Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.
NTT DATA has signed to buy 2,392,900 Minkabu shares at ¥900 each, taking its holding to 16.38%, with the right to nominate one director and consent rights over dilutive issues and rival tie-ups; settlement is scheduled for December 15.
The Tokyo-listed accounting and payroll software maker closed the year to June 2026 with ¥43.5bn of platform recurring revenue and a 1.0% average monthly revenue churn rate, and is now guiding for adjusted operating profit to more than double as it prioritizes margin over pure growth.
Smaregi will absorb the register-cloud and cashless-payment customers of Casio subsidiary CXD Next for a token ¥1, using the years before the net-POS business's scheduled 2029 shutdown to pitch them on switching platforms.
Sandbox K.K., a holding company owned outright by Digital Hearts Holdings' chairman, is set to cross 50% of voting rights after shareholders tendered nearly double the required minimum, and the chairman and his vehicle now plan to squeeze out remaining holders before delisting the stock from the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime market.
Dentsu Group has agreed not to tender its 61.76% founding stake in Dentsu Soken to VIC's planned November tender offer, backing a squeeze-out that would take the IT consultancy private with Itochu Corporation as the bidder's parent.
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.
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.
Datasection confirmed a customer paid $98.55 million of a required $131.4 million deposit, meeting the condition that made its previously announced large order contractually effective, with $32.85 million scheduled to be paid within 30 days and the customer's identity and commercial terms not named in the filing.
COVER Corporation raised its guidance for operating profit in the six months to September by 81%, to ¥3.5bn, after its hololive Dreams smartphone game topped launch expectations and licensing revenue ran ahead of plan, even though sales guidance and the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
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.
Quantum Solutions canceled its first AI data-center hardware contract days after paying $8.3 million upfront, after the supplier said supply constraints would push delivery out to about 36 weeks, and the refund is still working its way back to the company's account.
ADR Biomedical's male incontinence cell-therapy kit went before Japan's central insurance council on September 16 with a proposed ¥860,000 reimbursement price and a December 1 coverage target, both still pending formal government notification.
Mercari's net profit rose 36% to ¥35.4bn in the year to June 2026, as marketplace transactions topped ¥1.29tn on renewed double-digit growth, its Mercard credit card program passed 6 million cards issued, and its long-breakeven US business posted its best result yet, even though the company again paid no dividend.
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.
Keywest Network's tender offer for Future Corporation has closed with the buyer group at 82.88% of the company, financed largely by a ¥106bn Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation loan secured against the shares themselves, and a share consolidation to force out remaining holders is now planned for late November or early December.
JUSTPLANNING is selling all three of its solar plants to Tokyu Fudosan and booking a ¥293mn gain that lifts its net-profit forecast 39.6% to ¥670mn, even though the sale itself trims sales and operating profit and ends the company's entire solar segment from October 1.
A September 30 record date sets up a shareholder meeting that would leave just the tender offerer, Sandbox, and Digital Hearts' own chairman holding stock, but only if the takeover bid succeeds.
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.
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.
GO Inc. and Alphabet's Waymo have signed a deal to move from supervised test rides to a driverless taxi service in Tokyo, aiming to launch Japan's first Level 4 commercial robotaxi operation in 2027.
Smaregi's operating profit rose 73.3% in the quarter through July as recurring subscription revenue and newly in-housed cashless-payment processing pushed its margin to 28.5%, even though the company left its full-year sales and profit targets unchanged.
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.
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.
Key West Network, wholly owned by Future Corporation's own chairman through a Singapore holding vehicle, collected 43.3mn tendered shares at ¥2,451 each and is set to lift its voting stake to 82.78% once settlement begins on September 17, ahead of a planned squeeze-out that would delist the Tokyo Prime-listed firm.