Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed electronics companies, in English.
Alps Alpine booked an ¥8.889bn product-warranty special loss tied to specific production lots of automotive power steering torque sensors, but its extraordinary report does not name the customer or the vehicles.
Nidec will file its internal control confirmation report with the Tokyo Stock Exchange on October 30, but extra auditor-requested checks on 252 sign-off candidates leave no date for audited corrected reports.
Nidec has decided to seek damages from six former directors, two former auditors and a former CFO, but it has not filed, is still setting claim amounts, and has deferred surplus-related liability until its past accounts are corrected.
Fenwal Controls of Japan will replace all 4,001 HPR-510 release devices after a minus-20-degree discharge test failure, and the NFCV-1 container valve has lost its type approval; HPR-400 and HPR-500 devices passed testing.
Nidec's liability committee found nine former officers liable and counted ¥22.2bn of investigation costs among the company's losses, but did not apportion damages. Nidec says it is still considering whether to sue.
Nidec has the committee report on whether current and former officers are legally liable for its accounting misconduct; the notice gives no findings, promises a redacted version later, and says damages claims will be deliberated next.
Olympus says an FDA warning letter on quality-system findings at six facilities does not limit production or sales or require a recall, and that it will respond within 15 business days.
IRISO Electronics says its investigation found test reports built on past data and revenue booked before shipment, and it forecasts operating profit down 35.6% to ¥3.5bn for the year to March 2027 as remediation costs rise.
Ikegami Tsushinki has postponed its 12 November interim results after isolating accounting servers following unauthorized access, saying full system recovery will take time and that it will announce a new date once one is decided.
Ikegami Tsushinki said on October 2, 2026 that information it apparently held has been published on an attacker's dark-web leak site, and it is still checking what was posted and how far it extends.
Nidec's restatement of the five years to March 2025 cut net assets by ¥476.9bn and pushed dividends and buybacks above the distributable amount, as management aims to clear the remaining issues in October to obtain an audit opinion.
Nidec says restated accounts show its dividends and buybacks in each of the five years to March 2026 exceeded the distributable amount under the Companies Act, with ¥94.0bn paid out in the year to March 2023.
Iriso Electronics' president has judged controls ineffective as of 31 March 2026, listing six weaknesses that run from board oversight and thin internal audit to overseas subsidiaries whose problems did not reach headquarters in time and whose sales-booking checks fell short.
IRISO Electronics' committee could not prove that about ¥27mn and ¥50mn paid to a local lawyer reached judges, but confirmed years of cash payments to customs officials, sales booked early and consolidated accounts built on an unfinished closing.
A Singapore court has ordered Nippon Chemi-Con's subsidiary SCC to pay Dyson Manufacturing about £92.7mn over component-defect claims dating to 2022, and the company says legal fees, delay interest and a further £3.1mn claim are still to be settled while it weighs an appeal.
DKK has appointed three outside experts to check whether a ¥912mn inventory valuation loss booked in the year to March 2026 should have been recorded in the prior fiscal year or the September 2025 interim period, even as the company insists its original accounting was correct.
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.
Investigators counted 844 confirmed quality-misconduct cases at Nidec, most of them manufacturing changes made without the required customer notification or approval, and blamed unrealistic profit targets and the founder's centralized management, with cases concentrated in three business units.
US Customs approved the full $109mn Seiko Epson sought after the Supreme Court voided IEEPA tariffs, with the amount plus interest expected to be booked in the quarter ending September 2026 and already reflected in the company's August guidance.
Nidec confirmed it has received an outside committee's report on parts, process and design changes made without customer approval, but the findings, and any sense of scale, wait until Friday's redacted release.
Abalance Corporation must ask shareholders to approve its year-to-March 2026 accounts at a September 30 extraordinary meeting because its auditor issued a disclaimer of opinion, unable to verify paid-supply transaction accounting, internal controls or the going-concern assumption, and next year's audit contract remains unsettled.
Terumo cut its Singapore treasury subsidiary to one share on August 21 ahead of liquidation, and its own regulatory filing admits that disclosure was overdue, with no reason given for the delay.
US Commerce has opened a nationwide anti-circumvention investigation into solar cells and panels finished in Ethiopia with Chinese parts, and customs separately issued two detention notices, together covering $13,770 of cells, from the same Abalance-owned factory under forced-labor review; CBP has given no timeline for completing its review, and the nationwide investigation continues.
Nidec shareholders filed a formal demand on August 20 for the company to sue current and former directors over accounting misconduct, adding pressure on a liability investigation the company opened back in March that has yet to report its findings.