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Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Furukawa Electric plans to sell its entire roughly 7% UACJ stake for about ¥28.6bn, moving the sale and its estimated ¥22bn special gain into the current half from a previously expected later booking, lifting half-year profit guidance 36.5% while sales and operating-profit forecasts stay flat.
Sep 24, 2026 · 1 min read
Datasection confirmed a customer paid $98.55 million of a required $131.4 million deposit, meeting the condition that made its previously announced large order contractually effective, with $32.85 million scheduled to be paid within 30 days and the customer's identity and commercial terms not named in the filing.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
COVER Corporation raised its guidance for operating profit in the six months to September by 81%, to ¥3.5bn, after its hololive Dreams smartphone game topped launch expectations and licensing revenue ran ahead of plan, even though sales guidance and the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Asset Value Investors disclosed a stake increase to 19.16% in Wacom and revealed it has already proposed a 65% dividend payout ratio target, while reserving broader board and asset-sale options it has not yet used.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Air Water shareholders approved a move to an audit-and-supervisory-committee board on September 22, 2026, and the board separately named an independent outside director as chair, but the president and a fellow board nominee were approved with only about 86% support, well below the 96% to 98% every other candidate received.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Kanagawa Prefecture has reopened its service-continuity subsidy for disability welfare providers, but only for operators or facilities that missed the first round, and the new window closes on October 2, 2026.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo will cover up to ¥6.7mn of the price gap between a hydrogen and an engine-powered forklift, plus ¥3.5mn more for hosting a commercial hydrogen station, but only forklifts introduced by TOKYO H2 Project participants qualify, with applications accepted through March 2027.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's environment ministry will fund up to one-third of the cost of swapping HFC refrigeration for ammonia, carbon-dioxide or water-based systems in cold stores, food plants and shops, but only for multi-year projects and only if applicants apply by October 13.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A jGrants-listed subsidy, open to applications from March 23 to November 30, pays for inspection, renovation design and repair work on vacant homes and those likely to fall idle as owners age or heirs inherit them, across seven Japanese metro areas, provided owners take a qualifying step toward putting the property back into use.
Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A Tokyo Metropolitan Government subsidy, open to applications from April 10 to January 29, pays up to ¥10mn toward blockchain-based securities issuance, but companies that already used its earlier token-issuance subsidy are capped at just ¥3mn.
Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read
A Hokkaido foundation will cover up to two-thirds of hydrogen-equipment costs and cap awards at ¥300mn, but self-sustaining systems must keep their output off the general grid and new networked hardware must clear a Japanese cybersecurity check.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Satsudora Holdings swung to a ¥157mn operating loss and dropped its full-year outlook as the drugstore chain's buyout tender offer clears the way for delisting, with store traffic, inbound sales and margins all softening in the quarter.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Net Protections' operating subsidiary pushed the maturity on a ¥5bn term loan and a ¥7bn credit line to December 2026, with covenants unchanged, while it negotiates a new funding framework with related financial institutions.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
An outside-lawyer investigation found the director rerouted subsidiary WhiteBox's marketing contracts to a company he personally controlled, and Information Strategy and Technology has set an October 9 record date for a shareholder vote on dismissing him, even as the company says further allegations remain under review.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
FANUC completed its share-buyback program on September 17, 2026, having spent ¥49,999,790,800 of its ¥50bn cap, well ahead of the April 2027 deadline the board originally set.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Bridgestone retired 42,649,100 treasury shares on September 18, cutting its outstanding share count to 1,291,387,942 under a board plan approved in February, a cancellation of shares held in treasury rather than a new buyback.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority is proposing to lift the statutory cap on the fees it charges nuclear operators for regulatory inspections from ¥9.41mn to ¥40.72mn, adding labor costs that were never counted before and updating materials and travel unit prices, with public comment open until October 17 and the change slated to take effect in April 2027.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Itochu Corporation and Norinchukin Bank funded ¥12bn of new non-voting Tokyo Century class shares on September 18, but a same-day cut to capital and capital reserves swept the whole amount into other capital surplus, leaving the company's formal capital figures unchanged from before the deal.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Quantum Solutions canceled its first AI data-center hardware contract days after paying $8.3 million upfront, after the supplier said supply constraints would push delivery out to about 36 weeks, and the refund is still working its way back to the company's account.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
akippa's first earnings disclosure as a Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard company showed first-half operating profit running 78% ahead of its internal budget, past the 30% overall threshold it uses to trigger forecast revisions, yet the parking marketplace held its full-year guidance steady, with the board set to review the numbers once August results and autumn event bookings are known.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Seiki closed its ¥9.98bn ToSTNeT-3 share buyback on September 18 at essentially its board-approved ceiling, and Alps Alpine sold its full 3,000,000-share block into the deal. Alps Alpine plans to record a roughly ¥6bn special gain for the quarter, a figure that could still shift once transaction costs are finalized; separately, the effect on its full-year forecast remains under review.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Rakuten Group has registered up to ¥600bn in bond capacity running through September 2028, covering ordinary unsecured notes as well as dated and perpetual subordinated structures, though the filing leaves every coupon, price and issue size undetermined until specific offerings are priced.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Daito Trust Construction will borrow ¥105bn across three loan agreements with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Bank that require the homebuilder to keep net assets above half of last fiscal year's level and, on two of the loans, keep ordinary income out of the red.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Ichigo Office REIT is selling its last two retail buildings, in Shibuya and Kamata, for as much as 1.8 times their book value, and using an estimated ¥2.5bn in combined gains to lift its per-unit distribution forecast 28% to ¥7,293, completing a pure-play office portfolio of 80 buildings.