Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed electronics companies, in English.
Fuji Electric raised its full-year operating-profit forecast by ¥14bn to ¥156.5bn, citing stronger first-half demand, higher production and cost cuts across its energy and industrial-equipment businesses.
A shareholder holding about 25% of the voting rights in Foster Electric now has its CEO on the board, and the speaker maker is tearing up its 2025-2027 plan for a replacement due around November.
Tamron confirms it received a non-binding proposal from Sony to become a wholly owned Sony Group subsidiary and has formed a special committee, a day after a Japanese business outlet reported the approach.
First-quarter sales jumped 20% to a record ¥2.71tn, and Hitachi is betting the momentum holds, lifting its full-year revenue target to ¥11.7tn even as Middle East disruption cost it less than the company had feared.
Advantest now expects ¥846bn in operating profit for the year to March 2027, up ¥218.5bn from the guidance it gave in April, after a quarter in which net profit nearly doubled on broad AI chip-testing demand and a one-off investment gain.
A 37% surge in Energy-segment revenue, powered by backlog conversion and favourable currency swings rather than new orders, helped Hitachi post record first-quarter sales and lift its full-year profit forecast by ¥100bn, even though quarterly net profit dipped 1.4% against a tough dividend-related comparison.
Advantest raised its year-to-March-2027 net profit forecast by 41.8% to ¥660bn, saying test demand for inference AI chips already exceeds what it assumed back in April.
Appointed on June 25, Media Links' incoming audit firm resigned within a month after it could not get sufficient evidence to sign off on inventory recoverability for the year to March 2026 and earlier periods, and the electronics maker now has no accounting auditor while it looks for a temporary replacement.
Japan's factory-sensor and machine-vision maker grew quarterly net profit 51% as capital spending held firm in Asia's semiconductor sector and the Americas, while Europe and Japan showed only early signs of recovery; the dividend forecast holds at ¥550 a share.
Keyence's net profit rose 51 percent in the quarter to June on ¥346.6bn in sales, with the company describing steady capital spending across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Japan rather than naming any single region as the fastest grower.
Canon's first-half net profit rose 9.8% to ¥171.2bn on a 38.8% jump in imaging-division operating profit, even as the industrial-equipment unit's profit fell by a third and the company revised its full-year forecast without disclosing the prior numbers.
The Nagoya-based automation group's board approved buying two Singapore machine-vision firms, Vital Vision Technology and EI3D, for an estimated ¥2.65bn, a deal disclosed as its first-quarter profit swung to ¥444mn from a year-earlier loss.
KOA CORPORATION's upgraded guidance follows a first quarter in which net profit nearly quadrupled, and the company raised its annual dividend forecast to ¥63 a share from ¥39, crediting AI-related equipment demand in Asia and automotive orders in China rather than a broad components rebound.
Meiko Electronics will hand the Development Bank of Japan ¥7.11bn on August 5 to buy back and cancel its last outstanding preferred shares, a balance-sheet cleanup after stronger automotive and satellite circuit-board sales, with common shares outstanding unaffected.
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.
A Texas federal jury ruled that Kioxia's US and Japan subsidiaries infringed a Viasat patent, setting provisional damages of about $229mn (¥37.1bn) that Kioxia says it will contest.
Shofu booked an ¥832mn gain selling cross-held shares in July, pushing its cumulative gain for the year to March 2027 to ¥1.96bn, with earnings guidance unchanged for now.
Oki Electric Industry set no cap on how many employees aged 55 and older can take an enhanced retirement payout by October 31, 2026, only on their age and tenure, as it shifts headcount toward AI and digital-transformation work.
PowerX and GPU-hosting operator Highreso have signed a memorandum to study battery storage, power trading and joint site development for AI data centers, an early-stage response to grid capacity strain rather than a signed project.
Beating 37 other bidders four months after entering the defense business, Terra Drone's interceptor system now has weeks of trials to prove it can stop Shahed-type suicide drones before Japan's defense agency locks in a mass-production order.
East Japan Railway is lifting its holding in traction-equipment maker Toyo Denki Seizo to 20% through a ¥1.16bn treasury-share placement, and the supplier is sweetening its dividend even as it guides for a double-digit profit drop next year on China's rare-earth export curbs.
Sincere is lending its controlling shareholder Yukaria an unsecured ¥1.0bn at a fixed 6.0% rate, due back by September 30, with three independent directors vouching that the terms don't shortchange minority holders.
A&D Co. lost its status as a designated verification body for specified measuring instruments effective July 14, cutting off a service its parent says will have only a minor financial impact while it lines up outside help for customers.
Abalance told investors on July 10 that a patent fight with Jinko Solar over eight subsidiaries was settled in December and dismissed in California and Texas by February, and pinned the months-long reporting delay on management turnover disrupting communication with its subsidiaries.