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Japan Tech & Telecom Company News (Page 2)

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

  1. Temairazu says up to 4.45mn guests' booking data may have been exposed

    Temairazu, a hotel reservation software provider, says a third party may have viewed or obtained booking records on up to about 4.45 million people, and that it cannot yet estimate the effect on earnings.

  2. Toshin Holdings' Fiscal Year Shrinks to Eight Days Under Court-Led Rehabilitation

    Toshin Holdings' latest fiscal year lasted just eight days after the Nagoya-based mobile-phone-and-golf-course group entered court-supervised corporate rehabilitation on May 8, 2026, the culmination of a subsidiary accounting scandal that produced an auditor's disclaimer of opinion, a Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting-risk designation and covenant breaches with its banks; the truncated period posted a ¥236.9 million net loss, and the rehabilitation plan submitted to the Tokyo District Court in September remains unapproved.

  3. Information Strategy and Technology Moves to Fire Director Over WhiteBox Contract Rerouting

    An outside-lawyer investigation found the director rerouted subsidiary WhiteBox's marketing contracts to a company he personally controlled, and Information Strategy and Technology has set an October 9 record date for a shareholder vote on dismissing him, even as the company says further allegations remain under review.

  4. Sakura Internet's Closing Breach Report Puts Up to 1.36 Million Accounts in Scope

    Sakura Internet's closing report on its 2026 intrusion says a customer database was reachable from April 2023 to March 2026, exposing up to 1,360,563 accounts and unhashed initial passwords, though the host maintains it has found no confirmed misuse to date.

  5. Cybertrust Japan Halts Certificate Issuance After Missing Apple's New CA Approval Rule

    Cybertrust Japan will pause SSL/TLS certificate issuance from September 15 after its root CA partner failed to secure Apple's newly required sign-off for an outside-run intermediate CA, forcing revocations while Apple and Google approval remains outstanding.

  6. BlueMeme probe finds ex-CEO disguised free deal as ¥30mn sale to hit IPO targets

    An outside investigation found BlueMeme's former chief executive and former management-administration chief disguised a free transaction as a paid software licence to satisfy underwriter conditions for a since-abandoned 2020 listing, forcing provisional restatements across six fiscal years and a September 30 deadline for corrected filings.

  7. FreeBit's Next Earnings Report Will Also Miss Its Deadline as Independent Probe Drags On

    FreeBit still can't say when its next earnings report, its overdue annual results, or its securities filing will land, as a committee's review of the CountUp acquisition continues without a set end date.

  8. CyberStep Flags Broken Payment Controls After Unwinding a ¥1.25bn Acquisition

    CyberStep Holdings sent ¥1,250mn out the door for an acquisition before the contract paperwork securing that sum was finished, then had to unwind the whole deal and correct its earnings disclosure once it couldn't verify the money was safe.

  9. CHIeru Zeroes Out Directors' Stock Pay, Rebuilds Subsidiary Board After Antitrust Probe

    CHIeru is replacing the entire leadership of subsidiary Okijimu and cancelling all stock compensation for its eight directors after an investigation flagged bidding conduct that could breach Japan's ban on unreasonable trade restraints, though the company expects only a minor hit to results for the year ending March 2027.

  10. Sun* Pushes Back Half-Year Filing After Finding Unrecorded Cash at Vietnam Unit

    A hearing with Sun Asterisk Vietnam Co., Ltd. turned up cash outside the accounting books, and Sun* Inc. now needs an extra month, until September 14, to file a half-year report its auditor says it cannot review on the original schedule.

  11. AI Storm Pushes Earnings to November After Used-Truck Deal Probe Forces Three-Year Rewrite

    A tip-off about past used-truck sales has widened into a three-fiscal-year accounting correction at AI storm, forcing the company to delay its quarterly results to November and consider a statutory filing extension while its auditor withholds sign-off.

  12. AI storm's auditor quits after four months, citing a used-truck sales probe

    ES Next quit as AI storm's statutory auditor after discovering pre-existing allegations tied to used-truck sales that predate its own appointment, and Frontier Audit Corporation, a firm AI storm had cycled through as recently as March, has returned as temporary auditor while a special committee investigates.

  13. Sun* Delays Second-Quarter Results After Off-Book Cash Found at Vietnam Unit

    An internal audit at Sun* Inc. found cash at its Vietnamese subsidiary that was not on the books, and the company's auditor says it cannot finish reviewing the accounts before the deadlines for both the quarterly results and the half-year securities report.

  14. Datasection Sues Wolfpack Research Over GPU Export-Control Claims

    Datasection has sued short seller Wolfpack Research in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking retraction of a report that accused its AI infrastructure GPU purchases of breaking U.S. export-control law; the company says its lawyers cleared the projects, and the damages claim remains unquantified.

  15. FreeBit May Seek Extension on Annual Report Amid CountUp Acquisition Probe

    FreeBit says a special committee probing its 2025 CountUp acquisition may not wrap up in time for the company to get its audit report and file by the July 31 statutory deadline, so it is weighing an extension request to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.

  16. LY Corporation's Data-Breach Reporting Duty to Regulators Finally Ends

    Japan's communications ministry and privacy watchdog accepted LY Corporation's final report on fixes to its 2023 data breach, closing off a compliance obligation that outlasted the original disclosure by nearly three years, though the one-page filing says nothing about what the regulators actually checked.

  17. CAC Holdings Discloses a ¥5bn Loan Four Months After Signing It

    CAC Holdings admitted nearly four months late that it had signed a ¥5bn, unsecured, ten-year syndicated loan arranged by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to fund acquisitions, a facility now bound by covenants on net assets and consecutive losses through 2036.

  18. SMS Gateway Breach at Fabrica's Media 4u Exposes 95,412 Account Records

    A three-week gap between detection and disclosure left the SMS gateway of Fabrica Holdings' subsidiary Media 4u compromised, with hackers stealing management-console data on 95,412 accounts and sending 280 unauthorized text messages before the company went public with the breach.

  19. Toshin Holdings Enters Court-Supervised Restructuring After Accounting Fraud

    A dual-bookkeeping scheme at mobile-shop operator Toshin Holdings' handset subsidiary broke loan covenants, drew a Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting warning and ended with a court appointing trustees to run the company under corporate reorganization.

  20. Chiel splits June shareholder meeting as subsidiary probe stalls year-end accounts

    Suspected legal violations at an unnamed subsidiary pushed the company to set up a special investigation committee and defer business-report and financial-statement items from its June 26 shareholder meeting into a later continuation session. Even so, it separately resolved to pay an 18 yen year-end dividend while the accounts are still under review.

  21. G-Medical Net enters supervised review while its Standard market move is assessed

    The company said it could not confirm compliance with the Growth market's market-capitalisation maintenance standard by the end of its improvement period, so the stock will be designated under review from June 1. Trading is set to continue while Tokyo Stock Exchange assesses its application to move to the Standard market, which the company says it meets on its own calculations.