2027 by 6.6% to ¥4,000 a unit, removing the excess-of-profit portion to even out ¥7.7bn of sale gains across four periods.
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Image Information will pay about ¥200mn for an Oita contact centre with 198 seats whose revenue comes entirely from its seller, and will guarantee its debts to that seller; closing is scheduled for 23 October.
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Nxera Pharma has withdrawn its 10% cap on share-based pay and will grant three executive officers options over up to 6.65mn shares, about 7.2% of shares outstanding, which vest only if price hurdles from ¥2,200 to ¥10,000 are met.
Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Relo Group will pay ¥1.62bn for 90% of ATIV Medical, a Singapore healthcare group for Japanese expatriates, expecting referrals from its overseas-assignment business; the transfer is scheduled for October 30 and the earnings effect is under review.