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Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
GLP J-REIT is taking on ¥41bn in new bank debt to close a ¥40.7bn purchase of three warehouses priced around 8% below appraisal, and using CPI-linked rents to push its distribution forecast for the year to February 2027 up 3% and its underlying rent-growth target well past its own medium-term goal.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
CHIIKISHINBUNSHA says MTM Capital and its allies quietly built a 30.95% voting stake without filing the disclosures its takeover-defense policy requires, and the two sides are now trading tender-offer and defamation threats ahead of MTM's planned mid-August bid.
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 min read
East Japan Railway is lifting its holding in traction-equipment maker Toyo Denki Seizo to 20% through a ¥1.16bn treasury-share placement, and the supplier is sweetening its dividend even as it guides for a double-digit profit drop next year on China's rare-earth export curbs.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Kawasaki Heavy priced 37.35 million new shares at ¥2,609 each for ¥92.5bn net, earmarked by March 2029 for robotics-fitted plants making aircraft engines, gas turbines, semiconductor robots and hydrogen-carrier ships, alongside a separate ¥50bn zero-coupon convertible bond due 2031.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A pro-rated buyback into JX Metals' own tender offer trimmed ENEOS Holdings' stake from 42.38% to 35.28%, a shift worth roughly ¥194.8bn according to the filing's own disclosure.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
unbanked's board ordered an independent probe after allegations that an outside figure known only as 'Mr. A' shaped management, funding and legal decisions. Directors accused of ties to him refused to answer the company's own email inquiry.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
SBI Holdings filed for a ¥170bn unsecured note and a separate ¥50bn dual-tranche bond on the same day, both charged against one ¥800bn shelf registration that still shows ¥610bn unclaimed while both payments await settlement.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Comments close August 19 on draft rules requiring designated infrastructure operators to notify Tokyo about sensitive computer systems and report qualifying cyber incidents under Japan's cyber-response law.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Closing the Aethon acquisition on July 14 pushed five entities over the 10% capital threshold that makes them reportable specified subsidiaries, from a $2.2bn Houston holding company to a $142mn Delaware asset-holder.
Jul 14, 2026 · 1 min read
A weaker yen and slow-to-arrive integration synergies force Askul to erase most of the goodwill it booked buying office-supply group AP67 back in 2023.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Invincible Investment Corp fixed borrowing costs of 1.98% to 2.63% on ¥35.03bn of debt via swaps with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Mizuho, and separately refinanced ¥41.15bn of maturing loans, with ¥15.33bn routed through green-loan terms tied to three hotel properties.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's communications ministry is taking comment on a plan to stretch AM suspension trials toward October 2028, open up extra FM spectrum below 90 MHz under specific conditions, and drop the requirement that broadcasters announce a shutdown over the air.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Sincere is lending its controlling shareholder Yukaria an unsecured ¥1.0bn at a fixed 6.0% rate, due back by September 30, with three independent directors vouching that the terms don't shortchange minority holders.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
WIZE has built a Solana stash worth more than ¥1.0bn at an average cost of ¥15,053 per token, and because it marks the holding to market every quarter, price swings will flow straight into reported profit, an effect the company says it has not yet quantified.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
An overseas client froze a major console project at Tose with no restart date and no payout for the idle staff, prompting the outsourcer to consider penalty clauses in future contracts. Tose also confirms several of its 2026 titles are built for Nintendo's Switch 2.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
CyberStep Holdings is returning the AI subsidiary it fully absorbed in January after deciding the ¥1.25bn deal's original business assumptions no longer hold, and the seller is sending back every yen.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
WingArc1st's board told shareholders its stock trades at an "extremely insufficient" level and authorized buying back up to 3.45% of shares outstanding, capped at ¥3.0bn, through May 2027.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
TSI Holdings' quarterly sales rose 30% and operating profit rose 66% on the back of two acquisitions, but Freak's Store operator Daytona International and umbrella maker Waterfront pulled gross margin down 1.2 points, a trade-off the apparel group is covering with sharper cost cuts rather than pricing power.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A&D Co. lost its status as a designated verification body for specified measuring instruments effective July 14, cutting off a service its parent says will have only a minor financial impact while it lines up outside help for customers.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Towa Bank plans to sell about ¥11.3bn of securities for a ¥5.5bn gain, using it to absorb most of a ¥5.8bn uncollateralized loss from a single borrower, Zentoshin, and says its profit forecast for the year to March 2027 holds for now, subject to review at its August 4 earnings release.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
A three-week gap between detection and disclosure left the SMS gateway of Fabrica Holdings' subsidiary Media 4u compromised, with hackers stealing management-console data on 95,412 accounts and sending 280 unauthorized text messages before the company went public with the breach.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Camera sales jumped 20% and duty-free revenue hit a nine-month record as Bic Camera's operating profit rose 35.8% to ¥33.3bn for the nine months to May, even as television sales kept sliding.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A dual-bookkeeping scheme at mobile-shop operator Toshin Holdings' handset subsidiary broke loan covenants, drew a Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting warning and ended with a court appointing trustees to run the company under corporate reorganization.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A ¥23.1bn share purchase from activist investor Oasis Management lifts RAKUS's stake in HR-software maker Plus Alpha Consulting to 22.21%, but a signed memorandum locks the buyer into a standstill, one board seat and a right of first refusal for the target.