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Aug 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Umios Corporation sold 562,400 shares of the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed fishery group at ¥887 apiece to four buyers on August 18, keeping only 3,500 shares for itself.
Aug 24, 2026 · 2 min read
SoftBank Group is raising ¥1tn from mostly individual investors through a seven-year unsecured bond, with the coupon to be fixed in a 4.30%-4.90% range on September 4.
Aug 24, 2026 · 2 min read
SURIGIKEN says its TOKYO PRO Market debut exists mainly to clear the credibility bar that keeps unlisted vendors out of large corporate tenders, even as its own guidance shows profit falling on the cost of getting there.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Ninety billion yen of five-year debt, priced at 2.35%, funds highway construction and repair work for West Nippon Expressway through the fiscal year ending March 2027, underwritten by Nomura, SMBC Nikko, Daiwa and Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley, with Japan's expressway debt agency assuming the obligation once the roads are built.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Oracle Japan's board declared a ¥858-a-share dividend for the year to May 2026, including a ¥660 special payout that pushed the payout ratio to 173% of net income, while cloud revenue jumped 34% to make up nearly 30% of total sales.
Aug 21, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan Petroleum Exploration completed the sale of one listed security for a ¥8.72bn gain, above the ¥6.0bn it estimated on August 6, and kept its full-year earnings forecast as is.
Aug 21, 2026 · 1 min read
Oncolys BioPharma began commercial sales of its OBP-301 oncolytic virus therapy on August 21, about two and a half months after Japan's health ministry approved it for esophageal cancer patients who cannot have curative surgery or chemoradiotherapy, with Fujifilm Toyama Chemical distributing it to hospitals.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's stake in en inc. climbed to 12.41% from 11.40%, and its amended filing says it may push for the representative director's removal, board changes, dividend policy shifts or delisting within a year, while also planning to buy more than five additional percentage points if the price looks cheap enough.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
A greenshoe sale worth 59,089,200 shares brought Daimler Truck's stake in ARCHION down to the 25% ceiling it and Toyota agreed to hit after last year's truck merger, with voting rights still split unevenly at 26.7% versus 19.9%.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Terumo cut its Singapore treasury subsidiary to one share on August 21 ahead of liquidation, and its own regulatory filing admits that disclosure was overdue, with no reason given for the delay.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Marumae now targets ¥8.2bn in operating profit for the year to August 2028, up from ¥5.6bn, after semiconductor equipment orders and price increases outran its earlier medium-term plan, with vacuum-chamber demand at subsidiary KMAC doing much of the work.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Bull-Dog Sauce will sell ¥2.0bn of cross-shareholdings and return 60% of profit to shareholders as it targets return on equity of 5% by 2028, up from a level that barely covers its own 4-5% cost of capital.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
An investor group that includes City Index Eleventh now holds 7.33% of Yamada Holdings and has disclosed it may push for higher dividends, buybacks, non-core asset sales, industry consolidation deals or a take-private transaction.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
TEPCO curtailed solar output in its own territory for the first time in March 2026, and the resulting generation shortfall cut Tokyo Infrastructure Energy Investment Corporation's per-unit distribution 11% to ¥1,471, with the next payout already guided down another 9%.
Aug 21, 2026 · 3 min read
US Commerce has opened a nationwide anti-circumvention investigation into solar cells and panels finished in Ethiopia with Chinese parts, and customs separately issued two detention notices, together covering $13,770 of cells, from the same Abalance-owned factory under forced-labor review; CBP has given no timeline for completing its review, and the nationwide investigation continues.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
TRIAL Holdings will move Seiyu's supermarket operations into a renamed subsidiary it keeps, while selling the emptied-out original entity, now just a landlord for select stores, to a buyer called Unicorn GK by December 1, 2026.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Nidec shareholders filed a formal demand on August 20 for the company to sue current and former directors over accounting misconduct, adding pressure on a liability investigation the company opened back in March that has yet to report its findings.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Regulatory clearances are done for Apollo's ¥165.0bn recapitalization of Nippon Sheet Glass, and the company now has a dated sequence: payment on August 31, delisting on September 28, and a share consolidation on September 30 that leaves the Apollo-backed vehicle as sole shareholder.
Aug 21, 2026 · 3 min read
The tendering pact between Oasis Management and Bain Capital's Kakaku.com bidding vehicle expired on 20 August, but Oasis says it won't tender into the rival's ¥3,570 offer unless it rises to ¥3,640 a share, a floor that keeps the vehicle's KDDI-contingent offer competitive ahead of the rival tender's close on 27 August.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥660 special dividend took Oracle Corporation Japan's total payout to ¥858 a share, 73% above its ¥495.97 in per-share earnings, even as cloud sales jumped 34% and drove revenue to a fresh annual record.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
The trading house priced three unsecured bond tranches from 2.113% to 3.190%, with the entire ¥86.6bn net proceeds earmarked for general working capital.
Aug 21, 2026 · 3 min read
A greenshoe exercise on August 14 completed a scripted reshuffle: Toyota's and Daimler Truck's combined hold in the merged Hino-Mitsubishi Fuso holding company fell from 54.29% to an even 50%, split exactly at 25% apiece.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
The Chiba prefecture lender is borrowing $300mn from international investors for five years at a fixed 4.863%, a Reg S deal rated A1 by Moody's Japan and listed in Singapore rather than sold to US buyers.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT wants to make illegal airport hire-car touting harder to hide by forcing operators to log and retain records of covered hire-car bookings, with suspensions running up to 120 vehicle-days for firms that skip the paperwork.