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Jul 23, 2026 · 1 min read
A ¥660 special dividend takes ORACLE CORPORATION JAPAN's year-end payout to ¥110.08bn, versus ¥24.38bn a year earlier, with payment starting August 10, 2026.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has opened public comment on scrapping the mandatory three-year reapproval of how utilities certify reactor operation supervisors, saying annual inspections already cover the ground and most renewal filings change nothing.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
B-R 31 Ice Cream, which runs Baskin-Robbins in Japan, booked record first-half sales of ¥18.55bn on a 21st straight quarter of same-store growth, yet operating profit fell to ¥1.42bn from ¥1.70bn as raw-material costs, the weak yen, and heavier marketing and shipping bills ate into margins.
Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Yokohama Reito is moving four logistics centers into a trust, selling the beneficiary rights to a Bentall GreenOak vehicle for an estimated ¥5.9bn gain, and leasing the buildings straight back to fund new cold-storage capacity near Haneda and along the Ken-O corridor.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
KOA CORPORATION's upgraded guidance follows a first quarter in which net profit nearly quadrupled, and the company raised its annual dividend forecast to ¥63 a share from ¥39, crediting AI-related equipment demand in Asia and automotive orders in China rather than a broad components rebound.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Okinawa Financial Group's banking subsidiary disclosed a ¥10.4bn unrealized loss on held-to-maturity bonds as of June 30, 2026, a sum equal to 92% of the group's profit for the year ended March 2026, and kept its full-year earnings and dividend forecasts unchanged.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Hokkaido Electric's first public hybrid bond fixes a 3.393% coupon until 2033, runs to a 2063 maturity, and gives the utility discretion to defer interest payments, terms that let R&I and JCR count half the ¥80bn issue as equity rather than debt.
Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's FSA has told regional lenders that revised supervisory guidance backs, rather than blocks, voluntary branch closures amid population decline, while adding hearings that stress-test five-year earnings and capital forecasts against demographic and interest-rate scenarios.
Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Faster customer acceptance inspections, not a jump in AI chip orders, drove a 16% profit beat for DISCO in the June quarter, and the Tokyo chip-tool maker used the visibility to raise its interim dividend to ¥171 a share and disclose second-quarter guidance for the first time this year.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
A one-month comment window closing August 21 will decide whether Japan's economic-security certification track also covers the services that keep critical materials flowing, not just the materials themselves.
Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
OBIC's quarterly net profit rose 16.3% on stronger ERP and cloud demand, but a swing in unrealized securities valuations cut comprehensive income by more than three-quarters, and the software vendor left its full-year guidance untouched anyway.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsui & Co. and Penske Corporation have submitted a non-binding proposal to buy out the roughly 27.8% of Penske Automotive Group they don't already own, valuing the New York-listed retailer at $13.8bn.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Kanagawa Denryoku, the solar-power subsidiary of Oizumi Corporation, is spending about ¥1.1bn on two small hotels in Atami and Ito as falling feed-in-tariff rates and expiring purchase contracts squeeze its renewable-energy returns.
Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
One REIT is selling its 38-year-old Nagoya Fushimi Square Building for ¥8.01bn in three tranches through March 2027, banking part of the ¥2.9bn gain as tax-deferred reserves so the profit lifts several distributions instead of spiking just one.
Jul 22, 2026 · 1 min read
AIMECHATEC has booked a roughly ¥2.5bn multi-line order for solder ball mounters used in AI data-centre chip packaging, though the revenue won't hit its books until the year to June 2028.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Net profit at Japan's ERP bellwether OBIC rose 16.3% to ¥22.7bn in the June quarter, with its cloud-based system-support business growing faster than the core ERP software it sells directly to large and mid-sized firms, even as the company flags growing caution among corporate buyers.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Higher-than-expected interest income at Juroku Bank pushed its parent, Juroku Financial Group, to raise near-term dividend guidance and lift its five-year return-on-equity target from 6% to 7% or more, a small but concrete sign of Japan's rate shift reaching a regional lender's bottom line.
Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
Mercury AIFLNP wants Pasona to buy back founder Yasuyuki Nanbu's roughly 48% voting stake unless the board adopts a family-governance policy within three months, but Nanbu has told the company he won't sell, and Pasona's board calls the proposal legally toothless.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Chuikyo, Japan's insurance-pricing panel, set a ¥53.2mn reimbursement price for ReHeart, Cuorips's iPS cell-derived cardiac tissue sheet for severe heart failure, but sales cannot begin until the official listing takes effect on September 1.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Nichirei says personal information stored on some breached servers was exposed and is notifying those affected, while still withholding how the attack happened as it works with police and outside security specialists.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Crude oil and semiconductor purchases pushed Japan's imports to their highest level ever recorded in June, outpacing a record June for exports and leaving the country in deficit for a second straight month.
Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
Hijacked home IoT gadgets routed at least 1,918 of Japan's 4,369 online banking fraud cases in 2024, and the ministry now wants internet providers to help close the gap before comments close on August 4.
Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's telecom regulator wants to extend guaranteed nationwide service, and the subsidies that fund it, to mobile-network fixed phones and shared wireless broadband, a shift triggered by a new duty on carriers to supply service where no company otherwise will.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
MicroAd used a one-day ToSTNeT-3 trade to buy 1,020,400 shares, 3.71% of shares outstanding, from affiliate CyberAgent for ¥600.0mn, aiming to soften dilution from a new convertible bond and stock awards, while CyberAgent pledged to keep the rest of its stake long-term.