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Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The company repurchased 1,276,000 shares for ¥275,253,000 in May, taking the running total under the programme to 2,618,000 shares and ¥591,344,100 against a ceiling of 4,100,000 shares and ¥820,000,000. The same day it said it plans to buy 945 TIGEREYE shares, equal to 21.0% of voting rights, in July, but the acquisition price and other terms are still due to be fixed in June.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The filing shows 566,900 shares and says the holding supports a February capital and business alliance aimed at synergies and medium- to long-term corporate value. The rationale is clear; the roadmap is not.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The company canceled 6,250,000 common shares on June 1, leaving 285,993,496 shares outstanding after the transaction. The notice closes a previously approved step under an April 30 board resolution; it is a capital-structure update, not a fresh buyback plan.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The report shows 57,300 shares versus 5.81% in the previous filing, with disposals listed from April 2 to May 8. Clear change, no stated motive.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA's public-comment update keeps the familiar compliance requirements but puts more weight on day-to-day education, management guidance, agency audits and deadline-based remediation when problems are found. It also adds a clearer section on supervisory methods and responses, including in-depth hearings, off-site monitoring and report requests when needed.
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
March discussion points published by the FSA tell lenders to keep funding businesses facing higher prices, labour shortages, US tariff measures and Middle East tensions, stay ready for Nankai Trough disruption, and use revised guidance to step up regional succession, M&A and turnaround support. It is a meeting summary rather than a new rulebook, but it reads like a supervisor's to-do list for the months ahead.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
In the FSA's latest tables through end-April, regional banks posted a 98.9% resolved-case rate on SME loan-term change requests, ahead of 96.9% at major banks. Housing cases were softer at 93.4% overall, and the agency warns the tables include some earlier applications, so this is a stocktake rather than a neat monthly trend.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Draft guidance for CPAs and audit firms expands the frame from money laundering and terrorist financing to include proliferation financing, and it lays out checks on customer identity, beneficial owners, high-risk transactions and recordkeeping. The agency explicitly roots the approach in FATF-style risk-based controls, but the packet does not show a final timetable.
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
From June 1, prefectural police can send special-fraud inquiries to participating banks online via the National Police Agency, replacing at least part of a mail-based process that often let money move from the first destination account into others before a freeze request caught up. Mizuho, MUFG, Sumitomo Mitsui, Resona, Seven, Rakuten, AEON, SBI Shinsei and Japan Post Bank are in the initial group. The point is speed, not administrative tidiness. The FSA says earlier inquiries should support earlier freezes of onward-transfer accounts and improve the chances of tracing and recovering victim funds, though the notice does not spell out response-time targets or technical standards.
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read
The filing says the change crossed the more-than-1% threshold and shows a position made up of 218,200 shares plus 6,150,000 share subscription rights. In other words, most of the exposure still sits in rights rather than ordinary stock.
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
On June 1, 32,000 first adjustable-price warrants were exercised, creating 3.2 million new shares and using 22.78% of the original issue. After that burst, 26,397 warrants remained outstanding, equivalent to 2,639,700 shares, though the company's separate May status notice shows a different month-end balance and leaves the paperwork looking untidier than investors would prefer.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
SHIFT and Rise Consulting Group say they will deepen last year's tie-up across recruitment, sales, project staffing and AI-enabled consulting, with SHIFT already holding 33.19% of Rise and offering access to a customer base of more than 4,000 companies. The pair cite IDC Japan's forecast of 9.9% annual average growth in the domestic business consulting market from 2024 to 2029, but for now they still describe the earnings impact as minor.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Convano's corrected results for the year to March 2026 cut revenue to ¥15.44 billion from ¥15.50 billion, operating profit to ¥1.484 billion from ¥1.795 billion and widened the loss attributable to owners to ¥1.178 billion from ¥951 million. A review of expense classification, the treatment of 10 million subsidiary-held shares as treasury stock and a tax-related correction all fed into the reset. The yen guidance for next year stayed in place, but forecast EPS fell to ¥11.67 from ¥12.25.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Daitec Holdings directly held 47.14% of Fukui Computer's voting rights as of March 31, and Fukui said it disclosed only a ¥12 million office lease with a ¥1 million year-end balance as related-party dealing. If June shareholder votes approve the planned merger for April 1, 2027, Daitec disappears and the ownership classification changes, but the filing does not identify who would hold the post-merger status.
