https://tokyobrief.com/articles/katayama-food-tax-cut-no-deficit-bonds-supplementary-budget Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T18:30:50.420Z Katayama says food tax cut will be paid for without deficit bonds, naming subsidy reviews and a slimmer supplementary budget https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-reserve-assets-fall-september-2026 Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T18:23:36.160Z Japan's reserve assets fall by $29,128 million in September https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jftc-mock-inspection-kumamoto-high-school-class Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T16:19:18.556Z Japan's antitrust regulator takes a mock on-site inspection to a Kumamoto high school https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-gas-utilities-remote-monitoring-subsidy-20mn-cap Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T16:15:19.644Z Japan will pay half the cost of remote shutoff systems for small gas utilities, up to ¥20mn https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-childcare-kindergarten-guidelines-draft-public-comment Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T16:06:58.003Z Japan's child agency seeks comment on a play-based rewrite of nursery and kindergarten standards https://tokyobrief.com/articles/yodoko-takes-nakayama-steel-stake-electric-furnace-alliance Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:51:38.601Z Yodoko takes 10.70% of Nakayama Steel for ¥4.9bn in own funds https://tokyobrief.com/articles/warabeya-nichiyo-profit-guide-cut-middle-east-costs-ohio-plant Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:51:08.338Z Warabeya Nichiyo cuts profit guide as Middle East costs hit domestic food and an Ohio plant halts https://tokyobrief.com/articles/draft-order-height-permit-real-estate-disclosure-business-facility-districts Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:50:31.271Z Draft order adds new business-district height permit to pre-sale approvals https://tokyobrief.com/articles/tsuruha-first-half-welcia-integration-sales-profit-guidance Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:49:50.830Z Tsuruha's first half since the Welcia deal: sales hit ¥1.28tn, profit growth lags https://tokyobrief.com/articles/true-data-cosmonet-acquisition-pro-shop-data Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:49:18.345Z True Data buys a hardware-store software maker to get at tradesmen's purchasing data https://tokyobrief.com/articles/stella-pharma-steboronine-recurrent-meningioma-panel-review Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:48:46.383Z Stella Pharma's meningioma application heads to a Japanese drug panel, with a wider label than its trial tested https://tokyobrief.com/articles/ppc-large-leak-caution-previews-revised-security-examples Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:48:15.545Z Japan's privacy regulator tells big data holders to delete stale records and previews revised security examples https://tokyobrief.com/articles/otsuka-voyxact-sbla-rolling-submission-complete Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:47:43.990Z Otsuka completes US filing seeking full approval for IgA kidney drug VOYXACT https://tokyobrief.com/articles/oasis-lifts-en-inc-stake-15-63-percent Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:47:10.919Z Oasis lifts its en inc. stake to 15.63% and keeps further buying open https://tokyobrief.com/articles/npc-five-year-plan-first-solar-sales-floor-investment Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:46:42.560Z NPC sets 60% sales floor outside First Solar in five-year plan with ¥4bn investment https://tokyobrief.com/articles/nittoc-construction-buys-housing-foundation-contractor Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:46:10.885Z Nittoc Construction signs to buy a housing-foundation contractor with ¥3.52bn in sales https://tokyobrief.com/articles/nissan-chemical-zhangjiagang-semiconductor-materials-subsidiary Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:45:36.679Z Nissan Chemical registers a wholly owned Chinese subsidiary to make chip coating materials near customers https://tokyobrief.com/articles/nippon-shikizai-cuts-profit-forecast-french-units-offset Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:45:01.891Z Nippon Shikizai cuts full-year profit forecast as French units fail to offset weak home orders https://tokyobrief.com/articles/draft-curriculum-trims-subjects-for-it-lessons Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:44:32.100Z Draft curriculum would trim larger subjects by 3-4% to make room for IT lessons https://tokyobrief.com/articles/mitsubishi-motors-settles-us-subsidiary-lawsuit Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:43:58.688Z Mitsubishi Motors settles US subsidiary lawsuit, to book cost in July-September quarter https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jftc-searches-sapporo-kirin-asahi-beer-units Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:43:23.810Z Japan's antitrust agency acts against Sapporo, Kirin and Asahi beer units https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jftc-sme-agency-corporate-transactions-study-group-price-pass-through Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:42:52.380Z