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Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Curry chain operator Ichibanya grew half-year sales 10.0% to ¥35.23bn, yet operating profit fell 17.2% to ¥2.09bn, which the company attributes to costlier ingredients, rice included, and higher logistics costs.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Cave posted a ¥555mn operating profit for June to August, against a ¥565mn loss a year earlier, crediting collaboration campaigns and cost cuts; its new Steam release has no reported sales yet.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
VRAIN Solution's AI inspection system has been adopted for a project at a large semiconductor-ceramics maker's domestic site, in a half-year of ¥1.88bn in sales, up 80.0%, and ¥1.31bn of backlog.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
After a ¥2.302bn net loss and a ¥2.239bn operating cash outflow, FIXER says a material uncertainty over its going-concern basis remains, with a ¥1.547bn cost cut under way and financing talks still unsettled.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
QPS Holdings lifted its operating-profit forecast from ¥300mn to ¥2bn with sales unchanged at ¥10bn, saying about ¥1.2bn of research cost will go unbooked this year and satellite depreciation will run below plan.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Overseas buyers generated 57.5% of Hobonichi Techo revenue as the 2026 edition sold a record 1.14 million copies; the next fiscal year runs only ten months, so growth rates will not compare cleanly.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
A Delaware federal court found Shibuya infringed Steuben Foods patents and awarded $38.3mn in damages plus $10.3mn in prejudgment interest; the company plans to appeal and has yet to size the hit to its year to June 2027.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
The Financial Stability Board chair's letter to G20 finance leaders, relayed by Japan's FSA before the 15 October Bangkok meeting, covers AI-related investment, global stablecoin vulnerabilities and public liquidity backstops.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Wel-Dish has no date for its third-quarter or annual results, and says it plans to correct earlier years, though the periods affected and the amounts are still being determined.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Suzuki Motor will give 20,028 employees restricted treasury shares worth ¥824.95mn from July 2027, locked until June 2032 and forfeited on early departure unless the board accepts the reason, at a dilution of 0.02%.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Sugi Holdings raised its voting stake in an affiliated drugstore and pharmacy operator from 49.0% to 51.0% on 1 September, consolidating it as a subsidiary years before the June 2030 purchase it had first planned.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
IPS, Inc. priced its new-share sale at ¥3,346, setting up to ¥4.58bn in net proceeds for its Wakayama submarine cable project, of which ¥597.4mn depends on Mizuho Securities taking up an allotment.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Odakyu will pay 2.732% on a ¥10.5bn five-year bond and 3.428% on a ¥21.5bn ten-year green bond, whose proceeds are assigned to clean-transport investment such as rolling stock by March 2030.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Media Do raised its net-profit forecast to ¥2.76bn from ¥1.2bn and its year-end dividend to ¥55 on an expected ¥1.56bn gain from selling subsidiaries, while sales and operating-profit guidance did not change.
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
PR TIMES raised its ordinary-dividend floor from 2% to 9% of equity and now forecasts ¥74.30 a share for the year to February 2027, up from ¥16.80, while promising in principle to return at least half of any unused M&A budget.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Metaplanet repurchased 73,981,400 shares for ¥19.31bn at ¥261 in an off-auction trade, drawing on a ¥60bn authorization that runs to October 2027.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Saizeriya's Japan operating profit rose 19.4% while Asia's fell 4.2% despite 17.1% higher sales, and the chain now says menu prices will be revised as conditions require after holding them so far.
Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
AEON Mall booked a ¥536mn disaster loss and says an accident committee is still investigating the Kumamoto mall explosion and Uki ceiling collapse, while operating profit hit a record ¥44.0bn for the half year.
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
IDOM expects ¥655.0bn of sales but only ¥18.5bn of operating profit, down from ¥24.0bn, as inventory clearance, weaker auction prices and hiring for 13 large-store openings weigh; its full-year dividend forecast falls to ¥31.38.
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Holders tendered 13.1mn shares, enough to complete Luxshare's ¥795 offer for Seed, but the bidder will hold 43.29% of the votes after October 20 settlement and still plans a squeeze-out and delisting.
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Kamgras 1 K.K. raised its Kakaku.com tender offer to ¥3,682 a share, extended it to October 28 and moved settlement to November 5, while saying talks with Oasis have produced no decision.
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
U-NEXT HOLDINGS grew revenue 20.4% to ¥469.96bn, yet operating profit fell 4.2% as power procurement costs hit fixed-price energy contracts, and management is repricing them and moving customers to market-linked tariffs.
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Rorze's operating profit rose 42.4% to ¥23.1bn in the six months to August, and a US patent settlement that cost ¥9.587bn in cash added only ¥2.158bn of special loss.
Oct 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Ryohin Keikaku's operating profit jumped 40.1% to ¥103.4bn on overseas growth and a weaker yen, but it guides to a 4.5% fall in net profit next year as this year's one-off gains reverse.