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Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min read
CyberBuzz will pay ¥471.3mn and ¥28.7mn in base prices for two Kumamoto companies, plus about ¥80mn in advisory costs and an earnout capped at half of each company's EBITDA; its forecast update is due 12 November.
Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Bookoff Group Holdings corrected its breach disclosures to add occupation and nickname to the member data that may have leaked, while the affected-person count of about 6.38 million and the record count stay unchanged.
Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale's October briefing details a £15mn UK Ministry of Defence order and a €13.2mn French deorbit mission contracted through Exotrail, together ¥5.4bn of orders since August, while first-quarter operating loss was ¥2.75bn.
Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau proposes dropping standard audit frequencies for large carriers in favour of plans built on an 11-item risk profile and mandatory corrective-action plans; comments close November 13.
Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Saikaya shareholders vote on November 16 on swapping each share for 0.3 AFC-HD share, with delisting planned for December 11 and the exchange effective December 15, subject to change.
Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft assessment of the plant growth regulator rests on lab toxicity tests, with no colony-level or pollen-and-nectar residue studies, and the ministry is taking public comment until 13 November.
Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's farm ministry is taking comment until 13 November on a draft finding that the acaricide propargite is unlikely to harm bee colonies, provided growers keep it off fruit trees from bud break to petal fall.
Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's farm ministry has opened a voluntary comment period on a draft finding that the insecticide buprofezin, used on rice, fruit and tea, does not threaten honeybee colony survival when applied as registered.
Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min read
A farm ministry draft finds the miticide pyrimidifen poses no colony risk if its single use, on greenhouse roses, is confined to closed-system facilities; public comment runs to 13 November.
Oct 16, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft assessment finds pyraclonil, a rice-paddy weed-control ingredient in 147 applied-for formulations, unlikely to harm honeybee colonies as applied; the farm ministry takes public comments until November 13.
Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan pledged $40mn to the Global Financing Facility and urged every G20 member to join a World Bank debt-data exercise, in a statement delivered as it took the Development Committee chair.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Yellow Hat says log analysis fixes the number of affected members at 1,797,124, slightly below its first estimate, but adds addresses, birth dates, gender and login IDs to the data taken; the booking system has restarted and the final report has gone to the privacy regulator.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
West Holdings' grid-battery segment earned ¥8.42bn of operating profit against ¥2.17bn for its renewable-energy segment, while a per-operator limit on connection studies took effect on 1 August and the company reports more than 1,600 connection applications.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota Motor Finance (Netherlands) is offering US dollar, Australian dollar and New Zealand dollar notes maturing October 2031 to Japanese retail investors at 5.18%, 5.44% and 4.73%, without a direct guarantee from Toyota Motor or Toyota Financial Services.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
TOHO lifted its full-year net profit forecast to ¥48bn from ¥41bn after selling investment securities, while keeping revenue at ¥345bn and operating profit at ¥62bn, and left the year-end dividend under review.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Takashimaya's operating profit rose 16.4% in the six months to August on inbound and domestic demand, and it raised full-year operating profit guidance to ¥59.0bn, even as net profit fell 24.5% after last year's asset-sale gain.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
SHIFT's subsidiary is to be sole general partner of a planned ¥15bn software-investment fund with Tokyo Gas, holding all execution authority while SHIFT and the subsidiary together plan to supply 33.3% of the capital.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Serverworks lifted its operating-profit forecast 27.1% to ¥1.665bn and net profit 70.1% to ¥1.538bn, crediting AI-related demand but also a weaker yen, cloud-vendor partner incentives and a lower tax charge.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Photosynth plans to buy GOODLIFE and GDS for ¥560mn, all bank-funded, then merge them on 1 December 2026, using their owned stores to test staff-light operation. The hoped-for savings are goals, not results.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Pasona Group says subsidiary Pasona is under a Japan Fair Trade Commission investigation into dispatch fee-setting and that it is cooperating fully; the quarterly report gives no allegation or outcome, and full-year guidance is unchanged.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
MORESCO raised its full-year operating-profit forecast from ¥2.4bn to ¥4.5bn, citing price corrections, higher car output outside China and data-centre disk lubricants, and lifted its year-end dividend forecast to ¥70 a share.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Money Forward's operating profit reached ¥1.69bn for the nine months to August 2026, up from a ¥1.98bn loss, but full-year guidance still runs from a ¥500mn operating loss to a ¥1.5bn profit.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Medley suspended its @link medical-institution system and patient app on October 14 after confirming unauthorized access; patient data may have leaked from as many as 787 institutions, and no restart date has been given.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Mani's operating profit rose 21.4% to ¥9.94bn as diamond-bar sales in China returned to 88% of pre-recall levels in the first year back, ahead of the company's own two-year recovery goal.