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Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Ricoh's eight outside officers will review profit structure, business portfolio and capital allocation through the second half of the fiscal year, reporting to a board that says it has decided no specific measures.
Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read
The Basel Committee approved a G-SIB window-dressing revision and a machine-readable Pillar 3 standard, and scheduled October publications including a leverage-ratio review of Japan, with an interest-rate-risk consultation due in November.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
DISCO's preliminary non-consolidated first-half sales of ¥213.6bn reached 106.2% of its forecast, and July to September shipments of ¥123.9bn set a quarterly record that the company links mainly to generative AI demand.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Strategic Capital, holding an unchanged 13.67% of GungHo Online Entertainment, lists a third-party buyout, a dividend increase, a treasury-share buyback from specific shareholders with resale to Sony Music Entertainment, and board changes if the company stays listed.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Residents on the Type 1 skilled-worker visa reached 432,016 by end-July, 53.6% of the 805,700 expected intake through March 2029, but food service sits at 98.6% while trucking and rail have barely started.
Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Kawasaki Heavy now sees defence revenue of ¥700bn to ¥800bn in the 2030 fiscal year, up from ¥500bn to ¥700bn, within a plan for business profit above ¥330bn on revenue above ¥3.3tn.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Taxi, route-bus and charter-bus operators would be able to turn away passengers who keep abusing crews after being told to stop, under a transport ministry draft notice slated to take effect on 1 December; comments close on 3 November.
Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read
The Ministry of the Environment would cut the thiamethoxam water limit to 0.031 mg/L and the glyphosate aquatic benchmark to 3,000 µg/L from 6,200, with public comment open until 4 November.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Railway and tramway operators, and the lessors that supply them, can seek equipment grants in a third round; vehicle retrofits must be expected to cut CO2 by at least 40%, and this year's projects must finish by 28 February 2027.
Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The memorandum signed in Tokyo on 5 October lets either side leave on six months' written notice and sends any dispute to consultation, not a tribunal; its agenda spans critical minerals, investment screening and public-bank financing.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokai Kisen president Junichi Yamazaki will resign on October 31 over the transport bureau's October 2 action, handing the top job to Yoshinori Kurasaki, while nine officers return part of their monthly pay.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
ABC-MART reported September domestic same-store sales up 14.9% and customer count up 10.4%, citing an extra holiday, a drop in temperatures that helped autumn goods, and promoted sneakers and jersey apparel; October figures are due November 4.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Rakuten Group plans a ¥360bn unsecured bond maturing in April 2032, with a coupon range of 3.800% to 4.600% to be fixed on 16 October and payment on 29 October, and an A- rating from Japan Credit Rating Agency planned for 16 October.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
W&D, the 50-50 investment company of World and the Development Bank of Japan, plans to move all of Uchino's business and designated financial debts into a new subsidiary on December 1, then liquidate the old company.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Chuo Warehouse will pay about ¥6.115bn including costs for 70% of Takara Logistics System, with Takara Holdings booking an expected gain of about ¥3.625bn in consolidated results for the year to March 2028 if the deal closes in April 2027 after a competition review.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Daiseki's interim net profit rose 23.1% to a record ¥5.805bn, with full-year guidance unchanged, while its ¥2.918bn Shizuoka plastics-recycling grant is slated for the accounts in the year ending February 2030.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Kasumigaseki Capital lifted sales 69.7% to ¥163.76bn with 15 hotel, care-residence and warehouse openings or completions, yet operating cash flow was an outflow of ¥16.77bn and ¥65.9bn of long-term borrowing funded the year.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Chutetsukan will move its straight ductile iron pipe production into a new company and sell 19.9% to Kubota, with the January 4, 2027 start conditional on a December 17 shareholder vote.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Link-U Group has set October 8 for payment on 1,071,900 new shares at ¥856, worth ¥917.5mn, after Crunchyroll's required foreign-investment notification procedures were completed; the issue still depends on its registration statement taking effect.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Carna Biosciences will supply monzosertib and bear study costs in a Phase 1b trial at MD Anderson for relapsed or refractory AML, now under a signed contract; the notice reports no patient entry or results, and Carna will not routinely announce registry updates.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
J-Pharma's Phase 3 biliary cancer trial was selected for AMED support covering half of eligible costs, up to ¥1.5bn, and the company says full payment would fund Part A without new financing.
Oct 5, 2026 · 1 min read
Sony Group spent ¥26.0bn buying back 6.89 million of its own shares in September, taking cumulative purchases under its ¥500bn authorization to ¥263.4bn as of September 30.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Residence periods for foreign residents in Kumamoto quake-hit municipalities run to January 27, 2027, but their cards show earlier dates, so the FSA asked industry groups to alert banks that monitor those dates.
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Financial Services Agency will run Delta Wall 2026 from October 6 to 22 with a planned record 181 institutions, testing responses to attacks on core systems and promising industry-wide feedback.