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Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Sales of extreme ultraviolet photoresist ingredients lifted Osaka Organic Chemical's electronics-materials profit 68.4% in the six months to May, and the specialty chemical maker has allied with Sanpo Chemical Laboratories to broaden its semiconductor materials lineup.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Weathernews trimmed 15,300 hours of monthly labor with AI and grew operating profit 16% in the year to May 2026, but a one-off commemorative dividend that pushed its payout ratio to 99.1% is set to unwind, with the company's own forecast putting next year's ratio at 58.3%.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Treasure Factory raised its full-year operating profit target to ¥5.33bn and added ¥2 to its interim dividend after a quarter where sales rose 16.4% and operating profit jumped 24%, though the company says some of that strength borrowed from the quarter ahead.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
TSI Holdings has locked in a binding deal for 87.7% of textile maker Toyo Enterprise plus all of its trading arm, which owns the rest, but the purchase price stays secret because the sellers are individuals, not a company.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
The metals group will collect no interest on ¥35bn of new bonds due 2030, priced above face value and sold only to investors in Europe and Asia, with a second tranche maturing in 2032 filed alongside it but not yet detailed.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
New York-based Indus Capital Partners now holds 11.15% of Suruga Bank's voting rights, up from 9.38%, after an amended large-shareholding report filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau on July 8.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
A former accountant at CKD's service subsidiary diverted company funds into a personal account for more than five years before his July 9 arrest; CKD has already booked the ¥178mn loss and is cutting pay for the executives on both sides of the reporting line.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's trade ministry is rewriting the Green Innovation Fund's roadmap for cutting carbon from industrial furnaces in steel and chemicals plants, and manufacturers have until August 7 to comment before the next funding round opens.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Kewpie's domestic operating margin jumped to 7.7% on price increases and a cheaper egg benchmark, but overseas operating profit fell 13% on Americas softness and new-factory depreciation, even as full-year guidance stayed unchanged.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Applied Materials accounted for 21.9% of Rorze's quarterly sales, up from 15.3% a year earlier, as AI-driven memory investment pushed the Hiroshima wafer-handling equipment maker's semiconductor orders up 1.9 times to a record ¥42.0bn. Rorze left its full-year profit guidance, set in April, unchanged.
Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Singapore's GIC pays roughly ¥16bn for new Sugi shares at ¥3,195 apiece — a 2.67% dilution — with ¥8bn earmarked for AI and supply-chain systems and the rest for stores and a drugstore M&A war chest.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥425.0bn after gasoline revenue at 7-Eleven, Inc. beat plan and it revised its dollar-yen assumption to ¥157 from ¥150, even as domestic convenience-store profit dipped on store-investment costs.
Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read
International Uniqlo profit jumped 45% in the nine months to May, driving group operating profit up 36% and pushing Fast Retailing to raise its full-year revenue and profit forecast for the year to August 2026.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
The bonds carry general collateral and a joint debt-assumption clause naming Japan's expressway holding and debt-repayment body, but the filing sets out no coupon, pricing, or settlement dates.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Two shelf-registration supplements filed the same day carve out ¥20bn in three- and five-year unsecured bonds plus a separate ¥10bn tranche that won't settle until July 27.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
The Osaka rail-and-property group filed supplements for ¥5bn and ¥10bn in bonds on the same day, one tranche carrying a guarantee from its railway operating arm, as it works through a shelf registration that already covered ¥45bn of prior issuance.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
EXEDY Corporation's first bond sale under a March 2025 shelf program combines ¥13.9bn of five-year debt and ¥14.5bn of 10-year debt, using nearly all of the ¥30bn it registered to raise before the program lapses in April 2027.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Private-sector machinery orders excluding ships and electric-power-company orders climbed a seasonally adjusted 8.7% month-on-month in April, the Cabinet Office said, while total orders across 280 manufacturers rose 3.4%.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo's monthly economic assessment keeps its moderate-recovery language but attaches a Middle East risk caveat to both the overall outlook and corporate profits, while industrial production is the one gauge that stayed flat.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
An amended EDINET filing shows Strategic Capital has raised its GungHo Online Entertainment position to 13.67% from 10.51%, funded almost entirely with borrowed money, while renewing its call for buybacks from shares linked to Taizo Son.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi Materials' board approved roughly ¥70bn in zero-coupon convertible bonds to fund a pivot into metals recycling, but a separate buyer's plan to repackage those bonds could carry voting rights over 12.37% of the company, a threshold it says it will never actually use.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Two board meetings in as many days failed to reach quorum after three audit-committee directors boycotted and went silent, leaving the Tokyo-listed holding company without a representative director and, by its own account, without its corporate seal, accounting books or bank passbooks.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Process turned a board resolution into a done deal within a day, buying back 883,000 shares (98% of a 9.28%-of-stock authorization) for ¥1.59bn through a single ToSTNeT-3 off-auction trade on July 8.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A small Tokyo-listed renewables holding company connected its ¥684mn, 8 MWh battery station in Fukuoka to Kyushu Electric's grid on July 1, ahead of schedule, and is now angling for a spot in Japan's balancing market once the August handover closes.