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Japan Tech & Telecom Company News

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

  1. Sakura Internet's GPU services become its largest revenue line as half-year swings to profit

    GPU infrastructure sales of ¥10.12bn, up 258.9%, helped Sakura Internet swing to a ¥2.96bn half-year operating profit, while a planned ¥26bn Ishikari GPU investment is to be funded by subsidies, borrowing and own funds.

  2. CHANGE Holdings now sees a possible full-year loss after a ¥5.97bn writedown and a donation-site shutdown

    CHANGE Holdings now guides attributable profit from a ¥2.2bn loss to a ¥1.6bn gain for the year to March 2027, after a ¥5.97bn EG goodwill writedown and the Furusato Choice shutdown, and has left the year-end dividend undetermined.

  3. COVER's hololive Dreams launch returns quarterly sales to growth, but half-year sales still fall

    COVER's hololive Dreams launch pushed second-quarter sales up 0.3% and operating profit up 74.0%, yet half-year sales fell 3.6% and the company left its full-year forecast unchanged.

  4. SoftBank books ¥597bn charge on US AI power equipment as half-year loss reaches ¥768bn

    SoftBank Group booked a ¥597.2bn loss on changes to its US data-center power-equipment procurement plan within a ¥768.0bn half-year net loss, while consolidated interest-bearing debt rose ¥7.91tn to ¥32.59tn and the equity ratio fell to 23.6%.

  5. SoftBank Corp. cloud and AI sales jump 36.7% as payments lift half-year profit

    SoftBank Corp.'s enterprise cloud and AI revenue rose 36.7% to ¥163.8bn and finance segment profit rose 73.9%, yet group operating profit grew just 2.1% to ¥642.1bn after a prior-year acquisition gain fell away.

  6. Digital Garage's KDDI project lifts payment volume 42%, but not profit

    Payment volume rose 42.0% to ¥5.8tn on a KDDI group project, yet the platform segment's pretax profit fell 13.9% and investment markdowns pushed Digital Garage to a ¥4.09bn pretax loss.

  7. TradeWorks raises sales guidance but cuts operating profit 37.5% after cyber spending and delayed sign-offs

    TradeWorks now expects operating profit of ¥300mn, down from ¥480mn, as breach-related security spending, delayed project acceptance, AI costs and subsidiary shortfalls outweigh a higher ¥5.85bn sales forecast.

  8. KDDI's adjusted operating profit rose 13.9%, but write-offs cut reported growth to 0.8%

    KDDI's adjusted operating profit rose 13.9% to ¥633.1bn in the half to September, but ¥68.3bn of impairments, including the menu closure, held reported operating profit growth to 0.8%, while a Kakaku.com remeasurement gain sits below the operating line.

  9. NTT raises its annual forecast even as first-half operating profit falls 12.2%

    NTT's first-half operating profit fell 12.2% to ¥830.1bn on record revenue, but it raised its annual operating profit forecast to ¥1.73tn and lifted capex by ¥43bn to improve mobile network quality.

  10. NRI lifts full-year forecast as modernisation and security demand holds

    Nomura Research Institute lifted its operating profit guide for the year to March 2027 to ¥180bn, citing demand for AI-premised system modernisation and digital security, while cutting its consulting revenue forecast to ¥66bn.

  11. Konami lifts full-year profit forecast by about a third on eFootball and Yu-Gi-Oh

    Konami lifted its forecast for the year to March 2027 to ¥583bn in sales and ¥200bn in business profit, up from ¥505bn and ¥150bn, saying first-half results ran ahead of plan and eFootball and Yu-Gi-Oh performed well, and raised its dividend forecast to ¥299.

  12. Sakura Internet lifts operating profit guide to ¥4.1bn on GPU pricing and lighter first-half spending

    Sakura Internet lifted its full-year operating profit forecast 64.0% to ¥4.1bn, crediting GPU pricing and group contracts, though first-half profit also reflected advertising and hiring plans reviewed after August's incident, with spending weighted to the second half.

  13. Capcom first-half sales rise 49% as new releases and back catalogue lift game volumes

    Capcom sold 36.86mn game units in the six months to September, up from 23.85mn, lifting sales to ¥120.9bn and operating profit to ¥60.8bn, while keeping its full-year forecast unchanged.

  14. SOURCENEXT posts a quarterly operating profit, but the nine-month loss stands at ¥601mn

    Pocketalk's overseas arm helped SOURCENEXT report a preliminary July-September operating profit of ¥204mn, its first in 20 quarters, though the nine-month operating loss is still ¥601mn.

  15. Koei Tecmo adds ¥9bn to ordinary-profit guide but only ¥2bn at operating level

    Koei Tecmo lifted full-year operating profit guidance by ¥2bn to ¥34bn and ordinary profit by ¥9bn to ¥51bn, and raised its year-end dividend forecast to ¥56 from ¥48, still below last year's ¥66.

  16. Koei Tecmo lifts interim operating-profit forecast 64% on back-catalogue strength

    Koei Tecmo raised its six-month operating-profit forecast to ¥11.5bn from ¥7bn on strong back-catalogue sales, while investment returns more than doubled its ordinary-profit guide to ¥25bn.

  17. TOHO lifts net profit forecast to ¥48bn on share sale, leaves operating outlook untouched

    TOHO lifted its full-year net profit forecast to ¥48bn from ¥41bn after selling investment securities, while keeping revenue at ¥345bn and operating profit at ¥62bn, and left the year-end dividend under review.

  18. Serverworks lifts profit guide 27.1%, but yen and partner incentives share the credit

    Serverworks lifted its operating-profit forecast 27.1% to ¥1.665bn and net profit 70.1% to ¥1.538bn, crediting AI-related demand but also a weaker yen, cloud-vendor partner incentives and a lower tax charge.

  19. Money Forward swings to a nine-month operating profit but keeps a full-year range that spans a loss

    Money Forward's operating profit reached ¥1.69bn for the nine months to August 2026, up from a ¥1.98bn loss, but full-year guidance still runs from a ¥500mn operating loss to a ¥1.5bn profit.

  20. ABEJA's operating profit rose 59%, but a tax gain flatters net income

    ABEJA's operating profit rose 59.4% to ¥710.6mn in the year to August 2026, but a ¥306mn tax credit helped push net profit up 137.8%; the company guides net profit down 36.2% next year as revenue climbs 30.2%.

  21. Cave swings to operating profit in the quarter it relaunched a 2008 shooter on Steam

    Cave posted a ¥555mn operating profit for June to August, against a ¥565mn loss a year earlier, crediting collaboration campaigns and cost cuts; its new Steam release has no reported sales yet.

  22. QPS Holdings lifts operating-profit guide to ¥2bn as ¥1.2bn of research cost moves to next year or later

    QPS Holdings lifted its operating-profit forecast from ¥300mn to ¥2bn with sales unchanged at ¥10bn, saying about ¥1.2bn of research cost will go unbooked this year and satellite depreciation will run below plan.

  23. Media Do lifts profit forecast on subsidiary sale gain, leaving operating guidance untouched

    Media Do raised its net-profit forecast to ¥2.76bn from ¥1.2bn and its year-end dividend to ¥55 on an expected ¥1.56bn gain from selling subsidiaries, while sales and operating-profit guidance did not change.

  24. U-NEXT's energy arm turns record sales into a profit miss

    U-NEXT HOLDINGS grew revenue 20.4% to ¥469.96bn, yet operating profit fell 4.2% as power procurement costs hit fixed-price energy contracts, and management is repricing them and moving customers to market-linked tariffs.