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Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Comment results on revised supervisory guidance put more explicit weight on training insurance solicitors, auditing agencies, setting deadlines for fixes and giving the regulator room for off-site monitoring and in-depth hearings. The package also revisits the rule on special benefits in solicitation, though the public excerpts do not show every detail of the final wording.
Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read
The agency's draft for CPAs and audit firms explicitly adds proliferation financing to existing anti-money-laundering and terrorist-financing guidance and says the framework is aligned with FATF standards and a risk-based approach. The visible requirements stress customer due diligence, beneficial-owner checks, enhanced review for higher-risk transactions and record retention, which is bureaucratic language for 'please be ready to show your work.'
Jun 2, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's regulator created a reference page for electronic-payment-instrument and crypto-asset service intermediaries that links the governing Cabinet Office Ordinance and the official provider registry. The linked list shows 27 registered crypto-asset exchange service providers as of April 30, though the page also warns that machine-translated text may not be accurate.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The move: Seacastle tied the change in its ReYuu Japan holding to stock-lending agreements covering 1,000,000 shares. A same-day correction put the reported stake at 43.56%, down from 50.36%, which is a different read from a simple market sale.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The amended filing tied to the third series still shows an estimated offering amount of ¥180 million and marks the document as submission No. 2 linked back to the May 20 registration. Parallel June 1 corrections cover the second series at the same estimated amount and a first-series package that also includes fifth- and sixth-series stock acquisition rights, but the excerpt still does not provide the final conversion price or share count needed to size dilution.
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
First-quarter sales fell 7.8% to ¥267 million, with an operating loss of ¥57 million and a net loss of ¥65 million. April sales were ¥150.848 million, or 99.2% of the year-earlier month, and the company said the smaller-than-forecast loss partly reflected R&D and advertising costs shifting into later quarters rather than a clean demand surprise.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The company completed payment on June 1 for a 669,600-share third-party allotment at ¥672 a share, raising ¥449,971,200 and lifting stated capital and capital reserve by ¥224,985,600 each. Zenrin took 520,800 shares and Senyo Kogyo 148,800, and a related same-day notice reset several stock-option exercise prices lower because the placement price sat below existing strikes.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Revenue for the year ended April 30 rose to ¥497,877 million, but operating profit fell to ¥21,684 million and net income to ¥3,466 million, while annual common dividends increased to 48.00 yen a share. Operating cash flow fell to ¥11,301 million and year-end cash to ¥71,080 million, and management is guiding for ¥500,000 million in sales and ¥20,000 million in operating profit in the current year.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The June 1 change report shows 5,775,100 shares versus a previously reported 15.89%, with the filing triggered after the ratio fell by 1% or more. The excerpt shows disposals beginning on April 22, but not why the position was reduced.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The company repurchased 1,276,000 shares for ¥275,253,000 in May, taking the running total under the programme to 2,618,000 shares and ¥591,344,100 against a ceiling of 4,100,000 shares and ¥820,000,000. The same day it said it plans to buy 945 TIGEREYE shares, equal to 21.0% of voting rights, in July, but the acquisition price and other terms are still due to be fixed in June.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The filing shows 566,900 shares and says the holding supports a February capital and business alliance aimed at synergies and medium- to long-term corporate value. The rationale is clear; the roadmap is not.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The company canceled 6,250,000 common shares on June 1, leaving 285,993,496 shares outstanding after the transaction. The notice closes a previously approved step under an April 30 board resolution; it is a capital-structure update, not a fresh buyback plan.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The report shows 57,300 shares versus 5.81% in the previous filing, with disposals listed from April 2 to May 8. Clear change, no stated motive.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA's public-comment update keeps the familiar compliance requirements but puts more weight on day-to-day education, management guidance, agency audits and deadline-based remediation when problems are found. It also adds a clearer section on supervisory methods and responses, including in-depth hearings, off-site monitoring and report requests when needed.
