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Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
LaSalle Logiport REIT is selling four logistics buildings in deals closing between this month and September 2027, and used the same disclosure day to raise its distribution forecast for the period to next February by a third to ¥4,282 per unit, crediting the sale gains and a unit buyback that shrinks its outstanding count to about 1.6 million units.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
OTAKE Corporation's special investigation committee found that trades routed through a rival probably breach Japan's Antimonopoly Act, a conclusion that forces a ¥477 million cut to reported sales for the year to May 2026 while leaving ordinary profit unchanged, with recurrence-prevention measures still to come.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
A former finance chief at Sanyo Trading's US subsidiary, Sanyo Corporation of America, is suspected of diverting about $3.9 million (roughly ¥609mn) between June and September, caught only when staff matched bank records against the books, and the parent has now empanelled outside lawyers while the hit to earnings and any recovery remain undetermined.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Advance Create's shareholders' equity turned negative by ¥276mn and the Osaka insurance agency now expects a ¥391mn net loss for the year to September, reversing a previously guided ¥450mn profit, after a third-party investigation into improper accounting at an advertising subsidiary forced write-downs and a restatement of prior results.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's stake in Infomart has climbed to 20.13% from 19.00%, and the fund has already proposed asset disposals and a board reshuffle while reserving the right to push for delisting or a transaction handing an outside party majority voting control within the next year.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Kanematsu Electronics is buying full control of Yokohama's IDAJ, a model-based design and simulation software specialist, for about ¥39.4 billion, a bet that trading-house manufacturing IT can move upstream into engineering design work, even though two of the target's smaller units are lossmaking with negative net worth.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Yamaichi Electronics will spend about ¥6.5bn on a fourth Philippine factory, at roughly 30,000 square meters bigger than its existing three plants combined, to assemble semiconductor test sockets and connectors for AI-server, automotive and industrial demand it expects to grow, though the plant will not open until the second half of the fiscal year ending March 2029.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry capped its growth-investment subsidy for Asahi Yukizai's ¥11.81bn semiconductor-valve project at ¥3.9bn, conditional on the company lifting employee pay by 6.2% a year from the year the new production equipment begins operating in 2029 through 2032.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Cosel says demand for AI-related semiconductor manufacturing equipment helped its quarterly orders jump 155%, prompting Japan's power-supply maker to raise full-year operating-profit guidance by 72% to ¥2.3bn just three months after its last forecast.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Kansai Electric powered down the Mihama Unit 3 reactor after workers found water dripping at three drops a second from a feedwater-heater valve fitting they could not isolate without a shutdown, and the utility has not set a restart date or identified a cause.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Bank for International Cooperation is lending up to $171mn as part of a $285mn syndicate with Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to fund equipment for JFE Steel and JSW Steel's Karnataka joint venture making high-grade grain-oriented electrical steel for India's power grid.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's outgoing Economy, Trade and Industry Minister used his final press conference before the cabinet's resignation to say faithful execution of the Japan-US Strategic Investment Initiative, one of the conditions behind Washington's more than ¥2tn cut to threatened tariffs, was essential to avoid renewed tariff hikes, and that a record ¥51-per-liter fuel subsidy still has no confirmed exit date.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's finance minister says Tokyo will not hesitate to join Washington in further coordinated yen-buying, and his ministry has replaced next year's budget-request ceiling with a test that scores each request by its effect on private investment and GDP.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's central bank lifted its overnight call rate guideline to around 1.25% from 1.0% on a 7-2 vote effective September 24, raised the rate it pays banks on reserves to match, and unanimously converted its ¥50tn climate-lending facility to a floating rate, with each bank's borrowing limit now tied to its own climate loan book and capped at ¥10tn.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Tokyo will help pay for travel agencies to build drone-piloted sightseeing tours for visitors who face difficulties with mobility or communication, but only firms based in the capital can apply.
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's export-credit agency is guaranteeing a $6.5mn loan that a regional Japanese bank is extending to the Indonesian subsidiary of capacitor maker Rubycon, backing further expansion of the production base it set up on Batam Island in 1994.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's securities regulator says ENECHANGE Co., Ltd. understated a quarterly loss and then used that same filing to underpin a February 2024 offering that raised nearly ¥4.0bn from share buyers.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo's environment ministry has reopened applications for grants meant to cut emissions and toughen resilience at data centers, giving companies until October 16, 2026 to apply without saying what the money is actually worth.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
An individual identified only as 'A' bought ¥19.1mn of shares in a Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth-market vehicle dealer in the days before its tender offer became public, and Japan's markets regulator now wants ¥6.56mn of that trade's gain back by November 17, 2026.
Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read
An individual identified only as "A" ran a layering scheme across three brokerages to move prices in three listed stocks over ten weeks in late 2023, and Japan's securities regulator now wants ¥6.27mn back by November 17.
Sep 17, 2026 · 1 min read
The Financial Services Agency has issued a formal surcharge payment order against I-ne CO.,LTD. over its securities report for the year ended December 2022, with a ¥6mn payment due November 17 that the company has already recorded as a special loss and says will carry no other earnings impact.
Sep 17, 2026 · 1 min read
Nissha has handed over half its 60% stake in Vietnamese subsidiary USM HEALTHCARE MEDICAL DEVICES FACTORY to a company director, pulling the unit out of consolidation, while the remaining 10% stays on its books for a planned sale between 2027 and 2028, with the resulting gain or loss still under review.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
ADR Biomedical's male incontinence cell-therapy kit went before Japan's central insurance council on September 16 with a proposed ¥860,000 reimbursement price and a December 1 coverage target, both still pending formal government notification.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Overseas wholesale orders for Hobonichi's 2027 planner more than doubled from a year earlier, and that order intake, not confirmed retail sell-through, is why the stationery maker raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts on September 17.