Regulators convene a new supplier-pricing panel after surveys find rules slow to take hold https://tokyobrief.com/articles/hoshino-resorts-reit-august-revpar-fall Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:42:21.804Z Hoshino Resorts REIT's August RevPAR fell 6.8% as Kansai and storm-hit regions lagged https://tokyobrief.com/articles/harima-chemicals-exits-lawter-new-zealand Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:41:50.113Z Harima Chemicals to exit loss-making New Zealand pine chemicals plant https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jc-star-level-1-grid-interconnection-draft-solar-wind-batteries-fuel-cells Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:41:18.992Z METI proposes JC-STAR Level 1 label for internet-connected solar, wind, battery and fuel cell equipment https://tokyobrief.com/articles/grantomato-widens-loss-forecast-scraps-dividend-rice Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:40:47.000Z Grantomato widens its expected loss and scraps the year-end dividend after rice prices kept falling https://tokyobrief.com/articles/gni-group-topix-inclusion-october-30 Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:40:15.212Z GNI Group, a Growth-market drugmaker, says it will join TOPIX on October 30 https://tokyobrief.com/articles/fsa-adds-izakaya-limited-unregistered-crypto-list Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:39:46.789Z FSA adds Hong Kong-address crypto site IZAKA-YA to its unregistered-operator list https://tokyobrief.com/articles/falcom-record-profit-forecast-dividend-60-yen Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:39:16.476Z Falcom forecasts record profit on strong game sales and lifts dividend plan to ¥60 https://tokyobrief.com/articles/coconala-buys-51-percent-acrosstudio-ai-consultancy Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:38:44.607Z coconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥867mn https://tokyobrief.com/articles/ckd-secondary-offering-buyback-cross-shareholding-sale Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:38:10.941Z CKD's bank and insurer shareholders sell 3.57mn shares as the company lines up a ¥5bn buyback https://tokyobrief.com/articles/boj-uchida-ai-demand-shock-neutral-rate Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:37:40.409Z BOJ's Uchida calls AI a positive demand shock, and says its effect on the neutral rate is hard to gauge https://tokyobrief.com/articles/abc-mart-raises-full-year-forecast-keeps-second-half-plan Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-07T10:37:05.420Z ABC-Mart raises full-year forecast by its first-half overshoot and leaves the second half unchanged https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jftc-asahikawa-high-school-antimonopoly-class Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T19:18:47.118Z Japan's antitrust agency takes its school roadshow to an Asahikawa business class https://tokyobrief.com/articles/direava-surgical-ai-ceatec-innovation-award Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T19:14:28.313Z Direava's surgical AI wins a CEATEC innovation award, with its own benchmark scores above 80% https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-public-service-reform-policy-comment-call Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T19:09:32.060Z Japan invites private firms to name the public services they could take over https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-reserve-fund-longhorn-beetle-control-3-23bn Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T16:03:03.822Z Cabinet Taps ¥3.23bn Reserve for Beetle Control, Most of It Through the Environment Ministry https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jbic-regional-bank-overseas-monitoring-agreement Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T15:57:02.091Z JBIC to share overseas project monitoring with a regional bank on jointly financed loans https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jbic-loan-japanese-owned-gym-operator-malaysia Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T15:52:56.465Z JBIC signs ¥70mn loan cap for Japanese-owned gym operator in Malaysia https://tokyobrief.com/articles/fujitsu-september-buyback-progress-150bn-programme Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:34:01.104Z Fujitsu has spent ¥32.82bn of its ¥150bn buyback, a fifth of the way in https://tokyobrief.com/articles/kyocera-buyback-september-177-bn-of-250-bn Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:33:23.970Z Kyocera has spent ¥177.63bn of its ¥250bn buyback after a ¥32.36bn September https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-draft-non-pharmacopoeial-natural-drug-standards-2026 Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:32:50.365Z Japan's health ministry proposes nine new herbal ingredient standards and 18 revisions https://tokyobrief.com/articles/nedo-perovskite-solar-training-course-rato-university-of-tokyo Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:32:13.598Z NEDO picks a perovskite solar training team, with up to ¥20mn for the current year https://tokyobrief.com/articles/image-information-digloss-crm-business-transfer Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:31:32.670Z