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Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Kaga Electronics raised its full-year profit forecast after absorbing Shinko Shoji, but a ¥6bn non-cash negative-goodwill gain accounts for most of the ¥7bn net-profit increase, and the company strips that gain out before setting its higher dividend.
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha's board has resolved to cancel the 44,429,000 treasury shares it bought back under a ¥130bn program, cutting its total issued shares by 6.95% to 594,743,067 when the cancellation takes effect on October 2, 2026.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Furukawa Electric sold part of its UACJ stake for about ¥28.3bn on September 25, booking a ¥21.7bn gain that was already priced into the previous day's revised interim forecast, leaving full-year guidance unchanged.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's health ministry designated Renascience's RS5614 an orphan drug for the rare skin cancer cutaneous angiosarcoma, extending exclusivity and adding a pricing premium, while the company discusses a Phase 3 trial with Japan's PMDA aimed at regulatory approval.
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Daiwa Asset Management says its iFreeETF China Greater Bay Area Innovation 100 closed 29.7% above net asset value on September 24, a premium it attributes to a paused unit-creation process that will not reopen until October 13.
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Pan Pacific International Holdings, the holding company behind Don Quijote, reported net profit of ¥110.1bn for the year ended June 2026, up 21.6% and above ¥100bn for the first time in its published five-year run, as consolidated sales rose 8.8% to ¥2.45tn.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Vacuum-equipment maker ULVAC booked record orders of ¥324.2bn for the year to June 2026, but ordinary profit fell 30% to ¥19.9bn as supply-chain and capacity limits slowed the conversion of orders into revenue. The board has proposed cutting the dividend to ¥152 a share, from ¥164, subject to shareholder approval, even as consolidated net profit rose slightly to ¥17.1bn.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Toho Bank now expects ¥16bn in net profit for the year to March 2027, a 23% upgrade from its May forecast, and is lifting its annual dividend by ¥5 to ¥26 a share as it now expects loan and securities income to exceed its original forecast.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Group net profit reached ¥2.58bn for the year to March 2026 as Kirayaka Bank logged a second consecutive annual profit, yet ¥20bn of 2009-era public capital stays outstanding after a record loss pushed its repayment back to September 2037, with management saying it may weigh a new capital raise depending on capital levels once that repayment is made.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Invincible Investment Corporation says its Kansai hotels posted a 41.5% RevPAR drop in August, a month it says was hit by post-Expo demand cooling and fewer Chinese visitors, while the rest of its 101-hotel portfolio gained 0.6%, and it forecasts a September rebound helped by holiday timing.
Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Hulic Reit plans to exchange three ageing Tokyo properties for a 24.99% stake in a newly built Osaka luxury tower and separately buy a Koto-ku office building, both from its sponsor Hulic Co., and has decided to borrow ¥21.2bn from Mizuho and MUFG Bank to help fund the deals.
Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Directors at Sankei Real Estate Investment Corporation have endorsed City Index Fifth's ¥125,000-per-unit tender offer for the Tokyo-listed REIT, the same price a rival bid failed to clear in May, while leaving unitholders to decide for themselves whether to sell.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Sandbox K.K., a holding company owned outright by Digital Hearts Holdings' chairman, is set to cross 50% of voting rights after shareholders tendered nearly double the required minimum, and the chairman and his vehicle now plan to squeeze out remaining holders before delisting the stock from the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime market.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
ARCHION, the parent of Hino Motors and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, signed a ¥250bn syndicated facility led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and decided to borrow ¥200bn of it, mostly to refinance the two truck makers' existing short-term debt, with capital-floor covenants running through 2028.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Chugoku Electric Power will borrow ¥149.0bn from eight banks under a GX Promotion Organization guarantee to fund safety construction at Shimane Unit 3 and a turbine rebuild at a hydropower plant in Ochi District, Shimane Prefecture, with the loan contract due September 28 and disbursement scheduled two days later.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Prudential Financial disclosed that suspending new sales at Prudential Life in Japan, following an employee misconduct investigation, cost $235 million in the first half and could reduce full-year international profit by as much as $575 million, with every additional month of suspension adding $50 million to $60 million to the bill.
Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management's stake in M3 climbed to 8.46% from 7.40% through months of market buying funded by fund capital rather than borrowed money, and the fund now has notice on file that it may push for the dismissal of M3's representative director, changes to the board, delisting, or a takeover crossing majority control within the next year.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Okuwa now forecasts a ¥187mn first-half net loss, reversing its expected ¥300mn profit, and has cut its full-year profit forecast 92%, to ¥50mn, citing sharper-than-expected consumer thrift.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Hokkaido Electric is raising regulated and liberalized electricity tariffs from November 1, lifting a standard household bill from ¥11,115 to ¥11,596 as it passes through a higher grid-usage fee set by the region's grid operator.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
The Bank of Japan is moving its short-term funds-supplying operations against pooled collateral from a fixed rate to a floating rate, under terms changed at the September 17-18 policy meeting, without disclosing offer sizes or a rate formula.
Sep 25, 2026 · 4 min read
The Fair Trade Commission's emergency survey found suppliers secured on average just 48.3% of the price increases they sought to cover petroleum-linked cost rises since February, with pass-through weakest at the second-tier to third-tier-and-beyond subcontractor stage, and the regulator has sent warning letters to 59 buyers it says stonewalled those requests.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Dentsu Group has agreed not to tender its 61.76% founding stake in Dentsu Soken to VIC's planned November tender offer, backing a squeeze-out that would take the IT consultancy private with Itochu Corporation as the bidder's parent.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
The Civil Aviation Bureau's draft rewrite adds new UN shipping numbers and packaging rules for sodium-ion batteries alongside existing lithium-cell rules, with comment open until October 26 and compliance due January 1, 2027.
Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read
The Tokyo office REIT signed August 21 deals to sell an Odaiba tower for ¥10.7bn and a Sapporo building to Kajima Construction for ¥4.8bn, as its debt-service coverage ratio falls to 8.8 times from 10.0 times the prior half-year.