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Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read
A single off-auction trade wiped Sega Sammy Holdings off PAPYLESS's shareholder register, as the digital comics retailer paid ¥875.7mn to buy back the entire 900,000-share block in one session.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Topy Industries has lined up a new, unnamed Chinese buyer for its loss-making Guangzhou wheel subsidiary after the first buyer breached the sale contract in February 2026, with the share transfer planned for September 30, 2026.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan M&A Solution Incorporated faces a Tokyo District Court claim for ¥816.2mn tied to its advisory role in a 2023 share sale, though its contract limits any damages to the ¥23.8mn fee it earned and only if intentional misconduct or gross negligence is found.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Daiwa Asset Management will merge every 100 units of its TOPIX and Nikkei 225 double-inverse ETFs into one on October 22, and unitholders below that threshold on October 21 will be bought out rather than rolled into the new unit count.
Aug 20, 2026 · 1 min read
A Kyoto rental-housing brokerage under Elitz Holdings stored tenant-applicant emails, some dating back to April 2021, in a cloud environment with inadequate access controls, a gap an outside researcher caught on August 17, and the company still cannot say whether any data actually got out.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
AeroEdge's operating profit jumped 75% to ¥1.15bn in the year to June 2026 on surging LEAP engine blade sales, but a customer testing hitch has pushed one new engine program's payoff back a year, to the year to June 2028.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Chemipro Kasei has cut its year-to-March-2027 ordinary-profit margin target to 2.4% from 5% or higher and its ROE goal to 3.2% from 7% or higher, citing a naphtha price spike tied to the Strait of Hormuz blockade.
Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min read
Tera Probe's first-half operating profit rose 94%, driven largely by data-center processor testing demand, and the semiconductor tester now expects record full-year sales and profit, a new Taiwan plant and a five-for-one stock split to widen its shareholder base.
Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min read
Lintec approved a ¥30bn share buyback the same day Nippon Paper agreed to sell nearly all its 20 million Lintec shares, a sale that ends Nippon Paper's run as Lintec's top shareholder and equity-method partner.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi Electric will pay a base $1.4bn for Oklahoma-based PCI Energy Solutions, whose trading and dispatch platforms already sit behind three-fifths of US power output, as the company chases a ¥200bn smart-energy revenue target by fiscal 2030.
Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min read
July brought record Japanese export and import values, but the deficit widened 306% from a year earlier as a weaker yen inflated import costs and imports from the United States surged 58%.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
The UK value investor built an 18.45 million share position in Japan's advertising holding company entirely with client money, and wants talks on dividends, buybacks and board composition.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Amazon.com sold 43.6mn istyle stock acquisition rights back to the Tokyo-listed beauty-data company at ¥72 apiece on August 13, cutting its potential voting stake from 39.30% to 9.29% while keeping the four-year alliance alive.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
The auto-parts maker will earmark all ¥10bn from a planned five-year bond for safety-system production and decarbonization capital spending, filling in terms left blank in January's shelf filing.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management and a second Tokyo-registered fund manager now jointly hold 5.01% of Aozora Bank, a stake built through routine portfolio mandates rather than any push for board influence.
Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read
A joint large-shareholding filing shows Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management and a Tokyo co-filer together hold 8,040,200 Goldwin shares, all through fund and discretionary mandates rather than any push for board influence.
Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo's telecoms ministry wants to strip the ¥110 cap on standard letters out of postal regulation and replace it with a three-year cost-recovery formula, letting Japan Post argue for higher rates through a prescribed cost model instead of a fixed number in the rulebook.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management has lifted its stake in Nichirei to 7.27% from 6.07% through near-daily on-market buying since July, and discloses ¥35.55bn as its total funding for the whole 18.68mn-share position; the activist fund is now pressing the frozen-food group on board composition, dividends and capital policy, with room to buy over 5 percentage points more within three months.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Be Brave's stake in Univance climbed to 7.09% from 6.08%, and the Tokyo fund wants the auto-parts maker to sell its policy shareholdings to fund an 8% dividend-on-equity payout, invoking the Tokyo Stock Exchange's 2023 request on capital cost and its revised governance code.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Shinto Holdings disclosed on August 19 that ¥205mn earmarked for its own metal purchases was instead used to repay a bank, a related company and an individual, cover payroll and rent, and fund a loan to another subsidiary, spending that happened before the board approved the change or investors were told.
Aug 19, 2026 · 1 min read
A gain on selling shares in an affiliate helped lift Sansan's annual profit to ¥6.78bn from ¥424mn, and the digital business-card company declared its first-ever dividend of ¥2.50 a share while targeting 16-20% annual sales growth through 2029.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Sakata Seed's final forensic report ties a Japan server breach to a public remote-access point and a separate US subsidiary intrusion to remote-access login credentials, and says neither has produced confirmed data misuse to date.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
OXIDE will spend ¥1.455bn on new Yamanashi production equipment for Faraday rotators, the isolator components that stop reflected light from disrupting data-center laser transceivers, though the company says the earnings effect stays minor before the equipment even starts up in the year's second half.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Metaplanet's board wants to hand over 2,100 Bitcoin and $2.5 million in cash for 95.7% of the votes in Nasdaq's Super League Enterprise, which would be renamed Superplanet and pivot into a bitcoin treasury business once SLE shareholders sign off, expected in the final quarter of 2026.