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Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Two-year Phase 3 data show sibeprenlimab slows IgA nephropathy patients' kidney decline to roughly the rate seen in healthy aging, a result Otsuka Holdings is using to push VOYXACT toward full US approval.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed IT reseller and systems integrator now expects ¥94.3bn in operating profit for the year to December, a ¥4.3bn upgrade, after first-half sales beat its own internal plan by nearly ten percent and it lifted the interim dividend by ¥5 a share to ¥55.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Isuzu's operating profit rose 30.7% to ¥74.8bn in the June quarter, but operating cash flow flipped to a ¥45.3bn outflow after the company sped up supplier payments by about ¥90bn and let Middle East shipping delays build roughly ¥35bn of extra inventory; full-year guidance is unchanged.
Aug 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Nippon Light Metal Holdings raised its full-year operating profit target 22% to ¥33bn and lifted its dividend to ¥110 a share, citing recovering orders for aluminum plates used in semiconductor manufacturing equipment and sustained lithium-ion battery material sales.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Datasection has sued short seller Wolfpack Research in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking retraction of a report that accused its AI infrastructure GPU purchases of breaking U.S. export-control law; the company says its lawyers cleared the projects, and the damages claim remains unquantified.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
NH Foods' fresh-meat unit raised import prices fast enough to drive a 19.5% jump in quarterly business profit, but its processed-foods segment lost 13.9% of its profit to a Middle East-linked raw-material cost spike, even as net profit slipped 5.6%.
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.