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Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Kamgras 1 has lifted its Kakaku.com tender offer to ¥3,570 a share for the second time this month and pushed the deadline to August 27, arguing a KDDI lock-up makes rival Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo's proposal undeliverable at its stated price.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
A Cayman Islands fund's combined stake in the Tokyo-listed IT company slipped below a third after a run of warrant exercises and share-loan returns, but a 2026 warrant purchase agreement still lets the issuer dictate when the fund can convert what's left.
Aug 13, 2026 · 1 min read
UNIRITA acquired 531,400 shares for ¥1.07bn through the Tokyo exchange's ToSTNeT-3 mechanism on August 13, using nearly all of the ¥1.11bn allowance its board approved just one day earlier.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
A privately negotiated share transfer completed on August 12 cut the Cayman Islands fund's stake in the Tokyo-listed company from 27.28% to 0.29%, at a price below what it fetched in an earlier off-market sale to Nomura.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Bad weather cut theme-park visitors and operating profit by roughly a third at Greenland Resort in the six months through June, but a no-cash sale of a Hokkaido hotel business triggered a deferred-tax adjustment that pushed net profit up anyway.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Half-year net profit at the Tokyo-listed test-equipment maker jumped 140% to ¥11.5bn as memory makers redirected production capacity toward high-bandwidth chips, even as a smaller test-socket unit's losses nearly tripled.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
An independent panel has unblinded a 285-patient global trial after Otsuka subsidiary Taiho's lung cancer drug beat chemotherapy alone on progression-free survival, opening the door to a first-line approval bid for a mutation with few existing treatments.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
WOWOW and NTT Docomo signed the absorption-split contract on August 12 that will fold Docomo's Lemino streaming business into a joint venture 51% owned by WOWOW, with the split, share transfer and commercial launch all targeted for October 1; WOWOW says the earnings impact for the year to March 2027 is still under review.
Aug 12, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan added Oncolys BioPharma's esophageal cancer cell therapy, development code OBP-301, to its national insurance price list at ¥3.1mn a unit, or ¥9.3mn per patient, with coverage starting August 13 and sales launching August 21 through Fujifilm Toyama Chemical.
Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read
Two Sunwels term loans, carrying balances of ¥321mn and ¥549mn, tripped their covenants this quarter, and lenders have only granted a principal repayment pause through September while the Parkinson's-care operator freezes new facility openings and absorbs a reimbursement-fee cut.
Aug 12, 2026 · 1 min read
Sony Group has already spent ¥193.9bn, nearly two-fifths of its ¥500bn buyback ceiling, after roughly three months of a twelve-month program that runs to May 2027.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
ExaWizards' quarterly revenue rose 41% to ¥3.45bn, but the bigger change sits on the balance sheet: a ¥5.4bn share allotment to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pushed the AI developer's equity ratio to 70%, and it now plans its first dividend since listing.
Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read
The Tokyo HR-software group is spending ¥1.09bn for control of loss-making DE&I and wellbeing SaaS provider Cradle, and separately committing up to ¥1bn to a share buyback through the end of September, both approved at the same August 12 board meeting.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
A tip-off about past used-truck sales has widened into a three-fiscal-year accounting correction at AI storm, forcing the company to delay its quarterly results to November and consider a statutory filing extension while its auditor withholds sign-off.
Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management's stake in AEON Financial Service climbed to 10.80% from 9.78%, and the fund has told regulators it may push for board removals, asset sales, delisting, or dividend policy changes within 12 months, plus a possible further 5%-plus purchase within three months if the price looks cheap.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
H.U. Group Holdings swung to a ¥1.57bn quarterly profit as price adjustments fixed its loss-making testing-services unit, while a blood-based Alzheimer's diagnostic won certification in Europe.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
A server-board adhesion chemical and semiconductor process materials drove Shikoku Kasei's first-half operating profit up 80%, and the Japanese chemical maker has now raised both its full-year earnings guidance and its dividend outlook.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Takara Holdings pulled its August 7 earnings release after its auditor said it could not complete a quarterly review of Takara Bio USA's accounts, and the Kyoto group now expects to miss the standard 45-day disclosure deadline with no new date set.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Mec's chemical additives for semiconductor packaging boards posted a 34% sales jump and a six-point margin gain in the six months to June, as generative-AI data-center chipmakers buy more of its CZ-series adhesion promoters across Japan, Taiwan and China.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Two completed exits, including the sale of M&I and Toyo Engineering, generated realized carried interest that pushed Integral's half-year profit to ¥8.77bn from ¥1.70bn a year earlier, its regulatory filing shows.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
An individual shareholder wants Fuller Inc. to write Tokyo Stock Exchange's 2030 Growth-market ¥10bn market-cap rule into its articles of incorporation, with a hiring-plan review trigger and a strategic-options mandate; the board rejected it on August 12 and shareholders vote September 28.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
DMG Mori is raising about ¥48.2bn from investors across Europe and Asia by issuing 15 million new shares, lifting its outstanding count from 142.3mn to 157.3mn, to expand a Polish casting-parts plant, open a Chicago R&D centre, and hold ¥10bn in reserve for acquisitions, while also redeeming its perpetual subordinated bonds.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥787 million quarterly profit came with a ¥6.48 billion buyback and a three-for-one stock split set for October, while two newly acquired businesses have yet to show up in Akatsuki's income statement.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Abalance expects to publish corrected historical filings and two backlogged fiscal-2026 results by August 21, but the same staffing squeeze pushes its next quarterly summary past its usual 45-day norm and into early October.