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Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
TIER IV set ¥862.75 as the price for its overseas share offering, unlocking part of an ¥8.7bn budget for autonomous-driving AI and custom semiconductors through the year to September 2028.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
ispace paid SpaceX $50mn for 500kg of payload space on a Starship mission targeting a lunar landing as early as 2030, and will resell that capacity to customers with payloads too small for a dedicated lander, alongside its own ULTRA lander missions planned for 2028, 2029 and 2030.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
June's grid curtailment orders wiped ¥35.7mn off Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund's rent, and the fund now says the cumulative hit for the six months to June has reached ¥814.5mn, or 17.85% of expected rental income, with a cable theft and a broken inverter dragging two more plants below their rent floor.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Life Corporation grew quarterly revenue 3.2% but operating profit fell 6.9% after personnel costs rose 5.1% on a third straight year of 5%-plus wage hikes and expanded staff holidays, and the company is sticking with its full-year profit target regardless.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT's draft guideline would have cabin crews tell every seated passenger to buckle up low and tight at all times, a response to turbulence injuries since 2022 and a fatal 2024 accident abroad, with public comments due by August 7, 2026.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Companies with statutory auditors keep a carve-out on restating late-breaking financial events, and the FSA just confirmed it's staying in implementation guidance, not the main accounting standard, despite a comment asking for the fix.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
South Korea sales jumped 13.1% as shoppers there recovered from last year's political turmoil, helping push ABC-Mart's operating profit up 8.3% to ¥20.3bn while the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
TAKARA & CO is scrapping its stable-dividend policy for a 50% to 100% payout range with a new 7.5% dividend-on-equity floor, and is forecasting a 50% dividend increase to ¥180 a share for the year ending May 2027.
Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
An SSD backup drive holding 13.54 million customer records vanished from an unlocked cabinet at Kyushu Electric Power Transmission and Distribution, and METI has now received the company's formal account of what went wrong.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
The Development Bank of Japan is funding Qantas Group's full exit from Jetstar Japan's shareholder register, and the budget carrier will retire the Jetstar name by June 2027 while Japan Airlines' own stake stays untouched.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Medipal's ¥6,650-a-share tender for PALTAC drew nearly three times the shares it needed, taking its stake to 92.64% and opening the door to a squeeze-out that will delist the wholesaler from the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime Market.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi Materials is issuing ¥70bn of zero-coupon convertible bonds, priced above today's share price to limit dilution, to fund a shift from mined ore to recycled copper and tungsten by early 2029; a separate filing shows an offshore buyer repackaging the same bonds for credit investors.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A cyberattack that froze Asahi's Japan order and shipping systems in September 2025 cut annual operating profit 30.9% to ¥185.9bn and delayed the results so long that the brewer now needs a September 2026 shareholders' meeting just to report them.
Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
A ¥3,232-a-share rival proposal pushed Kakaku.com's board off its recommendation to tender into EQT's ¥3,000 buyout, and a Bain Capital vehicle is now lining up its own offer with 19.52% of the company already committed to tender.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A July 1 share exchange lifted the combined holding of individual investor Masanori Kino and X-mobile Inc. in Tokyo-listed Taiyo Bussan (9941) to 32.41% from 17.17%, but a six-month lock-up keeps the new shares off the market until early next year.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota sold 53.68mn KDDI shares back to the company at ¥2,325 each, trimming its stake to 7.73% from 9.07% while keeping the remainder as a policy investment.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura's securities and asset-management units cut their combined Kakaku.com holding to 4.29%, clearing Japan's 5% disclosure line, the same day filings detailed how Digital Garage and KDDI plan to sit out a ¥3,000-a-share take-private tender offer and cash out afterward instead.
Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read
One client's collapse leaves Towa Bank facing ¥8bn in troubled loans, worth 8.83% of its consolidated net assets, with ¥5.89bn due for full provisioning within the year.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Littlepond Inc., which holds 31% of Oricon on behalf of the ratings group's founder, will not sell into Media Co.'s tender offer; instead it plans to convert deferred buyback proceeds into equity of the bidder's parent, while founder Koh Koike tenders his own smaller personal stake in full.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥900mn, self-funded share purchase priced at ¥20 apiece hands Convano a controlling 68.90% stake in Growth Market-listed Axel Mark, with an explicit mandate to build up the target's healthcare business.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
A four-member holder group led by Wakayama-based KK.Sangensyoku raised its combined position in Hokkaido-based drugstore operator SATUDORA HOLDINGS to 23.87% of shares outstanding, up from 22.62%, and reserved room to make future proposals to the company.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's profit attributable to shareholders rose 36.5% to ¥1.73tn for the year to March 2026 under US accounting rules, outpacing a 9.5% rise in revenue and a 12.3% rise in expenses.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
City Index Eleventh and two joint holders now control more than 25 million Keikyu shares and are pressing the railway operator to raise dividends, buy back stock and shed businesses that do not add shareholder value.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Twelve Tokyo-listed companies disclosed June share-repurchase activity on the same day, and the contrast is stark: Mitani Sekisan bought no stock at all while Kyocera spent ¥29.6bn in a single session.