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Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Kamgras 1 has lifted its take-private bid for Kakaku.com to ¥3,570 a share, the second price increase since the ¥3,000 opener in May, and pushed the deadline to August 27; Digital Garage and KDDI are declining to tender, choosing instead a post-squeeze-out buyback, with Digital Garage alone planning to reinvest part of its proceeds into a stake in the buyer's parent.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Advance Create's floor consolidation in Tokyo generated ¥70mn in compensation income and a ¥41.5mn accounting reversal, but a ¥99.8mn impairment charge alone outweighs that income, adding to losses at a company already ¥6.1bn underwater on its balance sheet.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
The Swiss investor's holding in Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime-listed Iwaki jumped from 16.96% to 18.95% on August 7, and its own filing reserves the right to seek board changes, higher dividends and share buybacks.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
An amended EDINET filing fixes indicative pricing on a ten-year subordinated bond whose holders would lose their entire principal, not just deferred interest, if regulators ever declared Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group failing.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Real GDP rose 0.5% quarter on quarter (1.9% annualized) in the three months to June 2026 as households spent and exports outran imports, even as business investment fell 1%.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Okayama Prefecture's Akaiwa City opened a subsidy window on Aug. 17, 2026 that refunds two-thirds of the cost of swapping in energy-efficient equipment, but the deadline to finish the work falls two months before applications even stop being accepted.
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Metropolitan Government will help small and midsize employers cover the housing and living costs of foreign interns, but only for firms that have already secured a placement through the city's own internship-matching scheme.
Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's SAR-satellite maker booked a ¥96.1bn defense contract and government space grants that pushed its order backlog to ¥121.7bn, but most of its reported revenue growth came from subsidies rather than paying customers, and operating losses widened in the half to June.
Aug 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Nissha's semiannual report for the six months to June 2026, originally due August 14, now must be filed by October 23 after regulatory approval, and its second-quarter earnings summary is tied to that same later deadline.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Bank of Okinawa pushed its loan yield to 1.81% and rode strong local credit demand, lifting parent Okinawa Financial Group's quarterly net profit 41% to ¥3.61bn, even as deposit funding costs nearly doubled.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Orders for Ebara's chipmaking equipment jumped 89.3% in the six months to June, pushing the group's total order intake to a record ¥636.3bn, but operating profit rose just 1.2% as a swing to a loss in the energy business offset most of the gain.
Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
First-half profit fell 71% at the Tokyo affiliate-ad network, pushing it to scrap this year's earnings forecast and the three-year growth plan it launched in early 2025; management points to AI-generated search summaries diverting clicks from its affiliate partner sites.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's stake in Ain Holdings climbed to 20.93% from 19.80% on ¥38.98bn of fund capital, and the Cayman Islands firm has reserved the right to add more than five further percentage points if it judges the shares cheap enough.
Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Record first-half sales and a 48.5% jump in operating profit gave ASICS the confidence to raise full-year revenue guidance to ¥1.05tn and lift its annual dividend to ¥44, while confirming Onitsuka Tiger will be spun off into a standalone company from January 2027.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
A completed tender offer has handed Culture Convenience Club control of Jimoty, and an August 28 shareholder vote on share consolidation is the remaining step before the classifieds operator leaves the Tokyo Stock Exchange, even as its ad business and reuse-hub franchise both grew through June 2026.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Operating profit fell by more than half at Japanese X-ray instrument maker Rigaku Holdings in the six months to June, dragged down by weaker lab-equipment sales tied to US trade friction and energy costs rather than academic-funding cuts alone. Chipmaking tools kept growing on memory and logic demand, and Carlyle has sold its Rigaku stake to US metrology firm Onto Innovation, which gets a board seat and a joint hybrid-metrology push aimed at advanced AI chips.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Trend Micro's first-half sales rose 11% to ¥148.6bn, but AI token, cloud and yen-inflated payroll costs pushed total expenses up 20%, cutting operating profit by nearly a quarter even as its closely watched recurring-revenue metric grew a slower 5% once currency effects are stripped out.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Stock Exchange has given semiconductor-equipment maker J.E.T. until June 2027 to pass a re-examination after past accounting irregularities and a broken listing pledge, on top of a ¥28.8mn penalty and a ¥488mn restatement cleanup bill that helped push its half-year net loss to ¥1.06bn.
Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Dentsu Group swung to a ¥46.3bn first-half net profit largely because it sold a Ginza-area office building and avoided repeating last year's ¥86.6bn impairment, not because advertising demand recovered: organic gross-profit growth was just 0.3%, propped up entirely by a 5.0% gain in Japan against declines in the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Osaka insurance broker Advance Create has restated results for five straight fiscal years after a third-party panel found improper accounting in advertising bookings and software capitalization, a correction that pushed net worth to negative ¥6.56bn at one point before a preferred-share issue tied to SBI Holdings restored positive equity by September 2025.
Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Agora Hospitality Group's ordinary profit dropped 67% in the six months to June as a Chinese visitor slump and an Osaka Expo comedown cut Kansai hotel occupancy, tipping the parent company into a ¥59mn net loss even as its two Tokyo hotels grew both sales and profit.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Electron has used 80.37% of its ¥150bn buyback budget but only 25.40% of the authorized share count two months into a program that runs to March 2027, its July repurchase filing shows.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Online transaction growth cooled to 1.4% once a merchant shifted its processing in-house, but face-to-face volume rose 19% and a 40.5% jump in overseas fintech lending profit kept GMO Payment Gateway at 77% of its full-year operating-profit target.
Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
ACSL's half-year filing shows North American drone sales rising to ¥1.02bn from ¥42.7mn a year earlier as US bans on Chinese-made drones lift its NDAA-compliant SOTEN, even as China's Ministry of Commerce placed the Tokyo firm on a watch list in June that tightens export screening for the dual-use parts it still sources from China.