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Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management's holding in en inc. rose from 14.54% to 15.63% on daily market purchases, and its filing says it plans to add more than 5 percentage points if the shares look undervalued.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
NPC's five-year plan targets at least 60% of sales from customers other than First Solar, about ¥4bn of investment and a 25% dividend payout ratio, with perovskite and panel recycling as the growth bets.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Nittoc Construction signed on September 28 to buy a Kanagawa ground-reinforcement contractor with ¥3.52bn in sales, with the price undisclosed and the transfer scheduled for November 30 after a merger and property carve-out.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Nissan Chemical has registered a wholly owned subsidiary in Zhangjiagang with 210mn yuan of registered capital to make BARC and multilayer semiconductor materials near Chinese customers, with a first remittance of 89mn yuan planned for 15 October.
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Nippon Shikizai cut its full-year consolidated operating profit forecast to ¥261mn from ¥394mn, saying a sharp standalone shortfall from weak domestic orders and unrecovered oil-derived costs outweighs French subsidiaries it expects to beat forecasts.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
MEXT's proposed curriculum would cut about 3-4% from subjects above 35 periods to fund a new elementary information domain and junior high IT subject, with comments open until 5 November and full rollout in fiscal 2030 and 2031.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1 min read
Mitsubishi Motors said a settlement ended the lawsuit against Mitsubishi Motors North America on October 6 US time, will book the cost in the quarter to September, and kept its earnings forecast unchanged, with no amount disclosed.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Sapporo, Kirin and Asahi each disclosed JFTC action on October 7, 2026; Sapporo describes the suspicion as price restraint among four major alcohol makers, and all three say the earnings impact is unknown.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The Japan Fair Trade Commission and SME Agency are convening a closed-door study group because their surveys show price pass-through lagging in deeper supply-chain tiers, with minutes to be published promptly.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Hoshino Resorts REIT's August RevPAR fell 6.8% to ¥20,355 on lower occupancy and room rates, which the manager blamed on Kansai weakness and storms, while it expects September gains outside Kansai.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Harima Chemicals Group will stop production at LAWTER (N.Z.) on 30 June 2027 and close the plant in May 2028, expecting a roughly ¥2.8bn special loss after three years of operating losses at the unit.
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
A draft ANRE guideline would require JC-STAR Level 1 labels on IP-capable equipment in new solar, battery, wind and fuel cell projects, starting between April 2027 and April 2028, with comments due by November 6.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Grantomato now expects a ¥778mn net loss for the year to August 2026, double its April estimate, and has cancelled a planned ¥40 year-end dividend after falling rice prices forced cut-price sales of old-crop stock.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
GNI Group says it will be added to TOPIX from October 30, selected from the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Growth market in the first regular reshuffle since the index opened selection to all three market segments.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA's September 2026 listing of Hong Kong-address Izakaya Limited, which it says served Japanese residents online without registration, is the overseas list's newest entry; the agency cautions that listings record status at warning time, not today.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Nihon Falcom raised its operating profit forecast for the year to September to ¥2.8bn from ¥2.2bn, crediting sales of its recent releases, and plans a ¥60 dividend including a ¥30 commemorative payout.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
coconala will pay ¥867mn for 51% of Acrosstudio, a 63-person AI consultancy with ¥1.13bn in sales and ¥46mn operating profit in the year to June 2026, with the transfer scheduled for October 30.
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Seven financial-institution shareholders will sell 3,570,800 CKD shares at a price set between October 19 and 22, and the company has authorised buying back up to 1.3mn shares or ¥5bn to ease supply.
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida says AI has already put upward pressure on the economy and prices, while its effects on the neutral rate and unemployment are hard to gauge and he flags a risk of correction if profits do not follow.
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
ABC-Mart raised its operating profit forecast by ¥1.6bn to ¥67.2bn but left second-half plans unchanged, pointing to possible weaker consumer sentiment and a November change to Japan's tax-free system.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The Japan Fair Trade Commission will teach final-year commercial students in Asahikawa about the premiums-and-representations law and the Antimonopoly Act on 13 October, in a programme that listed fewer high school sessions in the latest year.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Direava's endoscopic-surgery language model scored 84.7% for anatomical accuracy and 82.9% for clinical usefulness in an operating-room trial, on a benchmark the company designed, and the company plans to start with surgical education.
Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Businesses and local governments have until 4 November to say which state and municipal functions private operators could run, ahead of a 2027 revision of the policy that governs market testing.
Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Cabinet approved ¥3.23bn from this year's general-account reserve on 6 October to control the red-necked longhorn beetle, ¥2.70bn of it under the Environment Ministry, leaving ¥708.9bn in the fund.