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Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Kaneka's Osaka District Court claim against supplier Onamba covers recall costs only through March 2026, and Kaneka has already flagged that the ¥3.63bn bill for the 2024 solar cable recall will grow.
Aug 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Kanadevia told Japan's transport ministry that a plant making bridges and marine structures used uncertified welders on 175 projects and falsified inspection and paint records for decades; the company says its own experts found no significant safety impact but plans further field checks on in-service bridges.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's amended EDINET filing shows its M3, Inc. stake climbing to 6.26% from 5.03%, funded by ¥68.7bn in fund capital, with a stated plan to seek the representative director's removal, board changes, a dividend-policy rewrite, or delisting within the next year, and to potentially buy more shares.
Aug 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Pan Pacific International Holdings grew net profit 21.6% to ¥110.1bn on record duty-free sales for the year to June 2026, but its own guidance for the year ahead, which already includes the newly absorbed Olympic Group chain, points to profit growth of just 0.4% and a slight decline in ordinary profit.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A Ginza-based holding company trimmed its direct Seiko Group stake to 10.57% and kept 8.12 million shares pledged to Mizuho Bank against a ¥3.0bn loan, even as a stock-split gain at its affiliate pushed their combined position to 12.07%.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Gas will be able to sell up to ¥400bn in bonds once its new shelf registration takes effect on August 26, but the filing fixes no coupon, maturity, or size for any individual note before then.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A corrected EDINET report shows a Delaware fund split its exit from a 10.81% Taiyo Yuden stake among four institutional buyers at two different prices, cutting its holding to 4.41% from 15.22%.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Retail buyers of Toyota Finance's ¥1bn security token bond earn a fixed 1.72% a year and a shot at Fuji Speedway tickets, but the bond cannot be resold to anyone except the issuer.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Seika Corporation, already holding 11.58% of Tokyo Sangyo, has cleared itself to buy up to 1.9 million more shares by December 30, after updating the stated purpose of its stake to promote active dialogue on corporate value.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥5.19bn gain from selling a single Tokyo office building accounted for more than a fifth of Nippon Building Fund's net income this period, while earnings per unit from ongoing operations fell 2.6% and average borrowing costs rose to 0.82%.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Iyotetsu Group, the Ehime transport conglomerate, borrowed ¥8.35bn from Aozora Bank and Nomura Trust and Banking as part of a ¥27.81bn total outlay that lifted its Shikoku Electric Power stake to 10.17%, still filed as pure investment with no stated board or governance ambitions.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Sanden is selling its Gunma manufacturing complex to Industrial & Infrastructure Fund for ¥8.0bn, nearly double book value, and booking a roughly ¥3.3bn gain while signing a 15-year leaseback to keep the plant running.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Asset Management's Nikkei 300 exchange-traded fund (ticker 1319) traded as much as 7.87% below its net asset value over seven consecutive sessions through August 14, and the manager attributes the gap to market supply and demand conditions.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
PowerX drew ¥7.0bn from an ¥8.0bn Mizuho-led syndicated facility to repay ¥6.0bn of existing borrowing, with the new loan due back on September 17 and secured against company real estate and receivables.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Tax-free sales at Takashimaya jumped 26.2% in July on pricier tourist purchases, but the retailer's own August tally already shows visitor transaction counts falling even as average spending keeps rising.
Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
SymBio Pharmaceuticals lined up an estimated ¥6.77bn from Cayman fund EVO Fund to keep its antiviral drug trials funded through March 2028, but the bond-and-warrant structure could swell its share count by more than 125% if every warrant is exercised.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥5.2bn gain from selling one Tokyo building drove most of Nippon Building Fund's 26.2% profit rise; core leasing profit grew only 2.1%, and management now guides for two straight periods of lower earnings before a partial recovery in mid-2027.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's stake in Infomart climbed to 10.94% from 9.74% on ¥13.48bn of buying, and its filing shows the fund has already proposed asset sales while reserving the right to push for a new chief executive, board changes or delisting within the next year.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Oki Electric will transfer its ATM and automated-equipment business into Hitachi Channel Solutions for newly issued shares plus a cash-funded top-up, reaching a 60% stake from October 1, 2026, while the profit impact for the year after next stays under review.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Faster regulatory approvals let Mitsui Chemicals finish buying Ultradent Products a month ahead of plan on August 14, and the company is relocating global headquarters functions for its oral-care business from Japan to the new US holding company, with the earnings impact still under review.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
MAFF has opened a three-week comment window, closing September 6, on a Cabinet Order that would raise the individual borrower cap on Agricultural Modernization Loans from ¥18mn to ¥200mn, lengthen the maximum repayment term to 20 years, and add a specified agricultural-sector financial institution to the list of owners that let a farm-support company qualify for the loans, ahead of an October 1 effective date tied to the underlying law.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
A 30.82 million-share block, a fifth of Toyo Tire's stock, moved off-market from Mitsubishi Corporation back to the tire maker itself at ¥3,602 a share, an EDINET filing shows, with no stated reason attached.
Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Advance Create's corrected first-quarter filing shows liabilities now exceed assets by ¥6.1bn, and a breach of covenants tied to receivables-securitization contracts has pushed the company and its auditor to flag material doubt about its ability to keep operating.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i confirmed payment has landed for 144.9mn treasury shares sold to SoftBank, PayPay and Mitsui Sumitomo Card at ¥2,070 apiece, converting July's alliance announcement into a completed ¥300.0bn capital injection with no earnings read-through disclosed yet.