Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.
SoftBank Group will wipe out the full $25.9bn balance on its OpenAI bridge loan on September 15, retiring debt it drew under a $40bn facility signed less than six months earlier, though the filing does not say where the repayment funds are coming from.
Oricon shareholders approved a 2,333,576-to-1 share consolidation with roughly 99.4% support, shrinking outstanding shares to five and confirming delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on September 28.
Sony Music Entertainment has agreed to buy all 12.01 million GungHo Online Entertainment shares held by SON Financial, paying ¥28.6bn in cash, with a December 30 closing target and new consent rights over the game maker's share issuance in the meantime.
SoftBank Group set terms on a ¥1 trillion, seven-year bond at 4.75%, and roughly half the ¥988.5bn raised will simply refinance bonds due this month and next spring, while the rest is conditional funding for the ABB robotics acquisition, with a fallback to bridge-loan repayment if that deal slips.
Hikari Tsushin is refinancing maturing debt with a four-year tranche priced at 3.021% and a seven-year tranche at 3.977%, both rated A/A+ and drawn from a ¥200bn shelf programme registered in July 2025.
The Tokyo art-production and artist-management firm run by Takashi Murakami now holds 5.02% of the small TSE Growth-listed OVERLAP Holdings, a stake funded entirely from its own resources, with buying accelerating sharply in the final week before the threshold was crossed on September 1.
Osaka software maker eBASE will pay ¥7.60 a share to holders on record September 30, introducing its first interim dividend since listing even though the annual total stays flat.
Media Do has termed out a short-term bridge loan into a ¥12.4bn, ten-year facility from five banks to cover its Seven Seas Entertainment acquisition, accepting covenants on equity strength and profitability through 2036.
NTT Finance Corporation has registered to sell up to ¥1tn in corporate bonds between September 2026 and September 2028, but it has yet to fix a size, coupon or underwriter for a single tranche.
Mercari spent ¥9.99bn to hit its full ¥10bn buyback ceiling within the three-week window ending August 24, but only used about half of its 4-million-share allowance, and will retire all 2,118,800 shares it bought on November 12.
SoftBank Group is raising ¥1tn from mostly individual investors through a seven-year unsecured bond, with the coupon to be fixed in a 4.30%-4.90% range on September 4.
A single off-auction trade wiped Sega Sammy Holdings off PAPYLESS's shareholder register, as the digital comics retailer paid ¥875.7mn to buy back the entire 900,000-share block in one session.
UNIRITA acquired 531,400 shares for ¥1.07bn through the Tokyo exchange's ToSTNeT-3 mechanism on August 13, using nearly all of the ¥1.11bn allowance its board approved just one day earlier.
An individual shareholder wants Fuller Inc. to write Tokyo Stock Exchange's 2030 Growth-market ¥10bn market-cap rule into its articles of incorporation, with a hiring-plan review trigger and a strategic-options mandate; the board rejected it on August 12 and shareholders vote September 28.
Nomura Research Institute's quarterly operating profit rose 12% to ¥41.7bn, but the board also burned through nearly all of a ¥70bn buyback and cancelled 20 million shares, cutting the share count by more than 3% in ten weeks.
Oracle Corporation Japan will hand shareholders ¥110.08bn for the year ended May 2026, more than the ¥24.4bn it paid a year earlier, after layering a ¥660 special dividend onto its ordinary payout.
A ¥660 special dividend takes ORACLE CORPORATION JAPAN's year-end payout to ¥110.08bn, versus ¥24.38bn a year earlier, with payment starting August 10, 2026.
The Tokyo-registered issuer is pulling ¥35bn of two-year, ¥55bn of five-year and ¥30bn of ten-year unsecured bonds from a ¥500bn debt program that had ¥350bn of headroom left before this filing.
V-cube's board is repaying ¥1.1bn in borrowings through a placement of 24 Class V preferred shares to AVA3 HD Co., Ltd., but the shares vote on every matter at general meetings just like ordinary stock, giving the buyer a governance foothold beyond the size of the deal.
WingArc1st's board told shareholders its stock trades at an "extremely insufficient" level and authorized buying back up to 3.45% of shares outstanding, capped at ¥3.0bn, through May 2027.
A ¥23.1bn share purchase from activist investor Oasis Management lifts RAKUS's stake in HR-software maker Plus Alpha Consulting to 22.21%, but a signed memorandum locks the buyer into a standstill, one board seat and a right of first refusal for the target.
Japan's loss-making autonomous-driving software developer fixed its offer price and lined up Morgan Stanley and SMBC to sell shares abroad, funneling the proceeds into custom AI chips and mass-production supply chains.
Nomura Securities took up 87% of a planned share allotment, handing GO Inc. about ¥6.99bn to fund its autonomous-taxi project with Waymo and Nihon Kotsu, with any leftover cash reserved for taxi and logistics acquisitions rather than marketing spend until 2029.
Japan Process turned a board resolution into a done deal within a day, buying back 883,000 shares (98% of a 9.28%-of-stock authorization) for ¥1.59bn through a single ToSTNeT-3 off-auction trade on July 8.