Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed autos & transport companies, in English.
Nichirin's first-half revenue rose 18.3% to ¥42.3bn, but its North America segment swung to a ¥250mn operating loss as US tariffs added a separate ¥400mn cost in the profit bridge; the company still held its full-year guidance unchanged.
Daiwa Motor Transportation is placing ¥999.8mn of new shares with homebuilder Daiwa House Industry, which becomes its largest shareholder at 9.76% while agreeing to redevelop the taxi firm's Ginza land under a lease structure that keeps construction costs off its books.
Japan Engine Corporation's 6UEC35LSGH hit a hydrogen co-firing ratio above 95% and cut emissions by the same margin against heavy-oil engines in factory tests witnessed by ClassNK, but the engine still has to survive installation on a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines vessel and at-sea demonstration testing from April 2028 before it counts as proven.
Japan Engine Corporation's 6UEC35LSGH cut emissions by 95% or more against a heavy-fuel-oil engine in factory trials, but the real test, an April 2028 sea demonstration aboard a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines vessel, is still nearly two years off.
A single stock sale hands HI-LEX Corporation a ¥1.411bn one-off gain, part of ¥15.988bn in cross-shareholding disposals this fiscal year as the auto-parts supplier works to cut policy-held shares to 10% or less of consolidated net assets, with no word yet on whether earnings guidance will change.
Nippon Yusen has amended its bond shelf registration to pledge that a planned transition bond will fund LNG-fueled vessels entirely, backed by a framework reviewed by DNV Business Assurance Japan, but the bond's size, maturity and payment date remain undecided.
NANKAI's ¥20bn refinancing splits into three-year notes at 2.375% and ten-year notes at 3.407%, both rated A by R&I, with net proceeds set aside to repay loans due before the end of March 2027.
Japan's antitrust watchdog found Nichirin left 25 subcontractors storing 1,048 molds and jigs for up to 22 months without orders or compensation, and has ordered the automotive-hose maker to settle any remaining balance beyond the ¥9.79mn it already paid.
Yamato Holdings will shut the dedicated domestic cargo-plane operation it built with Japan Airlines by around June 2027, after yen weakness and fuel costs pushed air-transport costs up faster than trucking, widening the price gap between the two modes beyond what the company had assumed when it launched the service in 2024.
The Japanese instrument maker is selling its embedded-software team in Poland to a brand-new FPT subsidiary, price undisclosed, as it narrows European operations to focus on head-up displays.
Honda and Nissan have signed a binding contract to make the core ECUs, operating system, middleware and control software in their next-generation vehicles common to both companies, targeting deployment from fiscal 2029 with no synergy figure disclosed and only a minor financial impact flagged for the year to March 2027.
Denso is exiting head-up-display manufacturing in Japan, China, Spain, the US and Mexico, handing its production equipment and related intellectual property to Nippon Seiki in an undisclosed cash deal capped at 1% of the buyer's net assets, with closing targeted for February 2027.
A ToSTNeT-3 buyback capped at ¥156.8bn let Mitsubishi Corp tender its full 20% Toyo Tire stake and move to end the 2018 alliance that came with it, all disclosed through a correction to an already-filed interim report.
Kyushu Railway expects to reopen the Kumamoto to Shin-Minamata Shinkansen section on September 18 and the Kagoshima Main Line's Uto-Yatsushiro stretch by mid-October, but both dates could slip with aftershocks and the earthquake's cost to earnings is still being tallied.
Star Flyer will pay about ¥3.3bn over ten years for a single spare LEAP-1A26 engine starting December 2027, telling the exchange that a global engine shortage has made short-notice replacements hard to find.
West Japan Railway's ¥52.4bn sustainability tranche funds new commuter and shinkansen rolling stock, while the shorter two bonds simply roll over maturing debt.
The truckmaker will pay 2.595% on new five-year notes and 2.948% on seven-year notes, raising ¥40bn largely to retire ¥30bn of bonds maturing on September 29.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has registered capacity to sell up to ¥80bn in corporate bonds over the next two years, but has not yet fixed the size, timing, or coupon of any single offering.
A greenshoe exercise on August 14 completed a scripted reshuffle: Toyota's and Daimler Truck's combined hold in the merged Hino-Mitsubishi Fuso holding company fell from 54.29% to an even 50%, split exactly at 25% apiece.
Topy Industries has lined up a new, unnamed Chinese buyer for its loss-making Guangzhou wheel subsidiary after the first buyer breached the sale contract in February 2026, with the share transfer planned for September 30, 2026.
AeroEdge's operating profit jumped 75% to ¥1.15bn in the year to June 2026 on surging LEAP engine blade sales, but a customer testing hitch has pushed one new engine program's payoff back a year, to the year to June 2028.
The auto-parts maker will earmark all ¥10bn from a planned five-year bond for safety-system production and decarbonization capital spending, filling in terms left blank in January's shelf filing.
A court-appointed administrator is running Showa Holdings after a reorganization petition from J Trust Asia, and the company says the accounting and audit work involved means no first-quarter earnings report will appear before its shares are delisted on August 25.
Toyo Tire retired Mitsubishi Corporation as its top shareholder in one August 10 trade, paying ¥111.02bn through an off-auction ToSTNeT-3 buyback and confirming a share cancellation set for late September.