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Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min read
Bottom line: TONE cut its sales forecast to ¥7.86bn but raised operating profit to ¥1.36bn and the year-end dividend to ¥13 a share, saying higher-value-added products, better production efficiency and cost cuts more than offset weaker demand.
Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min read
The number: Batonz reported ¥2.00bn in sales, ¥367.3mn in ordinary income and 126 employees for the year to March, while separate filings showed office expansion and effective financial-reporting controls.
Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min read
The number: Hokkaido Chuo Bus lifted sales to ¥38.38bn and net profit to ¥2.78bn in the year to March 2026. The catch: the group is broader than buses alone, with construction, building maintenance and a Niseko tourism-development unit all material to the revenue base.
Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min read
The number: Insurance revenue rose to ¥6.44tn in the year to March, lifting profit attributable to owners to ¥510.6bn and owners' equity to ¥6.42tn. A separate controls report said financial-reporting controls were effective, but the filing excerpt does not show the profit mix behind the jump.
Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min read
The numbers: Sanrio posted ¥194.1bn in sales, ¥79.3bn in ordinary income and ¥54.6bn in parent profit for the year to March 2026, with total assets ending the period at ¥234.7bn.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: HOYA has set a new three-year PSU award for its CEO, CFO and CSO, with a maximum 22,200 shares and a half-stock, half-cash structure that leaves the final value to be fixed in 2029.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Japan has opened comments on a draft entry-and-residence plan that foregrounds electronic travel authorisation, digital processing and closer status oversight, giving employers and advisers an early view of where official priorities are heading.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Japan's latest circular-economy funding round backs low-CO2 bioplastics and recycling systems for hard-to-recycle materials, with support set at up to one-half or one-third of eligible costs and key category details left to the application guidelines.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: MLIT wants to cut three maintenance-specific training thresholds in half, lowering the bar for national designation and new-course approvals as smaller providers emerge. What to watch: comments run to July 30, with application pencilled in for August and already-filed test courses due to be covered.
Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min read
The catch: JALCO is using a one-year 3 per cent bond fully taken by a company owned by its chief executive to fund part of a 24.5 per cent stake in six grid battery sites, while the actual purchase price and near-term earnings impact remain undisclosed.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: TCG2511's tender collected 14.16mn shares, enough for a 52.81% voting stake from July 6. The catch: because ALSOK keeps 16.41%, the buyer plans follow-on steps to leave only the two holders on the register and take the fire-safety equipment maker off the TSE Standard market.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The number: corrected annual accounts show unbanked swung to a ¥2.827bn ordinary loss after ¥1.34bn in gold-trade receivables went uncollected. The catch: the auditor gave an unqualified opinion, but the company still judged its reporting controls ineffective and the TSE had already put the shares on special alert.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: revenue in the year to March edged up to ¥578.13bn, profit rose faster, and Daido then disclosed a 97.54% post-offer holding ratio in Tohoku Steel, linking sturdier earnings to an ongoing consolidation push.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: shareholders approved a 28 yen year-end dividend worth ¥19.54bn and a ¥25bn transfer into general reserve, while re-electing president Tsutomu Yonemoto and a 10-director slate.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: Speee will transfer its renovation and repair DX business into ReFact on August 1 and take a planned ¥1.812bn SOMPO investment in September, leaving the unit 60.7%-owned and consolidated. What is still missing: ReFact's forecast remains undecided.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The move: PCI Holdings will absorb wholly owned PCI Solutions on October 1, rename the parent after the subsidiary and shift out of pure holding-company form, with no merger consideration and only a minor expected effect on consolidated results.
Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Department-store and mall demand kept business profit growing, but lower developer revenue, weaker one-off gains and the planned closure of Daimaru Shimonoseki show J. Front's momentum is concentrating in stronger urban assets.
Jun 30, 2026 · 1 min read
The June 29 update values the fund at ¥126.65tn across 1,056,332,116 units, using a ¥161.76 dollar rate, and reports no day-on-day divergence from the S&P 500.
Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min read
The Tokyo Growth-market company says a large-client exit, deferred projects and a shift toward recurring AI services hurt the March quarter, even as it targets 10,000 SME customers spending at least ¥1mn a year.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed fund had 700,000 units outstanding and a net asset value of ¥1,043.55 on June 29, a clean snapshot of scale but not of flows or performance drivers.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Shareholders approved NPT's TOKYO PRO Market delisting application, putting July 29 as the last planned trading day before depository handling ends and brokers stop accepting related requests after delisting.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Abalance wants a 62-day extension, to August 31, after a probe into suspect transactions at merged subsidiary Abit opened the door to extra audit work and possible prior-year corrections.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The environment ministry’s consultation would formalise internet-based public inspection of Antarctic activity-plan applications and related documents, alongside conforming fixes tied to a June law amendment.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
The transport ministry wants to cut the graduate requirement for designated maintenance training facilities from 20 to 10, while also halving the thresholds for test courses and added programmes, a change aimed at accommodating smaller providers.