Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.
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.
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.
MP-2606's tender offer for SHARINGTECHNOLOGY drew 21,614,921 shares against a 16,030,200 minimum, putting its voting stake at 85.74% once settlement starts on 4 November, with a squeeze-out and delisting still to be scheduled.
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.
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.
FreeBit's restated half-year net profit is 3.8% lower even though operating profit rose, and its internal control report says the board and auditors did not adequately examine deals involving its founder-president.
Trust Bank is restarting the system linking Furusato Choice to partner sites from October 28, but donations will reopen partner by partner and the donor-facing site stays suspended, while CHANGE Holdings is still assessing the effect on consolidated results for the year to March 2027.
Customers whose data an apparent attacker published will receive ¥10,000 to ¥25,000 per category, capped at ¥3mn per release, while parent GMO Internet Group funds a bounty of up to $1mn; the total cost cannot yet be calculated.
giftee Group expects a roughly ¥550mn extraordinary loss after a third party exploited a vulnerability to issue e-gifts illegitimately, with no customer asset loss or personal data leak confirmed so far.
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.
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.
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.
FreeBit expects ¥492,999,999 back from its former president, plus a ¥117.6mn settlement, after a patent-ownership premise behind the CountUp valuation proved wrong; an earnout of up to ¥430mn will not be paid.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange kept ACCESS under special caution, citing weak receivables controls at an overseas network subsidiary and gaps in related-party approvals; the company says it will publish concrete measures around the end of November.
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.
Ymirlink says data was output from 49 Cuenote FC systems, a cumulative 51,628,280 records, and the figure may grow because 16 systems are still being investigated; unsolicited emails impersonating third parties from its domain have also been confirmed.
Trustbank has restarted the donation management system used by municipalities and gift suppliers, but Furusato Choice donations remain suspended after a leak of 4,454,097 records, and CHANGE Holdings is still assessing the impact on its results.
The Bain Capital-formed bidder raised its planned Kakaku.com tender price from ¥3,597 to ¥3,700 a share, above rival Kamgras 1's ¥3,682, keeping ¥3,720 if KDDI agrees to stay out, but launch still needs the target's board.
CHANGE Holdings says five of the 4,454,097 affected Furusato Choice members lost more data than first disclosed, including card details for two, while the total count is unchanged and the effect on earnings is still being assessed.
A web server flaw at Paycloud subsidiary Value Design let a third party take IDs, PINs and balances on 1,424,748 Value Card records, 569,224 of them issued IDs; the company reports no actual damage from misuse and no personal data exposed.
Google approved Cybertrust Japan's new intermediate CA on 20 October, but Apple's review is pending; the company plans to restart certificate issuance at the earliest two business days after Apple signs off, offering a Secom Trust Systems product meanwhile.
Capcom says email addresses and system identifiers for 11,774,247 CAPCOM ID accounts leaked and 196 had passwords changed without authorization, while it has confirmed no leak of customer-set passwords and warns of impersonation emails.
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.
Digital Arts says stolen operating credentials gave a third party access to its cloud environment, with traces dating to around July 2025; as of noon on October 21 it had not confirmed data exfiltration, and it asks users of six cloud services to change passwords.