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Japan Tech & Telecom Company News

Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.

  1. NTT prices overseas NEC share sale at ¥4,308.8, apart from its ¥3,462 tender

    NTT priced 32.559mn NEC shares at ¥4,308.8 for overseas institutions and will tender a same-sized block at NEC's ¥3,462 buyback price, booking a gain of about ¥189bn in standalone accounts only.

  2. NTT to sell all of its 4.90% NEC stake, half through NEC's ¥3,462 buyback tender

    NTT plans to sell its entire 4.90% NEC holding, tendering 32.6mn shares into NEC's ¥3,462 self-tender and placing the same number with mostly overseas investors, while both companies say their business alliance continues.

  3. Digital Hearts sets Dec 11 delisting after chairman's Sandbox tender offer succeeds

    Digital Hearts Holdings will put a share consolidation to shareholders on Nov 20 after Sandbox's tender offer succeeded, with delisting planned for Dec 11 and a ¥1.16bn debugging-business purchase already closed.

  4. Future's treasury-share cancellation hinges on its November 30 squeeze-out vote

    Future will cancel 6,648,879 treasury shares on December 24 only if shareholders approve a 10,000,000-to-1 consolidation on November 30; delisting is planned for December 23 and the consolidation takes effect on December 25.

  5. enish replaces stalled warrants with a 55.8mn-share EVO FUND package

    enish will cancel its May warrants, which raised ¥320mn of a ¥1.12bn target, and issue new EVO FUND warrants covering 109.66% of its shares, with ¥400mn of crypto purchases ranked behind game spending.

  6. Dubai vehicle takes 20.02% of Media Kobo, all of it bank-funded

    A year-old Dubai investment company holds 20.02% of Media Kobo through a placement of shares and subscription rights, financed entirely by a ¥402.7mn loan from Emirates Islamic Bank, and says it backs current management.

  7. Peak XV sells 3mn Appier shares off-market, cutting stake to 6.79%

    Peak XV Partners Investments IV cut its Appier Group holding from 9.81% to 6.79% with an off-market sale of 3mn shares on 13 October, and has agreed not to sell more without J.P. Morgan's consent until 1 November.

  8. IPS prices Wakayama cable share sale at ¥3,346, lowering funding ceiling to ¥4.58bn

    IPS, Inc. priced its new-share sale at ¥3,346, setting up to ¥4.58bn in net proceeds for its Wakayama submarine cable project, of which ¥597.4mn depends on Mizuho Securities taking up an allotment.

  9. PR TIMES lifts its dividend floor to 9% of equity and forecasts ¥74.30 a share

    PR TIMES raised its ordinary-dividend floor from 2% to 9% of equity and now forecasts ¥74.30 a share for the year to February 2027, up from ¥16.80, while promising in principle to return at least half of any unused M&A budget.

  10. Strategic Capital sets ¥200 dividend ask and a shareholder-proposal timetable at GungHo

    Strategic Capital, which holds 13.67% of GungHo, lists a ¥200 dividend, a Sony Music share resale, a takeover or leadership change as proposals, and plans a shareholder proposal on the 2026 payout for January and February 2027.

  11. Strategic Capital Lists Buyout, Dividend and Buyback Proposals for GungHo

    Strategic Capital, holding an unchanged 13.67% of GungHo Online Entertainment, lists a third-party buyout, a dividend increase, a treasury-share buyback from specific shareholders with resale to Sony Music Entertainment, and board changes if the company stays listed.

  12. Link-U fixes October 8 payment for ¥917.5mn Crunchyroll share sale

    Link-U Group has set October 8 for payment on 1,071,900 new shares at ¥856, worth ¥917.5mn, after Crunchyroll's required foreign-investment notification procedures were completed; the issue still depends on its registration statement taking effect.

  13. BASE Says a Major Shareholder Will Resume Buying Toward a Stake Above 30%

    A major BASE shareholder has told the company it will buy again from October 2 to push its holding past 30%, after a disagreement over management support, while the board keeps backing SBI Holdings' extended tender offer and stays neutral on tendering.

