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Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Strategic Capital, holding 13.67% of GungHo Online Entertainment, says it will demand the removal of either the company's representative director or its chairman if the game maker stays listed instead of delisting through a takeover.
Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min read
The retailer's board resolved to hand AUTOBACS FRANCE, which lost €4.9mn on €44.7mn in sales last year, to Munich's FairCap Holding 12 GmbH for a nominal euro, and the accounting fallout, a ¥4.5bn deferred-tax benefit against a ¥2.3bn restructuring charge, raises the parent's net-profit forecast to ¥11.2bn while leaving sales and operating-profit guidance flat.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
SUMCO's August 20 share sale on Taiwan's stock market cut its voting stake in wafer maker FST to 38.0%, pushing the unit off SUMCO's consolidated books and onto equity-method accounting from the end of September, with the earnings effect still under review.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamaha Corporation sold 14 million Yamaha Motor shares for a ¥24.9bn standalone gain, but fair-value accounting keeps nearly all of that profit out of consolidated earnings, leaving its stake at 1.46% of issued shares.
Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min read
DyDo Group Holdings lifted its full-year operating profit target to ¥12.3bn even after raising its year-end Turkish inflation forecast to 28.6% from 21%, a revision that embeds a ¥1.1bn hyperinflation-accounting drag on operating profit.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Shokubai now expects to spend about ¥43.0bn, up from ¥37.5bn, on its Kitakyushu LiFSI plant and to start commercial output in December 2028 instead of July 2028, citing delayed land purchase and higher copper, petroleum and construction costs, while the government's ¥12.5bn subsidy commitment holds steady.
Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Kamgras 1 KK nudged its Kakaku.com tender to ¥3,571 a share and stretched the deadline to September 10, but the real shift is that rival bidder BCPE Blitz Cayman's tender pact with 19.52% shareholder Oasis Management expired on August 20 after BCPE declined to raise its own price, freeing Oasis's stake for now.
Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Luxshare Precision's Cayman unit is bidding ¥795 a share for Tokyo-listed Seed, but the buyout leaves the company's largest shareholder, not the Chinese buyer, holding 51% of the voting rights once the shares go private.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Kioxia and SanDisk say they will invest roughly ¥5tn, more than $31bn, in Japanese flash-memory production by 2032 at two existing plants, but the plan is explicitly conditional on support from the Japanese government that has not yet been detailed.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
SAAF Holdings shareholders approved a warrant-based takeover defense by 71.54%, but only after the company's independent committee stripped 63,044 votes tied to the targeted shareholder group from the count.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
TAMURA CORPORATION now expects operating profit of ¥6.5bn for the year to March 2027, above its 2018 record, after AI data center orders and price increases outran a forecast it had left unchanged since May.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Doctors giving Japan's recombinant RS virus vaccine would have to report Guillain-Barré syndrome within 28 days of a shot, after one suspected case surfaced 18 days post-vaccination and regulators could not rule out a link.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Investors priced the chemical maker's two-year notes at 2.048% and its five-year notes at 2.659%, with every yen of the proceeds earmarked to retire commercial paper due by the end of September.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
West Japan Railway's ¥52.4bn sustainability tranche funds new commuter and shinkansen rolling stock, while the shorter two bonds simply roll over maturing debt.
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The drone and airspace-management group will cut its investment unit to about ¥850,000 on October 1, but that is still well above the Tokyo Stock Exchange's own preference for retail-friendly pricing under ¥500,000.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamaha Corporation is selling 14 million Yamaha Motor shares in a block trade, cutting its holding from 2.84% to 1.46% for asset-efficiency reasons, while the joint brand-oversight committee between the two companies stays in place.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamabiko is chasing more than 20% annual growth in robotic lawn mower sales, nearly double the roughly 13% pace it forecasts for the professional segment, leaning on a Toro Company partnership and golf-course automation while a strong quarter funds the bet.
Aug 26, 2026 · 1 min read
Gunma Bank's board set September 30 as the record date for a December 23 shareholder vote on its share-exchange integration with Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group, with venue and full resolution details still pending.
Aug 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Selling a 22-year-old Okinawa resort at roughly five times book value, not stronger room rates, explains most of the increase in Japan Hotel REIT's freshly raised full-year payout, even as Chinese inbound arrivals keep sliding.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
GLP J-REIT is raising its August distribution forecast by 9.5% after a ¥4.4bn gain on selling its GLP Tokai warehouse beat the figure already baked into guidance, and management now wants to lift its recurring excess-profit payout target to 40% of depreciation.
Aug 26, 2026 · 1 min read
Media Do has termed out a short-term bridge loan into a ¥12.4bn, ten-year facility from five banks to cover its Seven Seas Entertainment acquisition, accepting covenants on equity strength and profitability through 2036.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Kasumigaseki Capital has agreed to sell the Miami development site meant to launch its US business, at a price worth at least a tenth of last year's revenue, with settlement due the day after signing and the buyer and exact figure kept confidential under an NDA.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT's draft cabinet order would delegate approval of single-region truck relay transport plans to regional transport bureau heads instead of the minister in Tokyo, with public comment open until September 25 and enforcement planned for November 1, 2026.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
FDA acceptance of a Phase 2 filing for an Alzheimer's cognition drug licensed from Nxera Pharma triggers a $10mn payment, about ¥1.59bn, that the company will book as third-quarter revenue under a fiscal year that already assumed it.