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Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
A March ransomware attack is still slowing COTA's books four months later: the TSE Prime-listed company says its first-quarter results will miss Japan's 45-day disclosure window, with no new date set, while its delayed full-year results are now due July 30.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
MTM Capital, holding 13.14% of the regional newspaper publisher, has asked the Chiba District Court to block a board-approved rights allocation it calls an unfair takeover defense; Chiki Shimbunsha says its twice-ratified governance history makes the challenge groundless.
Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read
BitcoinJPN, the company formerly known as textile wholesaler Marusho Hotta, is issuing convertible bonds and warrants to EVO Fund worth up to ¥9.7bn, with a conversion price that resets every two trading days and no ceiling, to fund a rare-earth mine, a robot-rental unit and more bitcoin after its first warrant round this year raised barely half its target.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Occupancy held at 98% and renewal rents rose 7.0%, the steepest increase since Nippon Prologis REIT listed in 2013, but net income still fell 6.2% for the year to May 2026 because gains on property sales were smaller than a year earlier. The REIT is also swapping a Funabashi warehouse for one in Ichikawa with Japan Logistics Fund in three stages running through February 2027.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Kenedix's asset manager is preparing a new listed REIT for houses and row houses, and it rewrote its internal rules so the newcomer ranks third, not first, for ordinary apartment deals.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamato Holdings' board has set up a six-member Corporate Value Enhancement Committee, five outside directors plus CEO Toshiyuki Sakurai as chairman, tasked with reviewing past investment decisions and drafting market-facing action plans outside the time and procedural limits of its normal board meetings.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
An apparel and e-commerce group borrowed the full ¥2.16bn cost of a new activist stake in chemical maker Nippon Chemical Industrial, and its regulatory filing lists dividend hikes, divestitures, consolidation and a management buyout among the changes it wants.
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's privacy regulator wants to end the practice of cyberattack victims filing separate reports to every ministry with a claim on the incident, proposing one common form for ransomware, DDoS and other attacks that would route straight to the national cyber centre from October 1, 2026, pending an August 14 comment deadline.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Nichirei confirmed a cyberattack on its servers and shut down group IT systems, halting refrigerated warehouse handling and frozen-food shipments while it checks whether customer data leaked.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Mizuho Financial Group is selling ¥209bn and ¥81bn tranches of unsecured perpetual bonds carrying debt-exemption and subordination clauses, the latest draw on a ¥3tn shelf registration filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Daimler Truck AG and Toyota Motor Corporation are selling down a combined 787.9 million ARCHION shares at an indicative ¥250 to ¥300 each, a stake sale worth up to roughly ¥236bn before an over-allotment option pushes it higher.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
NASA and Draper mutually cancelled the CLPS CP-12 lunar-transport task order on July 9, and ispace's US subsidiary now expects its own lander subcontract with Draper to follow suit, though the Tokyo-listed company says it already excluded that revenue from its forecast for the year to March 2027 back in March.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
CAC Holdings admitted nearly four months late that it had signed a ¥5bn, unsecured, ten-year syndicated loan arranged by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to fund acquisitions, a facility now bound by covenants on net assets and consecutive losses through 2036.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
V-cube's board is repaying ¥1.1bn in borrowings through a placement of 24 Class V preferred shares to AVA3 HD Co., Ltd., but the shares vote on every matter at general meetings just like ordinary stock, giving the buyer a governance foothold beyond the size of the deal.
Jul 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Demae-can now expects a ¥7.9bn operating loss for the year to August 2026, almost double its October guidance, after order volumes and gross merchandise value fell short through the third quarter.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Oki Electric Industry set no cap on how many employees aged 55 and older can take an enhanced retirement payout by October 31, 2026, only on their age and tenure, as it shifts headcount toward AI and digital-transformation work.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
JCR Pharmaceuticals will file for Japanese approval of givinostat, already sold for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the US, EU and UK, using foreign trial data instead of a fresh domestic pivotal study, with a 2027 launch in view after talks with Japan's drug regulator.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Orders from semiconductor companies near JSH's Kumamoto farm ran so far ahead of plan that the disability-employment and home-care operator more than doubled its profit forecast and unveiled its first medium-term plan, targeting operating profit of ¥1.321bn by the year to March 2029.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
PowerX and GPU-hosting operator Highreso have signed a memorandum to study battery storage, power trading and joint site development for AI data centers, an early-stage response to grid capacity strain rather than a signed project.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota Motor and Daimler Truck AG are selling down about 788 million ARCHION shares at a preliminary ¥250 to ¥300 each, split almost evenly between Japan and overseas buyers, with the final price capped at 95% of the stock's close on the pricing date set for sometime between July 22 and 27.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Daito Pharmaceutical is folding into a new joint venture to absorb Kyorin's generic drug business while telling lawmakers that three straight years of annual price cuts have made its dominant Parkinson's disease tablet impossible to produce at a profit.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Beating 37 other bidders four months after entering the defense business, Terra Drone's interceptor system now has weeks of trials to prove it can stop Shahed-type suicide drones before Japan's defense agency locks in a mass-production order.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Technoflex raised its full-year operating profit guide 50% to ¥6.0bn as clean-energy orders quadrupled and semiconductor-manufacturer sales rose 70%, more than making up for a planned 60% drop in semiconductor-construction orders.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
West Holdings' year-old battery storage arm turned ¥8.5bn of sales into ¥3.0bn of operating profit in nine months, covering a delivery slowdown in the company's older non-FIT solar business.