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Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Net sales rose to ¥954.2mn, but the sharper move was below the line: net income climbed to ¥75.2mn from ¥8.6mn, while operating cash flow was little changed.
Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read
Sales were ¥1.25bn in the half to March, versus ¥1.25bn a year earlier, but the golf club company still posted a ¥12.5mn ordinary loss and a ¥12.7mn net loss.
Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read
The gold fund disclosed ¥1.07tn of assets and zero deviation to its bullion reference, while WisdomTree’s broad commodity ETF reported ¥19.63bn and a 0.07% benchmark gap plus an explicit reminder that rolling futures can add gains or losses.
Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥736.6mn payout from two units will be booked as non-operating income at the parent in the year ending March 2027, but Nagahori says consolidated results will not change.
Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read
The business aircraft seller says listed status should help it deepen bank ties, recruit aviation specialists and tighten governance before any broader-market step-up, whose timing is still undecided.
Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read
The Japanese producer will fund the plant build-out itself under a 10-year deal with Select Water Solutions, aiming to establish a new US iodine supply source and reach about 3,000 tonnes a year from the project by 2030.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Royal Hotel approved a reservation agreement for a planned Hakone Gora hotel under a 20-year fixed-term building lease, with final lease signing slated for end-August 2028 and opening planned for end-December 2028. Management withheld both the landlord's name and the total rent, but still warned the aggregate lease payments could reach 30% or more of prior-year consolidated net assets.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
It said it published disaster-related financial measures after the heavy rain that began on June 24. The evidence available here does not specify covered areas, institutions or relief terms.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
The company pushed a ¥50mn budget for hiring, training and developing specialist engineers and support staff from June to December, saying the market for experienced technical talent remains tight. Management says the broader new-business plan is unchanged and the earnings impact should be minor.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Its paid stock-option plan for directors and selected staff covers potential dilution of 2.82% of shares outstanding and cannot be exercised unless the stock closes at ¥7,500 or higher at least once. A separate tax-qualified employee plan carries its own 6.22% dilution ceiling.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Yasuyuki Sugiura replaced the president as chair of the nomination and compensation advisory committee on June 25, while the committee remains majority independent. Process reform is not the same thing as leadership change, but investors watch this process for a reason.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
It will allot 39,770 treasury shares worth ¥130.6mn, with 34,070 shares going to 895 employees and 5,700 to directors and executive officers. That makes this more workforce alignment than executive garnish.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Shareholders approved continuation of the company's countermeasures against large-scale share purchases through the close of the June 2029 AGM. The filing does not identify any live bidder or spell out the mechanics of the partial revision.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
The company will replace a ¥1.13bn syndicated facility due June 30 with a ¥2.3bn MUFG Bank borrowing that runs only until Oct. 31. Both facilities use securities held by the representative director's asset-management company as collateral, so the maturity wall has moved, not disappeared.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Its asset manager can let portfolio-wide capital spending rise above depreciation when competitiveness or urgency warrants it, provided financial policy can absorb the move. No specific project or guidance change came with the rule revision.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Nireco will split each share into three on Aug. 1, lift its authorised-share ceiling to 88.2 million from 39.4 million, and adjust unexercised stock acquisition rights accordingly. The post-split dividend forecast is ¥35 a share, but the company says that remains equivalent to ¥105 per pre-split share after correcting the payout breakdown, so this is an access move rather than a cash-return cut.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Management says ROE in the year to March 2026 was 6.87% against a PBR of 0.80x, above its rough 6% equity-cost estimate but still short of its 8% goal. The company is prioritising investment over a cosmetic fix, targeting operating profit of ¥2.4bn and net profit of ¥1.6bn by 2028 while saying ROE is only expected to improve to 7.6% during the current plan.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
A consolidated subsidiary will sell 360,000 DearU shares, or 1.52%, to the Korean parent on July 27 at that day's Korean-market closing price, leaving the final economics floating until the close. On current assumptions the Japan-listed company expects about ¥747mn of special gain in consolidated results, but the figure remains provisional because both share price and exchange rate can still move.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Izawa Towel approved a ToSTNeT-3 repurchase of up to 600,000 shares, or 6.2% of shares outstanding excluding treasury stock, at ¥728 a share for a maximum ¥436.8mn after a major shareholder signalled plans to sell. The order is valid only for the 8:45am June 26 session, so the structure is designed to absorb a block exit without leaning on regular trading, not to promise a large open-ended buyback.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Wedge Holdings says a ¥388mn loan to parent Showa Holdings has never been repaid and that immediate payment is difficult, so it is taking pledges over four subsidiary stakes while broader financing terms remain under negotiation. The collateral is mixed at best: two stakes carry disclosed values of ¥71.9mn and ¥30.9mn after haircuts, while two others are assigned memorandum values of ¥1 each.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Beauty Kadan now expects ¥7.3bn in sales, a ¥145mn operating loss and a ¥140mn net loss for the year to June 2026, versus its previous plan for ¥120mn of operating profit and ¥40mn of net profit. The company blamed weaker funeral-service volumes in some regions as customers shifted toward smaller ceremonies, plus persistently high labour and outsourcing costs, and cut the year-end dividend to zero from ¥5.25 a share.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Fukuda Denshi has created an independent third-party committee, chaired by former Nagoya High Court president Seiichi Fusamura, after concluding its earlier investigation into former chairman Kotaro Fukuda's improper expense use needed a more objective follow-up. The panel will examine not just the expense case but any broader mixing of corporate and personal affairs, management's role in related governance problems, and prevention measures.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Kaihan says Friday's shareholder meeting can still vote on a partial articles amendment, three director appointments and an accounting auditor, but it cannot present the year-end business report or financial statements at the scheduled session. The company expects going-concern uncertainty to lead to a disclaimer of opinion and says a later continued meeting will handle the accounts once audit procedures are complete.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
The post-comment package under this year's amendments to the financial-function-strengthening law stretches across regional financial institutions, cooperative lenders and labour banks, with implementing rules spanning capital strengthening, organisational restructuring, preferred capital and supervisory guidelines. The point is breadth, not a rescue headline: the FSA has published the framework around support tools, but not a fresh capital injection for any named lender.