Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed industrials companies, in English.
SAAF Holdings shareholders approved a warrant-based takeover defense by 71.54%, but only after the company's independent committee stripped 63,044 votes tied to the targeted shareholder group from the count.
ACSL priced its European and Asian share offering at ¥1,310 a share for ¥5.12bn in net proceeds, but cut the defense-business allocation to ¥3.12bn from the ¥4.81bn ceiling set in its original filing two days earlier, while the ¥2bn earmarked for North America expansion stayed unchanged.
Tokyo-listed contractor Daiho Construction has agreed to buy 1.68 million UNICON Holdings shares, worth 17% of the voting rights, from private equity seller Endeavor United, and will nominate a director once shareholders approve at UNICON's September 29 annual meeting.
ACSL priced 4.18 million new shares at ¥1,310, a 9.97% discount to the day's benchmark, to raise an estimated ¥5.12bn net for defense-drone production capacity and a North American expansion running through December 2029.
Hitachi's final 10.1% voting stake in Hitachi Construction Machinery was sold and placed with institutional investors in a single day on August 19, 2026, via SMBC Nikko Securities, even as Hitachi Construction Machinery says its engineering partnership with Hitachi continues.
SAAF Holdings' independent committee has excluded nearly 1,900 voting rights held by directors' relatives and an officer stock club from the August 25 takeover-defense ballot, alongside the 19-shareholder bidder group and the directors themselves.
Hitachi, Ltd. sold its entire 10.1% stake in Hitachi Construction Machinery through SMBC Nikko Securities, and the machinery maker is now spending up to ¥34bn buying back about 30% of that block through November 30.
DMG Mori priced its European and Asian share offering at ¥3,349 on Wednesday, banking ¥47.7bn in net proceeds it will spend on new factory capacity in Japan and Poland, a Chicago R&D center, and a ¥10bn fund reserved for acquisitions it hasn't yet identified.
DMG Mori is raising about ¥48.2bn from investors across Europe and Asia by issuing 15 million new shares, lifting its outstanding count from 142.3mn to 157.3mn, to expand a Polish casting-parts plant, open a Chicago R&D centre, and hold ¥10bn in reserve for acquisitions, while also redeeming its perpetual subordinated bonds.
Yokogawa Bridge Holdings has cleared a ¥2.0bn share-buyback ceiling covering 2.5% of its stock, and separately approved a merger that dissolves an intermediate holding company and, pending a September shareholder vote, delivers a Sendai precast-concrete unit into direct ownership by October.
Kinden Corporation used one session, June 23, to buy 33.5 million shares for ¥223.68bn, using up 99.99% of the buyback its board approved in April.
Kubota bought 11,104,900 shares for ¥29.9999bn on June 12, taking its April buyback authorisation to 100 per cent of the cash limit even though only 74.03 per cent of the share cap was used.
The move: Komatsu disclosed a two-tranche unsecured issue, a ¥20bn three-year green bond and a ¥30bn five-year bond. The filing puts the deal under a ¥100bn shelf registered in November 2024, with no prior draws shown on the cover page.
A ¥802.4mn year-end payout and a five-director slate were approved, while a shareholder proposal sought to write a special committee on price optimization and earnings stabilization into the glass maker's articles.
Two former overseas group officers are set to receive 19,900 of the shares, while the performance-share leg of the plan can vest anywhere from 0% to 200% of target.
Shareholders approved a ¥7.5-a-share payout effective from June 26 and backed an eight-director slate that includes President Mitsuru Terui.
An 80 yen year-end dividend per common share and an eight-director slate won shareholder approval on June 26, setting the payout and board lineup recorded in the meeting resolutions.
Takenari Imayama is set to leave representative-director status, and Fujishoji shareholders have approved five directors and four audit-committee members, including president Tomohito Matsushita.
A March subsidiary consolidation is now being written into Yokogawa Bridge's stated business scope and meeting rules, alongside a ¥60 year-end payout.
Shareholders approved a ¥2.29bn cash payout and amended Articles 29 and 38 so certain non-executive directors and corporate auditors can sign liability-limitation agreements.
The machinery maker’s annual meeting signed off a revised cap for non-audit-committee directors and allowed up to ¥20mn a year, within that framework, to be used for restricted stock for directors other than audit committee members and outside directors.
A June 26 shareholder vote locked in a ¥335-a-share payout worth ¥821.4mn from June 29, while the same disclosure confirmed seven directors without enough detail to show whether the board actually changed.
The ¥1.59bn year-end dividend becomes effective on June 29, and investors also approved four directors plus one Audit and Supervisory Committee member.
The June 25 annual meeting put a ¥92.8mn payout into effect from June 26 and approved separate resolutions for three directors, three Audit and Supervisory Committee directors and one substitute committee director.