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Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Shareholders approved continuation of the company's countermeasures against large-scale share purchases through the close of the June 2029 AGM. The filing does not identify any live bidder or spell out the mechanics of the partial revision.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
The company will replace a ¥1.13bn syndicated facility due June 30 with a ¥2.3bn MUFG Bank borrowing that runs only until Oct. 31. Both facilities use securities held by the representative director's asset-management company as collateral, so the maturity wall has moved, not disappeared.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Its asset manager can let portfolio-wide capital spending rise above depreciation when competitiveness or urgency warrants it, provided financial policy can absorb the move. No specific project or guidance change came with the rule revision.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Nireco will split each share into three on Aug. 1, lift its authorised-share ceiling to 88.2 million from 39.4 million, and adjust unexercised stock acquisition rights accordingly. The post-split dividend forecast is ¥35 a share, but the company says that remains equivalent to ¥105 per pre-split share after correcting the payout breakdown, so this is an access move rather than a cash-return cut.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Management says ROE in the year to March 2026 was 6.87% against a PBR of 0.80x, above its rough 6% equity-cost estimate but still short of its 8% goal. The company is prioritising investment over a cosmetic fix, targeting operating profit of ¥2.4bn and net profit of ¥1.6bn by 2028 while saying ROE is only expected to improve to 7.6% during the current plan.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
A consolidated subsidiary will sell 360,000 DearU shares, or 1.52%, to the Korean parent on July 27 at that day's Korean-market closing price, leaving the final economics floating until the close. On current assumptions the Japan-listed company expects about ¥747mn of special gain in consolidated results, but the figure remains provisional because both share price and exchange rate can still move.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Izawa Towel approved a ToSTNeT-3 repurchase of up to 600,000 shares, or 6.2% of shares outstanding excluding treasury stock, at ¥728 a share for a maximum ¥436.8mn after a major shareholder signalled plans to sell. The order is valid only for the 8:45am June 26 session, so the structure is designed to absorb a block exit without leaning on regular trading, not to promise a large open-ended buyback.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Wedge Holdings says a ¥388mn loan to parent Showa Holdings has never been repaid and that immediate payment is difficult, so it is taking pledges over four subsidiary stakes while broader financing terms remain under negotiation. The collateral is mixed at best: two stakes carry disclosed values of ¥71.9mn and ¥30.9mn after haircuts, while two others are assigned memorandum values of ¥1 each.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Beauty Kadan now expects ¥7.3bn in sales, a ¥145mn operating loss and a ¥140mn net loss for the year to June 2026, versus its previous plan for ¥120mn of operating profit and ¥40mn of net profit. The company blamed weaker funeral-service volumes in some regions as customers shifted toward smaller ceremonies, plus persistently high labour and outsourcing costs, and cut the year-end dividend to zero from ¥5.25 a share.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Fukuda Denshi has created an independent third-party committee, chaired by former Nagoya High Court president Seiichi Fusamura, after concluding its earlier investigation into former chairman Kotaro Fukuda's improper expense use needed a more objective follow-up. The panel will examine not just the expense case but any broader mixing of corporate and personal affairs, management's role in related governance problems, and prevention measures.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Kaihan says Friday's shareholder meeting can still vote on a partial articles amendment, three director appointments and an accounting auditor, but it cannot present the year-end business report or financial statements at the scheduled session. The company expects going-concern uncertainty to lead to a disclaimer of opinion and says a later continued meeting will handle the accounts once audit procedures are complete.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
The post-comment package under this year's amendments to the financial-function-strengthening law stretches across regional financial institutions, cooperative lenders and labour banks, with implementing rules spanning capital strengthening, organisational restructuring, preferred capital and supervisory guidelines. The point is breadth, not a rescue headline: the FSA has published the framework around support tools, but not a fresh capital injection for any named lender.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA wants to extend the cutoff for designated SSBJ materials to June 11 from March 13 and add Sustainability Disclosure Practical Solution No. 1, which covers climate disclosures using SHK greenhouse-gas data. This is a public-comment draft, not a final rule, but it matters because it expands the official reference set rather than inventing a wholly new climate regime.
Jun 25, 2026 · 4 min read
June's BOJ policy-board opinions say underlying inflation should reach a level broadly consistent with the price target between the second half of the year ending March 2027 and the following year, even though recent year-on-year CPI has been below 2%, while the economy keeps drawing support from strong AI-related demand, solid wage gains and high corporate profits. The caution is the interesting part: members said Middle East-linked supply shocks could still hit production and employment hard enough to break the wage-price cycle and, in a worst case, send Japan back into deflation, even as faster business-to-business price pass-through could push underlying inflation above 2%. It is not a policy vote, but it is a clean map of the BOJ's two-sided risk problem.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
MEXT proposes lifting the standard establishment-cost schedule used in approval reviews, with one small humanities-campus building example rising to ¥880mn from ¥772mn as construction costs and prices climb.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
The June 25 disclosure valued WisdomTree’s Tokyo-listed gold fund at ¥1.07tn, while sister silver and platinum ETFs also reported 0.00% deviation from their London reference metal holdings.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
The Tokyo-listed fund's per-unit value was ¥2,324 with a -0.06% daily gap to its referenced index, and the disclosure shows investors are taking futures-roll and dollar-yen mechanics, not just commodity exposure.
Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read
Koki’s second amendment to its annual standalone results lowers the Okinawa Cellular sales figure in its major-customer note to ¥5.63bn from ¥5.64bn, while the KDDI line stays at ¥1.37bn.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Makino says the new approach from Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko is under review by a special committee and remains short of any company decision.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
BrightPath Bio says Tokuhiro Nakamura stepped down on June 25 for personal reasons, and that the departure does not take it below the director numbers required by law and its articles of incorporation.
Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read
Sales rose to ¥195.78bn and ordinary income to ¥16.26bn, but profit attributable to owners of parent eased to ¥11.49bn from ¥12.10bn. That makes it a solid industrial year with one bottom-line wrinkle management will still need to explain elsewhere.
Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read
The electrical-construction contractor reported ¥72.45bn in sales and ¥5.19bn in ordinary profit for the year to March. The filing does not identify which project types drove the jump, but the latest year was plainly stronger on both revenue and earnings.
Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read
Sales fell to ¥2.33bn and the company posted a ¥549.0mn ordinary loss, an improvement on the previous year's ¥986.3mn loss but not a recovery. Lower revenue alongside another red-ink year is enough to explain why balance-sheet watchers keep the name on the list.
Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Sales held near flat at ¥139.26bn, while ordinary income rose to ¥5.97bn and the annual dividend increased to ¥105 a share from ¥90. Higher profit and a fatter payout make for a decent civil-engineering postcard, even if the filing does not spell out the project mix.