  14. IPS plans new share sale to fund Wakayama cable landing project, capping net proceeds at ¥5.49bn

    IPS, Inc. will issue 1,263,500 shares through Mizuho, with up to 189,500 more tied to an over-allotment, and says net proceeds of up to ¥5.49bn will go to a roughly ¥23bn Wakayama cable project whose final cost to IPS remains open.

  15. HENNGE plans up to ¥2.36bn from new shares ahead of Prime move

    New shares would raise HENNGE up to ¥2.36bn net, counting the over-allotment-linked allotment, while its president and two other holders sell 1.38mn shares for themselves ahead of an approved move to Prime.

  16. Toshin Holdings Plan Would Swap an Estimated ¥635mn of Interest Claims Into Creditor Shares

    Toshin Holdings' rehabilitation plan would swap an estimated ¥635mn of interest and penalty claims for Class A shares, cutting founder-linked votes to about 26%, with creditors voting from October 29 and cash tranches unfilled.

  17. SoftBank Group Prices Junk-Rated Bonds at Up to 9.75% to Cover Final OpenAI Payment

    SoftBank Group locked in coupons of 7.125% to 9.75% on $10bn of dollar notes and €1bn of euro notes rated BB+ by two agencies, saying the money will fund the last $10bn tranche of its $30bn OpenAI Group commitment and that it separately plans to cancel the remaining $10bn of an unused bridge facility.

  18. Synspective Secures ¥20bn From 13 Banks, With Balance-Sheet Covenants Attached

    Synspective's new syndicated loan, arranged by Mizuho Bank and backed by Japan's three megabanks plus ten other lenders, funds satellite manufacturing and launches, but two financial covenants will test the company's net assets and quarterly liquidity over the loan's five-year, three-month term, and Synspective now expects total borrowing costs, reflecting both the larger facility size and higher interest rates than assumed, to run about ¥187mn above its original internal assumption, a figure only partly built into its published guidance for the year to December 2026.

  19. TOHO Books ¥10bn Gain From Cross-Shareholding Sale

    TOHO expects to record about ¥10bn from selling part of its policy-held shares this month, part of a plan to cut that holding by more than ¥50bn and push its consolidated net-assets ratio below 10% by 2030, with proceeds earmarked for growth spending and shareholder returns.

  20. G-Next raises up to ¥952mn from private investors, diluting holders by more than half

    With only about ¥100mn in cash against a ¥1bn funding need, the software firm is selling nearly a quarter of itself to five private buyers at a discount, warning its own auditor has doubts about its going-concern status.

  21. Enigmo Races a Tokyo Stock Exchange Deadline as Consolidated Losses Widen

    Enigmo's free-float market value, at ¥9.04bn, remains below the ¥10bn Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime threshold, and the BUYMA operator has until the end of January to close the gap even as consolidated first-half losses widened and the core marketplace's transaction volume kept sliding.

  22. Beat Holdings Puts a 272.7% Dilution Vote to Shareholders, and Its Own Board Won't Back It

    Beat Holdings has called a November 24 meeting on a shareholder-proposed debt-equity swap and warrant issue, from its own 22.91% holder, that could dilute existing owners by up to 272.7%, and the company's board says it cannot judge whether the terms are fair even as it lets the vote proceed.

  23. Nexon Pays a ¥415-a-Share Special Dividend, Calls It a One-Off

    Nexon's board approved a ¥415-per-share special dividend totaling roughly ¥324.0bn from retained earnings, with a September 30 record date, but the company says future returns revert to ordinary dividends and buybacks unless excess cash piles up again.

  24. FIXER Cancels EVO FUND Warrants, Drops ¥1.63bn Financing Plan

    FIXER is canceling every remaining EVO FUND warrant, wiping out 2.76 million shares of potential dilution and walking away from ¥1.63bn of financing it says it no longer needs now that its Sovereign GaiXer product is finished and moving to a sales phase.