Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed tech & telecom companies, in English.
A ¥660 special dividend took Oracle Corporation Japan's total payout to ¥858 a share, 73% above its ¥495.97 in per-share earnings, even as cloud sales jumped 34% and drove revenue to a fresh annual record.
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.
A gain on selling shares in an affiliate helped lift Sansan's annual profit to ¥6.78bn from ¥424mn, and the digital business-card company declared its first-ever dividend of ¥2.50 a share while targeting 16-20% annual sales growth through 2029.
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.
Baudroie's board has cancelled its planned ¥10.10 year-end dividend for the year to February 2027, contingent on Bain Capital's ¥2,970-a-share tender offer, which runs through October 5, to take the Tokyo Prime IT firm private, with founder-executives selling their 54.65% stake at a discounted ¥2,350 a share to stay on and roll over into the new owner.
A shareholders' agreement giving ReYuu Japan board-appointment rights turns its 49% purchase of a cybersecurity target into full consolidation for ¥258.9mn, betting on cross-selling cybersecurity to its refurbished-device customers.
Kamgras 1 has lifted its take-private bid for Kakaku.com to ¥3,570 a share, the second price increase since the ¥3,000 opener in May, and pushed the deadline to August 27; Digital Garage and KDDI are declining to tender, choosing instead a post-squeeze-out buyback, with Digital Garage alone planning to reinvest part of its proceeds into a stake in the buyer's parent.
Japan's SAR-satellite maker booked a ¥96.1bn defense contract and government space grants that pushed its order backlog to ¥121.7bn, but most of its reported revenue growth came from subsidies rather than paying customers, and operating losses widened in the half to June.
Trend Micro's first-half sales rose 11% to ¥148.6bn, but AI token, cloud and yen-inflated payroll costs pushed total expenses up 20%, cutting operating profit by nearly a quarter even as its closely watched recurring-revenue metric grew a slower 5% once currency effects are stripped out.
Online transaction growth cooled to 1.4% once a merchant shifted its processing in-house, but face-to-face volume rose 19% and a 40.5% jump in overseas fintech lending profit kept GMO Payment Gateway at 77% of its full-year operating-profit target.
Nexon's net profit for the six months to June rose to ¥86.9bn, up 102% and already close to all of 2025's total, as ARC Raiders and a refreshed MapleStory line-up outweighed a sliding Dungeon&Fighter franchise.
The payments processor's six-month transaction volume climbed 15.2% to ¥1.13tn, and operating profit jumped 161.6%, far outpacing revenue growth of 14.3%.
Medley's first-half net profit rose 131% to ¥1.5bn on hiring-platform growth, and the healthcare-jobs company also borrowed ¥5bn from two banks and took full ownership of the business behind Recruit Medical Career weeks after the half closed.
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.
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.
WOWOW and NTT Docomo signed the absorption-split contract on August 12 that will fold Docomo's Lemino streaming business into a joint venture 51% owned by WOWOW, with the split, share transfer and commercial launch all targeted for October 1; WOWOW says the earnings impact for the year to March 2027 is still under review.
ExaWizards' quarterly revenue rose 41% to ¥3.45bn, but the bigger change sits on the balance sheet: a ¥5.4bn share allotment to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group pushed the AI developer's equity ratio to 70%, and it now plans its first dividend since listing.
The Tokyo HR-software group is spending ¥1.09bn for control of loss-making DE&I and wellbeing SaaS provider Cradle, and separately committing up to ¥1bn to a share buyback through the end of September, both approved at the same August 12 board meeting.
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.
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.
A ¥787 million quarterly profit came with a ¥6.48 billion buyback and a three-for-one stock split set for October, while two newly acquired businesses have yet to show up in Akatsuki's income statement.
CyberStep recovered its full ¥1.25 billion purchase price after cancelling January's takeover of contact-centre firm 3rd, and admitted two price-protection side deals should have been disclosed when they were signed, not held back until this week's filing on the unwind.
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.
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.