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Sep 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Kioxia Holdings has already used virtually all of the ¥800bn cash authorization behind its share buyback, all in a six-day stretch in early August, but has repurchased only 53.78% of the 30 million shares it aimed to buy before the program's October 30 deadline.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
H.I.S. swung to a ¥4.99bn net loss for the nine months through July after a ¥5.94bn charge to terminate a land lease at its Guam hotel, even as underlying travel demand held up: record inbound arrivals offset a weak yen and high fuel surcharges that kept outbound Japanese travel at only 74.2% of its 2019 level, and the company cut its interim dividend to zero while holding its full-year loss forecast steady.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
ACCESS narrowed its first-half net loss to ¥588mn and grew revenue 16.8% almost entirely on one carryover network contract, yet its own filing still flags going-concern doubt and confirms the Tokyo Stock Exchange's internal-control review, which could end in delisting, remains open a year after its Special Attention designation.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
A more-than-doubled quarterly net loss and a lost UK debris-removal tender didn't stop Astroscale from lifting cash to ¥34.95bn, up from ¥10.02bn, after a ¥30.6bn bond-and-share raise, with full-year loss guidance left unchanged.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
OHARA's low-dielectric glass and optical-communication products are set to roughly double in sales to about ¥1bn each as data-center investment accelerates, prompting the Japanese glassmaker's third full-year guidance increase this year, even as its camera-lens optics unit stays lossmaking ahead of a fourth-quarter inventory charge.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Kura Sushi's nine-month operating profit fell 45% even as group sales grew 4.4%, with Japan squeezed by still-high rice prices and its expanding US business absorbing tariff-driven cost increases, though full-year guidance is unchanged.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Kobe Bussan grew nine-month sales 5.2% to ¥432.9bn but net profit fell 10.9% on a currency-hedging base effect and merger costs, and it separately completed a ¥57bn purchase of 15 overseas in-flight caterers after the quarter closed.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
A holder of 4.06% of the target agreed at the last minute to tender its entire stake, reshaping the majority-of-minority arithmetic behind Bain Capital's ¥820-a-share bid to take the company private.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
ITOCHU reported zero shares repurchased in August under its ¥300bn buyback because it chose a ¥1,813-a-share tender offer for up to 82.7mn shares that ran from August 4 to September 1, with purchases booked on a contract-date basis.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale France will earn €13.2mn, about ¥2.36bn, through 2030 as subcontractor to Exotrail on a CNES-backed mission to deorbit a Eutelsat OneWeb satellite, the unit's first paying contract.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
KOMPEITO's Tokyo Growth Market debut arrives with a forecast ¥1.13bn net profit for the year to August 2026, reversing last year's ¥161mn loss, as revenue jumps 72% to ¥9.87bn.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's Financial Services Agency wants mandatory third-party assurance to cover only Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, governance and risk-management disclosures for the first two years, and only at the lighter "limited assurance" tier.
Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's finance minister says the planned cut in the consumption tax on food will be funded by trimming tax breaks and subsidies, not by issuing special deficit bonds, and ties the whole plan to a falling debt-to-GDP path.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Visional's revenue grew 24% in the year to July 2026, but a wage-tax credit expiry and a new defense corporate tax mean next year's profit guidance is essentially flat, even as HRMOS's client count nearly quintupled and the Thinkings acquisition pushed group goodwill from ¥3.7bn to ¥12bn.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Timee's quarterly revenue rose 24.8% and worker utilization hit 86.3%, but operating profit grew only 5.8% as margins narrowed, and the board has only begun preparing a Prime Market application with no filing date yet.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Subaru bought back ¥23.75bn of its own shares in August alone, bringing cumulative repurchases under its ¥150bn authorization to 33.86% of the value cap with the program's March 2027 deadline still seven months away.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Sekisui Chemical has agreed to pay about A$335mn for 51% of Brisbane homebuilder Ausbuild, with a later purchase planned to lift its stake to 90%, as it looks to bring its Sekisui Heim factory-built housing method into Ausbuild's townhouse business amid Queensland's chronic housing shortage.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Seikagaku's Complete Response Letter from the FDA flags unresolved deficiencies at its active-ingredient plant and new problems at a contract formulator for SI-6603, with no concerns raised about the drug's efficacy or safety data and no resubmission date given.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Sato Foods' quarterly profit fell 90.5% as cheaper loose rice made its packaged rice look pricey and a year-ago one-off gain flattered the comparison, but the company has finally issued a full-year forecast pointing to a 26.4% profit decline after previously saying rice-price volatility made guidance too unreliable to publish.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Sakura Internet's closing report on its 2026 intrusion says a customer database was reachable from April 2023 to March 2026, exposing up to 1,360,563 accounts and unhashed initial passwords, though the host maintains it has found no confirmed misuse to date.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Q·B·B cheese maker has cut its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥1.5bn, a 35% reduction, after packaging costs rose more than a tenth amid deteriorating Middle East conditions and the yen traded weaker than budgeted; a July earthquake that shut a subsidiary's factory added to the squeeze.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Quantum Solutions has handed over US$8.3mn, 13.6% of a US$61mn GPU-server contract, funded by a dilutive share allotment and crypto-asset sales, and now says its unnamed Kanto-based supplier's earlier 'in stock' claim referred to procurement capacity rather than all the servers already sitting in inventory.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Oasis Management has pushed its holding in SMS CO.,LTD to 25.93%, funding the ¥41.3bn buildup entirely from fund capital and including a single off-market block trade of 1,607,500 shares at ¥2,460 apiece. The fund is in dialogue with SMS on portfolio strategy, AI use and pricing, and has already put proposals to SMS, with more planned over the next year, touching board composition, business divestitures and delisting, though none of those specific actions has been announced.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A single Nidec shareholder is suing two former directors for ¥28.73bn, alleging share buybacks in 2022-23 and a December 2022 interim dividend exceeded the company's legal distribution limit; Nidec says the claim targets the directors personally and will not affect its earnings.