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Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Shareholders on Nidec's register as of September 30 will get a say on the financial statements and audit reports frozen since June by an internal accounting scandal, though the extraordinary meeting's date and agenda are still unset.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
ASKUL's quarterly sales fell 8.2% and operating profit turned into a ¥418 million loss as the company keeps rebuilding from an October 2025 ransomware attack, yet it has not touched its full-year forecast of ¥7 billion in operating profit, a target that now depends on a sharp turnaround over the next three quarters.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The Supreme Court's rejection of Taisei Corporation's final appeal fixes a ¥250mn fine and a suspended sentence for a former adviser over antitrust violations tied to Linear Chuo Shinkansen terminal-station construction, and Kajima Corporation says its own appeal in a related case tied to the same railway project has also failed.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Activist fund Oasis Management now holds 7.40% of M3, Inc., up from 6.26%, after a roughly ¥82.3bn buying spree funded entirely from fund capital, and it says it has already proposed delisting the shares and, separately, a third-party share acquisition that would leave that party holding a majority of voting rights, with dismissal of the representative director and a dividend-policy fight flagged as possible next steps.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
K891, a vehicle controlled by Hikari Tsushin, has filed a ¥1,000-per-share tender offer for Leopalace21 that would hand the bidder group 66.36% of voting rights at minimum, with Hikari Tsushin, MBK Partners and NEC Capital Solutions set to hold roughly a third each of the buyer's parent once fresh capital comes in after the offer closes.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Chubu Electric has withdrawn its restart applications for two Hamaoka reactors after its internal whistleblowing system failed to catch irregularities in seismic ground-motion data, and Japan's industry minister says he will weigh a maximum-strictness regulatory response once the utility answers a formal information order tied to the Electricity Business Act.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
GO Inc. and Alphabet's Waymo have signed a deal to move from supervised test rides to a driverless taxi service in Tokyo, aiming to launch Japan's first Level 4 commercial robotaxi operation in 2027.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
An off-market purchase worth ¥14.06bn lifted the Tokyo investment fund's stake in Nihon Kohden to 6.20%, and its filing pairs a "pure investment" label with a pledge to engage management through dialogue rather than public demands.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
A Los Angeles adviser's stake in Tokyo-listed Metaplanet fell to 9.76% after a run of September sales, and the same filing discloses tens of millions of its shares out on loan to JPMorgan and Fidelity.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
A SoftBank-controlled AI data-centre developer is selling shares to Japanese retail investors through five brokers before Nasdaq has approved its listing, while NVIDIA has agreed to buy $1.5bn of unregistered stock in a private placement tied to the same deal.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Hitachi bought back 10.5 million shares for ¥57.2bn in August, lifting cumulative repurchases to ¥202.8bn, or 40.55% of the ¥500bn cap the board set in April for a program that runs through March 2027.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Sony Group spent ¥43.48bn repurchasing shares in August, bringing its ¥500bn buyback authorization to 47.47% completion by value and 29.38% by share count, with the program running through May 2027 and more than half the authorized spending still available.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Smaregi's operating profit rose 73.3% in the quarter through July as recurring subscription revenue and newly in-housed cashless-payment processing pushed its margin to 28.5%, even though the company left its full-year sales and profit targets unchanged.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Six-month sales at the Sabae eyewear group rose 14.8% to \u00a510.26bn as price increases and inbound tourist demand drove a 20% jump at its main brand, even as the group's second brand grew just 4.5% on slower overseas wholesale.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Ureru Net Advertising Group's shareholders' equity turned negative at the end of its year to July 2026 after a net loss that widened to ¥1.11bn, breaching the Tokyo Stock Exchange's minimum net-asset standard for Growth Market companies; the firm says a share exchange and share deliveries completed on August 10 already pushed net assets back into positive territory, though a formal compliance plan for the listing rule has yet to be published.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Ariake Capital's stake in Tokyo Kiraboshi Financial Group climbed to 9.00% on client-funded market buying since July, and its filing reserves the right to press capital-policy or restructuring proposals, though none has been made so far.
Sep 14, 2026 · 1 min read
MUFG Bank is lending Nippon Seiki an unsecured ¥50bn for one year to fund its Toyo Densou acquisition, and the loan bars two straight years of consolidated pretax losses starting with the year ending March 2027, with refinancing into longer-term debt still to be arranged before the September 2027 deadline.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
AVALDATA Corporation will pay ¥690 in cash per share, a 112% premium to the prior close, to absorb a smaller Tokyo-listed maker of image-compression technology that was already set to lose its listing over a free-float shortfall before shareholders vote on the buyout in November.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
A Tokyo court dismissed a shareholder's injunction bid against SAAF Holdings' takeover-defense warrants, ruling the dilutive treatment was justified because a 19-member investor group had concealed a joint stake to evade large-shareholding disclosure rules, and the company said it would carry out the allocation as planned on that day's record date.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
AEON Fantasy's board has ordered the dissolution of its Beijing children's-amusement subsidiary, which had run up negative net worth of about 810 million yuan after years of pandemic-hit, competition-squeezed losses, and the company is first converting ¥19.4bn of loan claims into equity and injecting ¥4.3bn more capital before the wind-down completes around the year ending February 2028.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
SanBio's cell therapy for chronic traumatic brain injury, known by its development code SB623, cleared its final approval hurdle and reached the market in 2026 with a ¥72mn price tag, yet the company's latest results show no product revenue, a shrinking cash pile, and a 20.29% cut to capital to offset accumulated losses.
Sep 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Terra Drone was the only company among 38 applicants to pass Japan's first interceptor-drone demonstration and sign a mass-production contract with the country's defense procurement agency, a milestone disclosed alongside a widened first-half operating loss of ¥819mn and a new Tokyo-based subsidiary built to run the defense business.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
HUMAN MADE agreed to pay ¥538.8mn in cash for full control of UNDERCOVER's operating company, but the deal won't close until February 2027 and the filing does not yet say how much goodwill it will generate.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
TOKYO BASE's first-half revenue jumped 21.1% largely on tax-free tourist spending, which supplied 72% of the increase in domestic store sales, while like-for-like sales slipped at UNITED TOKYO, PUBLIC TOKYO and CITY, the company's own original formats.