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Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Medipal's ¥6,650-a-share tender for PALTAC drew nearly three times the shares it needed, taking its stake to 92.64% and opening the door to a squeeze-out that will delist the wholesaler from the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime Market.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi Materials is issuing ¥70bn of zero-coupon convertible bonds, priced above today's share price to limit dilution, to fund a shift from mined ore to recycled copper and tungsten by early 2029; a separate filing shows an offshore buyer repackaging the same bonds for credit investors.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A cyberattack that froze Asahi's Japan order and shipping systems in September 2025 cut annual operating profit 30.9% to ¥185.9bn and delayed the results so long that the brewer now needs a September 2026 shareholders' meeting just to report them.
Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
A ¥3,232-a-share rival proposal pushed Kakaku.com's board off its recommendation to tender into EQT's ¥3,000 buyout, and a Bain Capital vehicle is now lining up its own offer with 19.52% of the company already committed to tender.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
A July 1 share exchange lifted the combined holding of individual investor Masanori Kino and X-mobile Inc. in Tokyo-listed Taiyo Bussan (9941) to 32.41% from 17.17%, but a six-month lock-up keeps the new shares off the market until early next year.
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota sold 53.68mn KDDI shares back to the company at ¥2,325 each, trimming its stake to 7.73% from 9.07% while keeping the remainder as a policy investment.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Nomura's securities and asset-management units cut their combined Kakaku.com holding to 4.29%, clearing Japan's 5% disclosure line, the same day filings detailed how Digital Garage and KDDI plan to sit out a ¥3,000-a-share take-private tender offer and cash out afterward instead.
Jul 7, 2026 · 1 min read
One client's collapse leaves Towa Bank facing ¥8bn in troubled loans, worth 8.83% of its consolidated net assets, with ¥5.89bn due for full provisioning within the year.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Littlepond Inc., which holds 31% of Oricon on behalf of the ratings group's founder, will not sell into Media Co.'s tender offer; instead it plans to convert deferred buyback proceeds into equity of the bidder's parent, while founder Koh Koike tenders his own smaller personal stake in full.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥900mn, self-funded share purchase priced at ¥20 apiece hands Convano a controlling 68.90% stake in Growth Market-listed Axel Mark, with an explicit mandate to build up the target's healthcare business.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
A four-member holder group led by Wakayama-based KK.Sangensyoku raised its combined position in Hokkaido-based drugstore operator SATUDORA HOLDINGS to 23.87% of shares outstanding, up from 22.62%, and reserved room to make future proposals to the company.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's profit attributable to shareholders rose 36.5% to ¥1.73tn for the year to March 2026 under US accounting rules, outpacing a 9.5% rise in revenue and a 12.3% rise in expenses.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
City Index Eleventh and two joint holders now control more than 25 million Keikyu shares and are pressing the railway operator to raise dividends, buy back stock and shed businesses that do not add shareholder value.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Twelve Tokyo-listed companies disclosed June share-repurchase activity on the same day, and the contrast is stark: Mitani Sekisan bought no stock at all while Kyocera spent ¥29.6bn in a single session.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Sony Bank is putting $40 million (about ¥6.4bn) behind a new wholly owned US trust company, Connectia Trust, National Association, due to open in July 2026, with room to add more capital later and no representative named yet.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: Hokuriku Electric's shareholders wanted to cut the dividend to ¥5 a share and send the difference to Noto earthquake relief and rate cuts; the board's ¥15 payout won with 98% support instead. Six separate proposals to quit nuclear power and reprocessing were also voted down, though the filing doesn't disclose how close those specific votes were.
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read
The number: the Tokyo Labour Bureau has cancelled Kyodo Paper Holdings' employment adjustment subsidy and confirmed a ¥70.4mn refund, which the paper wholesaler will book as an extraordinary loss in the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. The company had already applied to return the money voluntarily on June 26 and says it is tightening internal checks after the episode.
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read
The number: customer visits to McDonald's Japan fell 1.5% in June even as diners spent 4.2% more per visit, pulling same-store sales growth down to 2.7% from May's 5.7%.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: USS Group sold 619,002 vehicles in the June quarter, up 8.4% year-on-year, while listings rose a slower 4.7% to 950,380. The result: a contract rate of 65.1%, up from 62.9% a year earlier, with Tokyo and Kyushu leading and Osaka the lone large venue to shrink.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: 17.8% of Nippon Sheet Glass, 25.3 million shares, is now locked into a vote for a third-party share allotment and consolidation that would make Lumina Japan Acquisition the sole owner, with the pledge running through DBJ Corporate Mezzanine Partners' two mezzanine funds.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Kamgras 1 K.K. needs just 34.9mn Kakaku.com shares tendered, a floor stake of 17.51%, to complete its go-private bid before the offer closes July 16; there is no cap on how much more it can buy.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Nextage's half-year operating profit came in 34% above its own guidance, on a buoyant used-car purchasing market and shorter inventory lead times. The retailer now expects full-year operating profit of ¥27.6bn, up 15% from January's forecast, while leaving its second-half plan unchanged for now.
Jul 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Macbee Planet's board wants a subsidiary chief running the business day to day while founder Masakazu Matsumoto keeps a representative-director seat as chairman to police governance during a portfolio review that could reshuffle group companies; shareholders vote on it July 29.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: at Starts Corporation's June 26 shareholder meeting, all 11 director nominees were approved, but President Toyotaka Muraishi collected only 66.02% support and director Hisaji Muraishi got 69.08%, both markedly weaker than other nominees on the same ballot, one of whom won on an 89%-plus margin. The filing gives no stated reason for the gap.