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Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The regulator says inspections will now test whether anti-money laundering controls actually work, as specialized fraud losses reached ¥325.7bn and an illicit-account information-sharing system is pushed for April 2027.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Kyushu Electric ordinary shareholders are due to receive one new share for each one they hold, while the amended statement lists a provisional registered amount of ¥503.7bn.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Kubota bought 11,104,900 shares for ¥29.9999bn on June 12, taking its April buyback authorisation to 100 per cent of the cash limit even though only 74.03 per cent of the share cap was used.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Muninoba’s tender offer succeeded and Aiful is handing over its 6,408,000-share block on July 9, giving the buyer 77.67 per cent of Anshin Guarantor Service’s voting rights. The catch: that is still below 90 per cent, so the final squeeze-out and delisting steps now run through an early-September extraordinary meeting.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Kamgras 1 kept its ¥3,000-a-share offer intact but extended the acceptance period, delaying the expected shareholder meeting and shifting the squeeze-out phase into early October.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Fake investment ads, identification-code solicitations and unregistered lender ads are among the categories Japan wants added to the Internet Hotline Center's removal-request workflow, with comments open until July 16.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: the consultation would reset the two early-stage carve-outs that now extend system-filing deadlines and waive some incident reports for newly designated special critical infrastructure operators, with comments open until August 2.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: alongside a ¥40-a-share year-end dividend, TV Asahi shareholders used the AGM to press charter changes on impartial journalism, online content correction, one-third female representation among full-time directors and protections against ad-program confusion.
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
The move: Resona Holdings is raising ¥70bn through unsecured bonds, split between ¥40bn of three-year notes and ¥30bn of five-year debt, under a ¥400bn shelf effective until May 2028.
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
The move: Komatsu disclosed a two-tranche unsecured issue, a ¥20bn three-year green bond and a ¥30bn five-year bond. The filing puts the deal under a ¥100bn shelf registered in November 2024, with no prior draws shown on the cover page.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: a ¥22.2bn net loss after last October’s ransomware attack knocked out ordering systems, dragged sales to ¥400.2bn and cut the annual dividend to ¥10. Management is guiding for sales to recover to ¥490bn and profit to return, but says margins will still be rebuilding.
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
The catch: Noritsu Koki says a report required after its January 15 decision to buy Senqcia was left unfiled until July 3, even though the target had ¥35.41bn in sales in the year ended March 2025.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: every remaining step in Joyful Honda and Arclands’ planned integration is now undecided after accounting concerns at Pets First Holdings forced an outside-led probe and a fresh review of the March 2027 target.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: existing common shareholders are slated to receive one KYUDEN Holdings share for each Kyushu Electric share on October 1, with the successor seeking technical listings in Tokyo and Fukuoka and disclosing a provisional registered amount of ¥503.7bn.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The consultation would newly list impersonation-style fake investment ads and remittance-crime solicitations as illegal information examples, a change platforms and ad distributors may need to mirror in screening and complaint-handling rules if adopted after comments close on July 16.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Japan’s draft FEFTA rules would refine indirect voting-right calculations and make some acquisitions of overseas entities reportable when they own Japanese shares above the applicable threshold. The annexes also spell out drone, satellite and rocket-related sectors, and comments run to Aug. 2.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The finding: Abalance's committee said a ¥30mn LPWA prototype order later carried at Abit lacked economic substance, making ¥25mn of booked sales inappropriate, while stopping short of concluding the accounting was intentional.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: TEPCO’s 13-director slate was approved, but 190 shareholders used the annual meeting to press a charter amendment for a Kashiwazaki-Kariwa accident fund, revised from ¥23.4tn to ¥3.8tn and designed to be funded through customer electricity charges.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Kamgras 1's offer can buy unlimited shares at ¥3,000 each, but the filing says it only needs 34,941,000 shares to clear its minimum condition, equal to a 17.51% post-purchase ownership ratio including special related parties.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
A roughly ¥20bn off-market block trade tied to a capital and business alliance gives TBS an 8.03% stake in U-NEXT, while Yasuhide Uno and UNO-HOLDINGS remain just above the majority line at 50.59%.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Towa plans to buy Tanabe Pharma Factory outright, start transferring 35 manufacturing and marketing approvals from April 2027 onward and use the added capacity to target 24bn tablets by 2030 and more than 30bn by 2036.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The package would bring some later voting-right acquisitions by overseas holders of Japanese shares into the inward-investment regime, while redrawing who counts as a foreign investor and which FEFTA payments banks must check.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The joint holding rose from 6.13% to 8.56%, with Blue Goats Capital and Kazuhiro Aoyagi still describing the position as pure investment and reporting their own cash as the funding source.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The draft order would revisit the grace periods around system registration and incident reporting for designated critical-infrastructure operators, where current rules let some filings wait six months from designation and waive reports on early incidents.