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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.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1 min read
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation will pass on-the-ground monitoring data from its 19 overseas offices to a regional lender, which plans to expand financing for mainly Hyogo-based mid-sized and smaller companies abroad.
Oct 7, 2026 · 1 min read
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation will lend up to ¥70mn toward gym equipment in Malaysia, in a ¥100mn loan shared with a regional bank, for a small Osaka company's unit set up in 2024.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Fujitsu spent ¥10.87bn on its own shares in September, taking cumulative buyback spending to ¥32.82bn, or 21.9% of the ¥150bn authorization that runs to 31 March 2027.
Oct 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Kyocera spent ¥32.36bn on 9.29 million of its own shares in September, taking cumulative purchases under its ¥250bn April authorization to ¥177.63bn, with the window open until March 24, 2027.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The health ministry's draft herbal standards add nine items and revise 18, with comments open to November 4, publication planned for December 2026 and a transition of about 18 months after that.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
NEDO has picked a research association of about 40 companies and a University of Tokyo institute to train perovskite solar engineers, with up to ¥20mn for the current fiscal year and a contract of up to four years.
Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Image Information agreed to buy a CRM call-centre business for ¥170mn in cash, effective October 1, with 85 employees due to transfer; the unit earned ¥86mn in operating profit in the year to May on unaudited seller figures.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Meiji will recapitalise a Hokkaido corn processor with one new share to erase its negative net assets, then transfer the company to Yoshimura Food Holdings on a planned November 1 date, at an undisclosed price.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Pharma Foods International will buy 100% of a medical-food supplier to hospitals and school-lunch operators from a buyout fund for ¥5.03bn, with the transfer planned for October 30 pending Japan Fair Trade Commission review.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Sekisui Jushi has taken control of Korea's Hi-Q, and its Vietnamese factory subsidiary, for KRW58bn, expecting only a minor effect on current-year forecasts with earnings contribution starting in the quarter to March 2027.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A NEDO-led consortium says its droplet system, applied to campus soil, yielded an enzyme 2.4 times as active as a commercial one, with commercial release of the integrated system planned for the end of fiscal 2027.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
note's operating profit for the nine months to August was ¥849mn against ¥127mn a year earlier, with the media platform earning ¥886.9mn of segment profit and the new AI-related unit ¥28mn, while the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Holders tendered 9,057,536 JPMC shares at ¥2,270, above the 5,049,300 minimum, but the bidders will still need a share-consolidation vote before the planned delisting from the Prime market, with settlement starting October 13.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A Bain Capital-linked vehicle drew 10,365,448 shares in its offer for baudroie,inc. and expects 85.68% of voting rights after the October 13 settlement and founder transfers, with a squeeze-out and Prime market delisting planned.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
McDonald's Japan's existing-store sales rose 10.0% in September, its best monthly reading since January, with a 6.5% rise in average spend per customer outpacing a 3.3% gain in customer count.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Asset Management says its Nikkei 300 ETF (1319) had a market price of ¥740.8 on October 5 against a NAV of ¥809.77, the seventh straight session with a gap of 5% or more, and blames market supply and demand.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Furuno expects interim operating profit of ¥12.8bn, up from ¥10bn, citing faster merchant-ship sales, better product mix and pricing; full-year and dividend guidance are due with results on October 9.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Toho Holdings filed an objection on October 6 to the Tokyo District Court's September 18 provisional order blocking a free share-warrant allotment that shareholders approved in June as a defence against 3D Investment Partners.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft MLIT notice would halve one particulate limit, cut others, and add a particle-number cap for diesel special vehicles rated 19kW to under 560kW, with new models covered from December 2027 and continuing production from December 2030.
Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Axelspace says a probable heat-dissipation design flaw permanently disabled high-speed image downlink on four of seven GRUS-3 satellites, prompting a ¥1.879bn impairment, a lower sales forecast and a two-month delay for the other three.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
SBI's vehicle kept its ¥340 BASE offer and 20.67% cap but extended the deadline to October 21 and pushed settlement to October 28, after a major shareholder said he would resume buying to pass 30%.