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Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's preliminary August trade data show both exports and imports at record highs for the month, but imports grew faster, widening the trade deficit to ¥1.11tn and cutting the surplus with the United States by 77.6% as imports from the US jumped 55.2%.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management has lifted its Nidec stake to 7.97% and told regulators it wants new directors appointed, the manufacturer delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange and its capital policy reworked, while reserving the right to buy more than five additional percentage points of stock within roughly three months.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's markets regulator wants a broader range of Payment Services Act-regulated settlement tokens, including certain foreign-issued ones, to count as company cash under revised financial-statement formats, with public comments due October 16.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's securities watchdog says a trader crossed its own buy and sell orders over ten sessions to fake demand and move the market price of a share on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Standard market, yet the resulting surcharge recommendation is just ¥760,000.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
A reconstituted committee's finding that a year-end real estate consulting deal never happened pushes ESPOIR's consolidated balance sheet to a ¥108.7mn capital deficit, with the final number still not locked down.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Labour inspectors found rule violations at roughly three in four workplaces employing foreign technical trainees and specified skilled workers in 2025, and machinery-safety lapses, not unpaid wages, topped the list of offenses.
Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's securities regulator will accept greenhouse-gas figures companies already file under a two-decade-old climate law as valid input for the SSBJ climate standard, sparing filers a second calculation exercise.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Financial services minister Satsuki Katayama has ordered Japan's Financial Council to study loosening money-lending rules for business loans, a review that could open room for private-credit and fintech lenders alongside banks, though the mandate specifies no draft rules or timeline.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A September 30 record date sets up a shareholder meeting that would leave just the tender offerer, Sandbox, and Digital Hearts' own chairman holding stock, but only if the takeover bid succeeds.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management's regulatory filing puts total funding behind its Infomart stake at ¥27.18bn, all from fund resources, and keeps a possible delisting and boardroom overhaul on the table for the next year.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Amsterdam1 and Amsterdam2 raised their tender offer for Japan Property Management Center to ¥2,270 a share on September 14, but cut the shares they plan to buy and lowered the acceptance minimum after agreeing that Hikari Tsushin group shareholders, holding 9.93% of the company, would sit the tender out entirely, with 8.69% of that stake later sold to JPMC as treasury stock through a related entity.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
erex has sold ¥8.4bn of unsecured bonds in 1.5-, 3- and 5-year tranches priced at 2.740%, 3.506% and 4.516%, the first drawdown under a ¥50bn shelf registration filed in July, with most of the proceeds set to repay bonds maturing next spring and fund growth spending that includes renewable energy.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Advantest has spent virtually all of the ¥150bn set aside for its share buyback but filled only a third of the 18 million-share ceiling the board authorized, leaving the value cap effectively reached with two months still on the clock before the program's October 2026 expiry.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Baby Calendar has agreed to pay ¥507mn for Orange Page's publisher, but only after JR East pulls out a roughly ¥2bn dividend, a sequencing the buyer says set the price and left a still-loss-making magazine business to absorb.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The plastics-machinery maker disputes a newspaper report blaming weak demand for its frozen Saku, Nagano factory plan, saying construction-cost inflation and labor shortages forced the retreat while it keeps expanding capacity in India.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Daiseki's environmental subsidiary has secured a ¥2.92bn government subsidy toward a ¥9.95bn plastic-resource recycling plant in Shizuoka, conditioned on lifting per-employee pay on the project by 10.4%, with the resulting special profit not booked until the year to February 2030 and the final subsidy figure still subject to a post-completion review.
Sep 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Tera Probe's preliminary August sales rose 50% year on year to ¥5.52bn, slower than July's 62.6% jump, while its cumulative eight-month sales climbed 47% to ¥38.43bn, the fastest year-to-date rate the chip tester has posted this year; the company flagged the figures as preliminary and subject to revision.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
TOHO expects to record about ¥10bn from selling part of its policy-held shares this month, part of a plan to cut that holding by more than ¥50bn and push its consolidated net-assets ratio below 10% by 2030, with proceeds earmarked for growth spending and shareholder returns.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
With only about ¥100mn in cash against a ¥1bn funding need, the software firm is selling nearly a quarter of itself to five private buyers at a discount, warning its own auditor has doubts about its going-concern status.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Digital Holdings supplied about 5 of the 7.5% sales growth Hakuhodo DY reported for the quarter, leaving organic growth under 3%, while management said AI is already shortening how long North American clients need consulting help.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Integral's buyout vehicle has launched a ¥2,514-a-share tender offer for Kadoya Sesame Mills, Japan's leading sesame-oil maker, but the final payout to shareholders depends on whether Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsui & Co., which together hold nearly half the stock, agree to exit through a separate share buyback rather than tendering, an arrangement that could lift the price as high as ¥2,760.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Foreign-visitor spending at Daimaru Matsuzakaya fell in August even as each shopper spent more, then swung to a 37% year-on-year surge in the first two weeks of September, while the Osaka Umeda store keeps dragging on department-store totals and PARCO's shopping centres post an 8.6% gain.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed colorant and pigment maker will stop offset-ink production in Sapporo by December 2026 and close the site by March 2027, while its Osaka colorant plant runs until September 2028 ahead of a March 2029 closure, as it exits businesses that made up about 5% of last year's group sales to fund a push toward IT, electronics and mobility materials.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's environment ministry is taking comment on a draft rule that would let solar developers carry prefecture or city environmental review paperwork into the national assessment process now that an amended enforcement order brings solar projects under national law, sparing many a full restart, provided the underlying local ordinance meets the ministry's five conditions.