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Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Lifenet Insurance has signed a conditional deal to buy Kizuna and enter small-amount short-term insurance, with about ¥390mn of total spending including systems; the purchase price is undisclosed, and closing is planned for April 2027.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's core private machinery orders rose 5.2% in August, the first gain in two months, while total orders fell 3.7% and the Cabinet Office held its assessment that orders are picking up.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
HIOKI's nine-month orders rose 40.0% against 22.8% for sales, with automatic test equipment orders more than doubling, and the company says component shortages are delaying deliveries while it holds its full-year guidance.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
GO, Waymo and Nihon Kotsu aim for driverless Tokyo taxis in 2027, scaling to about 100 vehicles only after permits are obtained, while GO's app business lifted quarterly operating profit to ¥3.04bn.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
GLP J-REIT will pay ¥393 a unit of returned investor capital on top of ¥3,267 of earnings, targets 40% of depreciation for that return, and has authorized a buyback of up to ¥10bn.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Garden now expects ¥10mn of net profit for the year to February 2027, down from ¥840mn, blaming weaker existing-store traffic after price rises and higher expansion costs, while its ¥90 dividend forecast stands.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
FP Partner's nine-month operating profit fell 30.8% to ¥1.54bn as single-premium sales rose and a main life insurer began paying commission in instalments; the agency left its full-year guidance unchanged.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Eole will issue 3,436,428 new shares, 7.97% of its existing stock, to take over AI-server seller WOODMAN, with its shareholder vote planned for 27 November and the exchange effective on 30 November.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
A MAFF draft concludes dinotefuran is unlikely to impair honeybee colonies if used within applied-for methods and risk-management measures, with public comment open until November 13.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Consec says its auditor found the final dividend for the year to March 2025 exceeded the legal distributable amount by ¥47mn; shareholders need not repay, and an outside committee will examine causes and responsibility.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Bridgestone's buyback used up its ¥150bn value cap with 42,649,100 shares bought, 71.1% of the share ceiling, and the company cancelled the same number of treasury shares on September 18.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Intruders reached Beauty Garage's servers between 10 and 12 October, and the company has confirmed 775,725 leaked records covering salon names, customer names, emails and phone numbers; it is still assessing the earnings impact.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
BayCurrent targets ¥500bn in revenue and a 40% EBITDA margin in its 2030 plan, and now holds back only about 25% of forecast revenue in cash, with the surplus going to investment and buybacks.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
BCPE Neon Cayman passed 50% of Baudroie's voting rights on October 13 when its tender offer settled and it bought shares from three founders, two of whom no longer count as major shareholders.
Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Axelspace Holdings will issue warrants over 16.5mn shares, 24.78% of voting rights, to SMBC Nikko Securities after faults in four GRUS-3 satellites; proceeds are about ¥4.3bn if all are exercised at the initial price and about ¥2.6bn at the floor.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
ABEJA's operating profit rose 59.4% to ¥710.6mn in the year to August 2026, but a ¥306mn tax credit helped push net profit up 137.8%; the company guides net profit down 36.2% next year as revenue climbs 30.2%.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo small firms whose new leader has taken over representative authority from a predecessor can apply until 12 November for a grant toward new-business costs, with decisions planned for early February.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Applications run to 15 December, but two of the four applicant types must already have used a local succession-advice programme since 1 October 2025 to qualify for help paying outside experts.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Japanese police traced a 2024 bank-impersonation voice-phishing case to a Vietnamese money-laundering group, and Vietnam has now apprehended seven of its suspects, the National Police Agency said.
Oct 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's NEDO is taking applications until 16 November for an additional round of quantum-computer R&D funding, this one aimed at the components and materials layer rather than whole machines.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo hospitals with fewer than 200 beds can claim up to ¥2.7mn for one discharge-coordination nurse or social worker, but the higher tier requires a record of home-care admissions and shared records with community providers.
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The health ministry wants to lift the charge for ID5 linkage information from ¥70 to ¥82 per block of up to 1,000 records from April 2027, citing higher system and staff costs.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Daito, Meiji Seika Pharma and the Development Bank of Japan plan a joint company to take over Kyorin Pharmaceutical's generic business, with the absorption split set for March 31, 2027 and closing on April 1.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Create Restaurants Holdings will transfer all shares of its Hong Kong subsidiary, set up in 2012, to a franchise partner for HK$1 on October 29; the company calls the effect on current-year results minor.