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Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
A Tokyo-listed US Treasury ETF, ticker 538A, closed at almost double its net asset value on September 25, and its manager warns the mismatch could persist if exchange trading in the fund stays thin.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Amvis Holdings is splitting off 47 western Japan hospice homes and has agreed to sell them to an NSSK-backed buyer for a combined ¥17.4bn, refocusing its remaining hospice network on high-acuity, end-of-life patients around Tokyo and eastern Japan.
Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read
A Blackstone-affiliated TechnoPro vehicle, TX1 Kabushiki Kaisha, wants to take Project Holdings private at ¥2,200 a share, a price it raised twice after the target's independent committee rejected two lower offers, and investors holding almost 60% of the stock have already agreed to sell.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Achilles Corporation's board has resolved to end production at its wholly owned vehicle-materials plant in Foshan, China, by the end of September, after three years of losses that included a ¥3.26bn impairment, citing the retreat of Japanese automakers from China among its reasons, though it expects only a minor effect on its earnings outlook for the year to March 2027.
Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read
An interim analysis of Chugai's Phase 2 obesity trial for the myostatin antibody emugrobart found the targeted weight loss unlikely, so Roche is exiting the program entirely and is set to return all license rights to Chugai, which is now preparing, but has not decided, a possible return to spinal muscular atrophy development.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's SBS Holdings has signed to buy all of Mitsubishi Chemical Logistics from its parent for ¥19.2bn in share consideration, plus advisory costs, bringing the estimated total to ¥19.35bn subject to adjustment at closing, as the target's earnings flipped into a ¥1.07bn net loss, with completion pending regulatory approval and due April 1, 2027.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
AEON Kyushu has decided to record a ¥1.75bn quarterly charge for Kumamoto earthquake repairs and lost stock, reopened 18 of 20 affected stores, and says further costs and the full-year hit are still being assessed.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Nidec Corporation confirmed it is examining a change to its top executive ranks and a large-scale impairment charge, but said no decision has been made, after Diamond Online reported that the company had decided to dismiss its president and faced writedowns on the scale of ¥1 trillion.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Park24 says a hacker viewed or improperly obtained names, addresses, driver's license images and other data from about 6.6 million Times Car and Times Business Service accounts, but that credit-card numbers were not leaked and passwords were stored in a form the company says cannot be read.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Cutting-tool distributor Naito says higher tungsten costs tied to China's export controls, plus customers rushing orders ahead of feared shortages, helped drive a nearly fourfold jump in first-half profit, prompting an upward revision to its full-year guidance.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's competition authority is teaming with the transport ministry and the country's small-business agency to run block-by-block liaison councils and joint shipper patrols enforcing the law against delayed payments to subcontractors, months before a separate rule covering shipper conduct takes effect in April 2027.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Tohoku Electric will raise electricity rates for every customer class from November 1, adding ¥485 a month to a typical household bill and around ¥17,000 to an office or commercial building's, as its grid subsidiary's revised wheeling charges take effect the same day. The company expects the change to improve group earnings by roughly ¥30bn this fiscal year, but has not folded that into full-year guidance.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Fair Trade Commission ordered ¥1.64bn in surcharges against dozens of Kanto condominium renovation contractors and cease-and-desist orders against two design consultancies that orchestrated the bid-rigging, with HASEKO's repair subsidiary facing a ¥329.4mn penalty as its chairman steps down.
Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Minutes from the Bank of Japan's July 30-31 meeting, released September 28, show most board members held the policy rate near 1.0% while one member pushed for an immediate move to 1.25%, and staff flagged inflation accelerating past 3% later in the fiscal year.
Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's trade ministry would make companies pursuing supply-crunch measures under its critical-materials subsidy program spell out how they'd handle supply counterparties and end-uses when a material runs short, on top of the existing response menu.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft Cabinet Order would extend the verification seal on electromagnetic and ultrasonic water meters from eight to ten years, easing one cost that regulators flagged as a barrier to smart-meter adoption, while impeller meters keep the shorter cycle.
Sep 28, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's Finance Minister Katayama and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held a Friday-night call to reaffirm shared concern that the yen is undervalued, tying the message to the two countries' summit meeting and a statement by Prime Minister Takaichi.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Finance Minister Katayama disclosed for the first time that President Trump raised concerns about yen weakness at a recent summit, as Japanese long-term yields climbed above 3.115%, a 30-year high, days after the Bank of Japan decided to raise its policy rate to about 1.25%.
Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's Financial Services Agency warns that a payment system unable to run around the clock risks deeper reliance on foreign rails, and a new forum must deliver an interim policy summary on stablecoins, tokenization and AI-era supervision by early 2027.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Miroku Corporation will book a ¥1.19bn special gain for the year to October 2026 after Kochi Prefecture finalized a location subsidy tied to the maker's Nankoku City factory, a figure already folded into its August earnings revision.
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Nippon Sheet Glass says payment for its third-party share allotment and the procedures required for a related share consolidation are finished, and its shares will leave the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime Market on September 28, 2026.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Smaregi will absorb the register-cloud and cashless-payment customers of Casio subsidiary CXD Next for a token ¥1, using the years before the net-POS business's scheduled 2029 shutdown to pitch them on switching platforms.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Shionogi's amended securities report lowers disclosed compensation for its senior directors to ¥642mn from ¥895mn, driven by a corrected fringe-benefit figure for foreign-national directors; the correction also revises a related-party pay note but leaves other financial-statement figures unchanged.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Medical-DX software maker LAYERED listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Standard Market with year-to-June revenue up 35.6% to ¥1.98bn and profit up 170.6%, but the disclosed year-to-June-2026 accounts had not yet been audited.