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Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Imasen Electric plans to move all Wuhan production to Guangzhou by the end of March 2027, expects a special loss of about ¥1.2bn, and keeps its annual forecast because a separate investment-securities gain is expected in the same year.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Ikegami Tsushinki has postponed its 12 November interim results after isolating accounting servers following unauthorized access, saying full system recovery will take time and that it will announce a new date once one is decided.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A health ministry draft would add a women's 5% minoxidil hair product, for users aged 20 and over, to the pharmacist-guidance-required drug list, with notification planned for April 2027 and comments due by November 6.
Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Papers for an October 9 FSA working group ask whether moneylenders serving only large companies should face lighter registration, renewal and paperwork rules, and whether the ¥1bn capital floor for nonbank bond issuers should stay.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Fast Retailing now forecasts a ¥530 year-end dividend, up from ¥320, taking the annual total to ¥850 a share from ¥640, and says stronger cash generation covers both growth investment and higher shareholder returns.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Effissimo Capital Management now holds 18.54% of Tamron, up from 17.38%, and says price, liquidity and takeover proposals, including Sony's, could lead it to raise the ratio by more than 5 points, though it has no concrete plan to.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft transport ministry order would require open-type containers carrying radioactive material to follow the same marking and loading limits as closed ones from 1 January 2027, with public comments due by 6 November.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Booking Resort signed a deal to take 100% of the company running a pet-friendly hot-spring inn in Aso for ¥147mn, or ¥173mn with advisory costs, paid in cash with transfer scheduled for November 2.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
The Bank of Japan's October regional report has business investment rising or at a high level in every region and employment improving everywhere, while housing investment is weak or relatively weak in six regions and only Tohoku, Shikoku and Kyushu-Okinawa changed their overall wording.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japanese banks' disclosed problem claims were unchanged at ¥8.4tn at end-March 2026, but disposal losses for the year rose to ¥0.5tn from ¥0.2tn, with the increase concentrated in the largest banks.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Settlement of AS ONE's own tender offer on October 6 cut the founding family's combined holding from 12.63% to 9.30%, yet the filing still calls the shares a long-term, stable-shareholder stake.
Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's finance minister said the food consumption-tax cut will not rely on special deficit bonds, and that the roughly ¥3tn a year of cost-of-living spending in recent supplementary budgets will be reviewed.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's official reserves ended September at $1,178,396 million, down $29,128 million on August, with securities, gold and SDRs making up most of the pile and $20,000 million of long forward and futures positions against the yen due within a year.
Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
The Japan Fair Trade Commission will have 42 final-year students in Kumamoto play a market simulation game and a mock on-site inspection on 14 October, with media allowed in if they apply by noon on 13 October.
Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Small gas pipeline operators can claim half the cost of remote pressure-regulator monitoring, capped at ¥20mn a year, but only for contracts signed after approval; the first application window closes on 28 October.
Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
A working-group draft would put kindergartens, nurseries and integrated centres on one table-format framework built around deeper play, with public comments due 5 November and no individual replies promised.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Yodoko paid ¥4.9bn from its own funds for 10.70% of Nakayama Steel Works on October 2, saying the stake supports an alliance to spread high-value electric-furnace steel.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Warabeya Nichiyo Holdings now expects operating profit of ¥6.0bn for the year to February 2027, down from ¥7.7bn, as packaging and energy costs rise, while a separate Ohio plant loss pulls net profit to ¥3.5bn.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT's draft cabinet order would add the new business-facility district height-limit exemption permit to the approvals that must be in hand, where the work requires them, before agents advertise or contract for unfinished buildings, and would lengthen the list of restrictions agents must explain; comments close 5 November.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Tsuruha's six-month sales rose 128.7% to ¥1.276tn against a half that ended before the Welcia integration, with operating profit up 92.6%, and the drugstore group left its full-year guidance unchanged.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
True Data will acquire the Osaka maker of the MUSASI hardware-store system, partly funded by a ¥200mn MUFG Bank loan, on the company's view that trade purchases can foreshadow household demand; its two disclosures give different price figures.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's health ministry has said Stella Pharma's application to extend Steboronine to recurrent meningioma will go before a pharmaceutical affairs council committee, a review step rather than an approval, on a label wider than the high-grade patients in its trial.
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's privacy commission has cautioned holders of large personal-data stores to delete records they no longer need and previewed revised technical-security examples, including multi-factor authentication and device checks, which it plans to finalise next April.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Otsuka's US arm completed its rolling submission on October 6 seeking traditional FDA approval for VOYXACT in adult IgA nephropathy, a drug already approved on an accelerated basis; the company kept its 2026 forecast unchanged.