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
March discussion points published by the FSA tell lenders to keep funding businesses facing higher prices, labour shortages, US tariff measures and Middle East tensions, stay ready for Nankai Trough disruption, and use revised guidance to step up regional succession, M&A and turnaround support. It is a meeting summary rather than a new rulebook, but it reads like a supervisor's to-do list for the months ahead.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
In the FSA's latest tables through end-April, regional banks posted a 98.9% resolved-case rate on SME loan-term change requests, ahead of 96.9% at major banks. Housing cases were softer at 93.4% overall, and the agency warns the tables include some earlier applications, so this is a stocktake rather than a neat monthly trend.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Draft guidance for CPAs and audit firms expands the frame from money laundering and terrorist financing to include proliferation financing, and it lays out checks on customer identity, beneficial owners, high-risk transactions and recordkeeping. The agency explicitly roots the approach in FATF-style risk-based controls, but the packet does not show a final timetable.
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
From June 1, prefectural police can send special-fraud inquiries to participating banks online via the National Police Agency, replacing at least part of a mail-based process that often let money move from the first destination account into others before a freeze request caught up. Mizuho, MUFG, Sumitomo Mitsui, Resona, Seven, Rakuten, AEON, SBI Shinsei and Japan Post Bank are in the initial group. The point is speed, not administrative tidiness. The FSA says earlier inquiries should support earlier freezes of onward-transfer accounts and improve the chances of tracing and recovering victim funds, though the notice does not spell out response-time targets or technical standards.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The filing says the change crossed the more-than-1% threshold and shows a position made up of 218,200 shares plus 6,150,000 share subscription rights. In other words, most of the exposure still sits in rights rather than ordinary stock.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
On June 1, 32,000 first adjustable-price warrants were exercised, creating 3.2 million new shares and using 22.78% of the original issue. After that burst, 26,397 warrants remained outstanding, equivalent to 2,639,700 shares, though the company's separate May status notice shows a different month-end balance and leaves the paperwork looking untidier than investors would prefer.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
SHIFT and Rise Consulting Group say they will deepen last year's tie-up across recruitment, sales, project staffing and AI-enabled consulting, with SHIFT already holding 33.19% of Rise and offering access to a customer base of more than 4,000 companies. The pair cite IDC Japan's forecast of 9.9% annual average growth in the domestic business consulting market from 2024 to 2029, but for now they still describe the earnings impact as minor.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Convano's corrected results for the year to March 2026 cut revenue to ¥15.44 billion from ¥15.50 billion, operating profit to ¥1.484 billion from ¥1.795 billion and widened the loss attributable to owners to ¥1.178 billion from ¥951 million. A review of expense classification, the treatment of 10 million subsidiary-held shares as treasury stock and a tax-related correction all fed into the reset. The yen guidance for next year stayed in place, but forecast EPS fell to ¥11.67 from ¥12.25.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Daitec Holdings directly held 47.14% of Fukui Computer's voting rights as of March 31, and Fukui said it disclosed only a ¥12 million office lease with a ¥1 million year-end balance as related-party dealing. If June shareholder votes approve the planned merger for April 1, 2027, Daitec disappears and the ownership classification changes, but the filing does not identify who would hold the post-merger status.
May 29, 2026 · 4 min read
Bplats plans to allot 20,051 seventh stock acquisition rights to a fund managed by Growth Partners, with a headline gross raise of ¥746,097,710 and a fixed cap of 2,005,100 new shares. Only ¥2,205,610 is paid at issuance, while the exercise price starts at ¥371 and can reset from June 16 to 90% of the previous day's close, subject to a ¥164 floor. The dilution ceiling is clear enough, but the cash haul depends on investors actually exercising. Bplats is trying to fund a balance sheet that already looks strained: it says it booked a ¥767,298,000 software impairment, a ¥925,575,000 net loss and negative net assets at the end of March 2026. Net proceeds are earmarked at ¥552 million for operating funds and ¥186 million for debt repayment, while a bondholder that had gained an early-redemption right after a covenant breach agreed not to use it. Two directors recused themselves from the board vote because one is a lender due to be repaid and another runs the manager tied to the allottee fund. Bplats has bought itself time and a backer. Whether it gets the full money now depends on the market.