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  1. Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read

    Japan's Cabinet Resigns, and the Departing Trade Minister Flags a Conditional Tariff Truce With Washington

    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.

  2. Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read

    Katayama Vows More Yen Intervention as Japan Drops Its Budget Ceiling

    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.

  3. Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read

    Bank of Japan Raises Policy Rate to 1.25% on a 7-2 Vote, Reworks Its Climate-Lending Terms

    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.

  4. Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read

    Japan Reopens Subsidy Window for Data Center Decarbonization

    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.

  5. Sep 17, 2026 · 1 min read

    FSA Finalizes ¥6mn Surcharge Against I-ne Over 2022 Securities Report

    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.

  6. Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read

    Hobonichi Lifts Profit Guidance as Overseas Planner Orders Double

    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.

  7. Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read

    Terra Drone Says Its First Defense Revenue Lands This Autumn

    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.

  8. Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read

    Mercari's Profit Jumps 36% as Marketplace Growth Returns to Double Digits

    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.

  9. Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read

    Saint Marc pays ¥12.8bn for the Tsurutontan udon chain to chase inbound diners

    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.

  10. Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read

    Air Water Turns Its Accounting Scandal Into a Company-Wide Portfolio Purge

    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.

  11. Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read

    SanBio Targets Just Six Patients for Its ¥72.7mn Brain Therapy This Year

    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.

  12. Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read

    Japan's Cabinet Office Would Give Prefectures a Say Over Cross-Border Office Siting

    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.

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