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Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Shinkin Central Bank's consolidated net profit rose 25.8% to ¥13.5bn in the June quarter on foreign floating-rate bonds and corporate lending, while a separate disclosure showed gross unrealized losses on its held-to-maturity bond book at ¥594bn, more than ten times last year's annual profit before interest-rate hedges are applied.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Komatsu's quarterly operating profit rose 8% on a weaker yen and firmer pricing, and the equipment maker lifted its full-year sales and profit guidance after cutting its estimated US tariff cost to ¥25.8bn from ¥37.8bn and trimming its assumed Middle East demand losses.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Ispace has signed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch its ULTRA lunar lander on the H3 rocket in 2028, keeping the contract price confidential and deferring the cost until liftoff.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
A 37% surge in Energy-segment revenue, powered by backlog conversion and favourable currency swings rather than new orders, helped Hitachi post record first-quarter sales and lift its full-year profit forecast by ¥100bn, even though quarterly net profit dipped 1.4% against a tough dividend-related comparison.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Keywest Network, the buyout vehicle run by Future Corporation's own chairman, is offering ¥2,451 per share and will cancel the year-end dividend once enough shareholders tender, part of a plan to delist the Tokyo IT consultant.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
FreeBit says a special committee probing its 2025 CountUp acquisition may not wrap up in time for the company to get its audit report and file by the July 31 statutory deadline, so it is weighing an extension request to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
ANA Holdings' revenue rose 22.6% in the June quarter on inbound tourists and stronger cargo demand, but fuel costs cut operating profit by 43.5%; management is still holding its full-year targets steady.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Advantest raised its year-to-March-2027 net profit forecast by 41.8% to ¥660bn, saying test demand for inference AI chips already exceeds what it assumed back in April.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's biggest self-storage operator raised its full-year profit forecast after 19% first-half operating-profit growth, and is spending about ¥2.6bn at a 42% premium to take full control of a smaller Tokyo-area rival.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
The Aichi ceramics and LED maker lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥33.7bn after its best-ever first quarter, betting that next-generation telecom hardware and a memory-chip rebound will keep two new plant buildings busy.
Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Higher manufacturing costs and weaker sales volumes crushed operating profit in Tokuyama's core chemicals business by 81% in the quarter to June, yet the group is still lifting its dividend for a fourth straight year.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Capcom's operating profit rose 66.9% in the April-June quarter as new sci-fi title Pragmata topped 2.5 million copies sold and a six-year-old Devil May Cry 5 crossed 14 million units on a fresh Switch 2 port, while full-year guidance stayed unchanged at ¥210.0bn in sales.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Shimano's bicycle-component operating profit fell 15.1% in the first half despite progress clearing dealer inventory, while a 59.8% jump in fishing-tackle profit and one-off currency and securities gains covered for it in the group numbers.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Cacao and fat costs, plus depreciation on new gummy and bottled-water equipment, cut Fujiya's first-half operating profit by three-quarters and left profit attributable to the company's shareholders at a ¥74mn loss even as sales grew 4.8% to ¥59.41bn.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Senshu Ikeda Holdings disclosed ¥18.18bn of unrealized losses on held-to-maturity bonds at end-June, a figure bigger than the ¥17.3bn net profit it reported for the year to March 2026 and worth 72.0% of its ordinary profit for that year.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Appointed on June 25, Media Links' incoming audit firm resigned within a month after it could not get sufficient evidence to sign off on inventory recoverability for the year to March 2026 and earlier periods, and the electronics maker now has no accounting auditor while it looks for a temporary replacement.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Data-center memory shortages, a quicker factory-automation recovery and heat-driven cooling sales push the distributor's full-year operating profit guidance up 25% to ¥7.5bn and its dividend up ¥20 a share to ¥170.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's factory-sensor and machine-vision maker grew quarterly net profit 51% as capital spending held firm in Asia's semiconductor sector and the Americas, while Europe and Japan showed only early signs of recovery; the dividend forecast holds at ¥550 a share.
Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's Financial Services Agency has proposed letting ETF creators pay cash instead of buying shares when that purchase would push their stake past the 30% mandatory tender-offer threshold, with public comment open through August 28, 2026.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Sakura Internet's board approved a ¥26.0bn purchase of NVIDIA Rubin-generation GPU racks, funded mostly by bank loans, to meet enterprise, research and public-sector demand for domestic AI compute; the earnings hit is still under review.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Keyence's net profit rose 51 percent in the quarter to June on ¥346.6bn in sales, with the company describing steady capital spending across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Japan rather than naming any single region as the fastest grower.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Nitto Denko's operating profit rose 15% in the June quarter as AI server and data-center materials demand outweighed a memory-chip-driven slump in laptop and tablet components, and the company raised its full-year profit forecast to ¥200bn with a bigger dividend and a ¥50bn buyback attached.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
A trading boom that more than doubled Tokyo's daily equity turnover pushed Japan Exchange Group to raise its profit outlook for the year to March 2027 by more than a quarter and lift its dividend forecast to ¥77 a share from ¥61.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's online broker posted a 95% jump in quarterly net income to ¥5.61bn as individual investors doubled their trading during the market's climb to a record ¥72,000 on the Nikkei, yet it still won't forecast full-year profit or a dividend because brokerage results swing heavily with market conditions.