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Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Osaka software maker eBASE will pay ¥7.60 a share to holders on record September 30, introducing its first interim dividend since listing even though the annual total stays flat.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The trading house repurchased 2.85 million shares in four weeks after its board approved a ¥100bn buyback, leaving most of the authorization unspent with seven months left before it expires.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The trading house spent ¥11.25bn repurchasing 2.28mn shares in August, a small down payment against a ¥200bn buyback ceiling the board approved just days earlier.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Thin trading has left Mitsubishi UFJ's MAXIS JAPAN 200 Index ETF (1485) stuck 5-6.6% below its net asset value for seven straight sessions, and the manager says arbitrage simply isn't strong enough to close the gap.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Tetsujin shares go under Tokyo Stock Exchange supervision from September 1 after the company failed to confirm its 25% free-float ratio by an improvement-period deadline, with delisting possible from March 2027 only if the exchange's review of an early-September filing still finds the ratio short.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
A 120,065-vote block, all of it currently with SON Financial, is due to move to Sony Music Entertainment on December 30, alongside a capital alliance that gives the buyer consent rights over GungHo's future share issuance.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
FreeBit still can't say when its next earnings report, its overdue annual results, or its securities filing will land, as a committee's review of the CountUp acquisition continues without a set end date.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
SaaS orders for Pro-ship's lease-compliance software jumped 2,674% in the quarter to June, pushing its backlog to a record ¥6.93bn, but management says the demand disappears once Japan's new lease standard takes effect in April 2027.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's top maker of tungsten-carbide wear-resistant tools is passing on higher costs after the benchmark tungsten price jumped tenfold, but domestic order volumes are falling faster than expected, forcing a ¥1.6bn cut to its full-year sales forecast even as profit guidance rises 20%.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Tri Chemical Laboratories now expects ¥6.57bn in net profit for the year to January 2027, up from a ¥4.6bn forecast in March, after chipmakers' capital spending in China and Taiwan and stronger Korean memory output pushed first-half earnings well past plan.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min read
REVOLUTION sold WeCapital, the subsidiary behind its troubled crowdfunding platform, to a sitting board member for ¥1mn after no outside buyer emerged, then withdrew its full-year guidance and mid-term plan entirely as it works through a Tokyo Stock Exchange special-attention designation and an unresolved internal probe.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Sumitomo Forestry signed a ¥69bn and ¥37.5bn subordinated syndicated loan, maturing in 2062 and 2064, to repay borrowings from its completed Tri Pointe Homes acquisition, with R&I and JCR expected to treat half the raised amount as equity.
Aug 31, 2026 · 1 min read
Japanet built its buyout offer to require Twin Bird's own board approval, and the board just refused, citing up to ¥8.7bn in five-year mass-retailer sales risk and an unproven private-label pitch.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min read
SBI Holdings is offering ¥340 a share for up to a fifth of BASE, a price it raised twice after the e-commerce platform pushed back, and the tender is structured to create an affiliate stake rather than take the company private.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Honda and Nissan have signed a binding contract to make the core ECUs, operating system, middleware and control software in their next-generation vehicles common to both companies, targeting deployment from fiscal 2029 with no synergy figure disclosed and only a minor financial impact flagged for the year to March 2027.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Kakaku.com's private-equity suitor raised its tender price by one yen to ¥3,571 and pushed the deadline to September 10, but a shareholder tender pledge with Oasis expired after the proposer missed its own price-match window, leaving that holder's participation undecided.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min read
A ¥165bn share allotment gave Lumina Japan Acquisition, an Apollo-advised holding vehicle capitalized at ¥5,000, 72.04% of Nippon Sheet Glass's votes on August 31, and a share consolidation now sets the company up to meet TSE Prime delisting criteria by September 28, with minority holders cashed out at ¥500 a share starting in late December.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Ichibanya, operator of the CoCo Ichibanya curry chain, and House Foods Group, named in a Nikkei report about a sale of Ichibanya shares, both confirm a review that includes taking the restaurant company private, but neither will verify the report itself.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
UT Group's founder is transferring 135.5mn shares to his own asset-management LLC at ¥182 apiece, paid for largely with a ¥24.66bn loan he is making to that LLC, leaving his camp's combined 36.95% stake unchanged.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
A March ransomware attack knocked out COTA's servers, forcing months of manual accounting work and pushing the haircare maker's annual filing past its ordinary deadline, and the company now says its internal financial controls were not effective as a result.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Itochu will buy out Dentsu Soken's minority shareholders and fold the IT consultancy into a joint venture with Dentsu Group, which keeps its 61.78% stake rather than selling.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
A newly listed subsidy will offset the fee home-care operators owe a second worker sent along on a visit after a client, relative, or cohabitant has harassed staff, but only for listed establishments within Tokyo and only when the harassment comes from the client's own circle.
Aug 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The city will help pay for security equipment at Tokyo-based home-visit care offices to counter harassment of staff who enter clients' homes, but offices run by national or local government don't qualify.
Aug 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Sony Music Entertainment will buy a 23.29% voting stake in GungHo Online Entertainment for ¥28.6bn from asset manager SON Financial, taking over as the mobile-game maker's largest shareholder, with veto rights limited to share moves that would dilute its stake below 22.65% before the deal closes in December.