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Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Zipalertinib plus chemotherapy nearly doubled progression-free survival to 14.5 months against a hard-to-treat EGFR mutation in a Phase 3 readout, but the drug is approved nowhere and Otsuka is leaving its current profit forecast untouched.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Chubu Electric has pulled its Hamaoka Units 3 and 4 restart applications after an independent inquiry found staff manipulated seismic wave selections for years and then built paperwork to disguise it, prompting the exit of both the president and chairman.
Sep 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Japan's financial regulator says a company listed at a British Virgin Islands address has been lending money over the internet through a service called CryptoPawn without registering as a moneylender, and it cannot identify who runs it.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Market participants have until December 1 to comment, in English, on two consultation papers from BIS's payments committee and IOSCO covering cyber resilience and third-party vendor dependency at financial market infrastructure, after Japan's FSA posted a notice pointing to the original documents.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Financial Services Agency data for April to June show 1,616 of the 1,961 reported fraudulent investment pitches already involved some form of harm to the complainant, even as crypto-asset complaints eased and everyday investment queries climbed to 5,603.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Financial Services Agency has proposed a standalone XBRL taxonomy, built on the IFRS Foundation's own sustainability tags, for the disclosures companies must start filing under the country's new Sustainability Disclosure Standards, with public comments due October 13 and the tags required from reports covering the year to March 2027.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
MUFG priced ¥200bn of perpetual bonds this week that pay fixed coupons of 3.311% and 4.072% before floating over yen Tibor, but the fine print lets the bank cancel principal outright, not merely defer it, if its core capital ratio drops below 5.125%, with recovery never guaranteed.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Seven & i Holdings used a single ToSTNeT-3 session to complete a ¥400bn share buyback, then two weeks later allotted ¥300bn in treasury shares to SoftBank, PayPay and Sumitomo Mitsui Card in a separate transaction that the filing does not otherwise explain.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Shikoku Electric Power Transmission & Distribution will lift wheeling charges across every voltage class from November 1, adding a net ¥33.8bn to projected revenue over two years, but the parent utility still has not decided how much of that increase reaches retail electricity bills.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota repurchased ¥86.5bn of its own shares over twelve trading days in August, using up 8.65% of the ¥1tn value cap set by its board, and separately disposed of ¥3.44bn of treasury stock through a solicitation of takers.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Kansai Transmission and Distribution's METI filing raises wheeling tariffs at every voltage level from November 1, with low-voltage connections taking the biggest hit, up ¥1.22 to ¥9.04 per kWh, a cost retail electricity suppliers pay before any pass-through to customer bills is decided.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Key West Network, wholly owned by Future Corporation's own chairman through a Singapore holding vehicle, collected 43.3mn tendered shares at ¥2,451 each and is set to lift its voting stake to 82.78% once settlement begins on September 17, ahead of a planned squeeze-out that would delist the Tokyo Prime-listed firm.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
An outside panel has completed its investigation into how Chubu Electric wrongly assessed ground motion at Hamaoka Units 3 and 4, but the utility says only a redacted version will be published later and it still cannot quantify any hit to earnings.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's finance minister told reporters after Friday's cabinet meeting that his currency-policy stance has not changed since the last coordinated intervention with Washington, and that the ministry will keep close contact with the US Treasury, even as he declined to address US Treasury Secretary Bessent's remark that Washington knows in detail how Tokyo would move in an intervention.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
China's commerce ministry has provisionally set anti-dumping tariffs as high as 99.2% on Japanese producers of dichlorosilane, a gas used to build semiconductor insulating film, and Japan's trade minister says Tokyo will work with the affected companies while pressing a separate protest over China-only export controls; he also confirmed the year-old US-Japan investment initiative has reached roughly a fifth of its $550 billion target after a US bank joined a gas-plant project's financing.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Besterra's half-year filing confirms four people died when part of the equipment being dismantled fell at its Kawasaki demolition site in April, and the contractor says it still cannot estimate the financial impact even as operating profit more than doubled and net profit fell by half on a securities writedown.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Kumiai Chemical now expects full-year sales of ¥175.0bn, up 8% from its December guidance, but has cut operating profit guidance 62.5% to ¥2.7bn after generic rivals crushed prices for one of its export herbicides and forced an inventory writedown, even as equity-method gains and yen-driven forex gains cushioned the ordinary-profit line and the dividend forecast stayed at ¥24 a share.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Oasis Management's Infomart holding has climbed to 17.97% and the fund is already proposing asset disposals and board changes, with mergers, delisting and a possible change-of-control sale flagged for the next 12 months.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's financial regulator wants corporate-affiliated non-life insurance agents to prove their commissions are not disguised premium discounts, phasing in tougher related-party and antitrust tests between 2030 and 2032, with comments on the draft due October 13.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Kamgras has raised its tender offer for Kakaku.com to ¥3,680 a share, its fourth increase since May, and pushed the deadline back to September 29 to clear the ¥3,640 floor that shareholder Oasis said it needed to see; Kakaku.com's board is still weighing that offer against a competing Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo proposal priced at ¥3,520, or ¥3,640 if it can lock in a non-tender deal with KDDI.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Half-year net profit at Sekisui House rose 23% to ¥125.1bn on strong urban-redevelopment sales and property disposals to Sekisui House REIT Investment Corporation, even as its international segment, mostly US operations, saw operating profit collapse 93% to about ¥1.0bn amid American buyer hesitancy and heavier sales incentives.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Sony Life's internal review now confirms ¥56.4mn in insurance-related fraud from 21 customers and ¥124.2mn in separate improper money transfers from 17 customers, and the insurer says the Financial Services Agency has given notice of an on-site inspection while it winds down its exclusive-agency sales channel.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
JACCS is closing four regional credit-screening offices and cutting its network from 11 sites to seven, offering the 180 affected employees a transfer, a relocation-based role change or a payout that could total up to ¥1.1bn in severance if everyone chooses to leave by March 2027.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
HUMAN MADE will pay roughly ¥554mn in cash, funded entirely from its own balance sheet, to take 100% control of streetwear label UNDERCOVER, while the brand's founder steps back from management to remain only as head designer ahead of a planned February 2027 closing.