Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed services companies, in English.
Bad weather cut theme-park visitors and operating profit by roughly a third at Greenland Resort in the six months through June, but a no-cash sale of a Hokkaido hotel business triggered a deferred-tax adjustment that pushed net profit up anyway.
Two Sunwels term loans, carrying balances of ¥321mn and ¥549mn, tripped their covenants this quarter, and lenders have only granted a principal repayment pause through September while the Parkinson's-care operator freezes new facility openings and absorbs a reimbursement-fee cut.
H.U. Group Holdings swung to a ¥1.57bn quarterly profit as price adjustments fixed its loss-making testing-services unit, while a blood-based Alzheimer's diagnostic won certification in Europe.
Fan Communications cut its full-year profit forecast by 52% and scrapped its three-year plan, tracing the damage to generative-AI search tools that are cutting traffic to the affiliate sites carrying its ads.
GMO Internet's board approved a planned ¥10.1bn order for up to 64 Nvidia B300-equipped servers to expand its GPU cloud service, with deliveries starting sequentially from January 2027 and the earnings hit deferred past the current fiscal year.
Fintech profit jumped 47% and mobile's losses kept narrowing, pushing Rakuten Group's first-half pretax income positive for the first time in seven years, though the parent still posted a ¥10.9bn net loss.
Hakuhodo DY's operating profit jumped 19.4% in the quarter to June on strong Japanese finance and tech ad spending, but its North American business stayed weak enough to widen the overseas unit's operating loss to ¥3.75bn, and full-year guidance was left unchanged.
Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo have offered ¥3,520 a share for Kakaku.com, beating Kamgras 1's ¥3,450 bid, and Kamgras 1 has extended its own tender offer to August 17 as the board weighs which deal to recommend.
Kamgras 1 pushed its tender offer for Kakaku.com to August 17 and reopened price talks on its ¥3,450-a-share bid after Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo floated a higher counter-proposal.
A new offer from a Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo vehicle beats a rival ¥3,450 bid for Kakaku.com, rising to ¥3,640 if the bidder locks in a non-tender pact with KDDI, and forces the target's board back into price talks with the original suitor.
Ispace has signed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch its ULTRA lunar lander on the H3 rocket in 2028, keeping the contract price confidential and deferring the cost until liftoff.
SBI Global Asset Management's operating profit rose 5.2 times and group assets under management reached about ¥14tn in the June quarter, mostly because two fund managers were folded fully into its results for the first time in a comparable year-on-year quarter.
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.
Harajuku Police Station has accepted a criminal complaint against baby calendar Inc.'s former CFO, accused of diverting ¥9.26mn in advertising revenue to a personal account, a case that already forced the company to correct prior financial filings.
Convano plans to cash out ¥8.77bn of group crypto holdings within about three months to fund growth investment and shareholder returns, while carving out the tokens tied to its shareholder-benefit program, which stay put.
ispace,inc.'s Luxembourg unit will build, run and ship a lunar rover for the European Space Agency's water-ice mission under a ¥12bn add-on deal already counted in the company's current revenue forecast, though the value of the two earlier contract stages remains undisclosed.
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.
Insource will cancel up to 4.7% of its shares and lift its year-end dividend to ¥35.00, using a ten-year Tokyo Stock Exchange anniversary to bundle capital returns onto nine-month profit growth of 6.2%.
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.
EQT's buyout vehicle for Kakaku.com lifted its tender offer to ¥3,450 a share and pushed the deadline to August 3, betting that Bain Capital and LY Corporation's rival ¥3,500 headline price is unworkable under KDDI's existing non-tender contract.
Hitotohito Holdings is buying Saitama security-staffing firm SPD for ¥3.16bn, funding the whole deal with bank debt that carries covenants tied to the target's own cash flow and net assets from 2028 onward.
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.