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Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Daiwa Asset Management says its human-capital and capex-themed ETF closed at ¥50,500 for seven consecutive sessions while net asset value climbed past ¥55,800, a gap it blames on trading too thin for arbitrage to close.
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min read
ITOCHU Corporation closed a tender offer for its own shares that drew more applications than it wanted, prorating the deal down to 82.7 million shares at ¥1,813 each, and now shifts the remaining roughly ¥150bn of its ¥300bn buyback authorization to purchases on the Tokyo Stock Exchange through January 2027.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed asset manager confirmed its Six Senses Kyoto security-token offering and the underlying trust beneficiary interest transfer are complete, with revenue expected at 10% or more of last year's sales and profit at 30% or more of its five-year average, already built into next year's guidance.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
UMC Electronics' shares leave Tokyo's Prime market for the Standard market on September 8, and the company has withdrawn the compliance plan it filed in 2023 to try to keep its Prime listing.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyobo is transferring 297,000 square meters of land at its El Salvador unit IUSA, due to close at the end of November 2026, in two tranches through May 2027, booking gains as special items but withholding the sale price by agreement with the buyers.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Fuyo General Lease is paying ¥20.17bn for a 40% stake it must hold for years, funding Panasonic's complete exit from a trust-bank finance venture and cutting Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank's control from 85% to 45%.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management's stake in SMS CO.,LTD has climbed to 22.38%, and the fund says it has already proposed director changes, asset sales and a possible delisting, while keeping open the option to buy more than 5% more stock within three months if the price looks cheap.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min read
REVOLUTION sold off the property-fund subsidiary at the center of an accounting inquiry the same day it received a report finding 28 of 251 funds should be booked as loans, not sales, leaving two weeks before it must satisfy its auditor or restate June's half-year filing.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Two new categories of long-chain PFAS substances are joining Japan's Class I chemical list, and draft ordinances would fold PFOS-style labeling and handling rules onto any fire extinguisher or foam agent that contains them, effective November 22 with comments due September 30.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Osaka Titanium priced its public offering at ¥2,592 a share, raising ¥17.4bn, below the ¥19.2bn estimate it published in August, and scrapped a fallback plan to use leftover cash for debt repayment, committing up to ¥19.9bn to sponge-titanium capacity growth at Amagasaki by March 2028; a same-day filing showing two asset managers lifting their combined stake to 14.61% is an unrelated passive-holding update.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Nojima has taken a 70% stake in Yamato Holdings' consumer-credit arm, renamed it N Credit Finance, and put a new executive in the president's chair on day one, aiming to bolt the unit's payment and receivables tools onto its retail business.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Nifco used an off-auction ToSTNeT-3 trade to buy back 7.54 million shares for ¥39.96bn on September 1, using nearly all the cash and share capacity under a buyback programme its board approved a day earlier.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Matsuya's Ginza flagship sales fell about 11% in August, but the retailer says the drop is arithmetic: last year's figures were inflated by 100th-anniversary promotions and a newly renovated Louis Vuitton boutique, while cosmetics and women's apparel still grew this year.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Paper priced the sale of a large Lintec stake at ¥63.6bn after Lintec's ¥30bn ToSTNeT-3 buyback trimmed the block, and underwriters routed just over five million shares to European and Asian buyers, with settlement due September 8.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Kansai Electric says its 826,000-kilowatt Mihama Unit 3 reactor, shut down in May after a high-pressure turbine steam leak, is scheduled to reconnect to the grid on September 15 once startup preparations following a casing-cap replacement are complete.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min read
ITO EN's quarterly operating profit rose 22% on price increases and lower depreciation, but the beverage group kept its unchanged June guidance for full-year profit to fall 7.8%, even after the standalone parent business saw sales shrink 6.4% while group units like Tully's Coffee and its overseas tea business carried the growth.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min read
The Tokyo AI vendor's on-premise flagship missed its sales target by ¥920mn after a delayed sales rollout, deepening the operating loss to ¥2.44bn and prompting the board to weigh executive pay cuts.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's health ministry listed Cuorips' heart-failure therapy ReHeart at ¥53.2mn per treatment for patients who have exhausted standard drug and invasive care, using the cost-calculation pricing method under the new-technology category.
Sep 1, 2026 · 3 min read
NEC agreed to skip SK-03's ¥1,650 tender offer for CE Holdings and wait for a cheaper company buyback, and that forced the bidder to lower its minimum acceptance threshold by 1.2mn shares to 3,768,300.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Baudroie corrected its MBO filing to show its ¥2,970 offer carries just a 3.81% premium to the pre-deal close, versus a 41.8% median premium in the 115 comparable Japanese buyouts the company cites to defend the price.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale's Japanese unit has signed Isar Aerospace to launch ADRAS-J2, a mission to capture and deorbit a three-tonne rocket stage around the year to April 2028, and the ¥12bn contract was already assumed in the group's earnings guidance, so it adds nothing new to the numbers.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
From November 22, the containers, packaging and shipping invoices for fire extinguishers and foam suppressants containing two newly designated long-chain PFAS compounds must carry pollution-prevention labels, and Japan's chemical ministries are taking comment on the label update through September 30.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Six Japanese ministries plan to fold a newly restricted class of long-chain PFAS into the technical standard already governing PFOS- and PFOA-laced fire extinguishers and foam, with compliance due November 22 and public comment open only through September 30.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
A filing correction to Japan's large-shareholding rules shows Hong Kong-based Blackwell Cloud's August 2026 purchase of Quantum Solutions shares and warrants was a company-arranged third-party allotment, not the open-market trade originally reported.