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Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Otsuka Holdings lifted its year-to-December core profit forecast to ¥500bn from ¥470bn, with a newly launched IgA nephropathy drug and its antipsychotic offsetting a 31.1% nine-month sales fall in its kidney-disease drug after US generic entry.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Murata raised its full-year operating-profit forecast to ¥520bn from ¥430bn, crediting data-centre demand, higher production volume and product mix, with the second-half assumption of ¥155 to the dollar unchanged.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi Logistics agreed to buy all of Hankyu Hanshin Express for ¥120.11bn, about ¥121.337bn with fees, adding an air and sea freight network that includes Asia; closing needs approvals and is targeted for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Mitsubishi Electric posted record first-half sales and adjusted operating profit on factory-automation, chip and air-conditioning demand, raised its annual adjusted profit guide to ¥710bn and decided on a buyback of up to ¥200bn.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
The industry ministry began administrative procedures on 30 October toward a business-improvement order against Chubu Electric, which has not been issued, and set winter electricity and gas relief for December to February.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Members says AI substitution and customer spending cuts cost it about ¥550mn of planned half-year revenue, pushing it to a ¥389mn operating loss even as sales rose 3.0%, and its ¥200mn full-year profit target counts no revenue from higher AI-transformation orders.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Matsuya Foods Holdings says a third party accessed its app management system, exposing 2,377,127 order and delivery records and a separate 2,000 to 3,000 app-member records that include encrypted passwords; the cause is under investigation.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
牧 寛之 no longer seeks more than 30% of BASE's voting rights after four governance commitments, but says he may still vote against directors; a transfer to Melco Group left the joint 28.36% stake unchanged.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Loadstar Capital's first real-estate security token, a ¥3.83bn Yokohama hotel offering launched in August, is treated as a financing and added no nine-month revenue, while net profit fell 12.2% and assets under management passed ¥200bn.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
ITG-G Holdings has lengthened its ¥2,514-a-share offer for Kadoya Sesame Mills to November 13 after a proposal from an unnamed bidder, while higher ¥2,644 and ¥2,620 prices depend on deals with Mitsubishi and Mitsui & Co.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Joshin raised its forecast for operating profit in the year to March 2027 to ¥11bn from ¥6bn, crediting early air-conditioner purchases ahead of a 2027 environmental-rule change and solid sales of other home appliances.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
A third-party committee found no criminal intent but could not rule out civil liability for directors who approved two dividends above the legal limit; Nihon M&A Center's audit committee chose not to sue, and the company will not ask shareholders to repay.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Foreign guest-nights fell 9.2% in September and Japanese ones 0.6% in preliminary data, while August's revised figures show China-origin nights down 50.8%; a January sampling change means year-on-year comparisons carry a caveat.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
DMG MORI booked a record ¥186.8bn of orders in July–September and raised its full-year order outlook to ¥650bn or more, but annual revenue and profit guidance are unchanged and a prior-year insurance gain distorts net-profit comparisons.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Daiwa's half-year ordinary profit rose 69.9% to ¥166.4bn, while the ¥385.2bn ORIX Bank purchase added ¥103.45bn of goodwill, amortised over 20 years, and enlarged the group's loan and deposit books.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Chiba Kogyo Bank reported gross unrealized losses of ¥19.685bn on its held-to-maturity bonds at end-September, ¥19.683bn net of gains, while gains on other securities outweighed them and its earnings and dividend forecasts for the year to March 2027 stay unchanged.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Cabinet approved ¥1.148tn from its Middle East response reserve on 30 October, ¥1.146tn of it for METI's fuel-price mitigation fund and ¥2.25bn for taxi LPG support, leaving ¥735.9bn in the ¥2.5tn reserve.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
AVI has agreed to tender its 40.00% stake in Broadmedia into NSSK-EPSILON1's ¥2,500 offer, but can hold back if a rival's qualifying bid tops the price by at least 4% and is not matched after AVI asks for talks.
Oct 30, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan set its call-rate guide at around 1.25% by an 8-1 vote, with Takata Hajime proposing 1.5%, said it will keep raising rates, and will sell ETFs at about ¥860bn a year from January.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Electromagnetic and ultrasonic water meters would keep their verification validity for ten years instead of eight under a Measurement Act order that METI has put back out to comment after changing its text.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Foreign nationals applying to land in Japan would be asked whether they intend to obey Japanese law, under a draft ministerial ordinance that is open for comment until 27 November and planned to take effect in January 2027.
Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Overseas full-flight simulators that the FAA certifies at Level C or D could clear Japan's inspections on paperwork alone under a transport ministry draft; comments close on 25 November.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Nonresidents bought a net ¥42.5bn of Japanese securities in the week to October 24, but the total hides a ¥1.18tn equity purchase cancelled by ¥1.18tn of short-term debt sales.
Oct 30, 2026 · 2 min read
With the subsidy lapsing in March 2027, the FSA wants the industry's own failure buffer raised as a condition of permanence, and a simulation puts aid needed in a one-in-1,000 scenario at ¥1.14tn.