Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed services companies, in English.
NASA and Draper mutually cancelled the CLPS CP-12 lunar-transport task order on July 9, and ispace's US subsidiary now expects its own lander subcontract with Draper to follow suit, though the Tokyo-listed company says it already excluded that revenue from its forecast for the year to March 2027 back in March.
Orders from semiconductor companies near JSH's Kumamoto farm ran so far ahead of plan that the disability-employment and home-care operator more than doubled its profit forecast and unveiled its first medium-term plan, targeting operating profit of ¥1.321bn by the year to March 2029.
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.
Timee will launch a bank-agent service with SBI Sumishin Net Bank and push into elder-care staffing through Benesse Carioc, but ventures outside spot work are set to run at a ¥1.8bn deficit next year.
ispace paid SpaceX $50mn for 500kg of payload space on a Starship mission targeting a lunar landing as early as 2030, and will resell that capacity to customers with payloads too small for a dedicated lander, alongside its own ULTRA lander missions planned for 2028, 2029 and 2030.
A ¥3,232-a-share rival proposal pushed Kakaku.com's board off its recommendation to tender into EQT's ¥3,000 buyout, and a Bain Capital vehicle is now lining up its own offer with 19.52% of the company already committed to tender.
A ¥900mn, self-funded share purchase priced at ¥20 apiece hands Convano a controlling 68.90% stake in Growth Market-listed Axel Mark, with an explicit mandate to build up the target's healthcare business.
The number: USS Group sold 619,002 vehicles in the June quarter, up 8.4% year-on-year, while listings rose a slower 4.7% to 950,380. The result: a contract rate of 65.1%, up from 62.9% a year earlier, with Tokyo and Kyushu leading and Osaka the lone large venue to shrink.
Kamgras 1 K.K. needs just 34.9mn Kakaku.com shares tendered, a floor stake of 17.51%, to complete its go-private bid before the offer closes July 16; there is no cap on how much more it can buy.
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.
The catch: minority holders in the nursing-care operator get exactly ¥1,119 a share, matching MBK Partners' spring tender price, before Solasto disappears from Tokyo's Prime market on August 6, 2026.
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 move: Kamgras 1 kept its ¥3,000-a-share offer intact but extended the acceptance period, delaying the expected shareholder meeting and shifting the squeeze-out phase into early October.
Kamgras 1's offer can buy unlimited shares at ¥3,000 each, but the filing says it only needs 34,941,000 shares to clear its minimum condition, equal to a 17.51% post-purchase ownership ratio including special related parties.
A possible take-private of Dentsu Soken is under consideration inside Dentsu Group's domestic strategy, but the company says the Nikkei report was not its announcement and no concrete decision has been made.
Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo's binding ¥3,384-a-share proposal, with a possible ¥3,500 price if a KDDI structure is agreed, prompted Kakaku.com to drop its tender recommendation while Kamgras keeps its existing ¥3,000 offer open until July 16.
The move: Funai Soken will place 2.196mn treasury shares with Tokio Marine at ¥1,067 apiece, accepting 2.20% dilution to fund working capital and deepen a capital-and-business alliance aimed at SME consulting and risk management.
The Tokyo Growth-market company says a large-client exit, deferred projects and a shift toward recurring AI services hurt the March quarter, even as it targets 10,000 SME customers spending at least ¥1mn a year.
The group will launch BCDC.Ai on July 15, but the bigger signal is a retreat from its earlier container data-centre plan, with the August start-up, roughly ¥100mn initial investment and partner terms no longer fixed.
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.
Sales are forecast to reach ¥3.65bn as the children’s gymnastics operator adds 37 franchise sites, but part of the lift comes from store transfers and price increases.