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Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
From August 7, Japan's Financial Services Agency splits its main supervisory bureau into banking-and-securities and asset-management-and-insurance arms, and creates a standalone division for cryptoassets and stablecoins, so firms with pending filings need to find the new address for their paperwork.
Aug 5, 2026 · 3 min read
SUBARU's revenue rose to ¥1.25tn in the quarter to June 2026, but operating profit fell ¥33.8bn to ¥42.6bn as sales incentives rose ¥24.9bn and raw-material conditions stayed weak, even after a cut in the US auto tariff rate eased cost pressure by ¥32.9bn.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Governor Kazuo Ueda skipped the June policy meeting and filed a written opinion instead, while the Bank of Japan kept trimming bond purchases and left the overnight rate parked just above 0.72 percent.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's health ministry has put the pricing of Oncolys BioPharma's newly approved esophageal cancer therapy on the agenda for the Chuikyo panel that deliberates national insurance drug prices, with the company still targeting a launch within the current fiscal year even as the earnings impact stays under review.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo's communications ministry is taking comment until September 8 on rules that would add earth-observation and space-research satellites to the interference checklist for high-altitude base stations, on top of existing rocket-launch coordination duties.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Sales at the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed connector maker rose 26.8% and operating profit jumped 35.6% in the quarter to June, but net profit rose just 1.4% after a corporate-tax increase tied to a transfer-pricing assessment, even as management lifted its full-year outlook.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Sumitomo Pharma says its auditor's unqualified opinion covers the accounts a new report questions, and for now it has found nothing that would justify restating them.
Aug 4, 2026 · 1 min read
A forensic probe found no log evidence that hackers pulled data from Nidec's Taiwan subsidiary, but a dark-web list of folder and file names means Nidec still can't rule out a leak, even as the unit's production and shipping continue as normal.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
House Foods grew quarterly operating profit 17% yet still cut its full-year forecast by ¥1.0bn, blaming Middle East-linked cost increases of up to ¥3.0bn on its spice business, and it is closing a New Jersey plant-based meat factory that never found enough buyers.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Seimitsu's board raised its dividend forecast to ¥304 a share after semiconductor-equipment orders nearly doubled on generative-AI, HPC and HBM testing demand, and the group lifted full-year sales and profit guidance for the second time this year.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Sumitomo Chemical's net profit swung to ¥40.8bn from a year-earlier loss, driven largely by a ¥32.7bn turnaround at its Rabigh refining joint venture in Saudi Arabia and steadier crop-chemical sales, while management left its ¥70bn full-year profit target unchanged.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Machine-tool orders at DMG Mori rose 34.8% in the first half on aerospace, defense and semiconductor-equipment demand, prompting the company to raise its full-year operating profit forecast 7.1% to ¥30.0bn and its order target to ¥630.0bn.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Data-centre chiller sales and a semiconductor-chemical rebound lifted Daikin's quarterly operating profit 7.6%, even as US residential air-conditioner demand stayed limited and China's property slump kept HVAC demand thin; full-year guidance and the dividend forecast are unchanged.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Gas-turbine and nuclear orders lifted Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' quarterly business profit 65% to ¥159.6bn, but the group kept its full-year profit and dividend targets unchanged, raising only its order forecast to ¥7.0tn.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Ibiden now expects ¥127.0bn in operating profit for the year to March 2027, up from its May forecast of ¥90.0bn, as orders for AI-server chip substrates outrun its own planning; a second 2-for-1 stock split takes effect in October, doubling the share count.
Aug 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Motorcycle demand in India, ASEAN and Europe pushed Yamaha Motor's first-half operating profit up 88.6% to ¥158.5bn, and the company has raised full-year profit guidance 44% even as it books a ¥12bn charge to stop building off-road vehicles in-house at its Georgia plant and cut around 300 jobs.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
A 47% first-half profit beat against its own forecast, driven by a weaker yen and refunded US tariffs, pushed Kubota to raise full-year operating profit guidance by ¥100bn to ¥400bn and announce a ¥40bn share buyback the same day.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Furukawa Electric will spend roughly ¥100bn in the US, Brazil, Japan and India to nearly double its rollable ribbon-cable capacity for hyperscale data centers, with customer purchase commitments already in hand but revenue and profit impact not showing up until production ramps from late 2028.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Steel raised its full-year net profit forecast to ¥290bn, up nearly a third, as stronger US steel prices and a turnaround at United States Steel outweighed rising raw-material costs and falling Middle East exports at home.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Kaga Electronics's stake in fellow electronics trader Shinko Shoji jumps from 1.74% to 72.45% after its tender offer cleared the minimum threshold, and a squeeze-out to delist the target from the Tokyo Stock Exchange comes next.
Aug 4, 2026 · 3 min read
A ¥45.5bn gain from selling its stake in DuPont Teijin Advanced Papers handed Teijin ¥45.1bn in net profit for the quarter to June, already matching the ¥45.0bn it guided for the full year to March 2027.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft ordinance from Japan's Immigration Services Agency would add a five-year residence term to the Specified Skilled Worker No. 2 visa, raising the bar these workers must clear before applying for permanent residency to match other work visas.
Aug 4, 2026 · 1 min read
KDDI's voting rights in Every, Inc. dropped from 14.38% to 4.76% on August 4, pushing the telecoms group from second- to fourth-largest shareholder after the company's new listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Growth market diluted its holding.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
The DELISH KITCHEN owner debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market with guidance for a ¥345mn operating profit, but nine months of results already delivered 93.8% of that figure, leaving little room in the final quarter.