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Japan Services Company News

Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed services companies, in English.

  1. LTS cuts profit guide as engineer reskilling lags and partner staffing demand weakens

    LTS cut its operating-profit forecast to ¥1.35bn to ¥1.45bn from ¥1.6bn, citing slow engineer reskilling and weaker partner staffing demand it ties partly to generative AI, while DX consulting grows and the dividend forecast holds.

  2. Nihon M&A Center's interim review flags 2025 dividend that exceeded legal limit

    The interim review report on Nihon M&A Center Holdings highlights a ¥4.442bn dividend, resolved in October 2025, that exceeded the Companies Act distributable amount; the reviewer says this does not affect its conclusion.

  3. Digital Garage agrees to skip Kakaku.com's ¥3,700 tender and sell its 20.64% back later

    Digital Garage has agreed with Kamgras 1 not to tender its 20.64% of Kakaku.com at ¥3,700 a share, to back any squeeze-out, and to sell the shares to Kakaku.com afterwards, with part of the proceeds going into reinvestment.

  4. ispace's net assets fall to ¥5.7bn after a ¥10.5bn half-year loss

    ispace's net assets fell from ¥15.2bn to ¥5.7bn in six months after a ¥10.5bn loss, with loan covenants requiring positive net assets and ¥3bn in cash at year-end; management sees no material going-concern uncertainty.

  5. Blackstone-linked buyer wins ProjectHoldings tender at ¥2,200 a share, with 90.98% of votes

    TX1 will hold 90.98% of ProjectHoldings' voting rights when settlement starts on November 18, with SBI Holdings, the CEO and the DY fund all tendering; squeeze-out and delisting steps have yet to be announced.

  6. En inc.'s 161% profit jump rests on the engage sale as job-ad sales slip

    En inc.'s half-year net profit rose 161% to ¥4.57bn on a ¥4.88bn gain from selling most of engage, while media sales excluding engage fell 7.5% and agent sales rose 12.2%.

  7. Kamgras 1 lifts Kakaku.com offer to ¥3,700 and extends it to Nov 26

    Kamgras 1's ¥3,700 offer for Kakaku.com now matches the rival's unconditional price but trails its ¥3,720 conditional one and the ¥3,757 KDDI threshold Kamgras cites; the offer closes Nov 26 and settles Dec 3.

  8. Recruit's first-half profit jumps 63.9% as Indeed earns more per US job posting

    Indeed's US revenue per job posting grew 37% in the half while Recruit describes hiring demand as stagnant, lifting group operating profit 63.9% to ¥513.7bn, with full-year guidance left unchanged.

  9. KNT-CT Holdings cuts operating profit forecast 19.4% as travel demand softens and merger costs rise

    KNT-CT Holdings cut its full-year operating profit forecast 19.4% to ¥5bn, blaming the Middle East, soft domestic travel, weaker inbound demand and the cost of merging four companies in April 2027.

  10. Persol's Programmed sale shrinks revenue guidance but lifts net profit forecast to ¥93.8bn

    Persol Holdings now guides to ¥1.269tn in revenue and ¥93.8bn in net profit for the year to March 2027, because Programmed becomes a discontinued operation and an estimated ¥50bn sale gain is booked; the other businesses' outlook is unchanged.

  11. Prestige International says up to 5.5mn road-service records left its systems

    Prestige International says up to 5.5mn records, counting duplicates, were taken from a system run by a group company for road-service clients; the system is shut and the earnings impact is still under review.

  12. Baby Calendar completes ¥500mn Orange Page purchase and will consolidate

    Baby Calendar has bought all 9,910 shares of Orange Page from JR East for ¥500mn before advisory costs, and will switch to consolidated accounts with its results for the year ending December 2026.

  13. Members posts ¥389mn interim operating loss, blaming AI and weaker utilization

    Members says AI substitution and customer spending cuts cost it about ¥550mn of planned half-year revenue, pushing it to a ¥389mn operating loss even as sales rose 3.0%, and its ¥200mn full-year profit target counts no revenue from higher AI-transformation orders.

  14. Nihon M&A Center will not sue directors or seek repayment over two illegal dividends

    A third-party committee found no criminal intent but could not rule out civil liability for directors who approved two dividends above the legal limit; Nihon M&A Center's audit committee chose not to sue, and the company will not ask shareholders to repay.

  15. Broadmedia board backs ¥2,500 NSSK take-private bid, with AVI's 40% pledged

    AVI has agreed to tender its 40.00% stake in Broadmedia into NSSK-EPSILON1's ¥2,500 offer, but can hold back if a rival's qualifying bid tops the price by at least 4% and is not matched after AVI asks for talks.

  16. Oriental Land raises profit forecast and dividend after interim operating profit beats plan by a third

    Oriental Land's April to September operating profit of ¥78.5bn beat its ¥58.9bn forecast, and the Tokyo Disney Resort operator raised its full-year profit guide and annual dividend forecast to ¥18 a share.

  17. Kamgras 1 lifts Kakaku.com bid to ¥3,683 and extends it to Nov 12 as Bain-LINE Yahoo rival stays unlaunched

    Kamgras 1 added ¥1 to its Kakaku.com tender offer and extended it to Nov 12, while the Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo ¥3,700 proposal remains unlaunched and the board's support for Kamgras 1 is unchanged.

  18. Imperial Hotel's Kyoto opening and Tower reopening cut interim profit as sales rise 10%

    Imperial Hotel's interim sales rose 10.2% to ¥28.01bn, but Kyoto start-up costs and Tower building reopening spending cut operating profit 59.5% to ¥129mn, though results beat the company's May forecast and full-year guidance is unchanged.

  19. Kakaku.com says Bain-linked ¥3,700 bid looks like a qualified rival offer, asks Kamgras 1 to discuss price

    Kakaku.com has asked Kamgras 1 to discuss its offer price after judging the ¥3,700-a-share Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo proposal a likely qualified competing bid, while its support for the Kamgras 1 offer stands.

  20. Waseda Gakushukenkyukai buys 9.9% of its shares from founder-chairman, cutting his voting stake to 8.31%

    The Tokyo-listed education company paid ¥1.289bn in one off-auction trade to take shares from its founder and chairman, who no longer counts as a controlling or major shareholder, though he stays second on the register.

  21. GMO Internet halts all desktop-cloud servers after trading-account logins may have been taken

    A third party planted malicious programs on customer servers at GMO Internet's Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, and trading-account login details stored there may have been misused. All plans stay offline, with no restart date and 26,739 servers potentially affected.

  22. Kyoei Security's ¥1.602bn director retirement charge tips its forecast into a loss

    Kyoei Security Service now forecasts a ¥600mn net loss for the year to July 2027, against a ¥700mn profit forecast, after a ¥1.602bn officer retirement special loss; stock pay and a retirement provision trimmed operating profit guidance by ¥170mn.

  23. Tokai lifts operating profit forecast 14.5% on pharmacy pricing and eldercare efficiency

    Tokai now forecasts operating profit of ¥10.29bn, reversing an expected decline, as pharmacy prescription prices beat plan and a company grouped in July joins the accounts from the third quarter, and it lifts the year-end dividend to ¥49.

  24. Nippon Ski Resort Development posts record profit on 544,000 inbound visitors, then borrows ¥5bn for lifts

    Nippon Ski Resort Development earned ¥2.15bn in net profit on a record 544,000 inbound visitors, helped by a ¥1.27bn land-sale gain, while disclosing a fatal accident at a Hakuba resort and ¥5bn in new borrowing for lift renewals.

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