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May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Silchester International Investors reported that its Kyoto Financial Group holding fell to 5.37% from 6.40%, with the filing triggered on May 22 after a series of disposals.
May 27, 2026 · 1 min read
The retailer authorized repurchases of up to 1 million shares, or 0.57% of shares outstanding, with a spending ceiling of ¥1.4 billion between June 1 and August 31. The company says the move is aimed at shareholder returns and capital efficiency, but it remains a ceiling rather than a firm commitment to spend the full amount.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The structure: Modalis says the package can raise ¥1.33 billion, but only up to ¥300 million arrives upfront via a 0% private bond. The rest depends on EVO FUND exercising 24 million shares' worth of warrants at prices that reset to the previous day's close, with a ¥28 floor and disclosed maximum dilution of 24.91%.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: booking a ¥36,237 thousand impairment on slow-moving communications equipment widened the year-ended March 2026 net loss to ¥151,553 thousand from ¥115,316 thousand and cut net assets to ¥502,808 thousand. Because the charge was brought forward from later periods, the next year's profit guide improved even with sales guidance unchanged at ¥1,900 million.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The company will ask shareholders to approve a capital reserve reduction and retained-earnings transfer on June 24. ZUU says the move is an internal accounting shift with no performance impact, and it also disclosed a new fund subsidiary plus board nominees the same day.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
YCP Japan plans to bid for 1.2 million JDRs at ¥801 each in the May 28 ToSTNeT-2 closing auction, with results due after the session. The order can be only partly filled, and the company’s broader authorization still has room left if this batch does not get done.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
G-INC HD will ask shareholders on June 29 to approve a shift in fiscal year-end from March 31 to May 31. If approved, the first year under the new timetable will run 14 months, from April 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027, and dividend and meeting record dates would move with it.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The agency’s new Q&A says some collateral inside a company-value pledge can count toward credit-risk mitigation, and NEXI-backed exposures can be treated as government-guaranteed for capital purposes, subject to the stated rule conditions.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA is seeking comments on a draft rule that would let investment corporations deliver certain statement information electronically, provided it stays online for five years and the articles of incorporation permit it.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Bottom line: the committee’s May meeting did not rewrite bank rules, but it did show where supervisors remain focused, from operational resilience and non-malicious tech outages to crypto exposures, liquidity principles, private-credit linkages and AI-shaped cyber risk.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Evo Fund disclosed 2,007,700 shares in SANKO Marketing Foods, or 5.05% of the stock, and said it plans to buy a ¥300 million convertible bond plus 100,000 warrants on June 1. The filing is framed as pure investment, but the instrument mix leaves obvious room for dilution if exercised later.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
NEF is taking a second round of applications for a FY2026 subsidy that helps local governments pay for hydropower site surveys, feasibility work, and design before they tender operators. The window runs from May 27 to June 26, 2026.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The new program is designed to help private firms prove circular-economy ideas and then invest in the equipment to scale them. It targets recycled-material supply, eco-design products, CE commerce, and information-sharing systems, with a maximum subsidy of ¥40 million and applications open from May 29 to June 30, 2026.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
IP360’s overseas expansion support window is open through June 19. The grant backs projects led by four or more content IP rights holders, covers half of eligible costs, and tops out at ¥200 million.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The IP360 promotion-support grant is accepting its second round through June 19 at 5 p.m. It is aimed at content IP rights holders doing company-led promotion to grow foreign fan bases, with support covering half of eligible costs up to ¥20 million.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo’s Financial Services Agency has finalized post-comment wording for small short-term insurer supervision. The key takeaway: the sector will follow the larger-insurer playbook where appropriate, but the FSA says it will also keep sector-specific differences where business models justify them, especially around what counts as an impermissible special benefit.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: revised FSA guidance makes sales oversight a daily operational test, from solicitor training and customer-information controls to agency audits, remediation deadlines and special-benefit restrictions.
May 31, 2026 · 3 min read
The Financial Services Agency told bank groups to keep four items front and center in March 2026: support cash flow for stressed borrowers, stay ready for market volatility, harden disaster response for a Nankai Trough event and use the newly revised regional finance and restructuring guidance.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The latest FSA tally shows Japanese banks approved 96.9% to 98.9% of SME loan-condition changes and 91.0% to 94.0% of household mortgage changes through April. Regional banks carried the biggest volume, and the agency notes some cases in the tables were received before March, so the counts are not a pure one-month snapshot.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: if finalized, the FSA's draft would require certified public accountants and audit firms to formalize customer due diligence, beneficial-owner checks, higher-risk transaction handling and record retention, while expanding the framework to include proliferation financing.
May 31, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: The FSA says shared rules for small amount and short term insurance providers should generally match the treatment given to insurance companies. The catch is that commission formulas and agent audits remain under scrutiny, even without a word-for-word transplant of the larger-insurer clause.
May 31, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: prefectural police can send bank inquiries through the National Police Agency online, instead of relying on mailed requests while transferred victim funds keep moving. The initial roster covers nine banks, but the release sets no response-time target or recovery metric.
May 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Read-through: the FSA’s new September 2025 SSAF report shows Japan discussing IFRS S1 and S2 implementation with peer standard setters, regulators and ISSB participants. The public material is best read as a guide to who was involved and what topics were on the table, not as a record of final decisions.
May 26, 2026 · 3 min read
SHIFT rewrote a March merger plan so the parent will absorb SHIFT SECURITY, KRAF and MAS Lab directly, while separately centralizing 15 group back offices and having ALH absorb SPST and Trust Brain as part of an efficiency and AI-enabled operations push.