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Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
RIZAP Group posted a ¥135 million net profit for the quarter to June 2026, its first first-quarter profit in five years, while still committing roughly ¥15 billion this year to expanding its chocoZAP gym chain.
Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Longer Middle East shipping routes and rising crude prices turned Idemitsu Kosan's refining timing lag into a ¥217.5bn quarterly profit, but the oil major has left its far more modest full-year forecast untouched.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Asahi Group Holdings reported a 69% rise in first-half net profit and a 56% jump in operating profit, but core business profit fell 8.5% once currency effects are stripped out, and its Japan and East Asia unit is still absorbing the fallout from a September 2025 cyberattack.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Itochu Corporation now holds a 5% stake in the used-goods retailer under a February alliance, and Bookoff's profit for the year to May 2026 came in 25.6% above the guidance it issued last July.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Kamgras 1, the vehicle bidding to take Kakaku.com private, raised its tender offer to ¥3,570 a share on August 13, its second increase since May, after funds advised by Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo offered as much as ¥3,640.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group used up all of the ¥180bn cash budget its board approved for share buybacks by July 31, but bought back only 70% of the accompanying 40mn-share allowance, according to a report filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau and disclosed via the EDINET system.
Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Nexon's net profit for the six months to June rose to ¥86.9bn, up 102% and already close to all of 2025's total, as ARC Raiders and a refreshed MapleStory line-up outweighed a sliding Dungeon&Fighter franchise.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
A court-appointed administrator is running Showa Holdings after a reorganization petition from J Trust Asia, and the company says the accounting and audit work involved means no first-quarter earnings report will appear before its shares are delisted on August 25.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Metaplanet's revenue and operating profit both more than doubled in the first half, but a ¥184.3bn non-cash writedown on its 43,000 BTC holding pushed the company to a ¥182.8bn net loss. It also closed a ¥2.1bn deal for Siiibo Securities, now Metaplanet Securities, to sell bitcoin-backed corporate bonds under a program called BitBonds.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokio Marine Holdings spent ¥90.8bn on its own shares in July, filling out the yen cap of a March buyback program while a separate ¥200bn authorization from May has yet to see a single purchase.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Recruit Holdings spent ¥74.8bn buying back its own stock in July, pushing cumulative repurchases under its ¥350bn authorization to just over a third of the yen ceiling with the November 30 deadline four months away.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
RS Technologies grew six-month operating profit 8.9% to ¥7.7bn, then days later had its China unit pay about ¥10.8bn for 60% of an Anhui epitaxial-wafer maker, a bet on higher-value power-chip materials that full-year guidance does not yet capture.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
The payments processor's six-month transaction volume climbed 15.2% to ¥1.13tn, and operating profit jumped 161.6%, far outpacing revenue growth of 14.3%.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Oisix's B2B foodservice unit, built on the SHiDAX consolidation completed in September 2025, pushed first-quarter operating profit up 24% even as revenue fell 8.6% on a divested vehicle business. A separate, reorganization-driven tax cut, not the profit gain, funded the dividend increase management confirmed alongside results.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Consolidating US homebuilder Tri Pointe Homes lifted Sumitomo Forestry's half-year sales 17.5% to ¥1.26tn, but high American mortgage rates, buyer incentives and acquisition costs nearly halved net profit and pushed the equity ratio down to 30.5%.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
AEON Financial Service disclosed that Oasis Management raised its voting stake to 10.81% from 9.80% between May and August 2026, a bigger number with no stated plan attached to it.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
PowerX's first-half revenue rose 48% and its net loss narrowed to ¥1.55bn, but inventory and supplier-advance buildups for back-loaded battery deliveries pushed operating cash flow to a ¥4.66bn outflow, leaving the storage-system maker drawing on an ¥8bn Mizuho-led credit line and, after the half closed, a separate ¥5bn refinancing loan.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Medley's first-half net profit rose 131% to ¥1.5bn on hiring-platform growth, and the healthcare-jobs company also borrowed ¥5bn from two banks and took full ownership of the business behind Recruit Medical Career weeks after the half closed.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Rokko Butter cut its full-year operating-profit forecast by ¥800mn, 34.8% below February's guidance, after ingredient-cost inflation in its cheese and nut lines, a weaker yen and earthquake damage at a subsidiary factory outran the price increases it has planned from September.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
A hearing with Sun Asterisk Vietnam Co., Ltd. turned up cash outside the accounting books, and Sun* Inc. now needs an extra month, until September 14, to file a half-year report its auditor says it cannot review on the original schedule.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
DMG Mori priced its European and Asian share offering at ¥3,349 on Wednesday, banking ¥47.7bn in net proceeds it will spend on new factory capacity in Japan and Poland, a Chicago R&D center, and a ¥10bn fund reserved for acquisitions it hasn't yet identified.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's family-restaurant operator now expects ¥20.5bn in annual profit, up ¥1.0bn from its February guidance, after existing-store sales grew 6.5% in the first half on higher customer counts and bigger average checks, even as its inflation-cost estimate rose to ¥14.5bn from ¥13.0bn.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
TRIAL Holdings' full takeover of Seiyu drove group sales past ¥1.3tn in the year to June 2026, but ¥6.7bn of loan fees, ¥4.3bn of interest and ¥15.3bn of goodwill amortisation cut net profit to ¥3.5bn, a 70% drop; management is guiding for net profit to more than triple next year as integration synergies land.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Record first-quarter profit at Japan's top department-store group is funding a two-for-one share split, a doubled buyback share ceiling and a real, if disguised, ¥10 rise in this year's dividend guide.