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Aug 26, 2026 · 1 min read
Asset Value Investors has lifted its Wacom holding to 18.11% and is formally pushing the company toward a 65% dividend payout ratio, while reserving the right to seek board and capital-policy changes.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management raised its COMSYS Holdings stake to 7.36% from 6.32% and disclosed plans to press for dividend policy changes, the ouster of the representative director and a possible further purchase of more than five percentage points within three months.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
ORIX JREIT is trading ¥35.1bn of buildings averaging 37 years old for ¥132.3bn of assets averaging 11.6 years, with some deals still due to close by 2028, chasing dividend-per-unit growth above 3% a year with barely any change to headline yield.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's radar-satellite maker QPS Holdings posted a ¥1.15bn net profit in its debut year, aided by a Ministry of Defense contract worth up to ¥69.7bn and a ¥15.2bn share placement to fund its satellite constellation expansion.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Hodogaya Chemical closed its takeover of Hungarian API maker Framochem on August 25, giving Japan's original phosgene producer a European manufacturing base for the first time, though the earnings effect for the year to March 2027 is still under review.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
enish's board has approved a ¥100mn Solana purchase, the first slice of a ¥640mn treasury plan, and will now run quarterly mark-to-market gains and losses on the holding directly through earnings.
Aug 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Dai Nippon Printing has 96.55% of Austria's AustriaCard Holdings tendered at a value of about €351mn, clearing every regulatory hurdle except Austria's own foreign-investment approval, with a squeeze-out and delisting from Vienna and Athens already planned once that arrives.
Aug 26, 2026 · 1 min read
ACSL priced its European and Asian share offering at ¥1,310 a share for ¥5.12bn in net proceeds, but cut the defense-business allocation to ¥3.12bn from the ¥4.81bn ceiling set in its original filing two days earlier, while the ¥2bn earmarked for North America expansion stayed unchanged.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
A fresh EDINET filing shows Oji Holdings sold KPP Group Holdings shares on 35 separate trading days this summer, cutting a legacy cross-shareholding to 13.20% from 14.22% with no stated end point.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
A Tokyo-based individual investor and a corporate joint holder registered at the same Akasaka address have amended their large-shareholding filing on Taiyo Bussan Kaisha, replacing broad wording about pure investment and unspecified proposals with explicit demands for dividend increases, buybacks and governance changes.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
A Nagoya holding company and the representative director who runs it have jointly disclosed a combined 69.58% stake in Yamahachi Corporation, leaving outside shareholders with a thin slice of the float.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
East Japan Railway is expanding its holding in century-old traction-equipment maker Toyo Denki Seizo to 20% of shares outstanding, a filing made as the supplier's full-year net profit rises 39.8% and its dividend climbs to ¥100 a share from ¥70.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
NTT Finance Corporation has registered to sell up to ¥1tn in corporate bonds between September 2026 and September 2028, but it has yet to fix a size, coupon or underwriter for a single tranche.
Aug 26, 2026 · 2 min read
ART VIVANT's own chairman set up a ¥5,000 holding company that picked up 59.73% of the Tokyo-listed retailer in a tender offer; combined with the chairman's other holding vehicle, insiders now control 94.02%, enough to push the company toward delisting.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo-listed contractor Daiho Construction has agreed to buy 1.68 million UNICON Holdings shares, worth 17% of the voting rights, from private equity seller Endeavor United, and will nominate a director once shareholders approve at UNICON's September 29 annual meeting.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
ACSL priced 4.18 million new shares at ¥1,310, a 9.97% discount to the day's benchmark, to raise an estimated ¥5.12bn net for defense-drone production capacity and a North American expansion running through December 2029.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
MHLW's late-August filing would reclassify oral loxoprofen from a Class 1 to a Designated Class 2 OTC drug, letting registered sales clerks complete sales alongside pharmacists in exchange for tougher box warnings, buyer checklists and mandatory staff training that manufacturers and retailers must supply.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Mercari spent ¥9.99bn to hit its full ¥10bn buyback ceiling within the three-week window ending August 24, but only used about half of its 4-million-share allowance, and will retire all 2,118,800 shares it bought on November 12.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Valex Partners now holds 14.63% of Syuppin, up from 13.52%, and says it will file proposals on dividend policy and capital policy within 12 months, on top of proposals already made about a possible business transfer or a third party taking majority voting control.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Kuraudia Holdings is shutting its 30-year-old Qingdao wedding-dress plant over rising Chinese labor costs and an aging workforce, booking roughly ¥170mn in restructuring charges while making its Ho Chi Minh City subsidiary the primary production site.
Aug 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Nomura Asset Management is splitting six NEXT FUNDS ETFs, including its Nikkei 225 and gold-price trackers, by ratios as steep as 400-for-1, while lifting the Tokyo Stock Exchange's minimum order from one unit to ten, a shuffle that still leaves each fund cheaper to buy than before.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
A Japan Fair Trade Commission order against event contractor Cerespo has become the trigger for a ¥4.1bn penalty-and-damages suit from the liquidating Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games committee, filed at the Tokyo District Court in May and served on the company in late July.
Aug 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Orchestra Holdings is swapping stock, not cash, to take full ownership of Sharing Innovations, delisting the shrinking Growth-market subsidiary by late November and ending a costly parent-child listing arrangement.
Aug 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Hitachi's final 10.1% voting stake in Hitachi Construction Machinery was sold and placed with institutional investors in a single day on August 19, 2026, via SMBC Nikko Securities, even as Hitachi Construction Machinery says its engineering partnership with Hitachi continues.