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Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
QPS Holdings booked an ¥833mn operating loss for the year to May 2026, kept net income positive with subsidy income, and is guiding to a ¥300mn operating profit next year once a ¥69.7bn, five-year Ministry of Defense satellite contract lands its first full year of revenue.
Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has priced a ¥197.4bn stock and convertible bond sale, accepting conversion premiums up to 49.98% to fund robotics, physical AI and a liquefied hydrogen supply chain through the early 2030s.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
HCMA Alpha sold its entire 13.03% stake in FTGroup on June 30, 2026, and neither filing says who bought it, leaving parent Hikari Tsushin as the only sizeable shareholder still on the register.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Kinden Corporation used one session, June 23, to buy 33.5 million shares for ¥223.68bn, using up 99.99% of the buyback its board approved in April.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota Tsusho bought back 118.1 million of its own shares at ¥5,620 apiece, settling 99.99% of the ¥663.7bn repurchase its board authorized in April.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Yuji Yamamoto financed his entire ¥576.5mn stake in Sakurajima Futo with his own money and then lent all 224,000 shares to Rakuten Securities and SBI Securities.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
CHIIKISHINBUNSHA will hand ordinary investors new common shares while confining seven shareholders holding a combined 30.95% stake to restricted rights, a defense the board still needs shareholders to ratify after the fact this November.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Eisai and Biogen can now sell a weekly, 15-second self-injection as the starting treatment for early Alzheimer's disease, not just the maintenance dose already approved last year.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed accounting-software group turned a ¥2.2bn net loss into a ¥553.7mn profit for the six months to May, then used the report to lift its full-year revenue and profit targets for a second time.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's loss-making autonomous-driving software developer fixed its offer price and lined up Morgan Stanley and SMBC to sell shares abroad, funneling the proceeds into custom AI chips and mass-production supply chains.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Operating income at the Japanese food group rose 24% to ¥20.02bn, but net profit fell to ¥13.21bn because a ¥12.07bn gain from selling assets a year earlier shrank to just ¥22mn this time.
Jul 13, 2026 · 1 min read
Nippon Paint says a Bloomberg report on its bid for AkzoNobel's architectural paint unit is accurate at €7.5bn, but insists no acquisition has actually been agreed.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
YCP Japan's ¥392.4mn purchase of 600,000 depositary receipts on July 13 pushes the Tokyo Growth-market company's cumulative buyback to ¥2.28bn, close to the cap on a mandate that runs to December 30, 2026.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
From October 1, operators newly designated as special critical infrastructure providers will file a cyberattack report on one of three standard templates instead of whatever paperwork each ministry previously demanded.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Amova Asset Management stopped taking new creation and redemption orders for two globally invested ETFs on July 10, 2026, after Taiwan's stock exchange shut for the session because of a typhoon.
Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Katsumi Nozawa's Orsay vehicle is offering ¥1,900 a share for Art Vivant, up from the ¥1,670 that failed to clear its minimum threshold last year, and this time top shareholder Hiroyuki Maki has signed a pledge to tender his full 39.93% stake.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Celsys now expects half-year operating profit of ¥2.22bn, up 38.9% from its February forecast, after CLIP STUDIO PAINT's version 5.0 upgrade beat sales targets worldwide, though its full-year outlook stays unchanged.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Abalance told investors on July 10 that a patent fight with Jinko Solar over eight subsidiaries was settled in December and dismissed in California and Texas by February, and pinned the months-long reporting delay on management turnover disrupting communication with its subsidiaries.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Timee will launch a bank-agent service with SBI Sumishin Net Bank and push into elder-care staffing through Benesse Carioc, but ventures outside spot work are set to run at a ¥1.8bn deficit next year.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Axelspace Holdings says its new GRUS-3 constellation cleared critical orbital checks three days after launch, and the earnings forecast due July 14 already assumes the milestone holds.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Optoelectronics breached financial covenants on ¥587.6mn of bank loans and widened its interim net loss to ¥287mn, triggering a going-concern flag it says its ¥5.15bn cash pile and steady lender relations resolve for now.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
OSG has raised its full-year operating-profit guide by 36% to ¥30bn and lifted its dividend to ¥115 a share, citing a weaker yen and steady demand for cutting tools in India, Germany and the US.
Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A former accountant at Mikuni's Taiwan subsidiary moved company funds into a personal account for years, and the discovery has forced the Tokyo auto-parts maker to correct five annual securities reports plus eight half-year and quarterly filings.
Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Okinawa Electric Power wants Japan's industry ministry to lift its five-year grid-wheeling revenue cap by ¥15.7bn to ¥362.1bn, blaming inflation and interest costs its 2023 plan never priced in, with new rates targeted for November 2026 pending approval.