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Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Rakuten Bank took 100% of Rakuten Card and the securities holding company on October 1, paying in Class A shares that leave Rakuten Group with 49.95% of the bank's votes and Mizuho Bank with 10.52%, while Rakuten Group expects a ¥23.0bn tax charge.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
The Japan Tourism Agency has asked prefectures to act against Kyushu operators that build the discount into their prices, up to removing them from the scheme, which covers stays from 1 October.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
A draft revision from Japan's communications ministry would analyse how solution services affect network competition, add information checks at NTT East, West and Docomo, and verify NTT East and West's utilisation businesses; comments close on 30 October.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
A draft MIC ordinance would give intermediaries between telecom operators and equipment suppliers their own filing section, add corporate numbers to supplier disclosures and widen a voting-rights look-back to six months in introduction plans, with a proposed start of 12 January 2027.
Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read
SoftBank Group paid the last $10bn of its $30bn OpenAI top-up on October 1 with senior bond proceeds, taking cumulative investment to $64.6bn and its stake to about 13%, and cancelled $10bn of undrawn bridge capacity.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Nidec's restatement of the five years to March 2025 cut net assets by ¥476.9bn and pushed dividends and buybacks above the distributable amount, as management aims to clear the remaining issues in October to obtain an audit opinion.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
The Bank of Japan's published opinions from its September meeting differ on whether underlying inflation has generally reached 2 percent, with some urging a rate rise and others a hold, and the summary does not say who argued which.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
The Bank of Japan's September Tankan put large manufacturers' sentiment at 24 and the all-industry index at 21, but firms forecast 15 for December, report labor shortages deepening, and say loan rates are rising.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Registered buildings, cultural landscapes and locally designated properties could anchor a municipality's historic-townscape plan under a draft revision of the national policy, with registered buildings admitted only if also designated landscape buildings. Comments close on 28 October.
Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The satellite company has signed for 20 dedicated Electron launches between 2028 and 2031, and says the deal does not change its December-year guidance.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
The Financial Services Agency wants to tailor licensing and minimum capital for firms insuring only their own group, but assumes no extra tax relief, and would park primary captives for later study.
Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Bay's most oxygen-starved inner waters would be held to 10-year interim goals as low as 14% of monitoring points, while the innermost zone gets no target at all; public comment closes on 29 October.
Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The Ministry of Finance booked zero foreign exchange intervention between 27 August and 28 September, after Katayama's vow of more; the last recorded operations were three in April and May, totalling ¥11.73tn.
Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
A pilot backed on 29 September would link electronic trade documents to a yen stablecoin the three megabanks plan to issue jointly, and the forum's second meeting in early 2027 is due to bring a roadmap.
Sep 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Suruga Bank lifted its forecast for net profit in the year to March 2027 to ¥44.0bn and its dividend to ¥80, while relying on a one-off ¥5.6bn reserve release and an assumed January 2027 rate rise.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Schneider Electric's first-half sales rose 14.0% organically but 9.8% as reported, with currency costing 3.9 points, while its $3.1bn Cognite and $350mn AiDash software purchases await regulatory approval.
Sep 30, 2026 · 3 min read
SBI Insurance Group would be delisted on 30 March 2027 as planned, with each of its shares converting into 3.53 SBI Global Asset Management shares, but the ratio can change and a final agreement, votes and approvals are still needed.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Eleven more banks join the National Police Agency's online framework for tracing and freezing scam money from October 1, taking it to 20, but the agency reports no results from the June start.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Nissha's first-half sales beat its forecast by 2.2%, but a goodwill impairment at USM turned a guided ¥1.8bn operating profit into a ¥4.5bn loss, and the company now guides to a full-year operating loss of ¥3.3bn.
Sep 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Nidec's restated results show a ¥519.0bn operating loss after ¥632.1bn of impairments, and the company says some staff tied to the misconduct still hold reporting roles, so undetected misstatements could remain.
Sep 30, 2026 · 1 min read
Nidec says restated accounts show its dividends and buybacks in each of the five years to March 2026 exceeded the distributable amount under the Companies Act, with ¥94.0bn paid out in the year to March 2023.
Sep 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Tsukishima Holdings shareholders would receive 0.88 Mitsubishi Kakoki shares each under an April 2027 plan that ends in a single holding company; both sets of shareholders are scheduled to vote on December 4.
Sep 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Members now forecasts a ¥430mn operating loss for the half year to September 2026, attributing about ¥550mn of lost revenue to customer caution and generative AI substitution and about ¥250mn to lower utilization.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Media Do will sell Quality Solutions, NetGalley and three subsidiaries to Valsoft for $20mn, about ¥3.15bn, and expects a special gain in the quarter to November 2026 that it has not yet quantified.