Results, forecasts and guidance revisions from Japan's listed companies, in English.
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.
Kobe Bussan's July sales rose 7.6% and store openings kept pace, but a reversal in yen forward valuation gains dropped ordinary profit to about a fifth of last year's level, a swing the company calls temporary and non-operational.
Hitachi will book a ¥179.9bn extraordinary profit from selling down its Hitachi Construction Machinery stake in its standalone accounts, but IFRS rules mean the same sale leaves consolidated group earnings untouched.
Healthcare & Medical Investment Corporation is expanding its unit count by more than a quarter to help pay for 14 new properties, a move that lifts its profit forecast sharply while leaving unitholders' near-term distribution exactly where it was.
Net Protections told investors that price cuts in its consumer buy-now-pay-later business mean underlying gross profit growth is close to flat once a prior-year one-off is removed, and that its credit-card alliance won't add meaningful volume until the second half of this fiscal year at the earliest, with most of the impact landing next year.
A ¥6.6bn reversal of Cullgen's preferred-share interest, not stronger drug sales, pushed GNI Group into the black for the first half, and the real growth test starts next quarter when Ayumi Pharmaceutical's revenue is added to the books.
RYODEN Corporation raised its full-year operating profit forecast 25% after AI- and data-center-linked cooling and factory-automation orders drove a 132.8% jump in first-quarter operating profit, and it is using the upside to raise its dividend, split its stock and buy back shares.
Pan Pacific International Holdings grew net profit 21.6% to ¥110.1bn on record duty-free sales for the year to June 2026, but its own guidance for the year ahead, which already includes the newly absorbed Olympic Group chain, points to profit growth of just 0.4% and a slight decline in ordinary profit.
A ¥5.19bn gain from selling a single Tokyo office building accounted for more than a fifth of Nippon Building Fund's net income this period, while earnings per unit from ongoing operations fell 2.6% and average borrowing costs rose to 0.82%.
Tax-free sales at Takashimaya jumped 26.2% in July on pricier tourist purchases, but the retailer's own August tally already shows visitor transaction counts falling even as average spending keeps rising.
A ¥5.2bn gain from selling one Tokyo building drove most of Nippon Building Fund's 26.2% profit rise; core leasing profit grew only 2.1%, and management now guides for two straight periods of lower earnings before a partial recovery in mid-2027.
Advance Create's floor consolidation in Tokyo generated ¥70mn in compensation income and a ¥41.5mn accounting reversal, but a ¥99.8mn impairment charge alone outweighs that income, adding to losses at a company already ¥6.1bn underwater on its balance sheet.
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.
Bank of Okinawa pushed its loan yield to 1.81% and rode strong local credit demand, lifting parent Okinawa Financial Group's quarterly net profit 41% to ¥3.61bn, even as deposit funding costs nearly doubled.
Orders for Ebara's chipmaking equipment jumped 89.3% in the six months to June, pushing the group's total order intake to a record ¥636.3bn, but operating profit rose just 1.2% as a swing to a loss in the energy business offset most of the gain.
First-half profit fell 71% at the Tokyo affiliate-ad network, pushing it to scrap this year's earnings forecast and the three-year growth plan it launched in early 2025; management points to AI-generated search summaries diverting clicks from its affiliate partner sites.
Record first-half sales and a 48.5% jump in operating profit gave ASICS the confidence to raise full-year revenue guidance to ¥1.05tn and lift its annual dividend to ¥44, while confirming Onitsuka Tiger will be spun off into a standalone company from January 2027.
A completed tender offer has handed Culture Convenience Club control of Jimoty, and an August 28 shareholder vote on share consolidation is the remaining step before the classifieds operator leaves the Tokyo Stock Exchange, even as its ad business and reuse-hub franchise both grew through June 2026.
Operating profit fell by more than half at Japanese X-ray instrument maker Rigaku Holdings in the six months to June, dragged down by weaker lab-equipment sales tied to US trade friction and energy costs rather than academic-funding cuts alone. Chipmaking tools kept growing on memory and logic demand, and Carlyle has sold its Rigaku stake to US metrology firm Onto Innovation, which gets a board seat and a joint hybrid-metrology push aimed at advanced AI chips.
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.
Dentsu Group swung to a ¥46.3bn first-half net profit largely because it sold a Ginza-area office building and avoided repeating last year's ¥86.6bn impairment, not because advertising demand recovered: organic gross-profit growth was just 0.3%, propped up entirely by a 5.0% gain in Japan against declines in the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
Agora Hospitality Group's ordinary profit dropped 67% in the six months to June as a Chinese visitor slump and an Osaka Expo comedown cut Kansai hotel occupancy, tipping the parent company into a ¥59mn net loss even as its two Tokyo hotels grew both sales and profit.
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.
RIZAP Group posted a ¥135 million net profit for the quarter to June 2026, its first first-quarter profit in five years, while still committing roughly ¥15 billion this year to expanding its chocoZAP gym chain.