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Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
SEKI plans to invest roughly ¥4.3bn in a new water-based flexo printing plant in Toon City, Ehime Prefecture, adding food-pouch and beverage-label capacity that will not start operating until April 2028.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Slow price pass-through on thick steel plate has pushed Chubu Steel Plate to guide for an ¥800mn first-half operating loss and cut full-year operating-profit guidance by 75% to ¥300mn.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
ALPS ALPINE will sell all 3 million Nippon Seiki shares it holds into Nippon Seiki's own September 18 share buyback, expecting to book roughly ¥5.0bn in special profit if the off-exchange trade completes as planned.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Eternal Hospitality Group missed its own profit guidance for the year to July 2026, booked a ¥391mn impairment tied to closing four of seven Shanghai stores, and has now halved next year's operating-profit target while domestic same-store sales keep outperforming.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Terra Drone told investors it landed two Ministry of Defense tenders far faster than the usual three-to-four-year entry timeline and expects its first defense revenue in September or October, while betting that a mandatory domestic-parts rule for flight controllers, batteries, motors and chargers would strengthen its position against foreign suppliers.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Mercari's net profit rose 36% to ¥35.4bn in the year to June 2026, as marketplace transactions topped ¥1.29tn on renewed double-digit growth, its Mercard credit card program passed 6 million cards issued, and its long-breakeven US business posted its best result yet, even though the company again paid no dividend.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Saint Marc Holdings will spend ¥12.8bn in cash to acquire the Tsurutontan udon and washoku business from Osaka's K-Express, a Kato Pleasure Group unit whose operating profit fell by more than half last year, and plans to use the brand's inbound following to expand into major Japanese cities and ASEAN markets before the deal takes effect on December 1, 2026.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Air Water is screening every subsidiary in its group on strategic fit, financial performance and governance, and says businesses judged better suited to a different owner will be transferred promptly, with proceeds funding both extra shareholder payouts and ongoing growth investment.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
SanBio's newly launched cell therapy for chronic motor paralysis after traumatic brain injury, priced at ¥72.7mn a treatment, has generated no revenue and no dosed patients four months after its Japanese launch, and the company is now targeting only six cases by the fiscal year-end in January while its cash pile fell ¥2.34bn to ¥12.75bn over the same half-year.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment Corporation sold two commercial ground leases for ¥13.1bn and is funnelling the proceeds through a debt-free vehicle into 17 land leases with percentage-based rents rather than fixed contracts, holding its targeted yield at 4.7%.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
A Cabinet Office draft revising Japan's national Urban Regeneration Basic Policy would give prefectures authority to coordinate office and facility siting decisions that cross municipal lines, strip every disaster-hazard zone out of areas meant to concentrate housing, and add new heritage-renovation and area-management tools, with public comment open only through September 30, 2026.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's SME policy lender is selling 556.5 million unlisted treasury shares to hundreds of small businesses and cooperatives, with no single buyer topping 1.1%, to fund a pivot into advisory, digital and investment-banking services rather than a stock listing.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Synspective's new syndicated loan, arranged by Mizuho Bank and backed by Japan's three megabanks plus ten other lenders, funds satellite manufacturing and launches, but two financial covenants will test the company's net assets and quarterly liquidity over the loan's five-year, three-month term, and Synspective now expects total borrowing costs, reflecting both the larger facility size and higher interest rates than assumed, to run about ¥187mn above its original internal assumption, a figure only partly built into its published guidance for the year to December 2026.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
TEPCO Power Grid borrowed under five separate loan agreements this month, and two of them tie lender rights to profit and asset tests at the entire TEPCO Holdings group rather than just the subsidiary itself, with all five loans due on the same day in March 2027.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Keywest Network's tender offer for Future Corporation has closed with the buyer group at 82.88% of the company, financed largely by a ¥106bn Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation loan secured against the shares themselves, and a share consolidation to force out remaining holders is now planned for late November or early December.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
A Japanese consortium ran a naphtha cracking furnace on 85% ammonia fuel by putting its main burners on 100% ammonia while flame-shaping burners stayed on methane off-gas, holding nitrogen-oxide emissions at existing levels, with full ammonia firing and commercial-scale trials still to come.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo's revised ¥3,597 tender offer for Kakaku.com shares remains below the rival Kamgras 1 bid of ¥3,680, and only a non-tender agreement with KDDI, which would lift the price to ¥3,720, could change that before Kakaku.com's board and special committee decide which offer to back.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
The Cabinet Office's monthly report keeps Japan's economy on a moderate-recovery track for August, but singles out the Middle East situation and natural-disaster risk as the only named threats to that call, alongside a flat reading on industrial production.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Businesses with 20 or fewer employees in Kumamoto Prefecture can now claim two-thirds of recovery costs, capped at ¥2mn, under a disaster-support subsidy tied to the 2026 Kumamoto earthquake.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo will cover half the cost of moving intractable-disease certification paperwork online, but the payout is capped at ¥50,000 per medical institution, a modest offset against the system upgrades the shift requires.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's state export-import bank is putting up to $440,000 into the Indiana subsidiary of a small Aichi auto-parts maker, part of a $640,000 syndicate with Hyakugo Bank that marks the company's second US financing since 2021.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's markets regulator will let respondents in surcharge hearings appear by video and file evidence electronically from November 30, but its public-comment responses show it declined stricter camera checks and a ban on personal USB drives connecting to its own terminals.
Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Chinese visitor numbers to Japan collapsed 59% in August after Beijing advised its citizens against travel there, erasing gains from record-setting demand in South Korea, Taiwan and a dozen other markets.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo's cabinet has locked in a two-year cut to the consumption tax on food and drink, and Japan's finance minister says the shortfall must come from spending and revenue reviews, not deficit-covering bonds that investors would have to absorb.