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Sep 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Healthcare & Medical Investment Corporation tapped an ¥8.8bn share sale and lined up ¥11.1bn in bank loans to acquire 14 senior-care properties and a Tokyo hospital site, a deal that pushes its portfolio toward the largest healthcare-property base among Japan's listed REITs and reshapes near-term payout guidance.
Sep 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Enigmo's free-float market value, at ¥9.04bn, remains below the ¥10bn Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime threshold, and the BUYMA operator has until the end of January to close the gap even as consolidated first-half losses widened and the core marketplace's transaction volume kept sliding.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
An incoming audit firm refused to sign off on Hamai Industries' books over unverifiable stock valuations, pushing the Tokyo valve maker to restate results for every year from 2021 through 2025 and change how it grades slow-moving inventory.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Placement and job-fair revenue jumped at recruiting firm Gakujo while its core job board barely grew, because Japanese graduates now hold 1.46 informal offers each on average, up from 1.26 a year ago, and are declining the ones they don't want later than before.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
SAMCO, the Kyoto semiconductor-equipment maker, closed the year to July 2026 with sales up 15.6% to ¥10.8bn and a year-end order backlog that more than doubled to ¥11.46bn, while compound-semiconductor sales grew 45.9% and sales linked to plain silicon wafers dropped by more than half.
Sep 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Mori Hills REIT kept its distribution at ¥3,100 per unit even as net income fell 5.2%, covering the shortfall with a reserve drawdown and a ¥1.257bn gain from selling part of its Laforet Harajuku land stake, a pattern management plans to repeat for two more periods.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo Standard-listed real estate group could not get its third-quarter earnings reviewed in time because its auditor, Aria Audit Corporation, has withheld a conclusion since June, and an internal probe found 28 of 251 affiliated property funds were wrongly booked as real estate deals rather than financial ones, pushing REVOLUTION toward correcting two years of past filings.
Sep 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Beat Holdings has called a November 24 meeting on a shareholder-proposed debt-equity swap and warrant issue, from its own 22.91% holder, that could dilute existing owners by up to 272.7%, and the company's board says it cannot judge whether the terms are fair even as it lets the vote proceed.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
MATSUMOTO INC., the Tokyo-listed school-album and commercial printer, says a fourth straight year of negative operating cash flow has left its funding for the next twelve months uncertain, after quarterly cash fell to ¥313.9mn from ¥676.7mn even as its net loss narrowed to ¥100mn.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
The FDA has accepted Takeda's application for zasocitinib, a once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, for priority review, with a decision due in the first quarter of 2027; across two phase 3 trials roughly 70% of patients reached clear or almost-clear skin by 16 weeks, well ahead of both placebo and the comparator drug apremilast, though Takeda says the filing itself does not change its earnings outlook for the year to March 2027.
Sep 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Kamgras 1's fourth price increase for Kakaku.com clears the ¥3,640 floor that holdout investor Oasis said it needed, even as Digital Garage and KDDI's combined 38% stake stays out of the tender itself under separate non-tender and buyback agreements tied to a later squeeze-out.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Zipalertinib plus chemotherapy nearly doubled progression-free survival to 14.5 months against a hard-to-treat EGFR mutation in a Phase 3 readout, but the drug is approved nowhere and Otsuka is leaving its current profit forecast untouched.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Chubu Electric has pulled its Hamaoka Units 3 and 4 restart applications after an independent inquiry found staff manipulated seismic wave selections for years and then built paperwork to disguise it, prompting the exit of both the president and chairman.
Sep 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's financial regulator says a company listed at a British Virgin Islands address has been lending money over the internet through a service called CryptoPawn without registering as a moneylender, and it cannot identify who runs it.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Market participants have until December 1 to comment, in English, on two consultation papers from BIS's payments committee and IOSCO covering cyber resilience and third-party vendor dependency at financial market infrastructure, after Japan's FSA posted a notice pointing to the original documents.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Financial Services Agency data for April to June show 1,616 of the 1,961 reported fraudulent investment pitches already involved some form of harm to the complainant, even as crypto-asset complaints eased and everyday investment queries climbed to 5,603.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Financial Services Agency has proposed a standalone XBRL taxonomy, built on the IFRS Foundation's own sustainability tags, for the disclosures companies must start filing under the country's new Sustainability Disclosure Standards, with public comments due October 13 and the tags required from reports covering the year to March 2027.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
MUFG priced ¥200bn of perpetual bonds this week that pay fixed coupons of 3.311% and 4.072% before floating over yen Tibor, but the fine print lets the bank cancel principal outright, not merely defer it, if its core capital ratio drops below 5.125%, with recovery never guaranteed.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i Holdings used a single ToSTNeT-3 session to complete a ¥400bn share buyback, then two weeks later allotted ¥300bn in treasury shares to SoftBank, PayPay and Sumitomo Mitsui Card in a separate transaction that the filing does not otherwise explain.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Shikoku Electric Power Transmission & Distribution will lift wheeling charges across every voltage class from November 1, adding a net ¥33.8bn to projected revenue over two years, but the parent utility still has not decided how much of that increase reaches retail electricity bills.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota repurchased ¥86.5bn of its own shares over twelve trading days in August, using up 8.65% of the ¥1tn value cap set by its board, and separately disposed of ¥3.44bn of treasury stock through a solicitation of takers.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Kansai Transmission and Distribution's METI filing raises wheeling tariffs at every voltage level from November 1, with low-voltage connections taking the biggest hit, up ¥1.22 to ¥9.04 per kWh, a cost retail electricity suppliers pay before any pass-through to customer bills is decided.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Key West Network, wholly owned by Future Corporation's own chairman through a Singapore holding vehicle, collected 43.3mn tendered shares at ¥2,451 each and is set to lift its voting stake to 82.78% once settlement begins on September 17, ahead of a planned squeeze-out that would delist the Tokyo Prime-listed firm.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
An outside panel has completed its investigation into how Chubu Electric wrongly assessed ground motion at Hamaoka Units 3 and 4, but the utility says only a redacted version will be published later and it still cannot quantify any hit to earnings.