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Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
A single ToSTNeT-3 off-auction purchase on July 27 used up more than half of the ¥1.2bn share buyback the sauce maker's board approved just three months earlier.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read
New and renewed fertilizer-supply certifications in Japan would carry a duty to report cyberattacks to the Cabinet's cyber office through the farm ministry, and give operators a formal channel to ask Tokyo to lean on raw-material suppliers when a shortfall looms, under a draft open for public comment until August 25, 2026.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The operator of Japan's SOKUYAKU online-clinic and prescription service will build joint drone depots with a Tokyo drone-logistics firm to get medicine to mountain villages and remote islands, though the filing itself gives no cost or revenue figure for the plan.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read
RACCOON Holdings posted an 18.7% return on equity against an assumed 8% cost of capital, yet its market value has fallen 82% since 2021, prompting the Tokyo Prime-listed group to rewrite how it explains itself to investors.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
New shares issued for three acquisitions will cut the controlling shareholder's voting stake at Ureru Net Advertising Group from 55.02% to 46.30% on August 10, 2026, stripping a company director of that formal status without him selling a single share.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Overseas shipments to majority owner Roche and royalty income from a licensed itch drug pushed Chugai's core profit up 23% in the first half, even as Japan's drug-price cuts dented older cancer medicines at home.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA wants asset managers to hand administrative processing to trust banks and specialist firms, arguing fragmented back-office effort is holding back Japan's asset-management ambitions.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
The Nagoya-based automation group's board approved buying two Singapore machine-vision firms, Vital Vision Technology and EI3D, for an estimated ¥2.65bn, a deal disclosed as its first-quarter profit swung to ¥444mn from a year-earlier loss.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Harajuku Police Station has accepted a criminal complaint against baby calendar Inc.'s former CFO, accused of diverting ¥9.26mn in advertising revenue to a personal account, a case that already forced the company to correct prior financial filings.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Convano plans to cash out ¥8.77bn of group crypto holdings within about three months to fund growth investment and shareholder returns, while carving out the tokens tied to its shareholder-benefit program, which stay put.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
BlackRock Japan is closing the iShares MSCI Japan SRI ETF after its unit count fell to 3.75 million, well below the 15 million threshold for staying listed, with an October 20 written-resolution vote that counts silent holders as a yes.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
ispace,inc.'s Luxembourg unit will build, run and ship a lunar rover for the European Space Agency's water-ice mission under a ¥12bn add-on deal already counted in the company's current revenue forecast, though the value of the two earlier contract stages remains undisclosed.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read
A Singapore fund's stake in Soken Chemical has reached 22.60%, above the roughly 20% needed to block special-resolution votes at the company's annual meeting, and Soken's new defense plan sets out notice periods and a board review window, run past an independent committee, before any further buying toward 23% can proceed.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Hemlibra shipments to majority owner Roche and a sharp jump in Nemluvio exports to Galderma drove Chugai's core operating profit up 21% in the first half, while Japan's price controls kept domestic growth modest and management left its full-year guidance exactly where it stood in January.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Shin-Etsu Chemical's quarterly operating profit rose 4% as AI-driven demand for silicon wafers and photoresists offset a one-third profit drop in the segment selling PVC and caustic soda, and the company is guiding to higher full-year profit, a bigger dividend and the final leg of a ¥250bn buyback.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan Post Bank's domestically listed held-to-maturity bonds showed a ¥4.94tn unrealized loss at the end of June, worth 940% of last year's net profit, though the bank says its earnings and dividend forecasts for the year to March 2027 stand unchanged.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft ordinance would let every Japanese company, not just listed stock companies, hide part of a representative's or manager's home address from registration certificates and the online registry lookup service that lenders and dealmakers use.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Domestic held-to-maturity and policy-matching bonds at Japan Post Insurance carry an unrealized loss worth more than 26 times last year's net profit, yet the insurer says its earnings and dividend guidance for the year to March 2027 is unchanged.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A National Police Agency proposal would require officers to notify the administrator of any computer used to attack "critical" systems by email, disclosing its IP address and what was done, but only after the intervention is already over.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
MEXT's draft rule would keep two temporary medical school enrollment boosts running through the year to March 2028, the same year Tokyo pledged to start trimming doctor-training numbers.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Oracle Corporation Japan will hand shareholders ¥110.08bn for the year ended May 2026, more than the ¥24.4bn it paid a year earlier, after layering a ¥660 special dividend onto its ordinary payout.
Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's banking regulator says shrinking a branch network is a lender's own call, not a supervisory nudge, while quietly adding a formal demand that examiners test bank profit forecasts against population decline and interest-rate scenarios.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Tohoku Bank's held-to-maturity bonds carry a ¥2.14bn unrealized loss, worth more than the ¥1.69bn net profit it booked for the year to March 2026, even as it holds its current-year earnings forecast steady.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥858mn deal hands Scala control of an unlisted Kamakura software firm whose point-of-sale system runs in about 2,500 mobile-carrier shops, with the AI group betting the real prize is decades of store-operating data, not the software itself.