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  1. Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

    Nihon Yamamura Glass lifts profit as sales edge lower

    Sales edged down to ¥72.19bn, but ordinary income rose to ¥4.39bn and parent profit to ¥3.27bn. For a packaging-materials group, better earnings on a slightly softer top line is the more interesting line of the morning.

  2. Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

    Nippon Beet Sugar lifts sales, but ordinary income slips below ¥1bn

    Revenue rose to ¥68.70bn and profit attributable to owners of parent reached ¥5.03bn, but ordinary income slipped to ¥758mn from ¥1.12bn. The filing gives the gap, not the bridge, so this is a mixed food-processing read rather than a tidy recovery story.

  3. Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

    Daito Chemix reports ¥791mn parent profit as sales rise to ¥19.48bn

    Sales rose to ¥19.48bn and ordinary income to ¥894mn, while parent profit came in at ¥791mn. That is not a first return to profit - the company was also profitable a year earlier - but it does keep plenty of distance from the ¥1.01bn loss posted two years ago.

  4. Jun 24, 2026 · 1 min read

    Remixpoint's power-retail base expands across all segments

    May high-voltage contracts rose 66.1% year on year to 3,456, and all disclosed customer and volume categories stayed above last year's levels across April and May. The company was explicit about the limit: this is a quantity snapshot, not a profit update.

  5. Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read

    Marubeni ends existing buyback after spending just under ¥60bn

    The trading house finished an existing buyback after repurchasing 11,766,800 shares for just under ¥60bn by June 23. That falls short of the 20mn-share ceiling but effectively uses the cash cap, which makes this an execution scorecard on shareholder returns rather than a fresh promise of more.

  6. Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read

    Tamura grew sales to ¥123.56bn, but still fell to a ¥1.39bn loss

    Sales climbed to ¥123.56bn in the year to March, while ordinary income only edged down to ¥4.88bn from ¥5.06bn. Even so, profit attributable to owners of parent swung to a ¥1.39bn loss from a ¥2.78bn profit, and the filing summary does not say what pushed the final line over.

  7. Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read

    Sawai Group grows sales and restores pretax profit, but parent earnings ease

    Revenue rose to ¥201.68bn and pretax profit rebounded to ¥14.27bn in the year to March, but profit attributable to owners of parent slipped to ¥10.44bn and EPS eased to ¥90.39. That leaves a familiar generics-market tension: operations improved before tax, shareholders saw less of it at the bottom line.

  8. Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read

    Seria lifts annual dividend to ¥75 as profit rebounds

    The discount retailer grew net sales to ¥255.70bn and net income to ¥14.70bn in the year to March, then raised the annual dividend to ¥75 a share from ¥70. Cash and total assets ended lower than a year earlier, so the bigger payout looks like confidence in earnings rather than a looser balance sheet.

  9. Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read

    Kyushu Electric lifts profit even as revenue slips

    Revenue slipped to ¥2.25tn in the year to March, but ordinary income still rose to ¥207.06bn and profit attributable to owners of parent to ¥154.54bn. Total assets reached ¥5.98tn and net assets ¥1.23tn, which keeps the group in the useful category of large, profitable and no longer explaining away a crisis year.

  10. Jun 24, 2026 · 3 min read

    TEPCO takes 170th Fukushima compensation top-up as July payments overtake prior support

    Tokyo Electric Power has drawn another ¥34.4bn from the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation, the 170th funding delivery tied to Fukushima compensation. The company said payments due by end-July will exceed the ¥11.5122tn it had already received from the body and the ¥188.9bn received under the compensation law. The transfer sits under the revised special business plan approved on March 31, which is a bureaucratic way of saying the pipeline is still very much open.

  11. Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read

    Gyre Form S-3 lets Cullgen holders resell acquisition shares

    The US registration covers Gyre shares issued in the Cullgen buyout, not fresh fundraising, and parent GNI says its effective interest stands at about 70 per cent with no material effect expected on consolidated results.