Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed services companies, in English.
Tokyo-listed services firm ZETA (6031) moved onto the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Standard market on September 4, 2026, a segment change its own notice explains with thanks to shareholders rather than any stated financial or governance rationale.
Oasis Management's stake in the B2B platform Infomart has climbed to 14.42%, and the fund has already proposed asset disposals and an exit from part of its business while flagging director-removal, delisting and control-transfer options it may pursue within a year.
Geniee will pay Mizuho Bank ¥1.71bn to retire 3.75 million Class A preferred shares, cutting its preferred count to 6.25 million and easing dividend obligations from October 15, 2026.
A TDnet filing shows Oasis Management raised its Infomart stake from 9.77% to 10.97% in four days, triggering a major-shareholder disclosure with no accompanying proposal.
Recruit Holdings spent ¥74.8bn buying back its own stock in July, pushing cumulative repurchases under its ¥350bn authorization to just over a third of the yen ceiling with the November 30 deadline four months away.
New shares issued for three acquisitions will cut the controlling shareholder's voting stake at Ureru Net Advertising Group from 55.02% to 46.30% on August 10, 2026, stripping a company director of that formal status without him selling a single share.
Mercury AIFLNP wants Pasona to buy back founder Yasuyuki Nanbu's roughly 48% voting stake unless the board adopts a family-governance policy within three months, but Nanbu has told the company he won't sell, and Pasona's board calls the proposal legally toothless.
MicroAd used a one-day ToSTNeT-3 trade to buy 1,020,400 shares, 3.71% of shares outstanding, from affiliate CyberAgent for ¥600.0mn, aiming to soften dilution from a new convertible bond and stock awards, while CyberAgent pledged to keep the rest of its stake long-term.
Astroscale Holdings has extended its unsecured overdraft facility with Mizuho Bank to June 2029 at the same ¥3bn limit, but the deal requires the loss-making satellite-servicing company to keep at least ¥5bn in cash and near-cash assets on hand at all times.
MicroAd is funding an in-house AI system and acquisitions with ¥2.2bn in convertible bonds routed through an Aozora Bank-financed trust, then buying back shares from affiliate CyberAgent at ¥588 to soften potential dilution of 3.58 million new shares.
MTM Capital, holding 13.14% of the regional newspaper publisher, has asked the Chiba District Court to block a board-approved rights allocation it calls an unfair takeover defense; Chiki Shimbunsha says its twice-ratified governance history makes the challenge groundless.
CHIIKISHINBUNSHA says MTM Capital and its allies quietly built a 30.95% voting stake without filing the disclosures its takeover-defense policy requires, and the two sides are now trading tender-offer and defamation threats ahead of MTM's planned mid-August bid.
CHIIKISHINBUNSHA will hand ordinary investors new common shares while confining seven shareholders holding a combined 30.95% stake to restricted rights, a defense the board still needs shareholders to ratify after the fact this November.
YCP Japan's ¥392.4mn purchase of 600,000 depositary receipts on July 13 pushes the Tokyo Growth-market company's cumulative buyback to ¥2.28bn, close to the cap on a mandate that runs to December 30, 2026.
Macbee Planet's board wants a subsidiary chief running the business day to day while founder Masakazu Matsumoto keeps a representative-director seat as chairman to police governance during a portfolio review that could reshuffle group companies; shareholders vote on it July 29.
Astroscale's board wants inside directors to earn new stock awards over four years, not one, and can claw the shares back if misconduct triggers a restated audit.
Astroscale plans to cut stated capital by ¥2.13bn and drain its entire ¥5.60bn capital reserve to wipe out a ¥7.73bn accumulated deficit, an accounting shuffle that leaves shareholders' stakes and the company's net worth unchanged.
The healthcare recruiter says public-company visibility should help fill a chronically under-recognised hospital support role, with ¥1.022bn in sales and ¥43mn in operating profit targeted for the year ending December 2026, but any move to a wider TSE market is still undated.
Shareholders backed a cut in stated capital to ¥100mn, but the company says the move is a balance-sheet reclassification into other capital surplus that leaves issued shares and net assets unchanged.
The company will split each share into two on Aug. 1, doubling shares outstanding to 21,255,840 and lifting authorized shares to 72 million. Its new ¥21.50 year-end dividend is a post-split figure equivalent to ¥43.00 on a pre-split basis, leaving the annual payout effectively unchanged at ¥86.00.
The company lifted its planned year-end dividend to ¥160 a share from ¥130, split between ¥140 of ordinary dividend and a ¥20 special dividend. Management tied the change to firm trading and expected record cumulative third-quarter revenue and profit.
After agreeing to buy GMO Digital Lab for ¥700 million, plus a potential earn-out of up to ¥100 million, the company moved its dividend rule to consolidated accounts and nudged its year-end payout forecast to ¥50.56 from ¥48.24. The revised group outlook adds far more revenue than net profit, because a matching ¥700 million bank loan helps fund the deal and drags interest costs into the picture.
i-mobile authorized repurchases of up to 1.2 million shares for as much as ¥700 million by June 30, starting with a ToSTNeT-3 order for up to 400,000 shares at ¥492. The company said the plan should improve shareholder returns, capital efficiency, governance and Prime-market compliance, but the telling detail is ownership: chairman Toshihiko Tanaka and president Tetsuya Noguchi have agreed to sell part of their holdings. That turns a standard buyback into a capital-allocation move with a governance motive attached. The company has not decided whether any repurchased shares will be cancelled.
i-mobile approved repurchases of up to 1.2 million shares, or 2.14% of shares outstanding excluding treasury stock, for as much as ¥700 million between June 12 and June 30, starting with a ToSTNeT-3 order for up to 400,000 shares at ¥492. The company also disclosed partial share sales by its chairman and president. Management framed the package as shareholder return, capital efficiency and Prime-market housekeeping, which makes this look less like a routine buyback and more like ownership-structure maintenance with cash return attached.