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Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA's data to June 2026 show colocated high-speed traders sending about 85% of Tokyo equity orders but accounting for about 45% of turnover.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Draft rules would bar winning firms and their affiliated builders from related construction tenders, and give extra points for wage-rise pledges, with bid opening from mid-February 2027 and contracts from 1 April 2027; comments close 15 October.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Ikegami Tsushinki said on October 2, 2026 that information it apparently held has been published on an attacker's dark-web leak site, and it is still checking what was posted and how far it extends.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's transport ministry has barred Tokai Kisen from using three vessels from October 9 to October 28 after inspections found alcohol-related and record-falsification lapses; the company is still assessing the earnings impact.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Rohto Pharmaceutical lifted its 2030 sales target to ¥444.0bn from ¥415.0bn while lowering the margin goal to 12.8% from 13%, and set 2031 targets including a 40% dividend payout ratio.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
New shares would raise HENNGE up to ¥2.36bn net, counting the over-allotment-linked allotment, while its president and two other holders sell 1.38mn shares for themselves ahead of an approved move to Prime.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Five holders now report 59.01% of Hyuga Primary Care together, up from 28.56%, after joint holders were added around JG44's planned tender offer and squeeze-out; the filing lists no trades in the past 60 days.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
A sole share transfer created a pure holding company above Kyushu Electric Power on October 1, the same date its former chairman and president took the same posts at the parent and a 1990 joiner became the utility's president.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
KPP Group's Antalis has signed to buy nine Papyrus paper wholesalers and German assets with about €215mn in 2025 sales, subject to competition approvals in some countries, with the price undisclosed.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
JCR Pharmaceuticals will keep manufacturing JR-141 while Italfarmaco takes over sales in the US, Europe and Latin America after approvals, with the upfront payment already in JCR's current-year forecast.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Komori has bought all of Maruyama Chiller, a maker of chillers for semiconductor equipment, for about ¥26.46bn including fees, and renamed it KOMORI Precision Technologies; its standalone net profit was ¥364mn in 2025.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
JAPEX has completed its $278mn purchase of four Colorado and Wyoming tight oil and gas companies, borrowing about $220mn against confirmed reserves for assets that sit near the Verdad holdings it bought in February.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
JBIC signed a loan of up to $240mn for Aircastle, a Marubeni- and Mizuho Lease-backed lessor of used aircraft, within a $400mn co-financing with nine private banks.
Oct 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Toshin Holdings' rehabilitation plan would swap an estimated ¥635mn of interest and penalty claims for Class A shares, cutting founder-linked votes to about 26%, with creditors voting from October 29 and cash tranches unfilled.
Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Up to half of eligible costs, or two-thirds for qualifying SMEs, is covered, with ceilings of ¥100mn for feasibility studies and ¥500mn for demonstrations; applications close at noon on 23 October and payment generally comes after projects end.
Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
An independent committee estimates the damage to Arclands' net profit for the year to February 2026 at ¥1.30bn after its pet-retail subsidiary's CFO overstated results, but Arclands expects the final restated accounts, due October 13, to differ.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Zojirushi booked ¥207mn of US tariff refunds in its nine-month results, received a further $6mn (about ¥1.03bn) after the period, and kept full-year guidance unchanged, citing raw-material costs.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
IDEC lifted its forecast for operating profit in the year to March 2027 to ¥9.4bn from ¥7.2bn, citing firm semiconductor, robot and machine-tool demand centered on Japan and China and sales above its original assumption, while the dividend forecast stays at ¥130.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Niterra will cancel its purchase of Denso's spark plug and exhaust sensor businesses after Denso asked to terminate the contract, and says the effect on current-year guidance is minor while it re-examines growth investment in its 2030 plan.
Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Nippon Express Holdings has completed its purchase of Canadian contract-logistics group Metro Supply Chain at a C$1.8bn enterprise value, with up to C$400mn more payable if financial targets are met and a merger of the holding vehicle with Metro planned for 1 November.
Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Infroneer plans to issue 47.8 million new shares, with estimated net proceeds of up to ¥147.24bn, of which ¥117bn is earmarked to repay short-term loans from two acquisitions by December; pricing falls between 21 and 26 October.
Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Six draft orders from the FSA would have designated operators report corporate numbers for suppliers, holders of 5% or more of their voting rights and supply-chain intermediaries, with comments due by noon on 31 October 2026.
Oct 2, 2026 · 4 min read
The Japan Fair Trade Commission's final guidance under the subcontracting and freelance acts counts know-how as intellectual property, and says a client that held a contractor's schedule for a long period, then cancelled just before the work, must cover the contractor's costs and losses.
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA counts 30.48 million NISA accounts and ¥85tn of cumulative purchases at end-June 2026, against government targets of 34 million accounts and ¥56tn for end-2027, with investment trusts taking 61.9% of this year's buying.