May 29, 2026 · 4 min read
Bplats plans to allot 20,051 seventh stock acquisition rights to a fund managed by Growth Partners, with a headline gross raise of ¥746,097,710 and a fixed cap of 2,005,100 new shares. Only ¥2,205,610 is paid at issuance, while the exercise price starts at ¥371 and can reset from June 16 to 90% of the previous day's close, subject to a ¥164 floor. The dilution ceiling is clear enough, but the cash haul depends on investors actually exercising. Bplats is trying to fund a balance sheet that already looks strained: it says it booked a ¥767,298,000 software impairment, a ¥925,575,000 net loss and negative net assets at the end of March 2026. Net proceeds are earmarked at ¥552 million for operating funds and ¥186 million for debt repayment, while a bondholder that had gained an early-redemption right after a covenant breach agreed not to use it. Two directors recused themselves from the board vote because one is a lender due to be repaid and another runs the manager tied to the allottee fund. Bplats has bought itself time and a backer. Whether it gets the full money now depends on the market.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Yutaka Iwamoto's disclosed holding moved to 729,000 shares and rights, or 11.89%, from 9.70%, and a later same-day filing put it at 12.03%. That later report was tied to a lock-up letter and a 55,600-share lending agreement with Daiwa Securities.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Value Creation said G-Plan-related transactions previously booked as sales and outsourcing costs will be cancelled and treated as non-operating income, a change that cut sales for the year ended February 2025 to 3,071,001 thousand yen from 3,431,976 thousand yen and turned operating profit into a 233,904 thousand yen loss from a 121,616 thousand yen profit. The company then booked impairments and concluded deferred tax assets were no longer recoverable, extending corrections across reports from the year ended February 2024 to the first nine months of the year ending February 2026.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
The company said it could not confirm compliance with the Growth market's market-capitalisation maintenance standard by the end of its improvement period, so the stock will be designated under review from June 1. Trading is set to continue while Tokyo Stock Exchange assesses its application to move to the Standard market, which the company says it meets on its own calculations.
May 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Axelmark wants Convano to buy 45 million new shares at ¥20 for a ¥900 million equity injection and provide a commitment-type term loan facility of up to ¥3 billion. If the package closes on July 2, Convano would become parent and controlling shareholder with 68.91% of voting rights, dilution would run to 221.53% against shares outstanding and 221.60% against voting rights, and several proposed board nominees would come from Convano's orbit.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
TKP said Riverfield held 60.79% of voting rights as of Feb. 28. The company also said it had no transactions with the controlling shareholder and that any future dealings would go through board review on terms comparable to third-party transactions.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
QLS said its care-services subsidiary Nagomi will buy all 180 shares of Dandan on June 1, giving the group full control of an Akita City operator that runs one short-stay residential care facility. Dandan reported ¥234.3 million in revenue and ¥2.167 million in operating profit in the year ended November 2025, while QLS says the undisclosed-price deal should have only a minor effect on consolidated results.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Disney Sparkle Link Stars moved from the first half of the year ending January 2027 to the third quarter, with management citing extra development and review time to improve quality. The company is still reviewing the effect on results.
May 29, 2026 · 3 min read
BlueMeme plans to move its low-code and agile DX business into a wholly owned subsidiary on Oct. 1, rename the listed parent BlueMeme Group and let the operating unit take the BlueMeme name, provided shareholders approve the plan on June 26 and required clearances arrive. The company says the restructure is meant to address delays in disclosure and internal-management issues, while the impact on consolidated results should be minor because the business is staying inside the group.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA's May 29 draft widens the framework for certified public accountants and audit firms from money laundering and terrorist financing to include proliferation financing, and it ties the approach to FATF's risk-based standard. The draft sets out transaction-time confirmation, customer and beneficial-owner checks, extra scrutiny for high-risk cases and recordkeeping, so firms have a fairly clear direction of travel even if the rulebook is not final yet.