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Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: K Line spent ¥50.7bn buying back its own shares on June 2 alone, out of a ¥130bn program that runs through September 30. It then kept clearing roughly ¥1bn a day in purchases through June 8.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: DISCO's April-June shipments hit a record ¥116.5bn, up 18.7% from the prior quarter, while sales of ¥95.0bn still lagged behind because DISCO only books revenue once customers accept delivery. Generative-AI demand for its wafer-cutting and grinding tools drove the shipment record; full audited results land July 23.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Aviation Capital Group's Irish funding arm signed a five-year, unsecured loan worth $1,476.5mn with a 33-bank syndicate led by DBS Bank. The catch: the covenants, an interest coverage floor of 1.5x, minimum net assets of $1.5bn, and an unsecured-asset cushion of 125% of unsecured liabilities, are tested against ACG's own consolidated balance sheet, not the borrowing entity's.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: minority holders in the nursing-care operator get exactly ¥1,119 a share, matching MBK Partners' spring tender price, before Solasto disappears from Tokyo's Prime market on August 6, 2026.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: Resonac will hand shareholders more than 80% of Culasus Chemical, its ¥300.3bn petrochemical unit, on October 1. The catch: the same carve-out triggers a formulaic cut to the conversion price on Resonac's 2028 euro-yen convertible bonds, sized by a five-day trading comparison between the two stocks from September 29 to October 5. The board still has to vote on the spin-off in late August, and the exact price adjustment won't be known until after that trading window closes.
Jul 6, 2026 · 3 min read
The move: May meeting notes show the FSA pressing regional and labor banks to keep financing flowing to firms squeezed by Middle East supply shortages, to put the new May 1 guarantor-information network to work on succession deals, and to explain interest-rate risk to mortgage borrowers again after a March reminder didn't seem to stick.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: Toyota and Daimler Truck are both cutting their ARCHION stakes to 25%, but Toyota's voting rights fall further, to 19.9%, ending its status as an affiliated company, while Daimler Truck keeps 26.7% of the vote. Pricing on the up-to-906-million-share sale is set between July 22 and July 27.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Sapporo Breweries is buying 25% of a new Singapore joint venture holding Carlsberg's business across six Asian markets, and betting the deal can grow its premium beer's regional sales roughly tenfold by 2035.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
An off-market sale of 441.6 million Chiyoda Corporation preferred shares drops Mitsubishi Corporation's holding ratio from 81.94% to 66.57%, a stake cut worth roughly ¥55.1bn.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Four affiliated holders led by Hikari Tsushin lifted their combined voting rights in the construction-software maker to 10.01%, crossing the line that makes a shareholder legally "major" under Japan's securities law.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
A four-investor group anchored by a Wakayama trading firm has pushed its stake in the Hokkaido drugstore chain past 19%, while the same filing keeps open an option to make unspecified proposals.
Jul 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has filed a shelf registration letting it sell up to ¥1tn in unsecured bonds in pieces over two years, with coupons and redemption terms left blank until each tranche prices.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale's board wants inside directors to earn new stock awards over four years, not one, and can claw the shares back if misconduct triggers a restated audit.
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale plans to cut stated capital by ¥2.13bn and drain its entire ¥5.60bn capital reserve to wipe out a ¥7.73bn accumulated deficit, an accounting shuffle that leaves shareholders' stakes and the company's net worth unchanged.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The regulator says inspections will now test whether anti-money laundering controls actually work, as specialized fraud losses reached ¥325.7bn and an illicit-account information-sharing system is pushed for April 2027.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Kyushu Electric ordinary shareholders are due to receive one new share for each one they hold, while the amended statement lists a provisional registered amount of ¥503.7bn.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Kubota bought 11,104,900 shares for ¥29.9999bn on June 12, taking its April buyback authorisation to 100 per cent of the cash limit even though only 74.03 per cent of the share cap was used.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Muninoba’s tender offer succeeded and Aiful is handing over its 6,408,000-share block on July 9, giving the buyer 77.67 per cent of Anshin Guarantor Service’s voting rights. The catch: that is still below 90 per cent, so the final squeeze-out and delisting steps now run through an early-September extraordinary meeting.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Kamgras 1 kept its ¥3,000-a-share offer intact but extended the acceptance period, delaying the expected shareholder meeting and shifting the squeeze-out phase into early October.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Fake investment ads, identification-code solicitations and unregistered lender ads are among the categories Japan wants added to the Internet Hotline Center's removal-request workflow, with comments open until July 16.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The catch: the consultation would reset the two early-stage carve-outs that now extend system-filing deadlines and waive some incident reports for newly designated special critical infrastructure operators, with comments open until August 2.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: alongside a ¥40-a-share year-end dividend, TV Asahi shareholders used the AGM to press charter changes on impartial journalism, online content correction, one-third female representation among full-time directors and protections against ad-program confusion.
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
The move: Resona Holdings is raising ¥70bn through unsecured bonds, split between ¥40bn of three-year notes and ¥30bn of five-year debt, under a ¥400bn shelf effective until May 2028.
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 min read
The move: Komatsu disclosed a two-tranche unsecured issue, a ¥20bn three-year green bond and a ¥30bn five-year bond. The filing puts the deal under a ¥100bn shelf registered in November 2024, with no prior draws shown on the cover page.