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Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Kobe Bussan's July sales rose 7.6% and store openings kept pace, but a reversal in yen forward valuation gains dropped ordinary profit to about a fifth of last year's level, a swing the company calls temporary and non-operational.
Aug 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Kansai Electric will overhaul extra-high-voltage and high-voltage rate menus from November 1, citing inflation and rising capacity and non-fossil-certificate costs, and its own bill examples show the largest industrial users facing increases of about ¥22.22mn a month, a figure that excludes a separate, still-unpublished transmission-fee revision due the same day.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
A Tokyo court complaint accuses Japan M&A Solution of mishandling advice on a 2023 share sale, seeking ¥816.2mn in damages, but the company says its advisory contract limits any payout to the ¥23.8mn fee it earned on the deal.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Hitachi will book a ¥179.9bn extraordinary profit from selling down its Hitachi Construction Machinery stake in its standalone accounts, but IFRS rules mean the same sale leaves consolidated group earnings untouched.
Aug 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Healthcare & Medical Investment Corporation is expanding its unit count by more than a quarter to help pay for 14 new properties, a move that lifts its profit forecast sharply while leaving unitholders' near-term distribution exactly where it was.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Kajima Corporation is paying ¥2.71bn for EJ Holdings' entire 35.61% voting stake in a Kyoto tunnel-measurement affiliate, aiming to pair its automated construction technology with the target's tunnel-monitoring software for a push into domestic and overseas markets.
Aug 19, 2026 · 3 min read
CHIeru is replacing the entire leadership of subsidiary Okijimu and cancelling all stock compensation for its eight directors after an investigation flagged bidding conduct that could breach Japan's ban on unreasonable trade restraints, though the company expects only a minor hit to results for the year ending March 2027.
Aug 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Abalance has rewritten four periods of results after finding improper accounting in overseas raw-material buy-back deals and a suspected fictitious-sales scheme at a subsidiary it later absorbed, and its auditor twice declined to give a conclusion on the numbers. With a governance review and overseas-subsidiary reorganization still underway, the company has withheld its earnings and dividend guidance for the year ahead.
Aug 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Five J.P. Morgan entities and asset manager Highbridge Capital Management jointly report a 5.08% stake in Nippon Steel, but most of that position sits in convertible bonds and a securities-lending book, not outright shares.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed electronics maker bought back 173,800 shares for ¥860.3mn via ToSTNeT-3, using almost all of the buyback authority its board approved just a day earlier.
Aug 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Baudroie's board has cancelled its planned ¥10.10 year-end dividend for the year to February 2027, contingent on Bain Capital's ¥2,970-a-share tender offer, which runs through October 5, to take the Tokyo Prime IT firm private, with founder-executives selling their 54.65% stake at a discounted ¥2,350 a share to stay on and roll over into the new owner.
Aug 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Hitachi, Ltd. sold its entire 10.1% stake in Hitachi Construction Machinery through SMBC Nikko Securities, and the machinery maker is now spending up to ¥34bn buying back about 30% of that block through November 30.
Aug 18, 2026 · 1 min read
A TDnet filing shows Oasis Management raised its Infomart stake from 9.77% to 10.97% in four days, triggering a major-shareholder disclosure with no accompanying proposal.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Net Protections told investors that price cuts in its consumer buy-now-pay-later business mean underlying gross profit growth is close to flat once a prior-year one-off is removed, and that its credit-card alliance won't add meaningful volume until the second half of this fiscal year at the earliest, with most of the impact landing next year.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Metaplanet has frozen the share count under its 2023 executive stock options at 319,464,000 shares and barred the five holders, including the company's representative CEO, from selling exercised shares until August 2031.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Oi Electric will spend up to ¥866.25mn buying back 13.08% of its shares in a single off-auction trade on August 19, structured to absorb stock that its largest shareholder, Mitsubishi Electric, has told the company it wants to sell.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Sanden expects to book an estimated ¥3.3bn gain after agreeing to sell its Gunma production plant to a J-REIT for ¥8.0bn, with a 15-year leaseback signed to keep the compressor line running.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Real Estate Master Fund is paying ¥8.7bn, cash, for an 87-room Akasaka hotel appraised at ¥10.93bn, with rent tied entirely to the operator's gross operating profit in a property where 95% of guests already come from abroad.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A shareholders' agreement giving ReYuu Japan board-appointment rights turns its 49% purchase of a cybersecurity target into full consolidation for ¥258.9mn, betting on cross-selling cybersecurity to its refurbished-device customers.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Credit Rating Agency lifted RENOVA's long-term issuer and bond ratings to BBB+ from BBB, saying cash flow from newly full-scale biomass plants and a growing battery-storage business justify the change.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥6.6bn reversal of Cullgen's preferred-share interest, not stronger drug sales, pushed GNI Group into the black for the first half, and the real growth test starts next quarter when Ayumi Pharmaceutical's revenue is added to the books.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Sompo Holdings and DeNA are selling nearly five times as many akippa shares as the parking marketplace itself is issuing in its planned Tokyo Standard Market listing, at an assumed ¥540 per share ahead of a September 18 target listing date.
Aug 18, 2026 · 3 min read
RYODEN Corporation raised its full-year operating profit forecast 25% after AI- and data-center-linked cooling and factory-automation orders drove a 132.8% jump in first-quarter operating profit, and it is using the upside to raise its dividend, split its stock and buy back shares.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥63bn bank loan helped Ursa 4 push its stake in J.S.B. to 96.40%, and it has now set September 4 as the date to force out the company's remaining shareholders and warrant holders.