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Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Nexon's board approved a ¥415-per-share special dividend totaling roughly ¥324.0bn from retained earnings, with a September 30 record date, but the company says future returns revert to ordinary dividends and buybacks unless excess cash piles up again.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
SHARINGTECHNOLOGY's board is telling shareholders to tender into MBK Partners' ¥1,550-a-share offer, which needs 63.58% acceptance to proceed but carries no cap on how many shares the buyout vehicle will ultimately buy.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A monthlong bidding contest for Kakaku.com has pushed EQT's offer to ¥3,680 a share, and Digital Garage stands to collect roughly ¥122.4bn for its 20.68 percent stake once the deal, still contingent on completion, closes.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan Post Insurance is raising $1 billion offshore for 30 years to pad its capital base, fixing a 6.50% dollar coupon for the first decade and giving regulators, not the company alone, the final say on any early redemption from 2036.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
FIXER is canceling every remaining EVO FUND warrant, wiping out 2.76 million shares of potential dilution and walking away from ¥1.63bn of financing it says it no longer needs now that its Sovereign GaiXer product is finished and moving to a sales phase.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's finance minister says Washington and the G7 endorsed Tokyo's recent yen intervention with no objections raised at the Asheville G20, even as a chair's statement rather than a joint communique laid bare China's refusal to sign off on critical-minerals and supply-chain language.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
East Nippon Expressway priced ¥15bn of seven-year notes at 2.733% and ¥50bn of ten-year notes at 3.178%, with the Japan Expressway Holding and Debt Repayment Agency due to take over repayment jointly once the funded road assets are handed over, not before.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Digital Grid's contracted power capacity jumped 38% and revenue hit a record, but the company guided next year's operating profit down 5% and its net profit down nearly 18%, as a debt-funded pivot into owning grid-scale batteries cut its equity ratio to 34.1% and pushed operating cash flow negative.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A Tokyo court dismissed every claim in Northern TK Venture's three-year suit against Daiichi Sankyo, including a demand that swelled from ¥20bn to ¥203.3bn over a blocked Fortis Healthcare tender offer, though an appeal remains possible.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Cybertrust Japan will pause SSL/TLS certificate issuance from September 15 after its root CA partner failed to secure Apple's newly required sign-off for an outside-run intermediate CA, forcing revocations while Apple and Google approval remains outstanding.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Akippa fixed its IPO at ¥570, the top of the ¥540-570 range, after bookbuilding demand outstripped supply and bunched at the ceiling, while SOMPO Holdings, DeNA and venture backers sell far more stock than the company raises for itself.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Four months after agreeing to merge, the two Tokai-region bank holding companies have walked away: differing views on the direction of the integrated holding company left the final agreement unworkable ahead of a September deadline, and both firms say the split leaves earnings unaffected.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Twelve AEON Kyushu stores and two AEON Mall shopping centers remained suspended through August after the July 28 Kumamoto Mall explosion, forcing AEON to strip them from its same-store sales and retroactively revise July's numbers while an outside panel investigates the cause.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
3D Investment Partners' stake in J.Front Retailing rose to 11.63% from 10.32% on a ¥75.9bn, all-cash buying spree, and the fund says it may formally propose board changes, asset sales or a dividend policy overhaul if it judges such steps would raise J.Front's medium- to long-term value.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
AirTrip's year-end dividend leaps to ¥160 a share from ¥10, backed by a pledge to pay out 100% of adjusted operating profit through the year to September 2028, before dropping back to ¥10 once an investment phase begins in 2029.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's Kyushu and Tokai finance bureaus have each requested financial-sector measures for disaster-hit areas, covering Kagoshima and Aichi prefectures after Typhoon No. 24 and heavy rain from a front.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's transmission overseer confirmed Hokkaido Electric Power Network had no adjustable power source to draw on before it cut solar and wind output by up to 1,400 kW on five July holidays on one congested line.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
OCCTO found no thermal, storage, or biomass generator sharing a congested 154kV line in the Chubu area, so solar and wind plants alone absorbed curtailment orders of up to 4,100 kW in July 2026.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Saitama Prefecture's industrial promotion foundation has opened a second call for applications under a subsidy that pays part of the cost of filing patents, trademarks, and designs with foreign patent offices, funded through a budget channeled from METI's regional bureau.
Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's finance minister says a zero-based review of tax breaks, subsidies and supplementary spending, not new deficit bonds, will pay for the food consumption tax cut, though he has not yet said how much government debt the plan will require.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Redasemtid, StemRIM's HMGB1-peptide drug licensed to Shionogi, missed its primary endpoint in a global stroke trial's no-reperfusion cohort, while a small four-patient trial in the rare skin disease dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa hit its mark with three ulcer closures; Shionogi now decides the stroke program's future.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
SoftBank Group will wipe out the full $25.9bn balance on its OpenAI bridge loan on September 15, retiring debt it drew under a $40bn facility signed less than six months earlier, though the filing does not say where the repayment funds are coming from.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Skyfall priced its IPO at ¥1,500, the top of its range, after bookbuilding demand clustered at the ceiling; the reward-advertising platform is directing most of the roughly ¥1.51bn raised toward hiring and marketing in the US and Europe, with trading set to start September 17.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Sharing Technology (TSE Growth: 3989) confirmed a Nikkei report that it is reviewing going private, and said its board has already resolved to recommend a future tender offer, before naming a bidder, price or timetable.