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Sep 16, 2026 · 1 min read
A fire that burned power cables serving reheating-furnace equipment at Nakayama Steel Works' Osaka plant has stopped the hot-rolling mill, though no one was hurt and downstream processing continues normally.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
DKK has appointed three outside experts to check whether a ¥912mn inventory valuation loss booked in the year to March 2026 should have been recorded in the prior fiscal year or the September 2025 interim period, even as the company insists its original accounting was correct.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
An auditor's refusal to give an opinion on ESPOIR's financial statements has triggered a mandatory Nagoya Stock Exchange delisting, with shares trading under a delisting flag until October 16 before formal removal on October 17, 2026.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Europe Finance disclosed that its dollar-hedged Tokyo REIT exchange-traded note has not traded since August 5, 2026, so the quoted ¥24,690 price is frozen even as the note's redemption value has run 5 to 7 percent below it for seven straight sessions, peaking at a 7.26% gap on September 11.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Bank for International Cooperation will lend up to 1,672,100 thousand Thai baht, part of a 2,390,000 thousand baht syndicate with private banks, to help Inaba Foods' Thai subsidiary build a new pet food factory serving more than 80 export markets.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Foreign nationals holding qualifications as dental technicians or speech-language-hearing therapists could gain access to Japan's Medical residence status under a draft rule now open for public comment until October 15, with the agency citing growing regional medical needs from an aging patient base and targeting a November effective date.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's FSA will treat a subsidiary's bond solicitation as the issuer's own from September 16, but the subsidiary has to guarantee repayment and supply backup funds itself rather than outsourcing either job, and the agency declined requests to spell out the equivalence test any further than the ordinance text already does.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency wants chat and DM sales pitches to carry the same disclosure, cooling-off and re-solicitation bans as phone sales, alongside a crackdown on subscription-trap checkout screens and bait pricing for callout repair services, with public comment open until October 31, 2026.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Eisai's newly approved subcutaneous Leqembi pen lets patients self-inject weekly at home instead of visiting a clinic every two weeks for IV infusion, but a Central Social Insurance Medical Council review and listing on the injectable drug list must happen first, and Eisai says the approval's effect on its coming-year earnings forecast is minor.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
METI has certified Central Glass's plan to build new anhydrous hydrofluoric acid capacity at its Ube plant, unlocking as much as ¥17.6bn in subsidy under Japan's economic-security law, though the company says investment details and the near-term earnings impact remain modest.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's SMS holding climbed to 26.97% from 25.93% in a filing that also formalizes proposals on director dismissals, asset sales, a business exit, and a possible delisting or change-of-control transaction, though the filing does not show SMS having agreed to or acted on any of them.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Core private-sector machinery orders, which exclude ships and electric-power orders, fell 3.7% in July from June, while total machinery orders fell a steeper 5.5%, according to the Cabinet Office's seasonally adjusted survey of 280 manufacturers.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
With interest rates rising, Japan's markets and banking regulator is turning its year-ahead priorities toward deposit-rate competition, insurer misconduct, unregistered crypto exchanges and stakebuilding moves designed to dodge disclosure rules, according to priorities the FSA published this week.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's preliminary August trade data show both exports and imports at record highs for the month, but imports grew faster, widening the trade deficit to ¥1.11tn and cutting the surplus with the United States by 77.6% as imports from the US jumped 55.2%.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management has lifted its Nidec stake to 7.97% and told regulators it wants new directors appointed, the manufacturer delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange and its capital policy reworked, while reserving the right to buy more than five additional percentage points of stock within roughly three months.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's markets regulator wants a broader range of Payment Services Act-regulated settlement tokens, including certain foreign-issued ones, to count as company cash under revised financial-statement formats, with public comments due October 16.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's securities watchdog says a trader crossed its own buy and sell orders over ten sessions to fake demand and move the market price of a share on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Standard market, yet the resulting surcharge recommendation is just ¥760,000.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
A reconstituted committee's finding that a year-end real estate consulting deal never happened pushes ESPOIR's consolidated balance sheet to a ¥108.7mn capital deficit, with the final number still not locked down.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Labour inspectors found rule violations at roughly three in four workplaces employing foreign technical trainees and specified skilled workers in 2025, and machinery-safety lapses, not unpaid wages, topped the list of offenses.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's securities regulator will accept greenhouse-gas figures companies already file under a two-decade-old climate law as valid input for the SSBJ climate standard, sparing filers a second calculation exercise.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Financial services minister Satsuki Katayama has ordered Japan's Financial Council to study loosening money-lending rules for business loans, a review that could open room for private-credit and fintech lenders alongside banks, though the mandate specifies no draft rules or timeline.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A September 30 record date sets up a shareholder meeting that would leave just the tender offerer, Sandbox, and Digital Hearts' own chairman holding stock, but only if the takeover bid succeeds.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's regulatory filing puts total funding behind its Infomart stake at ¥27.18bn, all from fund resources, and keeps a possible delisting and boardroom overhaul on the table for the next year.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Amsterdam1 and Amsterdam2 raised their tender offer for Japan Property Management Center to ¥2,270 a share on September 14, but cut the shares they plan to buy and lowered the acceptance minimum after agreeing that Hikari Tsushin group shareholders, holding 9.93% of the company, would sit the tender out entirely, with 8.69% of that stake later sold to JPMC as treasury stock through a related entity.