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Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's consumer-health group says affiliates of buyout firms NSSK and CVC Capital Partners have made a non-binding joint proposal to take it private, confirming a claim from media reports the company itself never issued.
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's Financial Services Agency granted a Mitsubishi UFJ Bank subsidiary, capitalized at ¥47.45bn, a full banking license under the Banking Act, though the notice says nothing about a launch date or retail lineup.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Katayama says the government will end reliance on supplementary spending bills, screen tax breaks and subsidies through a domestic version of the DOGE drive, and size bond issuance only after debt-to-GDP falls steadily.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Toshin Holdings' latest fiscal year lasted just eight days after the Nagoya-based mobile-phone-and-golf-course group entered court-supervised corporate rehabilitation on May 8, 2026, the culmination of a subsidiary accounting scandal that produced an auditor's disclaimer of opinion, a Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting-risk designation and covenant breaches with its banks; the truncated period posted a ¥236.9 million net loss, and the rehabilitation plan submitted to the Tokyo District Court in September remains unapproved.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
All nine of SUNWELS' lender banks have agreed to defer ¥574mn of loan principal due between October and March, the company's second repayment extension this year, with interest payments continuing unchanged during the deferral.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
SoftBank Group locked in coupons of 7.125% to 9.75% on $10bn of dollar notes and €1bn of euro notes rated BB+ by two agencies, saying the money will fund the last $10bn tranche of its $30bn OpenAI Group commitment and that it separately plans to cancel the remaining $10bn of an unused bridge facility.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Shinto Company's free-float market value slipped to ¥496.1mn, under half the ¥1.0bn Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard-market threshold, and the tile maker now has until the close of the fiscal year ending June 2027 to close the gap, or face a liquidation designation and delisting on January 1, 2028.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
SymBio Pharmaceuticals has signed an exclusive global license with the US Department of Health and Human Services to develop brincidofovir against multiple sclerosis, but the programme remains in animal testing, and the company disclosed no financial terms while saying the deal will not affect its earnings forecast for the year ending December 2026.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Shimizu is financing a construction acquisition push with a roughly ¥100bn zero-coupon convertible bond sale split across two maturities, and it doubled a parallel share-buyback program to ¥20bn on the same day to soften the eventual dilution.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Septeni Holdings' board approved a planned ¥10.84bn purchase of recruitment-support firm Media House Holdings, aiming for full ownership once two-thirds of shares are gathered, with a squeeze-out covering any holdouts.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Seikagaku Corporation now expects a ¥1.8bn net loss for the year to March 2027, reversing a forecast ¥2.3bn profit, and has cut its full-year dividend from ¥30 to ¥20 per share after telling investors royalty income will fall sharply.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Ministry of the Environment is proposing to tighten the tap-water guideline for thiophanate-methyl from 0.3 to 0.2 milligrams per litre while loosening the benomyl guideline from 0.02 to 0.07 mg/L, and it wants public comments by October 23, 2026, ahead of a planned April 2027 start.
Sep 24, 2026 · 1 min read
Customer traffic rose sharply at Nishimatsuya in September, when the company said cooler weather made for extremely strong autumn-clothing sales; existing-store sales rose 12.4% year on year, well above the 1.9% cumulative gain booked over the prior six months, with interim results due October 1.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A Singapore court has ordered Nippon Chemi-Con's subsidiary SCC to pay Dyson Manufacturing about £92.7mn over component-defect claims dating to 2022, and the company says legal fees, delay interest and a further £3.1mn claim are still to be settled while it weighs an appeal.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Lasertec's consolidated sales fell 8.3% to ¥230.5bn and ordinary profit dropped 9.7% to ¥107.9bn for the year to June 2026, posting its first annual decline in the five years its results table covers, even though new orders rebounded sharply on AI-chip demand.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
The Osaka biotech's IND filing asks the FDA to clear a US Phase III trial of oremepermin alfa, its lab-made HGF protein already tested through Phase III in Japan for acute spinal cord injury, with the US study not yet started.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
KOURAKUEN CORPORATION's board has agreed to buy all shares of a Fukushima sake brewer that is 60% owned by the chain's own chairman, at a price it is keeping confidential, as part of its alcohol-product strategy for a planned new line of station-front restaurants under its mid-term growth plan.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Keisei Electric Railway has agreed to buy all shares of Chiba Nisseki, a Funabashi gas-station and auto-repair operator with about ¥17.8bn in annual sales but just ¥233mn of operating profit, expecting the deal to secure fuel supply within its own group, with the transfer scheduled for October 1, 2026.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
KDX Realty Investment Corporation plans to sell a Sapporo care home below book value in its first healthcare-facility disposal, while adding seven properties including two hotels priced well under appraisal, and now expects distributions to rise by up to 5% for the period to April 2027.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Exchange Group now projects ¥105.0bn in profit attributable to owners for the year ending March 2027, up 6.6% from its July forecast, after raising its assumed trading value for cash equities and index options and its assumed bond-futures trading volume, and it raised its planned annual dividend to ¥82.00 a share from ¥77.00.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Cayman Islands activist Oasis Management has spent two months buying En Inc. shares on-market, pushing its stake to 14.54% from 13.45% and disclosing it has already asked the recruitment-listings operator to consider delisting and a capital-policy change, while planning to press for the representative director's dismissal and other officer changes over the next year.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A regulatory change report shows Hikari Tsushin and UH Partners 2 will keep their combined 17.70% Leopalace21 stake out of K891's ongoing tender offer while agreeing to back a share consolidation and later buyback designed to leave K891 as the company's sole shareholder.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Gunma Bank shareholders vote December 23 on a share exchange that would hand full ownership to Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group from April 2027, with a linked charter rewrite taking effect only if the deal does.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Buying two sibling marketing companies for ¥3.61bn has pushed GMO Commerce's sales guidance up 68.5%, but goodwill amortisation and new borrowing costs mean forecast net profit rises only 2.8%, even as a fixed payout formula still points to a higher dividend forecast.