Image Information agrees ¥170mn cash purchase of a call-centre business https://tokyobrief.com/articles/meiji-sells-nippon-kanzume-to-yoshimura-food-holdings Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:30:54.257Z Meiji sells negative-net-asset corn processor to Yoshimura after one-share recapitalisation https://tokyobrief.com/articles/pharma-foods-buys-medical-food-supplier-5-03-billion-yen Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:30:18.075Z Pharma Foods agrees ¥5.03bn purchase of a hospital-meal supplier from a buyout fund https://tokyobrief.com/articles/sekisui-jushi-pays-krw58bn-control-korean-road-safety-maker-hi-q Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:29:42.655Z Sekisui Jushi pays KRW58bn for control of Korean road-safety maker Hi-Q https://tokyobrief.com/articles/nedo-consortium-droplet-microbial-screening-system Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:29:10.124Z Consortium's droplet screener sorts about 1mn microbe droplets in six hours https://tokyobrief.com/articles/note-nine-month-operating-profit-849-million-ai-segment Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:28:18.167Z note's nine-month operating profit rises to ¥849mn as new AI unit adds ¥28mn https://tokyobrief.com/articles/jpmc-buyout-clears-tender-minimum-delisting-needs-vote Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:27:46.151Z JPMC Buyout Clears Its Tender Minimum, but Delisting Still Needs a Shareholder Vote https://tokyobrief.com/articles/bain-linked-baudroie-tender-succeeds-squeeze-out-planned Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:27:13.830Z Bain-Linked Bid for Baudroie Succeeds, With Squeeze-Out Planned After October 13 Settlement https://tokyobrief.com/articles/mcdonalds-japan-september-sales-customer-count-average-spend Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:26:42.253Z McDonald's Japan Customer Count Rises 3.3% in September as Average Spend Climbs 6.5% https://tokyobrief.com/articles/nikkei-300-etf-nav-discount-seven-sessions Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:26:09.552Z Nomura's Nikkei 300 ETF Has Traded 5% or More Below NAV for Seven Straight Sessions https://tokyobrief.com/articles/furuno-raises-interim-operating-profit-forecast-ship-schedules Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:25:38.711Z Furuno lifts interim operating-profit forecast 28% as Chinese ship-construction schedules move up https://tokyobrief.com/articles/toho-holdings-contests-injunction-share-warrant-defence Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:25:02.584Z Toho Holdings contests court order blocking its takeover-defence warrants https://tokyobrief.com/articles/mlit-draft-particle-number-limit-diesel-special-vehicles Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:24:30.957Z Japan's transport ministry drafts first particle-count cap for diesel special vehicles https://tokyobrief.com/articles/axelspace-grus-3-impairment-downlink-guidance-cut Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:23:53.274Z Axelspace books ¥1.879bn impairment on four satellites that can still take pictures https://tokyobrief.com/articles/sbi-base-offer-extended-october-21-shareholder-30-percent Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:23:20.252Z SBI Extends BASE Offer to October 21 After Major Shareholder Signals Buying Past 30% https://tokyobrief.com/articles/ricoh-outside-director-strategic-review Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:22:47.709Z Ricoh gives outside directors a strategy review covering portfolio and capital allocation https://tokyobrief.com/articles/basel-committee-october-publications-japan-leverage-ratio-review Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:22:13.878Z Basel Committee lines up October releases, with Japan's leverage-ratio review among them https://tokyobrief.com/articles/disco-first-half-sales-beat-forecast-record-shipments Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:21:40.153Z DISCO's preliminary first-half sales beat its own forecast as quarterly shipments hit a record https://tokyobrief.com/articles/strategic-capital-gungho-buyout-dividend-buyback-proposals Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T10:21:03.259Z Strategic Capital Lists Buyout, Dividend and Buyback Proposals for GungHo https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-skilled-worker-visa-holders-432016-july-2026 Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T06:36:46.813Z Japan's skilled foreign workforce grew by 89,093 in a year, and restaurants are nearly at their cap https://tokyobrief.com/articles/kawasaki-heavy-2030-targets-defence-outlook-raised Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T06:29:10.508Z Kawasaki Heavy Raises Its 2030 Defence Sales Outlook and Sets a ¥330bn Business-Profit Target https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-taxi-bus-customer-harassment-carriage-terms-draft Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T02:27:39.781Z Japan proposes letting taxi and bus crews refuse riders who ignore a call to stop harassment https://tokyobrief.com/articles/japan-proposes-tighter-thiamethoxam-glyphosate-water-limits Tokyo Brief en 2026-10-06T02:24:21.374Z Japan proposes tighter water limits on thiamethoxam and glyphosate