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Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The company raised its sales, profit and dividend outlook for the year to June, citing firm public-sector and energy orders plus the consolidation of Infotec Solution. Useful read-through, but not a pure organic-growth signal: the filing does not split the lift between demand and consolidation.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
A share transfer effective June 1 ended TDK's 100% indirect ownership of the Taiwan company, which makes camera module actuators, and stripped it of specified-subsidiary status. The filing does not identify the buyer, price or earnings effect, so for now this is corporate-structure news rather than a finished strategy story.
Jun 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Suspected legal violations at an unnamed subsidiary pushed the company to set up a special investigation committee and defer business-report and financial-statement items from its June 26 shareholder meeting into a later continuation session. Even so, it separately resolved to pay an 18 yen year-end dividend while the accounts are still under review.
Jun 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Revenue guidance for the year to July rises to ¥421 billion from ¥418 billion and the planned year-end dividend to ¥72 a share, helped by GIGA School replacements and large education-network projects. Operating profit stays at ¥15.4 billion because some local-government system work slipped into next year and the company booked ¥749 million of warranty provisions for future support.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The new program backs demonstration projects to improve domestic recycling and recover non-ferrous and rare metals from renewable-energy products and related materials. Again, policy direction rather than awarded money.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The corrected filing shows 7,726 million yen in sales and 122 million yen in net profit for the year ended March 31, while a separate notice proposes a 214 yen year-end dividend subject to shareholder approval on June 26.
Jun 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Shareholders approved a charter change lifting maximum issuable shares to 13,259,600 from 12,760,000 and elected three directors. That expands the ceiling, not a separately announced financing plan.
Jun 3, 2026 · 3 min read
The company will halt a delayed content-production framework, trim outsourced work and expects about ¥46 million of savings this year, while booking roughly ¥87 million of impairment losses. After first-half revenue fell 13.5% and operating loss widened, management also cut full-year guidance sharply, so this reads as clean-up before any credible recovery story.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The program offers subsidies of up to ¥4 billion for large overseas demonstrations outside ASEAN and is pitched as both market-making and supply-chain diversification. Useful policy money, but still only an application call.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The program supports training, technology transfer, petroleum infrastructure upgrades and development surveys in producer countries, explicitly linking overseas industrial work to fuel security at home. Applications are open, awards are not.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
SK Kosan's direct holding is 14.60%, but a corrected joint-holding report lifts the combined position with Masaaki Sakagami to 26.60%. The filings also show ¥110 million of borrowings and 360,000 shares pledged to MUFG Bank, a reminder that influence here sits inside a financing structure as well as a share register.
Jun 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Toyota Tsusho's self-tender turned into an ownership reset. Shareholders tendered 118,109,134 shares against a planned purchase amount of 118,095,402, so the company used pro-ration and ended up buying 118,095,432 shares. The offer was only marginally oversubscribed, but still large enough to matter. Why it matters: Toyota Tsusho says the holder named as Toyoda Jidoshoki goes from 11.19% of voting rights to effectively zero once settlement begins on June 24. This was not just cash spent on a buyback; it redraws the disclosed ownership map.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The second call backs decarbonization work at fossil-fuel infrastructure in resource-rich countries, along with technology transfer, surveys and research in fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia and biofuels. Applications run from June 1 to June 22, so this is a funding window, not an award notice.
Jun 3, 2026 · 1 min read
Career Index and White Career paid a combined ¥225 million on June 3, which will lift the parent's standalone revenue for the year ending March 2027. Consolidated results do not change, because the cash came from consolidated subsidiaries.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The new page links the governing ordinance for electronic payment instrument and crypto-asset intermediation to the register of 27 crypto-asset exchange service providers dated April 30. The useful catch is in the fine print: the English page is machine-translated and not necessarily correct, which compliance teams should treat as more than decorative honesty.
Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read
A corrected large-shareholding report kept Fun&Creative at 20,530,400 kubell shares, or 48.14%, while founder Masaki Yamamoto's separate 1,799,899 shares took the joint holding to 22,330,299 shares, or 52.37%. The change includes an 18,248-share restricted-stock grant recorded at a unit price of zero, plus pledge and transfer-restriction terms, so this reads as a control-and-financing document more than an ordinary market purchase notice.
Jun 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The scaffolding and construction-services group lifted sales 2.8% to ¥11.139 billion in the year to April, but operating profit fell 27.5% to ¥268 million as hiring, training and overseas worker-related costs pushed the operating margin down to 2.4% from 3.4%. Management is guiding for ¥12.0 billion of sales and ¥280 million of operating profit this year, which is a recovery, just not a heroic one.
Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Midas Capital disclosed 30,277,200 BuySell Technologies shares, equal to 49.02% of outstanding stock, with the ratio unchanged from the previous report and the filing triggered by changes to collateral and other important contracts rather than fresh buying. One newly listed term was a 1,000,000-share pledge to Shizuoka Bank dated May 29, a reminder that sub-50% stakes can still come with a great deal of financing plumbing.
Jun 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Persol said the Japan Fair Trade Commission carried out on-site inspections on June 2 at Persol Tempstaff, Persol Excel HR Partners and MC Partners over suspected Antimonopoly Act violations tied to worker dispatch services, and the company said it will cooperate fully with the investigation. The case is still at the inspection stage, but it lands in a large business: Persol said it had 74,926 consolidated employees as of March 31, with 34,149 in Staffing, and that the segment count included about 20,000 indefinite-term dispatch staff while excluding about 100,000 registered temporary dispatch workers.
Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Makiri said it agreed on May 26 to tender all 4,343,800 Makya shares it owns into the issuer's own tender offer, turning a 41.21% holding into transaction hardware rather than background ownership. Joint holdings with Toshihisa Yabe still total 4,419,616 shares, or 41.93%, but the filing says Makiri's commitment covers its block and does not settle completion or Yabe's separate position.
Jun 2, 2026 · 1 min read
A June 2 change report showed a 29.62% holding, down from 31.08%, with the filing triggered because the ratio fell by more than 1%. The report still shows 10,811,179 securities held, so the block remains large even after the trim.
Jun 2, 2026 · 1 min read
The company said year-end audit procedures found overstated deferred tax assets and an unrecorded valuation loss on a subsidiary's investment securities, leading to a ¥31.908 million tax-line correction and recognition of an ¥8.804 million valuation loss. The corrected filing shows a net loss attributable to shareholders of ¥1.268 billion, so this is an audit clean-up rather than a new operating surprise.
Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Kinden's self-tender bought 33.5 million shares from Kansai Electric and its subsidiary out of 73,412,898 tendered, setting up planned special profit of about ¥176 billion on parent-only accounts and about ¥105 billion on a consolidated basis for the year to March 2027. The useful distinction is that this is a one-off gain from trimming an equity-method affiliate stake, not a clean read on recurring earnings.
Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read
From June 18, the China EV & Battery ETF moves to creations and redemptions of 10,000 units or more in 100-unit increments, while the Auto & EV ETF keeps a 50,000-unit minimum but also shifts to 100-unit increments. The point is ETF plumbing rather than product strategy: smaller step sizes are meant to help designated participants and market makers fine-tune liquidity.