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Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA wants asset managers to hand administrative processing to trust banks and specialist firms, arguing fragmented back-office effort is holding back Japan's asset-management ambitions.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
The Nagoya-based automation group's board approved buying two Singapore machine-vision firms, Vital Vision Technology and EI3D, for an estimated ¥2.65bn, a deal disclosed as its first-quarter profit swung to ¥444mn from a year-earlier loss.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Harajuku Police Station has accepted a criminal complaint against baby calendar Inc.'s former CFO, accused of diverting ¥9.26mn in advertising revenue to a personal account, a case that already forced the company to correct prior financial filings.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Convano plans to cash out ¥8.77bn of group crypto holdings within about three months to fund growth investment and shareholder returns, while carving out the tokens tied to its shareholder-benefit program, which stay put.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
BlackRock Japan is closing the iShares MSCI Japan SRI ETF after its unit count fell to 3.75 million, well below the 15 million threshold for staying listed, with an October 20 written-resolution vote that counts silent holders as a yes.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
ispace,inc.'s Luxembourg unit will build, run and ship a lunar rover for the European Space Agency's water-ice mission under a ¥12bn add-on deal already counted in the company's current revenue forecast, though the value of the two earlier contract stages remains undisclosed.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read
A Singapore fund's stake in Soken Chemical has reached 22.60%, above the roughly 20% needed to block special-resolution votes at the company's annual meeting, and Soken's new defense plan sets out notice periods and a board review window, run past an independent committee, before any further buying toward 23% can proceed.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Hemlibra shipments to majority owner Roche and a sharp jump in Nemluvio exports to Galderma drove Chugai's core operating profit up 21% in the first half, while Japan's price controls kept domestic growth modest and management left its full-year guidance exactly where it stood in January.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Shin-Etsu Chemical's quarterly operating profit rose 4% as AI-driven demand for silicon wafers and photoresists offset a one-third profit drop in the segment selling PVC and caustic soda, and the company is guiding to higher full-year profit, a bigger dividend and the final leg of a ¥250bn buyback.
Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan Post Bank's domestically listed held-to-maturity bonds showed a ¥4.94tn unrealized loss at the end of June, worth 940% of last year's net profit, though the bank says its earnings and dividend forecasts for the year to March 2027 stand unchanged.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft ordinance would let every Japanese company, not just listed stock companies, hide part of a representative's or manager's home address from registration certificates and the online registry lookup service that lenders and dealmakers use.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Domestic held-to-maturity and policy-matching bonds at Japan Post Insurance carry an unrealized loss worth more than 26 times last year's net profit, yet the insurer says its earnings and dividend guidance for the year to March 2027 is unchanged.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A National Police Agency proposal would require officers to notify the administrator of any computer used to attack "critical" systems by email, disclosing its IP address and what was done, but only after the intervention is already over.
Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read
MEXT's draft rule would keep two temporary medical school enrollment boosts running through the year to March 2028, the same year Tokyo pledged to start trimming doctor-training numbers.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Oracle Corporation Japan will hand shareholders ¥110.08bn for the year ended May 2026, more than the ¥24.4bn it paid a year earlier, after layering a ¥660 special dividend onto its ordinary payout.
Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's banking regulator says shrinking a branch network is a lender's own call, not a supervisory nudge, while quietly adding a formal demand that examiners test bank profit forecasts against population decline and interest-rate scenarios.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Tohoku Bank's held-to-maturity bonds carry a ¥2.14bn unrealized loss, worth more than the ¥1.69bn net profit it booked for the year to March 2026, even as it holds its current-year earnings forecast steady.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
A ¥858mn deal hands Scala control of an unlisted Kamakura software firm whose point-of-sale system runs in about 2,500 mobile-carrier shops, with the AI group betting the real prize is decades of store-operating data, not the software itself.
Jul 23, 2026 · 1 min read
A ¥660 special dividend takes ORACLE CORPORATION JAPAN's year-end payout to ¥110.08bn, versus ¥24.38bn a year earlier, with payment starting August 10, 2026.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has opened public comment on scrapping the mandatory three-year reapproval of how utilities certify reactor operation supervisors, saying annual inspections already cover the ground and most renewal filings change nothing.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
B-R 31 Ice Cream, which runs Baskin-Robbins in Japan, booked record first-half sales of ¥18.55bn on a 21st straight quarter of same-store growth, yet operating profit fell to ¥1.42bn from ¥1.70bn as raw-material costs, the weak yen, and heavier marketing and shipping bills ate into margins.
Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Yokohama Reito is moving four logistics centers into a trust, selling the beneficiary rights to a Bentall GreenOak vehicle for an estimated ¥5.9bn gain, and leasing the buildings straight back to fund new cold-storage capacity near Haneda and along the Ken-O corridor.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
KOA CORPORATION's upgraded guidance follows a first quarter in which net profit nearly quadrupled, and the company raised its annual dividend forecast to ¥63 a share from ¥39, crediting AI-related equipment demand in Asia and automotive orders in China rather than a broad components rebound.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Okinawa Financial Group's banking subsidiary disclosed a ¥10.4bn unrealized loss on held-to-maturity bonds as of June 30, 2026, a sum equal to 92% of the group's profit for the year ended March 2026, and kept its full-year earnings and dividend forecasts unchanged.