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Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
erex has sold ¥8.4bn of unsecured bonds in 1.5-, 3- and 5-year tranches priced at 2.740%, 3.506% and 4.516%, the first drawdown under a ¥50bn shelf registration filed in July, with most of the proceeds set to repay bonds maturing next spring and fund growth spending that includes renewable energy.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Advantest has spent virtually all of the ¥150bn set aside for its share buyback but filled only a third of the 18 million-share ceiling the board authorized, leaving the value cap effectively reached with two months still on the clock before the program's October 2026 expiry.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Baby Calendar has agreed to pay ¥507mn for Orange Page's publisher, but only after JR East pulls out a roughly ¥2bn dividend, a sequencing the buyer says set the price and left a still-loss-making magazine business to absorb.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The plastics-machinery maker disputes a newspaper report blaming weak demand for its frozen Saku, Nagano factory plan, saying construction-cost inflation and labor shortages forced the retreat while it keeps expanding capacity in India.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Daiseki's environmental subsidiary has secured a ¥2.92bn government subsidy toward a ¥9.95bn plastic-resource recycling plant in Shizuoka, conditioned on lifting per-employee pay on the project by 10.4%, with the resulting special profit not booked until the year to February 2030 and the final subsidy figure still subject to a post-completion review.
Sep 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Tera Probe's preliminary August sales rose 50% year on year to ¥5.52bn, slower than July's 62.6% jump, while its cumulative eight-month sales climbed 47% to ¥38.43bn, the fastest year-to-date rate the chip tester has posted this year; the company flagged the figures as preliminary and subject to revision.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
TOHO expects to record about ¥10bn from selling part of its policy-held shares this month, part of a plan to cut that holding by more than ¥50bn and push its consolidated net-assets ratio below 10% by 2030, with proceeds earmarked for growth spending and shareholder returns.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
With only about ¥100mn in cash against a ¥1bn funding need, the software firm is selling nearly a quarter of itself to five private buyers at a discount, warning its own auditor has doubts about its going-concern status.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Digital Holdings supplied about 5 of the 7.5% sales growth Hakuhodo DY reported for the quarter, leaving organic growth under 3%, while management said AI is already shortening how long North American clients need consulting help.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Integral's buyout vehicle has launched a ¥2,514-a-share tender offer for Kadoya Sesame Mills, Japan's leading sesame-oil maker, but the final payout to shareholders depends on whether Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsui & Co., which together hold nearly half the stock, agree to exit through a separate share buyback rather than tendering, an arrangement that could lift the price as high as ¥2,760.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Foreign-visitor spending at Daimaru Matsuzakaya fell in August even as each shopper spent more, then swung to a 37% year-on-year surge in the first two weeks of September, while the Osaka Umeda store keeps dragging on department-store totals and PARCO's shopping centres post an 8.6% gain.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed colorant and pigment maker will stop offset-ink production in Sapporo by December 2026 and close the site by March 2027, while its Osaka colorant plant runs until September 2028 ahead of a March 2029 closure, as it exits businesses that made up about 5% of last year's group sales to fund a push toward IT, electronics and mobility materials.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's environment ministry is taking comment on a draft rule that would let solar developers carry prefecture or city environmental review paperwork into the national assessment process now that an amended enforcement order brings solar projects under national law, sparing many a full restart, provided the underlying local ordinance meets the ministry's five conditions.
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.