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Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's outgoing Economy, Trade and Industry Minister used his final press conference before the cabinet's resignation to say faithful execution of the Japan-US Strategic Investment Initiative, one of the conditions behind Washington's more than ¥2tn cut to threatened tariffs, was essential to avoid renewed tariff hikes, and that a record ¥51-per-liter fuel subsidy still has no confirmed exit date.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's finance minister says Tokyo will not hesitate to join Washington in further coordinated yen-buying, and his ministry has replaced next year's budget-request ceiling with a test that scores each request by its effect on private investment and GDP.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's central bank lifted its overnight call rate guideline to around 1.25% from 1.0% on a 7-2 vote effective September 24, raised the rate it pays banks on reserves to match, and unanimously converted its ¥50tn climate-lending facility to a floating rate, with each bank's borrowing limit now tied to its own climate loan book and capped at ¥10tn.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Tokyo will help pay for travel agencies to build drone-piloted sightseeing tours for visitors who face difficulties with mobility or communication, but only firms based in the capital can apply.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's export-credit agency is guaranteeing a $6.5mn loan that a regional Japanese bank is extending to the Indonesian subsidiary of capacitor maker Rubycon, backing further expansion of the production base it set up on Batam Island in 1994.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's securities regulator says ENECHANGE Co., Ltd. understated a quarterly loss and then used that same filing to underpin a February 2024 offering that raised nearly ¥4.0bn from share buyers.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo's environment ministry has reopened applications for grants meant to cut emissions and toughen resilience at data centers, giving companies until October 16, 2026 to apply without saying what the money is actually worth.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
An individual identified only as 'A' bought ¥19.1mn of shares in a Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth-market vehicle dealer in the days before its tender offer became public, and Japan's markets regulator now wants ¥6.56mn of that trade's gain back by November 17, 2026.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
An individual identified only as "A" ran a layering scheme across three brokerages to move prices in three listed stocks over ten weeks in late 2023, and Japan's securities regulator now wants ¥6.27mn back by November 17.
Sep 17, 2026 · 1 min read
The Financial Services Agency has issued a formal surcharge payment order against I-ne CO.,LTD. over its securities report for the year ended December 2022, with a ¥6mn payment due November 17 that the company has already recorded as a special loss and says will carry no other earnings impact.
Sep 17, 2026 · 1 min read
Nissha has handed over half its 60% stake in Vietnamese subsidiary USM HEALTHCARE MEDICAL DEVICES FACTORY to a company director, pulling the unit out of consolidation, while the remaining 10% stays on its books for a planned sale between 2027 and 2028, with the resulting gain or loss still under review.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
ADR Biomedical's male incontinence cell-therapy kit went before Japan's central insurance council on September 16 with a proposed ¥860,000 reimbursement price and a December 1 coverage target, both still pending formal government notification.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Overseas wholesale orders for Hobonichi's 2027 planner more than doubled from a year earlier, and that order intake, not confirmed retail sell-through, is why the stationery maker raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts on September 17.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
SEKI plans to invest roughly ¥4.3bn in a new water-based flexo printing plant in Toon City, Ehime Prefecture, adding food-pouch and beverage-label capacity that will not start operating until April 2028.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Slow price pass-through on thick steel plate has pushed Chubu Steel Plate to guide for an ¥800mn first-half operating loss and cut full-year operating-profit guidance by 75% to ¥300mn.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
ALPS ALPINE will sell all 3 million Nippon Seiki shares it holds into Nippon Seiki's own September 18 share buyback, expecting to book roughly ¥5.0bn in special profit if the off-exchange trade completes as planned.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Eternal Hospitality Group missed its own profit guidance for the year to July 2026, booked a ¥391mn impairment tied to closing four of seven Shanghai stores, and has now halved next year's operating-profit target while domestic same-store sales keep outperforming.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Terra Drone told investors it landed two Ministry of Defense tenders far faster than the usual three-to-four-year entry timeline and expects its first defense revenue in September or October, while betting that a mandatory domestic-parts rule for flight controllers, batteries, motors and chargers would strengthen its position against foreign suppliers.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Mercari's net profit rose 36% to ¥35.4bn in the year to June 2026, as marketplace transactions topped ¥1.29tn on renewed double-digit growth, its Mercard credit card program passed 6 million cards issued, and its long-breakeven US business posted its best result yet, even though the company again paid no dividend.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Saint Marc Holdings will spend ¥12.8bn in cash to acquire the Tsurutontan udon and washoku business from Osaka's K-Express, a Kato Pleasure Group unit whose operating profit fell by more than half last year, and plans to use the brand's inbound following to expand into major Japanese cities and ASEAN markets before the deal takes effect on December 1, 2026.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Air Water is screening every subsidiary in its group on strategic fit, financial performance and governance, and says businesses judged better suited to a different owner will be transferred promptly, with proceeds funding both extra shareholder payouts and ongoing growth investment.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
SanBio's newly launched cell therapy for chronic motor paralysis after traumatic brain injury, priced at ¥72.7mn a treatment, has generated no revenue and no dosed patients four months after its Japanese launch, and the company is now targeting only six cases by the fiscal year-end in January while its cash pile fell ¥2.34bn to ¥12.75bn over the same half-year.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment Corporation sold two commercial ground leases for ¥13.1bn and is funnelling the proceeds through a debt-free vehicle into 17 land leases with percentage-based rents rather than fixed contracts, holding its targeted yield at 4.7%.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
A Cabinet Office draft revising Japan's national Urban Regeneration Basic Policy would give prefectures authority to coordinate office and facility siting decisions that cross municipal lines, strip every disaster-hazard zone out of areas meant to concentrate housing, and add new heritage-renovation and area-management tools, with public comment open only through September 30, 2026.