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Oct 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Strategic Capital, which holds 13.67% of GungHo, lists a ¥200 dividend, a Sony Music share resale, a takeover or leadership change as proposals, and plans a shareholder proposal on the 2026 payout for January and February 2027.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
BASE's largest shareholder holds 24.52%, up from 23.32%, largely funded by margin credit, and says he will assess each director at the ballot box and propose a committee-based board once SBINM's tender offer ends.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
J.Front Retailing's interim business profit beat its April plan by ¥4.59bn, but operating profit fell 10.5% and full-year operating guidance was cut ¥1.0bn to ¥46.0bn, even as business profit guidance rose to ¥53.5bn.
Oct 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Arclands cut net profit for the year to February 2026 from ¥8.09bn to ¥5.95bn after a special committee found a pet-business subsidiary group used consolidation numbers that differed from its accounting system.
Oct 13, 2026 · 2 min read
DIP lowered its guidance for the year to February 2027 to revenue of ¥49bn to ¥53bn and an operating result of minus ¥2.5bn to plus ¥2.5bn, blaming lower contract prices, slower agency sales and continued advertising spending.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Metaplanet will use about ¥51.9bn from a zero-coupon convertible due 2031 to repay ¥23.6bn of bitcoin-backed borrowing and fund up to ¥28.3bn of buybacks, even as total debt rises and the conversion price is still to be set.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Hulic's ¥295-a-share offer for the rest of Riso Kyoiku Group is a 41.15% premium, ¥25 below its 2024 price, with no majority-of-minority condition, and Riso's board backs it.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Bookoff Group Holdings says 6,383,279 people were affected by the member-data breach, against 6,427,735 leaked member records, and will start emailing those affected on October 15; it says payment and bank data are not managed in the affected system.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's second recycling-investment grant call closes at noon on 6 November, pays one-third of eligible costs (one-half for SMEs), and in principle excludes projects whose investment decision was announced before the grant decision.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
AEON's half-year operating profit rose 10.7% to ¥130.7bn on Tsuruha consolidation, mall renovations and Vietnam, while general merchandise stores lost ¥12.6bn and the full-year ¥340bn profit target was left unchanged.
Oct 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Olympus says an FDA warning letter on quality-system findings at six facilities does not limit production or sales or require a recall, and that it will respond within 15 business days.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Tariff refunds worth ¥6.8bn to full-year operating profit help lift the construction-machinery maker's forecast to ¥44.5bn, and a buyback of up to ¥15bn follows, but first-half operating cash flow turned negative.
Oct 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokio Marine bought ¥68.3bn of its own shares in September, 34.17% of the ¥200bn programme approved in May, after its March programme hit the yen ceiling. A 15-for-1 split took effect on 1 October.
Oct 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Electron had bought ¥149.999bn of stock against a ¥150bn board ceiling by the end of September, yet only 2,443,900 of the 7.5mn authorized shares, and the purchase window runs to March 2027.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
World's profit attributable to owners rose 4.2% to ¥5.88bn in the six months to August, helped by a lower tax charge, while operating profit grew just 1.2% and apparel brands missed on summer sales.
Oct 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Selling and administrative costs rose 16.3% against 13.6% for gross profit, leaving the Maruetsu and Kasumi parent with a ¥3.28bn operating loss and a ¥4.65bn net loss for the six months to August.
Oct 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Omron will pay $675mn on an enterprise-value basis, mainly from cash on hand, for Vermont-based OnLogic and its parent, which sells made-to-order industrial PCs directly to customers, mostly outside Japan.
Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Yaskawa's half-year sales rose 9.8% on data-centre and semiconductor demand, but operating profit fell 5.5% after a core-system migration, higher indirect costs and European restructuring; full-year sales guidance rose to ¥600bn while operating profit guidance fell to ¥57.5bn.
Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min read
United Super Markets Holdings now forecasts ¥1.0bn of operating profit instead of ¥10.0bn and an ¥8.0bn net loss, citing weaker customer numbers, price responses to inflation and competition, and planned store write-downs and closures.
Oct 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Toho Holdings has decided to end its examination of acquiring PHC Holdings, which had received a non-binding initial proposal; neither company's October 9 notice gives terms or a reason.
Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Temairazu, a hotel reservation software provider, says a third party may have viewed or obtained booking records on up to about 4.45 million people, and that it cannot yet estimate the effect on earnings.
Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Tecmira's Life Design segment returned to profit after a new game's July 16 worldwide launch, but the group's operating loss remains and its positive ordinary income includes a ¥119.9mn exchange gain.
Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Shinko Shoji shareholders backed a 7,894,651-to-1 consolidation with 95.59% approval; Kaga Electronics is set to become sole owner after delisting expected on October 29, with minority cash of ¥1,580 per share expected in late March 2027.
Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min read
OSG raised its operating profit forecast to ¥36bn from ¥30bn, crediting firm industrial demand, cheap tungsten inventory and a refund of earlier US tariffs, without splitting the gain between them, and lifted its annual dividend forecast to ¥130.