Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed services companies, in English.
Daiseki's interim net profit rose 23.1% to a record ¥5.805bn, with full-year guidance unchanged, while its ¥2.918bn Shizuoka plastics-recycling grant is slated for the accounts in the year ending February 2030.
Oasis Management says it holds 22.60% of Infomart and has already proposed asset disposals, director appointments, board changes and discontinuing part of a business, while listing mergers, delisting and majority control among matters it plans to raise within 12 months.
USS's preliminary July-September data show listings at 114.7% of last year but completed sales at 108.5%, with sell-through at 64.8% against 68.6%; the half-year figures are closer, at 109.5% and 108.4%.
Nihon M&A Center Holdings says its December 2024 and December 2025 interim dividends exceeded the distributable amount by ¥71.7mn and ¥833.2mn, that no repayment will be sought from shareholders, and that an outside committee will examine director responsibility.
Insource's president says large-company demand for basic generative-AI training has peaked and advanced AI arrived slower than planned, and that the trainer will shift to profit-first growth in the year to September 2027 after cutting its outlook.
Daniel J. Edelman will buy WPP's entire 935,800-share holding in PRAP Japan at ¥1,358.64 a share, or ¥1.27bn, and become the largest shareholder with 21.03% of votes once the trade settles on 30 October.
ALSOK has decided to carry out a merger through its Carlyle-backed vehicle that would lift its voting rights in the surviving company from 28.0% to 51.2%, with the merger planned to take effect on 1 January 2027.
Members now forecasts a ¥430mn operating loss for the half year to September 2026, attributing about ¥550mn of lost revenue to customer caution and generative AI substitution and about ¥250mn to lower utilization.
Fitcrew's board approved a ¥456mn cash purchase of five VALX GYM sites, planned to complete on November 1, while VALX's planned purchase of Fitcrew shares has no set size or timing.
Astroscale's UK subsidiary signed a £15mn multiyear contract with the Ministry of Defence, but the deal sits outside the forecast for the year to April 2027, and its effect on guidance is still under review.
Kamgras raised its Kakaku.com offer to ¥3,681 a share from ¥3,680 and extended the tender to October 14, saying a rival's ¥3,597 notice cannot be completed while its own offer runs.
Oasis Management now holds 21.36% of Infomart and says it plans to raise that by more than 5% within three months of 17 September, price permitting, while listing delisting and a majority purchase among matters it may raise.
Kakaku.com dissolved its eight-year capital alliance with KDDI on September 28, stripping the telecom group of its board-nomination and pre-consultation rights, even though KDDI keeps its 17.70% stake and the underlying data-sharing business alliance.
Amvis Holdings is splitting off 47 western Japan hospice homes and has agreed to sell them to an NSSK-backed buyer for a combined ¥17.4bn, refocusing its remaining hospice network on high-acuity, end-of-life patients around Tokyo and eastern Japan.
A Blackstone-affiliated TechnoPro vehicle, TX1 Kabushiki Kaisha, wants to take Project Holdings private at ¥2,200 a share, a price it raised twice after the target's independent committee rejected two lower offers, and investors holding almost 60% of the stock have already agreed to sell.
Oasis Management's stake in M3 climbed to 8.46% from 7.40% through months of market buying funded by fund capital rather than borrowed money, and the fund now has notice on file that it may push for the dismissal of M3's representative director, changes to the board, delisting, or a takeover crossing majority control within the next year.
All nine of SUNWELS' lender banks have agreed to defer ¥574mn of loan principal due between October and March, the company's second repayment extension this year, with interest payments continuing unchanged during the deferral.
Septeni Holdings' board approved a planned ¥10.84bn purchase of recruitment-support firm Media House Holdings, aiming for full ownership once two-thirds of shares are gathered, with a squeeze-out covering any holdouts.
Cayman Islands activist Oasis Management has spent two months buying En Inc. shares on-market, pushing its stake to 14.54% from 13.45% and disclosing it has already asked the recruitment-listings operator to consider delisting and a capital-policy change, while planning to press for the representative director's dismissal and other officer changes over the next year.
Buying two sibling marketing companies for ¥3.61bn has pushed GMO Commerce's sales guidance up 68.5%, but goodwill amortisation and new borrowing costs mean forecast net profit rises only 2.8%, even as a fixed payout formula still points to a higher dividend forecast.
Rakuten Group has registered up to ¥600bn in bond capacity running through September 2028, covering ordinary unsecured notes as well as dated and perpetual subordinated structures, though the filing leaves every coupon, price and issue size undetermined until specific offerings are priced.
Oasis Management's stake in Infomart has climbed to 20.13% from 19.00%, and the fund has already proposed asset disposals and a board reshuffle while reserving the right to push for delisting or a transaction handing an outside party majority voting control within the next year.
Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo's revised ¥3,597 tender offer for Kakaku.com shares remains below the rival Kamgras 1 bid of ¥3,680, and only a non-tender agreement with KDDI, which would lift the price to ¥3,720, could change that before Kakaku.com's board and special committee decide which offer to back.
Oasis Management's SMS holding climbed to 26.97% from 25.93% in a filing that also formalizes proposals on director dismissals, asset sales, a business exit, and a possible delisting or change-of-control transaction, though the filing does not show SMS having agreed to or acted on any of them.