Share buybacks, offerings, activist stakes, shareholder votes and board changes at Japanese companies.
Kawasaki Heavy priced 37.35 million new shares at ¥2,609 each for ¥92.5bn net, earmarked by March 2029 for robotics-fitted plants making aircraft engines, gas turbines, semiconductor robots and hydrogen-carrier ships, alongside a separate ¥50bn zero-coupon convertible bond due 2031.
A pro-rated buyback into JX Metals' own tender offer trimmed ENEOS Holdings' stake from 42.38% to 35.28%, a shift worth roughly ¥194.8bn according to the filing's own disclosure.
SBI Holdings filed for a ¥170bn unsecured note and a separate ¥50bn dual-tranche bond on the same day, both charged against one ¥800bn shelf registration that still shows ¥610bn unclaimed while both payments await settlement.
Invincible Investment Corp fixed borrowing costs of 1.98% to 2.63% on ¥35.03bn of debt via swaps with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Mizuho, and separately refinanced ¥41.15bn of maturing loans, with ¥15.33bn routed through green-loan terms tied to three hotel properties.
Sincere is lending its controlling shareholder Yukaria an unsecured ¥1.0bn at a fixed 6.0% rate, due back by September 30, with three independent directors vouching that the terms don't shortchange minority holders.
WingArc1st's board told shareholders its stock trades at an "extremely insufficient" level and authorized buying back up to 3.45% of shares outstanding, capped at ¥3.0bn, through May 2027.
A ¥23.1bn share purchase from activist investor Oasis Management lifts RAKUS's stake in HR-software maker Plus Alpha Consulting to 22.21%, but a signed memorandum locks the buyer into a standstill, one board seat and a right of first refusal for the target.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has priced a ¥197.4bn stock and convertible bond sale, accepting conversion premiums up to 49.98% to fund robotics, physical AI and a liquefied hydrogen supply chain through the early 2030s.
HCMA Alpha sold its entire 13.03% stake in FTGroup on June 30, 2026, and neither filing says who bought it, leaving parent Hikari Tsushin as the only sizeable shareholder still on the register.
Kinden Corporation used one session, June 23, to buy 33.5 million shares for ¥223.68bn, using up 99.99% of the buyback its board approved in April.
Toyota Tsusho bought back 118.1 million of its own shares at ¥5,620 apiece, settling 99.99% of the ¥663.7bn repurchase its board authorized in April.
Yuji Yamamoto financed his entire ¥576.5mn stake in Sakurajima Futo with his own money and then lent all 224,000 shares to Rakuten Securities and SBI Securities.
CHIIKISHINBUNSHA will hand ordinary investors new common shares while confining seven shareholders holding a combined 30.95% stake to restricted rights, a defense the board still needs shareholders to ratify after the fact this November.
Japan's loss-making autonomous-driving software developer fixed its offer price and lined up Morgan Stanley and SMBC to sell shares abroad, funneling the proceeds into custom AI chips and mass-production supply chains.
YCP Japan's ¥392.4mn purchase of 600,000 depositary receipts on July 13 pushes the Tokyo Growth-market company's cumulative buyback to ¥2.28bn, close to the cap on a mandate that runs to December 30, 2026.
The Japanese auto-parts maker is spending up to ¥1.5bn on a share buyback even as debt from its Hi-Lex Act deal pushes its equity ratio down to 58%, and it is closing plants in the US and Spain while reorganizing all 13 of its domestic factories by 2028.
Nomura Securities took up 87% of a planned share allotment, handing GO Inc. about ¥6.99bn to fund its autonomous-taxi project with Waymo and Nihon Kotsu, with any leftover cash reserved for taxi and logistics acquisitions rather than marketing spend until 2029.
A monthly filing shows Tokyo Electron spent ¥11.47bn to retire only 2.76% of the shares authorized under its new buyback, already using 7.65% of the ¥150bn budget the board approved in May.
East Japan Railway is selling ¥50bn in unsecured bonds across three-, five- and ten-year tranches, the fourth drawdown from a shelf programme that runs until March 2027.
The metals group will collect no interest on ¥35bn of new bonds due 2030, priced above face value and sold only to investors in Europe and Asia, with a second tranche maturing in 2032 filed alongside it but not yet detailed.
New York-based Indus Capital Partners now holds 11.15% of Suruga Bank's voting rights, up from 9.38%, after an amended large-shareholding report filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau on July 8.
Singapore's GIC pays roughly ¥16bn for new Sugi shares at ¥3,195 apiece — a 2.67% dilution — with ¥8bn earmarked for AI and supply-chain systems and the rest for stores and a drugstore M&A war chest.
The bonds carry general collateral and a joint debt-assumption clause naming Japan's expressway holding and debt-repayment body, but the filing sets out no coupon, pricing, or settlement dates.
Two shelf-registration supplements filed the same day carve out ¥20bn in three- and five-year unsecured bonds plus a separate ¥10bn tranche that won't settle until July 27.