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Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
DENSO's quarterly revenue rose 9.1% to ¥1.91tn on stronger vehicle sales and a weaker yen, but higher material costs and growth investment cut operating profit 21.5%, even as the company raised its full-year revenue forecast while holding profit guidance flat.
Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
Any Japanese business handling 300 tonnes of rice a year, from farms to convenience-store chains, would have to register with the farm ministry from October, though the monthly and annual reporting itself does not become mandatory until the following spring.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Electron's quarterly operating profit rose 46% on AI-server chip investment, and it has already raised its half-year sales, profit and dividend forecasts, saying July's Kumamoto earthquake caused no significant damage to its facilities.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A weaker yen pushed Takeda's quarterly revenue up 10.2%, but at constant currency sales actually fell 0.5% and net profit dropped 23.5%, more than double the decline shown in headline yen figures, even as full-year targets and the dividend forecast held steady.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Panasonic Holdings' operating profit more than doubled in the quarter to ¥182.5bn, and the company used the beat to lift its full-year profit forecast by ¥40bn to ¥590bn, though full-year sales guidance still sits 3.1% below last year's record total.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura Research Institute's quarterly operating profit rose 12% to ¥41.7bn, but the board also burned through nearly all of a ¥70bn buyback and cancelled 20 million shares, cutting the share count by more than 3% in ten weeks.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's NRA has opened a month-long comment period on draft rules that would require power and research reactor operators to spell out exactly how teardown costs will be funded, a response to an IAEA review that found the existing financial checks too thin.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Kagome trimmed full-year profit guidance by ¥4bn to ¥19.0bn after a ¥2.8bn Middle East cost hit, while its two mass-market vegetable drinks are still stuck below prior-year sales five months after a price increase that its premium Tomato Juice brand shrugged off.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is cutting its stake in a ¥1.64tn leasing subsidiary from 84.9% to 45%, Panasonic is exiting entirely, and Fuyo General Lease (40%) and Yokohama Financial Group (15%) are buying in; parent Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group expects a ¥14.0bn transfer loss when the deal closes on October 1.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
IRISO Electronics has no release date for either its year-to-March 2026 results or the following quarter's earnings, as a third-party committee investigates suspected improper overseas payments alongside separate quality and inspection concerns.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Fuji Electric raised its full-year operating-profit forecast by ¥14bn to ¥156.5bn, citing stronger first-half demand, higher production and cost cuts across its energy and industrial-equipment businesses.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A shareholder holding about 25% of the voting rights in Foster Electric now has its CEO on the board, and the speaker maker is tearing up its 2025-2027 plan for a replacement due around November.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Chugin Financial Group's first-quarter net profit rose 40.3% to ¥13.9bn as higher domestic rates lifted lending income, even as the bank booked ¥19.9bn in losses selling off low-yield bonds, a cost partly offset by ¥18.3bn in stock-sale gains.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
An explosion killed seven people at AEON Mall Kumamoto just after evacuation from a magnitude-7 earthquake was completed, and AEON still won't estimate what shutting the 204-tenant mall will cost.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A first-quarter surge in memory prices, driven by generative-AI product demand, pushed the Tokyo-listed chip distributor to lift its full-year operating profit forecast by 168.7% and raise its dividend to ¥1,640 a share from ¥600.
Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read
A three-month gap between rising fuel costs and the tariffs that recover them cut Osaka Gas's quarterly ordinary profit by 15.3%, while the loss of a one-off insurance payout booked a year earlier pulled net profit down 26.5%. The utility still lifted its full-year sales forecast by ¥100bn while leaving profit guidance and its dividend untouched.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Calbee's operating profit rose 24.4% in the quarter to June as price rises and expansion in Greater China and Indonesia outweighed a domestic potato shortfall hitting a mainstay snack, yet the company left its full-year forecast untouched.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT wants first-offense vehicle suspensions for unauthorized taxi operators catering to tourists to double, from 60 to 120 days, with a parallel doubling for unlicensed freight haulers, and public comment is open until August 28, 2026.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Tamron confirms it received a non-binding proposal from Sony to become a wholly owned Sony Group subsidiary and has formed a special committee, a day after a Japanese business outlet reported the approach.
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A new offer from a Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo vehicle beats a rival ¥3,450 bid for Kakaku.com, rising to ¥3,640 if the bidder locks in a non-tender pact with KDDI, and forces the target's board back into price talks with the original suitor.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
First-quarter sales jumped 20% to a record ¥2.71tn, and Hitachi is betting the momentum holds, lifting its full-year revenue target to ¥11.7tn even as Middle East disruption cost it less than the company had feared.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Advantest now expects ¥846bn in operating profit for the year to March 2027, up ¥218.5bn from the guidance it gave in April, after a quarter in which net profit nearly doubled on broad AI chip-testing demand and a one-off investment gain.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
An earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture forced Tokai Carbon to halt nearly all running equipment at the plant that supplies isotropic graphite to chipmakers and solar cell producers, though the company reports no injuries, structural damage or fires so far and is still assessing shipment and earnings impact.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo Electric Power Holdings booked a ¥34.3bn operating loss for the quarter through June as fuel and wholesale power costs pushed its retail and grid businesses into the red, and the utility still isn't giving a full-year profit forecast.