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Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Commodity prices lifted Mitsubishi Corporation's Metal Resources profit and a one-off revaluation gain from removing engineering contractor Chiyoda Corporation from its consolidated accounts pushed quarterly net profit to ¥298.5bn, even as the trading house held its full-year target steady at ¥1.10tn.
Aug 3, 2026 · 1 min read
JPMC's board scrapped this year's dividend the same day it backed a take-private tender offer priced on the assumption shareholders would get no payout at all.
Aug 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Otsuka lifted its full-year sales target to ¥1.38tn and raised its annual dividend to ¥105 per share, citing steady enterprise demand for AI, security and productivity software even as management flagged Middle East and US trade risks.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Lenvima, Leqembi and Dayvigo again did the heavy lifting for Eisai's first quarter, with Leqembi's Americas sales up 71% masking a China pullback tied to last year's distributor stocking, while the drugmaker left its full-year targets exactly where it set them in May.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Airlines lifted quarterly revenue past ¥523bn on higher fares, but a 58% jump in jet-fuel costs and a weak yen cut EBIT by 72% to ¥12.7bn, even as the airline carried fewer paying passengers than a year earlier.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Nissan swung to a ¥77.9bn operating profit on cost cuts and currency tailwinds, but automotive free cash flow stayed negative, net cash fell ¥201.2bn, and the dividend forecast is still zero.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo have offered ¥3,520 a share for Kakaku.com, beating Kamgras 1's ¥3,450 bid, and Kamgras 1 has extended its own tender offer to August 17 as the board weighs which deal to recommend.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
A string of drugmaker acquisitions, not stronger underlying sales, pushed Shionogi's quarterly net profit up 148% to ¥97.7bn, covering most of its own first-half profit guidance within three months while cutting its cash pile by more than half.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's net profit rose 48% to ¥809.4bn in the June quarter on trading and equity gains, yet the group left its ¥2.7tn annual profit target and dividend forecast exactly where they stood before the results landed.
Aug 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Wage pass-through, AI-driven chip prices and a weaker yen will push Japan's core inflation clearly above 2% in the second half of the current fiscal year, the Bank of Japan says, even as a Middle East-linked oil shock slows growth first.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i Holdings landed ¥100,300 short of its ¥400bn share-buyback ceiling in a single Tokyo Stock Exchange trade on August 3, and nearly ¥367bn of that deal carries a placeholder price that SMBC Nikko Securities will true up later against the stock's future trading average.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
A company that does not yet legally exist plans to issue 474.2 million shares to become Kyushu Electric Power's parent, and its own filing calls the ¥503.7bn price tag on the deal unconfirmed.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
PayPay's quarterly net profit rose to ¥19.7bn as its banking and brokerage units grew faster than the core payments app, even as the company commits ¥100.0bn to a new Seven & i Holdings alliance and lines up a life-insurance purchase.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
First-quarter operating profit jumped 61% at Sumitomo Electric on booming data-center optical demand tied to generative AI, prompting the company to raise its full-year sales and profit targets.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Central Japan Railway's quarterly revenue rose 3% on a 7% jump in inbound fares, and it will start selling fully enclosed Tokaido Shinkansen compartments from October, while a new Shizuoka conservation pact clears one legal hurdle, not full approval, for its stalled maglev tunnel.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
A Bank of Japan rate rise to 1.00% landed in June, six months ahead of Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group's original December assumption, and the bank now expects a bigger profit and a bigger dividend for the year.
Jul 31, 2026 · 1 min read
Nine people, six Nippon Paper employees and three contractor staff, died when an earthquake hit the company's Yatsushiro Mill in Kumamoto Prefecture, and production there remains halted while the company checks damage and taps other plants and inventory to keep supply flowing.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT wants to let homebuilders keep a type-approved structural design even when a certified material runs short, a change that touches the roughly 90% of homebuilder housing already built on type approval; comments are due August 30, 2026.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Kamgras 1 pushed its tender offer for Kakaku.com to August 17 and reopened price talks on its ¥3,450-a-share bid after Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo floated a higher counter-proposal.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Enhertu and Datroway drove a 21.1% revenue jump for Daiichi Sankyo and prompted an upgraded sales and operating-profit outlook, yet a jump in the effective tax rate to 24.9% means the company actually cut its full-year net profit guidance by ¥9bn.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
A 40% jump in quarterly operating profit, driven by image sensors and PlayStation, let Sony raise its full-year profit target to ¥1.72tn, but the new guidance still leaves out any hit from the July earthquake that shut its Kumamoto chip plant.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Nippon Yusen wants full control of dry-bulk carrier NS United Kaiun at ¥10,600 a share, a premium of roughly 37%, but the target's board has voted to cancel this year's dividend only if the tender succeeds, and top shareholder Nippon Steel will accept a lower price in a separate second-stage buyback.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark rate unchanged in an 8-1 vote, but board member Takata Hajime broke ranks to seek a quarter-point rise, citing inflation risk from overseas demand shocks.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Higher factory output and a weaker yen drove a 60% rise in Murata's quarterly operating profit, prompting the electronics maker to lift its full-year forecast 13% above April's target to a record ¥430bn.