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Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Tamron confirms it received a non-binding proposal from Sony to become a wholly owned Sony Group subsidiary and has formed a special committee, a day after a Japanese business outlet reported the approach.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A new offer from a Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo vehicle beats a rival ¥3,450 bid for Kakaku.com, rising to ¥3,640 if the bidder locks in a non-tender pact with KDDI, and forces the target's board back into price talks with the original suitor.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
First-quarter sales jumped 20% to a record ¥2.71tn, and Hitachi is betting the momentum holds, lifting its full-year revenue target to ¥11.7tn even as Middle East disruption cost it less than the company had feared.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Advantest now expects ¥846bn in operating profit for the year to March 2027, up ¥218.5bn from the guidance it gave in April, after a quarter in which net profit nearly doubled on broad AI chip-testing demand and a one-off investment gain.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
An earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture forced Tokai Carbon to halt nearly all running equipment at the plant that supplies isotropic graphite to chipmakers and solar cell producers, though the company reports no injuries, structural damage or fires so far and is still assessing shipment and earnings impact.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Electric Power Holdings booked a ¥34.3bn operating loss for the quarter through June as fuel and wholesale power costs pushed its retail and grid businesses into the red, and the utility still isn't giving a full-year profit forecast.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Shinkin Central Bank's consolidated net profit rose 25.8% to ¥13.5bn in the June quarter on foreign floating-rate bonds and corporate lending, while a separate disclosure showed gross unrealized losses on its held-to-maturity bond book at ¥594bn, more than ten times last year's annual profit before interest-rate hedges are applied.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Komatsu's quarterly operating profit rose 8% on a weaker yen and firmer pricing, and the equipment maker lifted its full-year sales and profit guidance after cutting its estimated US tariff cost to ¥25.8bn from ¥37.8bn and trimming its assumed Middle East demand losses.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Ispace has signed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch its ULTRA lunar lander on the H3 rocket in 2028, keeping the contract price confidential and deferring the cost until liftoff.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
A 37% surge in Energy-segment revenue, powered by backlog conversion and favourable currency swings rather than new orders, helped Hitachi post record first-quarter sales and lift its full-year profit forecast by ¥100bn, even though quarterly net profit dipped 1.4% against a tough dividend-related comparison.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Keywest Network, the buyout vehicle run by Future Corporation's own chairman, is offering ¥2,451 per share and will cancel the year-end dividend once enough shareholders tender, part of a plan to delist the Tokyo IT consultant.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
FreeBit says a special committee probing its 2025 CountUp acquisition may not wrap up in time for the company to get its audit report and file by the July 31 statutory deadline, so it is weighing an extension request to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
ANA Holdings' revenue rose 22.6% in the June quarter on inbound tourists and stronger cargo demand, but fuel costs cut operating profit by 43.5%; management is still holding its full-year targets steady.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Advantest raised its year-to-March-2027 net profit forecast by 41.8% to ¥660bn, saying test demand for inference AI chips already exceeds what it assumed back in April.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's biggest self-storage operator raised its full-year profit forecast after 19% first-half operating-profit growth, and is spending about ¥2.6bn at a 42% premium to take full control of a smaller Tokyo-area rival.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
The Aichi ceramics and LED maker lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥33.7bn after its best-ever first quarter, betting that next-generation telecom hardware and a memory-chip rebound will keep two new plant buildings busy.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Higher manufacturing costs and weaker sales volumes crushed operating profit in Tokuyama's core chemicals business by 81% in the quarter to June, yet the group is still lifting its dividend for a fourth straight year.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Capcom's operating profit rose 66.9% in the April-June quarter as new sci-fi title Pragmata topped 2.5 million copies sold and a six-year-old Devil May Cry 5 crossed 14 million units on a fresh Switch 2 port, while full-year guidance stayed unchanged at ¥210.0bn in sales.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Shimano's bicycle-component operating profit fell 15.1% in the first half despite progress clearing dealer inventory, while a 59.8% jump in fishing-tackle profit and one-off currency and securities gains covered for it in the group numbers.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Cacao and fat costs, plus depreciation on new gummy and bottled-water equipment, cut Fujiya's first-half operating profit by three-quarters and left profit attributable to the company's shareholders at a ¥74mn loss even as sales grew 4.8% to ¥59.41bn.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Senshu Ikeda Holdings disclosed ¥18.18bn of unrealized losses on held-to-maturity bonds at end-June, a figure bigger than the ¥17.3bn net profit it reported for the year to March 2026 and worth 72.0% of its ordinary profit for that year.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Appointed on June 25, Media Links' incoming audit firm resigned within a month after it could not get sufficient evidence to sign off on inventory recoverability for the year to March 2026 and earlier periods, and the electronics maker now has no accounting auditor while it looks for a temporary replacement.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Data-center memory shortages, a quicker factory-automation recovery and heat-driven cooling sales push the distributor's full-year operating profit guidance up 25% to ¥7.5bn and its dividend up ¥20 a share to ¥170.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's factory-sensor and machine-vision maker grew quarterly net profit 51% as capital spending held firm in Asia's semiconductor sector and the Americas, while Europe and Japan showed only early signs of recovery; the dividend forecast holds at ¥550 a share.