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Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Sony Bank is putting $40 million (about ¥6.4bn) behind a new wholly owned US trust company, Connectia Trust, National Association, due to open in July 2026, with room to add more capital later and no representative named yet.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: Hokuriku Electric's shareholders wanted to cut the dividend to ¥5 a share and send the difference to Noto earthquake relief and rate cuts; the board's ¥15 payout won with 98% support instead. Six separate proposals to quit nuclear power and reprocessing were also voted down, though the filing doesn't disclose how close those specific votes were.
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read
The number: the Tokyo Labour Bureau has cancelled Kyodo Paper Holdings' employment adjustment subsidy and confirmed a ¥70.4mn refund, which the paper wholesaler will book as an extraordinary loss in the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. The company had already applied to return the money voluntarily on June 26 and says it is tightening internal checks after the episode.
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read
The number: customer visits to McDonald's Japan fell 1.5% in June even as diners spent 4.2% more per visit, pulling same-store sales growth down to 2.7% from May's 5.7%.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: USS Group sold 619,002 vehicles in the June quarter, up 8.4% year-on-year, while listings rose a slower 4.7% to 950,380. The result: a contract rate of 65.1%, up from 62.9% a year earlier, with Tokyo and Kyushu leading and Osaka the lone large venue to shrink.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: 17.8% of Nippon Sheet Glass, 25.3 million shares, is now locked into a vote for a third-party share allotment and consolidation that would make Lumina Japan Acquisition the sole owner, with the pledge running through DBJ Corporate Mezzanine Partners' two mezzanine funds.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Kamgras 1 K.K. needs just 34.9mn Kakaku.com shares tendered, a floor stake of 17.51%, to complete its go-private bid before the offer closes July 16; there is no cap on how much more it can buy.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Nextage's half-year operating profit came in 34% above its own guidance, on a buoyant used-car purchasing market and shorter inventory lead times. The retailer now expects full-year operating profit of ¥27.6bn, up 15% from January's forecast, while leaving its second-half plan unchanged for now.
Jul 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Macbee Planet's board wants a subsidiary chief running the business day to day while founder Masakazu Matsumoto keeps a representative-director seat as chairman to police governance during a portfolio review that could reshuffle group companies; shareholders vote on it July 29.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: at Starts Corporation's June 26 shareholder meeting, all 11 director nominees were approved, but President Toyotaka Muraishi collected only 66.02% support and director Hisaji Muraishi got 69.08%, both markedly weaker than other nominees on the same ballot, one of whom won on an 89%-plus margin. The filing gives no stated reason for the gap.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: K Line spent ¥50.7bn buying back its own shares on June 2 alone, out of a ¥130bn program that runs through September 30. It then kept clearing roughly ¥1bn a day in purchases through June 8.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: DISCO's April-June shipments hit a record ¥116.5bn, up 18.7% from the prior quarter, while sales of ¥95.0bn still lagged behind because DISCO only books revenue once customers accept delivery. Generative-AI demand for its wafer-cutting and grinding tools drove the shipment record; full audited results land July 23.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Aviation Capital Group's Irish funding arm signed a five-year, unsecured loan worth $1,476.5mn with a 33-bank syndicate led by DBS Bank. The catch: the covenants, an interest coverage floor of 1.5x, minimum net assets of $1.5bn, and an unsecured-asset cushion of 125% of unsecured liabilities, are tested against ACG's own consolidated balance sheet, not the borrowing entity's.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: minority holders in the nursing-care operator get exactly ¥1,119 a share, matching MBK Partners' spring tender price, before Solasto disappears from Tokyo's Prime market on August 6, 2026.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Resonac will hand shareholders more than 80% of Culasus Chemical, its ¥300.3bn petrochemical unit, on October 1. The catch: the same carve-out triggers a formulaic cut to the conversion price on Resonac's 2028 euro-yen convertible bonds, sized by a five-day trading comparison between the two stocks from September 29 to October 5. The board still has to vote on the spin-off in late August, and the exact price adjustment won't be known until after that trading window closes.
Jul 6, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: May meeting notes show the FSA pressing regional and labor banks to keep financing flowing to firms squeezed by Middle East supply shortages, to put the new May 1 guarantor-information network to work on succession deals, and to explain interest-rate risk to mortgage borrowers again after a March reminder didn't seem to stick.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: Toyota and Daimler Truck are both cutting their ARCHION stakes to 25%, but Toyota's voting rights fall further, to 19.9%, ending its status as an affiliated company, while Daimler Truck keeps 26.7% of the vote. Pricing on the up-to-906-million-share sale is set between July 22 and July 27.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Sapporo Breweries is buying 25% of a new Singapore joint venture holding Carlsberg's business across six Asian markets, and betting the deal can grow its premium beer's regional sales roughly tenfold by 2035.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
An off-market sale of 441.6 million Chiyoda Corporation preferred shares drops Mitsubishi Corporation's holding ratio from 81.94% to 66.57%, a stake cut worth roughly ¥55.1bn.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Four affiliated holders led by Hikari Tsushin lifted their combined voting rights in the construction-software maker to 10.01%, crossing the line that makes a shareholder legally "major" under Japan's securities law.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A four-investor group anchored by a Wakayama trading firm has pushed its stake in the Hokkaido drugstore chain past 19%, while the same filing keeps open an option to make unspecified proposals.
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has filed a shelf registration letting it sell up to ¥1tn in unsecured bonds in pieces over two years, with coupons and redemption terms left blank until each tranche prices.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale's board wants inside directors to earn new stock awards over four years, not one, and can claw the shares back if misconduct triggers a restated audit.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale plans to cut stated capital by ¥2.13bn and drain its entire ¥5.60bn capital reserve to wipe out a ¥7.73bn accumulated deficit, an accounting shuffle that leaves shareholders' stakes and the company's net worth unchanged.