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Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Crasus Chemical is now trading in Tokyo, and Resonac expects its October 1 share distribution to leave it with 18.57%, so the petrochemicals unit drops out of both consolidation and equity-method accounting.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read
COSCO Shipping Holdings grew first-half revenue 2.59% to 111.92bn yuan, but attributable profit fell 23.59% and its container EBIT margin dropped to 14.15% from 20.52% in the six months to June 2026.
Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min read
The Cabinet Office kept its moderate-recovery assessment in September but now describes the trade-and-services balance as in deficit, up from broadly balanced, and production as picking up as a whole rather than flat.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Axelspace Holdings said restoring the high-speed image-download link on four of the seven GRUS-3 satellites launched in July, and starting their commercial use, has been judged difficult, and a possible impairment charge on fixed assets has not been quantified.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Arisawa Mfg. has a grant decision capping its METI subsidy at ¥2.127bn for a roughly ¥14bn Gifu plant, but the payout depends on a post-completion inspection and comes with a 7.6% average annual pay-rise target.
Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Ahresty raised its full-year sales forecast to ¥180.8bn and cut operating profit to ¥300mn, with net profit undetermined until it finishes reviewing asset values in its Asian and North American die-casting businesses.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read
The French bank's deposits at the Bank of Japan grew €5.0bn in the first half, it says, and it also lists yen notes tied to the Nikkei 225 that run to 2031.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read
The marketing-support firm forecasts a ¥33.9mn net loss for the year to December 2026 even though it earned ¥16.6mn in the first half, and it says it aims to move to the Growth market later.
Sep 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's export-credit bank is putting up ¥420mn of a ¥600mn syndicated loan with Resona Bank so a 1960-founded Osaka steel-wire maker can build a factory through its new Vietnamese subsidiary.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's New Energy Foundation will fund the full cost of feasibility studies for municipalities planning PFI-run hydropower plants, but private developers get only half, capped at ¥20mn per site a year, with applications due October 28, 2026.
Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min read
From October 1, financial institutions in Japan gain a third standard form for reporting cyberattack-related personal data breaches to regulators, one that can also cover breaches caused by system failures, under an updated Financial Services Agency Q&A.
Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo's communications ministry, through secretariat Dentsu, will cover up to half the cost of 4K or VFX-heavy live-action production, capped at ¥150mn, but applicants must already hold the content's overseas sales channel and keep filing revenue reports for five years starting from the fiscal year the project is completed.
Sep 28, 2026 · 1 min read
The Tokyo-listed accounting and payroll software maker closed the year to June 2026 with ¥43.5bn of platform recurring revenue and a 1.0% average monthly revenue churn rate, and is now guiding for adjusted operating profit to more than double as it prioritizes margin over pure growth.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokio Marine & Nichido settled a Credit Suisse-linked lawsuit over Greensill-linked insurance on September 24, its second confidential Greensill settlement this year, without admitting liability or disclosing terms.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Paper's sale of Lintec Corporation shares is expected to add an estimated ¥84.6bn gain to the parent company's own accounts, but only ¥37bn once consolidated with its group results, alongside a ¥3.6bn deferred-tax reversal.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed trust is swapping a 38-year-old Nagoya office building for a 300-room Okinawa resort priced 19.3% below appraisal, bridging the gap with a ¥5bn Mizuho loan and issuing a first, record ¥2,780 per-unit payout forecast for the half to August 2027.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Northern TK Venture has appealed to the Tokyo High Court after the district court threw out its entire ¥203.3 billion damages claim against Daiichi Sankyo over a blocked Fortis Healthcare tender offer, and the pharma company now says the earnings impact is under review rather than nil.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
AeroEdge, one of only two global suppliers of titanium-aluminide blades for Safran's LEAP jet engine, has locked in a market-share increase from 40% to the high-40s per cent range starting January 2028, tied to a new alloy it developed with Japan's materials-research institute.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
AXELL CORPORATION now expects full-year net income of ¥1.7bn, up 91% from its May plan, and is raising its dividend to ¥79 from ¥41, pointing to stronger pachinko-chip demand and price increases that are offsetting a global memory-cost jump the company links to generative-AI demand.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Furuya Metal's ordinary profit more than doubled to ¥24.7bn in the year to June on semiconductor and data-centre demand, precious-metal prices and a weak yen, and the company now says it will revise its 2030 profit target, though it has not yet said to what.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's value-clothing chain Shimamura grew first-half operating profit 5.3% to ¥33.13bn, yet management still describes fierce price competition and thrifty shoppers as the norm, with full-year guidance left unchanged.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Hit capsule-toy releases and strong convenience-store lottery and trading-card sales push Happinet's six-month net profit forecast to ¥9.0bn from ¥5.0bn, while the toy distributor keeps its full-year guidance unchanged pending the Christmas selling season.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Kakaku.com dissolved its eight-year capital alliance with KDDI on September 28, stripping the telecom group of its board-nomination and pre-consultation rights, even though KDDI keeps its 17.70% stake and the underlying data-sharing business alliance.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's land ministry has drafted enforcement-rule paperwork for a new structural-type certification, created by a companion Cabinet Order, that lets makers of load-bearing building materials seek certification too, alongside a narrower daylighting exemption for certain senior day-care centers, with the public-comment window closing October 26, 2026 ahead of a November 1 effective date.