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Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Be Brave Inc. built a ¥3.78bn position in Chofu Seisakusho and wants the maker to sell policy shares and rental property to fund buybacks and dividends while lifting a share price stuck below book value.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Active Value Fund and Dalton Investments now hold a combined 5.00% of Intage Holdings after a fresh large shareholding filing, reviving a December letter that urged the market-research group to weigh privatization, spin-offs and cost-of-capital-conscious management before deciding how to spend cash.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Kaga Electronics lowered the minimum acceptance level in its ¥1,580-a-share tender for Shinko Shoji from 66.67% to 55.73% of shares and pushed the deadline to August 3, after Shinko Shoji's stock traded above the offer price.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan Hotel REIT is selling The Beach Tower Okinawa for ¥30.9bn, about five times book value, and using the ¥24.1bn gain to buy a fixed-rent Osaka hotel and lift its per-unit distribution 7.8% to ¥5,580.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Daio Paper is dissolving both its Indonesian diaper trading and manufacturing units after sales at the sales arm collapsed to 6.1 billion rupiah and losses widened across both entities, closing out a market entry the company made in 2013 on the strength of Indonesia's birth rate.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo-listed fintech unbanked dismissed president Hu Yan on July 17 over claims he ordered the company's auditor out of a board meeting, disclosed that some of its own directors doubt the vote's legality, and now faces a shareholder request to dismiss the entire board, including his successor, Yasuto Hirai.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
The Bank of Japan will settle a ¥13.98tn disbursement on July 21 under its climate-response funding operation, a one-year loan that lifts the facility's outstanding balance to ¥24.94tn and keeps cheap, BOJ-backed money flowing to banks' green and transition lending books.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
EQT's buyout vehicle for Kakaku.com lifted its tender offer to ¥3,450 a share and pushed the deadline to August 3, betting that Bain Capital and LY Corporation's rival ¥3,500 headline price is unworkable under KDDI's existing non-tender contract.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
A Texas federal jury ruled that Kioxia's US and Japan subsidiaries infringed a Viasat patent, setting provisional damages of about $229mn (¥37.1bn) that Kioxia says it will contest.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Medipal Holdings' stake in PALTAC has climbed to 97.79% after a completed tender offer, and it is now forcing out the rest of the shareholders at ¥6,650 a share, a move that will end PALTAC's Tokyo Stock Exchange listing next month.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group registered ¥257bn of new 10-year subordinated bonds in two same-day filings, yet ¥227bn of that debt is left out of its own shelf-usage tally until the notes settle on July 31.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-registered issuer is pulling ¥35bn of two-year, ¥55bn of five-year and ¥30bn of ten-year unsecured bonds from a ¥500bn debt program that had ¥350bn of headroom left before this filing.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Katsu Corporation, the holding company tied to Art Vivant founder Katsumi Nozawa, has agreed to keep its 33.76% stake out of Orsay Co.'s buyout tender while promising to vote afterward for a squeeze-out that would leave only Orsay and Katsu Corporation as shareholders.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i Holdings says discussions on a Polish convenience-store investment are real, but nothing has been decided, after media reports the company did not authorize.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The London-based activist fund sold ¥31.49bn of Nikon shares between mid-June and mid-July, dropping its stake from 7.08% to 6.06%, while its regulatory filing still reserves the right to press for bigger dividends, buybacks and board changes.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
STYLE BLEACH borrowed the entire ¥2.16bn behind its new 5.07% stake in Nippon Chemical Industrial from a Singapore-based lender, and it has told regulators it may push for anything from higher dividends to taking the company private.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Shofu booked an ¥832mn gain selling cross-held shares in July, pushing its cumulative gain for the year to March 2027 to ¥1.96bn, with earnings guidance unchanged for now.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings hit the yen cap on its May-approved share buyback by July 15, spending close to ¥30bn on 6.55 million shares and finishing more than three months before the October 29 deadline it had set.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Kobe Bussan paid about ¥1.68bn for a 13.28% stake in Makiya to cement a franchise alliance, but it signed a standstill barring further accumulation above the closing-level ratio, plus a lock-up and right of first refusal favoring Makiya.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The Hiroshima chemicals group is handing its 20.7% stake in Zhejiang Huayuan to co-investor Zhejiang Shenghua for roughly ¥3.48bn, freeing money for its mobility, AI and environmental materials push while it keeps buying pigments from the venture it is leaving.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Marusan Securities says preliminary quarterly operating profit rose to ¥1.75bn from ¥395mn a year earlier, crediting higher stock brokerage commissions and investment trust sales fees, with audited figures due July 30.
Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's biggest reuse retailer is buying Garage Bank, whose cashari app lets users cash out possessions via leaseback instead of selling them, even though the startup lost ¥242.6mn last year on ¥1.05bn of revenue.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Hitotohito Holdings is buying Saitama security-staffing firm SPD for ¥3.16bn, funding the whole deal with bank debt that carries covenants tied to the target's own cash flow and net assets from 2028 onward.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
LOGOS Holdings will absorb distressed homebuilder Aera Home into a new subsidiary on Oct. 1, keep its name and its outgoing chief, but the sponsor deal discloses no purchase price.