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Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Mito Securities says preliminary operating profit for the April-June quarter rose 730% to ¥1.98bn, with investment-trust and fund-wrap fee income cited as the main driver ahead of the official July 30 results.
Jul 21, 2026 · 3 min read
148 employees took Takara Bio's voluntary retirement offer against a target of about 120, lifting the one-off charge to ¥1.71bn, while the delisted biotech signs a basic agreement to hand its GMP cell-processing business to a Sumitomo Chemical and Sumitomo Pharma joint venture ahead of a target final contract in October.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Eight Japanese government bodies have opened a five-week comment window on a draft rule naming Microsoft's Windows and Windows Server as the widely used software covered by the country's incoming critical-infrastructure incident-reporting law, due to take effect October 1.
Jul 21, 2026 · 3 min read
Meiji Holdings is selling its loss-making China milk, yogurt and B2B business to a dairy group it partly owns for about ¥7.6bn, while holding onto yogurt intellectual property and its Guangzhou plant, which switches to making cacao products.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
J Frontier's online medical consultation and prescription-guidance platform now charges partner clinics and pharmacies fresh joining and monthly fees on top of existing usage charges, a shift the company says needs almost no extra cost and is already built into a forecast operating profit jump to ¥1.05bn for the year to May 2027.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
A draft government review of Japan's small-appliance recycling law, open for public comment until August 19, singles out lithium-ion battery fires and swinging resource prices as the biggest changes since the last checkup in 2019.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Astroscale Holdings has extended its unsecured overdraft facility with Mizuho Bank to June 2029 at the same ¥3bn limit, but the deal requires the loss-making satellite-servicing company to keep at least ¥5bn in cash and near-cash assets on hand at all times.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
A cracked lining in a wastewater pit let benzene, toluene and xylene escape near Hokko Chemical's Okayama plant, and the company has idled two synthesis units while regulators bar access to the coastal site.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Tamura is buying 80% of Italy's EMG Power Electric for about ¥9.5bn through its European subsidiary, adding medium-voltage transformer technology it plans to funnel through an expanding Mexico factory built for North America's AI data-center boom.
Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo will cover three-quarters of the cost of a small emergency generator, capped at ¥3.75mn per facility, but officials say this application window is the last before the subsidy disappears.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Tripleize is exiting the GPU server business it runs through subsidiary Zerofield and has withdrawn its full-year profit forecast until a sale price and closing timeline are set, even as its core AI Solutions unit posts record nine-month profit.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Finland's Verda Cloud has put down $5 million for exclusive rights to negotiate a lease over the entire 10MW first phase of Kankyo Friendly's Tomakomai AI data center, with a final contract due within roughly six weeks and an estimated ¥2.4bn to ¥2.5bn in annual fees if it closes.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
FDA feedback let AnGes skip a required pre-application meeting and start a staged BLA filing for its HGF gene therapy targeting severe leg ischemia in PAD patients, a procedural green light rather than any read on approval chances.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Aida Engineering detected a likely breach at its Asian base on July 6 and is delaying its quarterly results to late August, past the usual 45-day reporting window, while saying no customer or partner data leak has been confirmed so far.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Astmax expects to book about ¥650mn in operating profit after selling its 42MW Komoro battery storage project and adjoining land to Hulic, the parent of its largest shareholder, and plans to return as the plant's grid aggregator once it opens in December 2027.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
MicroAd is funding an in-house AI system and acquisitions with ¥2.2bn in convertible bonds routed through an Aozora Bank-financed trust, then buying back shares from affiliate CyberAgent at ¥588 to soften potential dilution of 3.58 million new shares.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Terra raised its take-private offer for Satsudora Holdings from ¥1,220 to ¥1,260 a share after four shareholders holding 24.91% of the drugstore chain signed irrevocable tender pledges, and the board voted again to back the higher price.
Jul 17, 2026 · 1 min read
Senko Group Holdings bought back treasury shares beyond what Japan's Companies Act allowed in December 2025, and its board has now approved new sign-off chains, standardized manuals and mandatory legal-review rules for future dividend and buyback decisions.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Be Brave Inc. built a ¥3.78bn position in Chofu Seisakusho and wants the maker to sell policy shares and rental property to fund buybacks and dividends while lifting a share price stuck below book value.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Nippon Active Value Fund and Dalton Investments now hold a combined 5.00% of Intage Holdings after a fresh large shareholding filing, reviving a December letter that urged the market-research group to weigh privatization, spin-offs and cost-of-capital-conscious management before deciding how to spend cash.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Kaga Electronics lowered the minimum acceptance level in its ¥1,580-a-share tender for Shinko Shoji from 66.67% to 55.73% of shares and pushed the deadline to August 3, after Shinko Shoji's stock traded above the offer price.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan Hotel REIT is selling The Beach Tower Okinawa for ¥30.9bn, about five times book value, and using the ¥24.1bn gain to buy a fixed-rent Osaka hotel and lift its per-unit distribution 7.8% to ¥5,580.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Daio Paper is dissolving both its Indonesian diaper trading and manufacturing units after sales at the sales arm collapsed to 6.1 billion rupiah and losses widened across both entities, closing out a market entry the company made in 2013 on the strength of Indonesia's birth rate.
Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min read
Tokyo-listed fintech unbanked dismissed president Hu Yan on July 17 over claims he ordered the company's auditor out of a board meeting, disclosed that some of its own directors doubt the vote's legality, and now faces a shareholder request to dismiss the entire board, including his successor, Yasuto Hirai.