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Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Hulic's net profit rose 11% to ¥50.0bn in the six months to June 2026, but a ¥5.1bn goodwill charge tied to its tutoring subsidiary's share price tipped the smaller-business segment into a loss.
Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read
A public-comment draft guideline directs ministries to give extra scrutiny to power, gas, telecom and other critical-infrastructure equipment deals involving suppliers tied to Japanese sanctions, on top of an existing 30-day freeze on new gear and outsourced maintenance.
Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
A slower-than-expected arrival of generic rivals for two of its drugs, plus a weaker yen, is pushing Otsuka Holdings' first-half net profit to ¥215bn, 68% above the guidance it issued in February.
Jul 27, 2026 · 1 min read
REVOLUTION's shares now carry a Tokyo Stock Exchange special-alert warning and a listing penalty fee after auditor Aria declined to issue an opinion on its half-year accounts, prompting internal investigation committees at the company and two subsidiaries.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Yokogawa Bridge Holdings has cleared a ¥2.0bn share-buyback ceiling covering 2.5% of its stock, and separately approved a merger that dissolves an intermediate holding company and, pending a September shareholder vote, delivers a Sendai precast-concrete unit into direct ownership by October.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Quarterly sales fell 21% as pachinko machine shipments cooled from last year's hit title, but a China licensing rebound and sold-out amusement orders pushed Tsuburaya Fields to raise full-year profit guidance 18% and declare an Ultraman 60th-anniversary special dividend that doubles its annual payout.
Jul 27, 2026 · 1 min read
SFC CO., LTD., the South Korean subsidiary of Tokyo-listed Hodogaya Chemical, filed for preliminary KOSPI listing review on July 24, but regulatory approval and the listing timetable remain undecided.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
FunPep's FPP004X hit its safety and antibody-response targets in a Phase 1 trial, with titers rising in 97 to 100 percent of subjects, but an exposure-chamber test found no symptom improvement over placebo, and the split result now goes to option-holder Shionogi for discussion on what comes next.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
SBI Global Asset Management's operating profit rose 5.2 times and group assets under management reached about ¥14tn in the June quarter, mostly because two fund managers were folded fully into its results for the first time in a comparable year-on-year quarter.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
An April rush of orders tied to Middle East supply fears, followed by price increases, pushed Konishi's quarterly operating profit up 52.5%, with its Bond adhesives unit up 69.5% and Chemicals up 67.2%, while a Construction segment profit fell 24.7% on delayed projects; the company kept its full-year forecast unchanged from April.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
GMO Financial Holdings booked record first-half revenue and profit as strong CFD trading and higher deposit-linked interest income offset a slump in over-the-counter FX and crypto revenue, letting the company lift its full-year dividend forecast to ¥57.04 per share from ¥54.76 ahead of formal results due August 5.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Aomori Michinoku Bank's held-to-maturity bonds carried a ¥12.07bn unrealized loss at the end of June, more than three times last year's net profit for parent Procrea Holdings, which says its full-year earnings and dividend forecasts still stand.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Toho Gas's first-quarter operating profit fell 61.5% to ¥7.64bn after Japan's fuel-cost pass-through mechanism flipped from a gain to a loss amid $112.7 crude and a ¥159.6-to-the-dollar yen, even as the company keeps its full-year guidance unchanged.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Operating profit at the Tokyo-listed semiconductor and cybersecurity distributor more than doubled in the June quarter, powered by AI-server chip demand and testing-equipment orders, yet management held its full-year forecast unchanged, wary of memory shortages and longer component lead times.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Canon's first-half net profit rose 9.8% to ¥171.2bn on a 38.8% jump in imaging-division operating profit, even as the industrial-equipment unit's profit fell by a third and the company revised its full-year forecast without disclosing the prior numbers.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read
A ransomware attack in September that let an intruder roam Asahi Group Holdings' Japan network delayed the brewer's annual securities report by four months and forced a rare admission that its internal controls over financial reporting were not effective for the year to December 2025, even though auditors signed off on the underlying numbers.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's regulator has cut the minimum capital bar for investment managers to ¥10mn from ¥50mn, but only for firms that never touch client money, while a bank group has already set aside ¥160bn specifically for managers with no track record.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The exchange found no prospect that Showa Holdings, a Standard Market company whose delisting notice is signed by a provisional administrator, can properly build or run internal controls, and will strike its shares from trading on 25 August 2026.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
A single ToSTNeT-3 off-auction purchase on July 27 used up more than half of the ¥1.2bn share buyback the sauce maker's board approved just three months earlier.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read
New and renewed fertilizer-supply certifications in Japan would carry a duty to report cyberattacks to the Cabinet's cyber office through the farm ministry, and give operators a formal channel to ask Tokyo to lean on raw-material suppliers when a shortfall looms, under a draft open for public comment until August 25, 2026.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The operator of Japan's SOKUYAKU online-clinic and prescription service will build joint drone depots with a Tokyo drone-logistics firm to get medicine to mountain villages and remote islands, though the filing itself gives no cost or revenue figure for the plan.
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read
RACCOON Holdings posted an 18.7% return on equity against an assumed 8% cost of capital, yet its market value has fallen 82% since 2021, prompting the Tokyo Prime-listed group to rewrite how it explains itself to investors.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read
New shares issued for three acquisitions will cut the controlling shareholder's voting stake at Ureru Net Advertising Group from 55.02% to 46.30% on August 10, 2026, stripping a company director of that formal status without him selling a single share.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Overseas shipments to majority owner Roche and royalty income from a licensed itch drug pushed Chugai's core profit up 23% in the first half, even as Japan's drug-price cuts dented older cancer medicines at home.