Results, forecasts and guidance revisions from Japan's listed companies, in English.
AEON's half-year operating profit rose 10.7% to ¥130.7bn on Tsuruha consolidation, mall renovations and Vietnam, while general merchandise stores lost ¥12.6bn and the full-year ¥340bn profit target was left unchanged.
Tariff refunds worth ¥6.8bn to full-year operating profit help lift the construction-machinery maker's forecast to ¥44.5bn, and a buyback of up to ¥15bn follows, but first-half operating cash flow turned negative.
World's profit attributable to owners rose 4.2% to ¥5.88bn in the six months to August, helped by a lower tax charge, while operating profit grew just 1.2% and apparel brands missed on summer sales.
Selling and administrative costs rose 16.3% against 13.6% for gross profit, leaving the Maruetsu and Kasumi parent with a ¥3.28bn operating loss and a ¥4.65bn net loss for the six months to August.
Yaskawa's half-year sales rose 9.8% on data-centre and semiconductor demand, but operating profit fell 5.5% after a core-system migration, higher indirect costs and European restructuring; full-year sales guidance rose to ¥600bn while operating profit guidance fell to ¥57.5bn.
United Super Markets Holdings now forecasts ¥1.0bn of operating profit instead of ¥10.0bn and an ¥8.0bn net loss, citing weaker customer numbers, price responses to inflation and competition, and planned store write-downs and closures.
Tecmira's Life Design segment returned to profit after a new game's July 16 worldwide launch, but the group's operating loss remains and its positive ordinary income includes a ¥119.9mn exchange gain.
OSG raised its operating profit forecast to ¥36bn from ¥30bn, crediting firm industrial demand, cheap tungsten inventory and a refund of earlier US tariffs, without splitting the gain between them, and lifted its annual dividend forecast to ¥130.
AEON Financial Service's six-month operating profit fell 11.0% to ¥25.2bn on higher deposit costs and one-time card-system expenses, with domestic segments down 36.9% and overseas up 2.2%; full-year guidance is unchanged.
Yoshinoya Holdings beat its first-half forecasts and raised its full-year operating profit goal to ¥10bn from ¥8.5bn, while warning that raw material and labor costs will rise further in the second half.
Terumo expects about $610mn of losses from ending its CSL Plasma supply contract, cutting its operating profit forecast to ¥160bn from ¥257.5bn while leaving adjusted operating profit at ¥274.5bn.
Sugi Holdings lifted its full-year sales forecast to ¥1.118tn after consolidating Seki Yakuhin, but trimmed operating profit guidance to ¥51.0bn, saying a poor summer weighed on seasonal goods at existing stores.
Seven & i's overseas convenience stores earned ¥150.4bn in the half to August against ¥109.9bn in Japan, where profit fell; reported revenue dropped 2.8% mostly because Seven Bank and York units left the group.
Rorze now forecasts ¥53.1bn of operating profit for the year to February 2027, up from ¥38.1bn, and raised its year-end dividend to ¥28, with record chip-equipment orders and a ¥103.9bn backlog behind the upgrade.
Kojima's annual operating profit rose 17.7% to ¥8.62bn as air-conditioner sales spread beyond Tokyo, offsetting a margin drag from phones and consoles, and electronic shelf labels had been installed in every store by the end of August.
Warabeya Nichiyo Holdings now expects operating profit of ¥6.0bn for the year to February 2027, down from ¥7.7bn, as packaging and energy costs rise, while a separate Ohio plant loss pulls net profit to ¥3.5bn.
Tsuruha's six-month sales rose 128.7% to ¥1.276tn against a half that ended before the Welcia integration, with operating profit up 92.6%, and the drugstore group left its full-year guidance unchanged.
Nippon Shikizai cut its full-year consolidated operating profit forecast to ¥261mn from ¥394mn, saying a sharp standalone shortfall from weak domestic orders and unrecovered oil-derived costs outweighs French subsidiaries it expects to beat forecasts.
Hoshino Resorts REIT's August RevPAR fell 6.8% to ¥20,355 on lower occupancy and room rates, which the manager blamed on Kansai weakness and storms, while it expects September gains outside Kansai.
Grantomato now expects a ¥778mn net loss for the year to August 2026, double its April estimate, and has cancelled a planned ¥40 year-end dividend after falling rice prices forced cut-price sales of old-crop stock.
Nihon Falcom raised its operating profit forecast for the year to September to ¥2.8bn from ¥2.2bn, crediting sales of its recent releases, and plans a ¥60 dividend including a ¥30 commemorative payout.
ABC-Mart raised its operating profit forecast by ¥1.6bn to ¥67.2bn but left second-half plans unchanged, pointing to possible weaker consumer sentiment and a November change to Japan's tax-free system.
note's operating profit for the nine months to August was ¥849mn against ¥127mn a year earlier, with the media platform earning ¥886.9mn of segment profit and the new AI-related unit ¥28mn, while the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
McDonald's Japan's existing-store sales rose 10.0% in September, its best monthly reading since January, with a 6.5% rise in average spend per customer outpacing a 3.3% gain in customer count.