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Nov 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Tenders of shares and options, equal to 207,044,870 shares, cleared the 158,716,000-share minimum, so K891, Inc. will buy all of them and, once settlement starts on November 9, become Leopalace21's parent with 63.35% of voting rights.
Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's government wants EFRAG to list the extra disclosures ESRS-40a requires beyond ISSB-aligned reports and to add a company-based option to the mixed approach, citing the burden of two reports and a 2028 start.
Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan Airlines grew first-half sales 11.7%, but a 47.4% jump in fuel costs left EBIT down 36.0% at ¥70.2bn, and management kept its ¥180bn full-year EBIT forecast.
Nov 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's draft guidelines would confine genome-edited embryo work to four research uses, stop handling at 14 days, require ethics review and restrict import and export, with comments due November 28 ahead of a July 24, 2027 start.
Nov 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Hokuhoku Financial Group raised its guide for net profit in the year to March 2027 to ¥75bn from ¥62bn, citing firm deposits and loans, securities-related income and lower credit costs, and lifted its dividend forecast.
Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Hitachi Energy's investor-day decks put first-half sales at $11.0bn and backlog above $65bn, and lift the 2030 adjusted EBITA margin ambition to 19–21%, backed by a $9bn capacity programme and a data-centre order push.
Nov 2, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA's amended ordinance and notice let securities firms deduct the lesser of lease liability or right-of-use asset from fixed assets in the capital-adequacy calculation, excluding non-cancellable leases, with immediate effect from October 30.
Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Finance Minister Katayama said on October 30 that the approved ¥1.148tn Middle East reserve draw leaves ¥735.9bn, the gasoline reference price rises to ¥175 in December, and winter power and gas support runs December to February.
Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Farallon Capital Management disclosed a 5.02% stake in Yamato Holdings and says it has proposed, by letter and in meetings, that the chairman leave the board and that all directors except the president be outside directors.
Nov 2, 2026 · 2 min read
BP p.l.c. is no longer BP Castrol K.K.'s parent after the Stonepeak sale closed on October 30, though the Tokyo-listed unit's indirect 64.9% voting-rights block is unchanged and bp-brand sales are set to continue.
Nov 2, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan's full October outlook says it will keep raising the policy rate, now guided at around 1.25%, while firms' funding costs rise from a low base and ETF sales step up to about ¥860bn a year from January.
Nov 2, 2026 · 1 min read
Baby Calendar has bought all 9,910 shares of Orange Page from JR East for ¥500mn before advisory costs, and will switch to consolidated accounts with its results for the year ending December 2026.
Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Anthropic has registered a Japanese offering of up to an estimated $3.5bn (¥552.9bn at the filing's rate), sold through six Japanese dealers, while Nasdaq approval, the price, the share count and the pricing date remain open.
Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Accenture's Japanese unit offers ¥8,500 a share for Global Security Experts, but holders of 59.83% will not tender and will sell to the company after a squeeze-out at ¥5,835 and ¥6,918.
Oct 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Yokohama Reito wrote off almost all of its outstanding funding to Norwegian salmon partner Hofseth with a ¥24.2bn special loss, turning its net profit forecast into a ¥13.8bn loss while raising sales and operating profit guidance; directors will give up pay.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
An outside party reached a World subsidiary's business server on 17 October and the breach was detected on 28 October; about 1.2 million member records may have leaked, though the company has not confirmed that any payment data was exposed.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
TOTO's board authorized purchases of up to 9.5 million shares, or ¥30bn, between November 2026 and March 2027, and plans to cancel all but 100,000 of the acquired shares on April 30, 2027.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo Metro's half-year operating profit slipped 1.6% to ¥49.2bn as costs rose 4.7%, and it now says operating profit in the year to March 2028 may fall below this year's ¥81.4bn forecast, with full-year guidance unchanged.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
TDK now expects ¥3.05tn in sales and ¥365bn in operating profit for the year to March 2027, citing AI data-centre demand, and has raised its annual dividend forecast to ¥50 a share from ¥40.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Tamura has finished buying 80% of EMG Power Electric and will make the Italian maker its hub for medium-voltage dry transformers, with EMG's earnings consolidated from the fourth quarter of the year ending March 2027.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Sumitomo Electric's information-communications sales rose 48.8% to ¥201.5bn in the April-September half on data-center optical demand, and the group lifted its full-year profit guide and raised its year-end dividend forecast to ¥25 a share.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Sojitz held its ¥130bn profit guide as methanol prices and a new subsidiary lifted chemicals profit to ¥20.1bn, automotive fell to near zero, and a signed Gregory Crinum coal transfer still needs official approvals.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Sanwa Holdings lowered its forecast to ¥72bn operating profit and ¥45bn net profit on weak overseas volumes and higher costs, while raising its year-end dividend to ¥96 a share and approving a ¥10bn buyback.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Panasonic Holdings now forecasts a ¥70 annual dividend, up from ¥54, after raising its operating profit guidance to ¥710bn from ¥590bn for the year to March 2027; the new ¥43 year-end payment is a forecast.