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Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
CyberStep recovered its full ¥1.25 billion purchase price after cancelling January's takeover of contact-centre firm 3rd, and admitted two price-protection side deals should have been disclosed when they were signed, not held back until this week's filing on the unwind.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo funded its entire ¥9.94bn Musashi Seimitsu stake with client and fund money, not its own capital, after a summer buying streak pushed it past Japan's 5% disclosure line.
Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read
A real estate-leasing company set up by AS One Corporation's former representative director will tender 2.5 million shares into the group's own buyback, an amended shareholding filing shows, alongside a same-day partial release of bank-pledged shares.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Gotham City Research, which admits it is short Sumitomo Pharma's stock, has accused the drugmaker of hiding image-duplication problems in research behind a treatment developed with Kyoto University; the company calls the report one-sided and defends its approval data.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Tera and two allied holders now control 86.23% of Satudora Holdings after a ¥9.19bn tender offer, and plan to force out remaining shareholders through a share consolidation vote expected in early November.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
A short seller's report linking Sumitomo Pharma's approved therapy to unresolved image-duplication questions at Kyoto University's CiRA discloses a stock position that pays off if the report's target sees its shares fall; Sumitomo Pharma calls the report one-sided and may sue.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
A U.S. semiconductor-metrology company now holds 27% of the Tokyo-listed instrument maker after a Carlyle-linked fund's voting stake fell from 27.29% to 0.29%, while a separate asset manager crossed the 10% disclosure threshold the same week.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Memory-chip price gains and faster-than-planned new business growth lift the Tokyo-listed distributor's operating profit forecast 135%, and its board has revised the year-end dividend forecast to include a one-off ¥100 special payout on top of the unchanged base dividend.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Suruga Bank's quarterly net profit rose 158.5% to ¥14.1bn, helped by ¥8.2bn in credit-provision reversals and smaller bond losses, but the regional lender left its full-year profit and dividend guidance untouched.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Six-month profit at McDonald's Holdings Company (Japan) rose to ¥19.7bn as same-store sales grew for a 43rd straight quarter despite a February price revision, and management has revised its full-year forecast as a result.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
An independent probe into Wel-Dish. Incorporated found that its former president paid only ¥5 a share, not the disclosed ¥140, for 235,000 shares, and later ordered a subordinate to destroy the paperwork before his own committee hearing.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
ES Next quit as AI storm's statutory auditor after discovering pre-existing allegations tied to used-truck sales that predate its own appointment, and Frontier Audit Corporation, a firm AI storm had cycled through as recently as March, has returned as temporary auditor while a special committee investigates.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥42.5bn syndicated loan survived only because five banks agreed in July not to demand early repayment after Tsubaki Nakashima breached its financial covenants for a second half in a row, and the company's own numbers show the reported profit recovery ran mostly on a one-off land sale.
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Fan Communications cut its full-year profit forecast by 52% and scrapped its three-year plan, tracing the damage to generative-AI search tools that are cutting traffic to the affiliate sites carrying its ads.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
GMO Internet's board approved a planned ¥10.1bn order for up to 64 Nvidia B300-equipped servers to expand its GPU cloud service, with deliveries starting sequentially from January 2027 and the earnings hit deferred past the current fiscal year.
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A gain from losing control of its real-estate subsidiary lifted Sapporo Breweries' first-half net profit by ¥293.7bn to ¥295.4bn, even as the newly renamed brewer's operating business posted a ¥5.9bn loss on restructuring and impairment charges.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyo Tire retired Mitsubishi Corporation as its top shareholder in one August 10 trade, paying ¥111.02bn through an off-auction ToSTNeT-3 buyback and confirming a share cancellation set for late September.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Yokohama Rubber's first-half net profit beat its own May forecast by 61%, and instead of just banking the upside, it raised its dividend payout ratio target from 20% to 30%, lifting the full-year dividend forecast to ¥223 per share for a sixth straight annual increase.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Commodity prices and a weaker yen, not one-off accounting, drove Sumitomo Metal Mining's 55% increase in its annual profit forecast to ¥216bn, and the company's own price assumptions for the rest of the year are already more conservative than what it saw in the first quarter.
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Smaller bond-sale losses at Sony Life and a stake sale still awaiting regulatory sign-off pushed Sony Financial Group's full-year profit outlook from a projected ¥20bn loss to ¥37bn, though the group's preferred earnings gauge stays fixed at ¥110bn because both swing factors are excluded from it.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Fintech profit jumped 47% and mobile's losses kept narrowing, pushing Rakuten Group's first-half pretax income positive for the first time in seven years, though the parent still posted a ¥10.9bn net loss.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
DIC's operating profit nearly doubled to ¥51.9bn in the first half as AI chip demand and quick price hikes offset raw-material costs, prompting the chemicals maker to raise its full-year outlook, lift its dividend to ¥150 a share and authorize a buyback of up to ¥10bn.
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A one-off ¥315bn gain from ceding control of its real estate arm pushed Sapporo Breweries' half-year net profit up ¥293.7bn to ¥295.4bn, even as its continuing operations swung into a ¥5.9bn operating loss.
Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A one-off ¥7bn gain from selling two chemical units, not just stronger toothpaste and detergent sales, drove more than half of the increase in Lion's first-half operating profit.