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Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Singapore's GIC pays roughly ¥16bn for new Sugi shares at ¥3,195 apiece — a 2.67% dilution — with ¥8bn earmarked for AI and supply-chain systems and the rest for stores and a drugstore M&A war chest.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥425.0bn after gasoline revenue at 7-Eleven, Inc. beat plan and it revised its dollar-yen assumption to ¥157 from ¥150, even as domestic convenience-store profit dipped on store-investment costs.
Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read
International Uniqlo profit jumped 45% in the nine months to May, driving group operating profit up 36% and pushing Fast Retailing to raise its full-year revenue and profit forecast for the year to August 2026.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
The bonds carry general collateral and a joint debt-assumption clause naming Japan's expressway holding and debt-repayment body, but the filing sets out no coupon, pricing, or settlement dates.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
Two shelf-registration supplements filed the same day carve out ¥20bn in three- and five-year unsecured bonds plus a separate ¥10bn tranche that won't settle until July 27.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
The Osaka rail-and-property group filed supplements for ¥5bn and ¥10bn in bonds on the same day, one tranche carrying a guarantee from its railway operating arm, as it works through a shelf registration that already covered ¥45bn of prior issuance.
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read
EXEDY Corporation's first bond sale under a March 2025 shelf program combines ¥13.9bn of five-year debt and ¥14.5bn of 10-year debt, using nearly all of the ¥30bn it registered to raise before the program lapses in April 2027.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Private-sector machinery orders excluding ships and electric-power-company orders climbed a seasonally adjusted 8.7% month-on-month in April, the Cabinet Office said, while total orders across 280 manufacturers rose 3.4%.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo's monthly economic assessment keeps its moderate-recovery language but attaches a Middle East risk caveat to both the overall outlook and corporate profits, while industrial production is the one gauge that stayed flat.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
An amended EDINET filing shows Strategic Capital has raised its GungHo Online Entertainment position to 13.67% from 10.51%, funded almost entirely with borrowed money, while renewing its call for buybacks from shares linked to Taizo Son.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi Materials' board approved roughly ¥70bn in zero-coupon convertible bonds to fund a pivot into metals recycling, but a separate buyer's plan to repackage those bonds could carry voting rights over 12.37% of the company, a threshold it says it will never actually use.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Two board meetings in as many days failed to reach quorum after three audit-committee directors boycotted and went silent, leaving the Tokyo-listed holding company without a representative director and, by its own account, without its corporate seal, accounting books or bank passbooks.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Process turned a board resolution into a done deal within a day, buying back 883,000 shares (98% of a 9.28%-of-stock authorization) for ¥1.59bn through a single ToSTNeT-3 off-auction trade on July 8.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A small Tokyo-listed renewables holding company connected its ¥684mn, 8 MWh battery station in Fukuoka to Kyushu Electric's grid on July 1, ahead of schedule, and is now angling for a spot in Japan's balancing market once the August handover closes.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
TIER IV set ¥862.75 as the price for its overseas share offering, unlocking part of an ¥8.7bn budget for autonomous-driving AI and custom semiconductors through the year to September 2028.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
ispace paid SpaceX $50mn for 500kg of payload space on a Starship mission targeting a lunar landing as early as 2030, and will resell that capacity to customers with payloads too small for a dedicated lander, alongside its own ULTRA lander missions planned for 2028, 2029 and 2030.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
June's grid curtailment orders wiped ¥35.7mn off Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund's rent, and the fund now says the cumulative hit for the six months to June has reached ¥814.5mn, or 17.85% of expected rental income, with a cable theft and a broken inverter dragging two more plants below their rent floor.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Life Corporation grew quarterly revenue 3.2% but operating profit fell 6.9% after personnel costs rose 5.1% on a third straight year of 5%-plus wage hikes and expanded staff holidays, and the company is sticking with its full-year profit target regardless.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
MLIT's draft guideline would have cabin crews tell every seated passenger to buckle up low and tight at all times, a response to turbulence injuries since 2022 and a fatal 2024 accident abroad, with public comments due by August 7, 2026.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Companies with statutory auditors keep a carve-out on restating late-breaking financial events, and the FSA just confirmed it's staying in implementation guidance, not the main accounting standard, despite a comment asking for the fix.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
South Korea sales jumped 13.1% as shoppers there recovered from last year's political turmoil, helping push ABC-Mart's operating profit up 8.3% to ¥20.3bn while the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
TAKARA & CO is scrapping its stable-dividend policy for a 50% to 100% payout range with a new 7.5% dividend-on-equity floor, and is forecasting a 50% dividend increase to ¥180 a share for the year ending May 2027.
Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
An SSD backup drive holding 13.54 million customer records vanished from an unlocked cabinet at Kyushu Electric Power Transmission and Distribution, and METI has now received the company's formal account of what went wrong.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
The Development Bank of Japan is funding Qantas Group's full exit from Jetstar Japan's shareholder register, and the budget carrier will retire the Jetstar name by June 2027 while Japan Airlines' own stake stays untouched.