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May 28, 2026 · 1 min read
After finding a tax-calculation error on gains from selling a related-company stake, Bushiroad cut net-profit guidance for the year ending June 2026 to ¥4,626 million from the mistakenly published ¥5,516 million. Revenue, operating profit and ordinary profit guidance were left unchanged.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The company plans to cut stated capital by ¥913,212,790 to ¥426,759,789, then move the same amount through capital surplus into retained earnings to wipe out its carried-forward deficit. Shareholder approval is slated for June 24, with August 11 targeted for effect.
May 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Ito En lifted its outlook for the year ended April 2026 to ¥497.8 billion in sales from ¥495.0 billion, ¥21.6 billion in operating profit from ¥20.0 billion, and ¥23.2 billion in ordinary profit from ¥21.0 billion. Net profit guidance rose to ¥3.4 billion from ¥1.0 billion. The company said total cost cuts, solid overseas business led by North America and ASEAN, and foreign-exchange gains from a weaker yen more than offset stubborn raw-material inflation and a still-frugal consumer backdrop.
May 28, 2026 · 1 min read
Nao Kataoka and joint holder Scarsdale still report 25,600,600 shares, or 13.63% of the company, but the latest filing adds to the share-loan and collateral web around that holding. One new detail: 955,000 shares were lent to Tokai Tokyo Securities, while the filing says the voting rights stay with Kataoka.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Invesco Asset Management has begun the process to redeem the Invesco Real Asset Growth Fund early, with August 6 set as the scheduled date if the required written resolution passes. The trigger is structural rather than performance-related: the Luxembourg vehicle the fund mainly uses is itself being redeemed and has stopped accepting additional investment, and notices go to known unitholders as of May 29.
May 28, 2026 · 4 min read
What changed: Oricon cut its year-end dividend forecast for the year ending March 2027 to zero, but only if Media's tender offer succeeds. That replaces the ¥36 payout it forecast on May 8, and the board is also recommending that shareholders tender into the offer. The terms: The offer opens on May 29 and runs through July 9 at ¥1,332 a share, with settlement due to start on July 16. The bidder says it expects to buy 8,211,375 tender-eligible shares, subject to a 3,903,300-share minimum and no upper cap. The path from here: Oricon says the transaction is meant to take the company private and lead to delisting. It is also letting its takeover-response policy expire at the close of the June 25 annual meeting rather than renew it. The catch: The zero dividend is tied to the tender succeeding, and the disclosure does not say what payout would apply if the offer fails. If the tender does not acquire all eligible shares, the bidder says it plans a follow-on share consolidation that would cash out remaining minorities at the same ¥1,332 per-share price, subject to later approvals.
May 28, 2026 · 3 min read
J Group lifted its interim dividend forecast for the year ending February 2027 to ¥3 a share from ¥2, with the extra ¥1 explicitly tagged as a 30th-anniversary dividend. The year-end forecast stays at ¥2, lifting the annual total to ¥5 from ¥4. The anniversary push extends beyond cash. From the end-August shareholder register, the standing meal-voucher scheme becomes richer at higher holding tiers, and shareholders with at least 100 shares will also receive a one-off ¥1,000 anniversary voucher in late October.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
BlueMeme barely changed revenue guidance for the year ending March 2026, trimming it to ¥3,299 million from ¥3,300 million. Profit took the hit instead: operating profit is now seen at ¥125 million versus ¥150 million, ordinary profit at ¥130 million versus ¥150 million, and net profit attributable to parent shareholders at ¥83 million versus ¥100 million. Management blamed heavier operating expenses from engineer recruitment, outsourced support while new hires are still in training, and higher hiring costs. The company also says the figures remain unaudited estimates, and its June 26 annual meeting will need a continuation session because audit procedures on the year's accounts are not yet complete.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
FOOD & LIFE COMPANIES plans a new subsidiary, tentatively named FOOD & LIFE KYORITSU MARINE, with capital of ¥100 million and a stated business of supporting aquaculture companies. The filing says Food & Life will hold 60% of voting rights, names Kazuo Araya as representative, and points to an October launch, though both the name and location are still marked tentative.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA added a Q&A saying banks on the standardized approach may reflect the credit-risk mitigation effect of qualifying financial collateral sitting inside a corporate-value collateral package, provided they can show supervisors how the relevant security interests are maintained and reviewed. In the same note, the agency says exposures covered by NEXI insurance can be treated under the standardized approach as backed by a government guarantee. For banks using internal ratings-based models, the clarification is slightly broader: qualifying financial collateral or qualifying asset collateral inside the pledged asset pool may be recognised, again subject to case-by-case judgment and a documented control framework around the collateral rights.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA has opened public comment on a draft amendment that would let certain financial-statement information count as provided if investors can access it electronically for five years from the statutory notice. The proposed route is tied to internet-based public transmission methods and would apply only if the investment corporation's articles allow it. It is still a draft, not a live rule. But the proposal is a clear sign that disclosure compliance for investment corporations is being redesigned around continuous online availability rather than one-off paper delivery.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
From June 1, prefectural police will be able to send online inquiries through the National Police Agency to participating banks under a new framework meant to trace, freeze and recover money lost to special fraud. The initial list covers Mizuho, MUFG, Sumitomo Mitsui, Resona, Seven Bank, Rakuten Bank, AEON Bank, SBI Shinsei Bank and Japan Post Bank. The point is speed. Authorities say the old process often relied on document-based inquiries, giving criminal groups time to move money from the first recipient account into others before banks could reply. The new setup is meant to shorten the gap between a fraud report, identification of downstream accounts and a freeze request.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA published the outputs from its work on ISSB-related discussions, including a report on the September 2025 Sustainability Standards Advisory Forum. Even through the rough extracted text, the visible agenda clusters around support for IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 adoption, climate-related transition-plan disclosure and links to the GHG Protocol — a useful sign that the debate has moved from principle to reporting mechanics.
