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Sep 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamato Holdings will shut the dedicated domestic cargo-plane operation it built with Japan Airlines by around June 2027, after yen weakness and fuel costs pushed air-transport costs up faster than trucking, widening the price gap between the two modes beyond what the company had assumed when it launched the service in 2024.
Sep 3, 2026 · 2 min read
A correction to a large-shareholding filing on KYORITSU AIR TECH INC. swaps one filer's promise to pursue governance proposals for a mere possibility, without saying whether the underlying holding has changed.
Sep 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo art-production and artist-management firm run by Takashi Murakami now holds 5.02% of the small TSE Growth-listed OVERLAP Holdings, a stake funded entirely from its own resources, with buying accelerating sharply in the final week before the threshold was crossed on September 1.
Sep 3, 2026 · 2 min read
A 25% jump in Turkish beverage sales and lighter depreciation charges pushed DyDo Group Holdings to a ¥2.8bn interim profit, even as it kept pulling unprofitable vending machines off Japanese streets.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
A dismissed director's court petition was enough to get unbanked's bank accounts frozen for nine business days; the Tokyo District Court's August 31 dismissal of her claim let the freeze lift and gold bullion trading resume on September 2.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Two new exchange-traded notes tracking Japanese data-center infrastructure and defense stocks join Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings' Tokyo-listed lineup from September 28, each with a ¥100bn issuance ceiling that reflects a cap set in the filing rather than money already raised.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's stake in the B2B platform Infomart has climbed to 14.42%, and the fund has already proposed asset disposals and an exit from part of its business while flagging director-removal, delisting and control-transfer options it may pursue within a year.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
US Customs approved the full $109mn Seiko Epson sought after the Supreme Court voided IEEPA tariffs, with the amount plus interest expected to be booked in the quarter ending September 2026 and already reflected in the company's August guidance.
Sep 2, 2026 · 1 min read
abc's August 28 transfer of its entire crypto-asset book to ZoomART Foundation completes a two-month exit and produces a ¥6.40bn consolidated loss, only partly offset by a ¥229mn gain tucked inside subsidiary abc CAPITAL's donated meme coins.
Sep 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Nichicon is raising ¥22.165bn through a zero-coupon convertible bond generally designed to convert only if its stock clears a 30% premium for a sustained stretch, and it is spending nearly all of a linked ¥5bn buyback the next day to soften, not erase, the eventual dilution.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Paper Industries lifted its expected non-consolidated gain from a share sale to about ¥82.7bn, up from ¥26.3bn, and added a previously undisclosed ¥36.2bn consolidated gain, in a September 2 correction that also adds a newly disclosed event dated September 1.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Nidec confirmed it has received an outside committee's report on parts, process and design changes made without customer approval, but the findings, and any sense of scale, wait until Friday's redacted release.
Sep 2, 2026 · 3 min read
A nationwide refresh of Japan's one-tablet-per-student fleet drove record sales and profit at this Tokyo systems integrator, but management is already guiding net profit down 16% next year as that public-sector surge recedes.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Post failed to disclose required contract terms to 167 freelance contractors and missed statutory payment deadlines for 140 of them, the Fair Trade Commission found, ordering a board resolution, a retrospective audit of similar contracts and staff training under Japan's freelance protection law.
Sep 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo Century has signed a final deal to sell 50% of Aviation Capital Group, its wholly owned US aircraft lessor, to related-party shareholder Itochu, and the resulting one-off gain, guided at roughly ¥50bn consolidated, stays unconfirmed until competition regulators clear the November closing.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
J-Holdings used a Companies Act provision to hand its president voting rights on warrant shares he bought after the record date, lifting his stake to 20.54% of the vote, while denying the identical grant to fund investor EVO Fund days before the September 4 shareholder meeting.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
The operator of Haneda's passenger terminals has locked in pricing for a roughly ¥55.9bn secondary share offering, allocating ¥14.15bn of it to investors in Europe and Asia ahead of a September 9 settlement.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
FinTech Global says AI Storm, an operator in its used-vehicle fund series, failed to re-register truck titles in the funds' name as required, and the wholesaler's own earnings-impact estimate is still pending.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Bain Capital's ¥820-a-share tender for eSOL will delist the embedded-software maker, but insider-linked holding companies controlling 13% of the stock opted out of the offer for a lower ¥663 buyback after the deal closes, a structure meant to leave more of the premium for outside shareholders.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Hanwa completed its purchase of 50.1% of Associated Steel Group on August 31 for $226mn, against a $347mn full-company benchmark set in June, with DBJ holding the rest and the earnings effect still outside current guidance.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
A policy stake Kobe Steel has held since 1999 gets its first outside claim: 1.05 million shares go on loan to Nomura for an over-allotment option, with the rest locked up until December 8.
Sep 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan Create, the holding company for Zensho's founders, put up another 3 million shares as bank collateral in August, adding to a stake already carrying roughly ¥68.9bn in borrowings.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Ryuji Arai, who also chairs electronics retailer Bic Camera, has agreed not to sell his 48.80% stake in Seed Co. into Luxshare Precision's tender offer, and struck a deal to hold 51% of the voting rights once the company goes private, leaving Luxshare with 49%.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
The Japanese instrument maker is selling its embedded-software team in Poland to a brand-new FPT subsidiary, price undisclosed, as it narrows European operations to focus on head-up displays.