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Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Kamgras 1 pushed its tender offer for Kakaku.com to August 17 and reopened price talks on its ¥3,450-a-share bid after Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo floated a higher counter-proposal.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Enhertu and Datroway drove a 21.1% revenue jump for Daiichi Sankyo and prompted an upgraded sales and operating-profit outlook, yet a jump in the effective tax rate to 24.9% means the company actually cut its full-year net profit guidance by ¥9bn.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
A 40% jump in quarterly operating profit, driven by image sensors and PlayStation, let Sony raise its full-year profit target to ¥1.72tn, but the new guidance still leaves out any hit from the July earthquake that shut its Kumamoto chip plant.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Nippon Yusen wants full control of dry-bulk carrier NS United Kaiun at ¥10,600 a share, a premium of roughly 37%, but the target's board has voted to cancel this year's dividend only if the tender succeeds, and top shareholder Nippon Steel will accept a lower price in a separate second-stage buyback.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark rate unchanged in an 8-1 vote, but board member Takata Hajime broke ranks to seek a quarter-point rise, citing inflation risk from overseas demand shocks.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Higher factory output and a weaker yen drove a 60% rise in Murata's quarterly operating profit, prompting the electronics maker to lift its full-year forecast 13% above April's target to a record ¥430bn.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
DENSO's quarterly revenue rose 9.1% to ¥1.91tn on stronger vehicle sales and a weaker yen, but higher material costs and growth investment cut operating profit 21.5%, even as the company raised its full-year revenue forecast while holding profit guidance flat.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Any Japanese business handling 300 tonnes of rice a year, from farms to convenience-store chains, would have to register with the farm ministry from October, though the monthly and annual reporting itself does not become mandatory until the following spring.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Electron's quarterly operating profit rose 46% on AI-server chip investment, and it has already raised its half-year sales, profit and dividend forecasts, saying July's Kumamoto earthquake caused no significant damage to its facilities.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A weaker yen pushed Takeda's quarterly revenue up 10.2%, but at constant currency sales actually fell 0.5% and net profit dropped 23.5%, more than double the decline shown in headline yen figures, even as full-year targets and the dividend forecast held steady.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Panasonic Holdings' operating profit more than doubled in the quarter to ¥182.5bn, and the company used the beat to lift its full-year profit forecast by ¥40bn to ¥590bn, though full-year sales guidance still sits 3.1% below last year's record total.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Research Institute's quarterly operating profit rose 12% to ¥41.7bn, but the board also burned through nearly all of a ¥70bn buyback and cancelled 20 million shares, cutting the share count by more than 3% in ten weeks.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's NRA has opened a month-long comment period on draft rules that would require power and research reactor operators to spell out exactly how teardown costs will be funded, a response to an IAEA review that found the existing financial checks too thin.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Kagome trimmed full-year profit guidance by ¥4bn to ¥19.0bn after a ¥2.8bn Middle East cost hit, while its two mass-market vegetable drinks are still stuck below prior-year sales five months after a price increase that its premium Tomato Juice brand shrugged off.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is cutting its stake in a ¥1.64tn leasing subsidiary from 84.9% to 45%, Panasonic is exiting entirely, and Fuyo General Lease (40%) and Yokohama Financial Group (15%) are buying in; parent Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group expects a ¥14.0bn transfer loss when the deal closes on October 1.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
IRISO Electronics has no release date for either its year-to-March 2026 results or the following quarter's earnings, as a third-party committee investigates suspected improper overseas payments alongside separate quality and inspection concerns.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Fuji Electric raised its full-year operating-profit forecast by ¥14bn to ¥156.5bn, citing stronger first-half demand, higher production and cost cuts across its energy and industrial-equipment businesses.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A shareholder holding about 25% of the voting rights in Foster Electric now has its CEO on the board, and the speaker maker is tearing up its 2025-2027 plan for a replacement due around November.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Chugin Financial Group's first-quarter net profit rose 40.3% to ¥13.9bn as higher domestic rates lifted lending income, even as the bank booked ¥19.9bn in losses selling off low-yield bonds, a cost partly offset by ¥18.3bn in stock-sale gains.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
An explosion killed seven people at AEON Mall Kumamoto just after evacuation from a magnitude-7 earthquake was completed, and AEON still won't estimate what shutting the 204-tenant mall will cost.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A first-quarter surge in memory prices, driven by generative-AI product demand, pushed the Tokyo-listed chip distributor to lift its full-year operating profit forecast by 168.7% and raise its dividend to ¥1,640 a share from ¥600.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
A three-month gap between rising fuel costs and the tariffs that recover them cut Osaka Gas's quarterly ordinary profit by 15.3%, while the loss of a one-off insurance payout booked a year earlier pulled net profit down 26.5%. The utility still lifted its full-year sales forecast by ¥100bn while leaving profit guidance and its dividend untouched.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Calbee's operating profit rose 24.4% in the quarter to June as price rises and expansion in Greater China and Indonesia outweighed a domestic potato shortfall hitting a mainstay snack, yet the company left its full-year forecast untouched.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT wants first-offense vehicle suspensions for unauthorized taxi operators catering to tourists to double, from 60 to 120 days, with a parallel doubling for unlicensed freight haulers, and public comment is open until August 28, 2026.