May 28, 2026 · 3 min read
The Basel Committee's May 19-20 meeting produced one finished document and two live workstreams. It agreed to publish a report on ICT risk management, said a targeted review of banks' crypto-asset exposure standards had advanced, and said it is considering targeted revisions to liquidity-risk principles. The committee also said the global banking system remains resilient, supported by capital and liquidity, while flagging geopolitical uncertainty, private-credit interconnections and AI-related cyber risk as issues that still warrant close supervisory attention.
May 28, 2026 · 1 min read
Subsidiary A&D Engineering and one executive officer each received a ¥500,000 summary order dated May 27 from Saitama Summary Court over certification marks that were not removed from repaired measuring instruments. The company says the effect on group performance is minor.
May 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Bottom line: Akatsuki Honsha sees revenue holding at ¥70,000 million in the year to March 2027, but profits easing as it takes a conservative view on market-sensitive securities earnings and slimmer property margins. Its new five-year plan targets average ROE above 15%, with explicit end-goals for IFA client assets and used-condominium volumes, while excluding any future realization of gains on the investment securities portfolio.
May 27, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: SpiderPlus will pair SPIDER+ with InforMart's BtoB Platform TRADE after founder Kenji Ito agreed to sell 1.8 million shares to InforMart for ¥523.8 million. The catch: Ito stays the largest shareholder but would lose controlling-shareholder status, and InforMart gains options that could lift its stake later. Separately, SpiderPlus said it will suspend operations at its Vietnam subsidiary, with only a minor earnings impact expected.
May 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Bottom line: Takeuchi Kogyo and Tsuchiya supply the immediate equity piece, but most of the money and most of the dilution sit in Okasan Securities warrants, where proceeds can shift with the reset exercise price and later exercise activity.
May 27, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: after a record year to March 2026, Sangetsu set a tougher medium-term task for overseas operations, targeting sales of 542.0 and operating profit of 30.0 by March 2030 on the company's disclosed ¥100 million scale. The catch: next year's operating profit guide slips as wages, logistics and growth investment rise, and Middle East-related effects are not yet quantified.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: Aria Audit said it could not obtain enough evidence to verify three real-estate consulting related transactions booked in the final month of the year, leading to no-opinion reports on Espoir's financial statements and internal controls. The auditor said any required correction could leave the company with negative net assets for a second straight year, and Espoir is now looking for a successor auditor.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The latest large-shareholding report shows Hikari Tsushin and a joint holder owning 993,300 JRC shares, or 7.57%, after the stake climbed more than 1 percentage point from the prior filing.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
MI2 disclosed 199,100 Metal Art shares, or 6.31% of the company, after two market purchases on May 19 and May 20. The filing also says it may add more within three months and could press for capital-policy changes such as dividends, buybacks and governance tweaks.
May 27, 2026 · 4 min read
The catch: Chiyoda says two Middle East projects suffered no physical damage and are almost back to previous activity levels, yet it still cannot quantify the hit to the current year's outlook. The same corrected report reveals EPC work for Idemitsu's large solid-electrolyte pilot plant in Chiba, with completion targeted in 2027.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
UGS Asset Management reported a 9.75% stake in meito, up from 8.36%, and said it is pressing management on capital efficiency, shareholder returns and a PBR above 1. The filing also cites collateral-contract changes and leaves open the option of buying more if the stock still looks undervalued.