Results, forecasts and guidance revisions from Japan's listed companies, in English.
Operating income at the Japanese food group rose 24% to ¥20.02bn, but net profit fell to ¥13.21bn because a ¥12.07bn gain from selling assets a year earlier shrank to just ¥22mn this time.
Celsys now expects half-year operating profit of ¥2.22bn, up 38.9% from its February forecast, after CLIP STUDIO PAINT's version 5.0 upgrade beat sales targets worldwide, though its full-year outlook stays unchanged.
OSG has raised its full-year operating-profit guide by 36% to ¥30bn and lifted its dividend to ¥115 a share, citing a weaker yen and steady demand for cutting tools in India, Germany and the US.
Takeuchi Mfg. passed on less than half of a ¥3.54bn US tariff increase this quarter, cutting operating profit 9.3% even as orders from American rental firms surged 59% and full-year guidance stayed unchanged.
A core IT system migration and European restructuring costs cut quarterly operating profit by a fifth at Yaskawa Electric, even as semiconductor and data-centre-linked investment pushed revenue up 10.6%.
Aeon Financial Service's net profit for the quarter to May more than doubled to ¥8.97bn as Japanese loan and card-fee income rose and Malaysia and Hong Kong expanded, yet the group's forecast for a 28.9% full-year profit decline is unchanged.
Sales of extreme ultraviolet photoresist ingredients lifted Osaka Organic Chemical's electronics-materials profit 68.4% in the six months to May, and the specialty chemical maker has allied with Sanpo Chemical Laboratories to broaden its semiconductor materials lineup.
Weathernews trimmed 15,300 hours of monthly labor with AI and grew operating profit 16% in the year to May 2026, but a one-off commemorative dividend that pushed its payout ratio to 99.1% is set to unwind, with the company's own forecast putting next year's ratio at 58.3%.
Treasure Factory raised its full-year operating profit target to ¥5.33bn and added ¥2 to its interim dividend after a quarter where sales rose 16.4% and operating profit jumped 24%, though the company says some of that strength borrowed from the quarter ahead.
Kewpie's domestic operating margin jumped to 7.7% on price increases and a cheaper egg benchmark, but overseas operating profit fell 13% on Americas softness and new-factory depreciation, even as full-year guidance stayed unchanged.
Applied Materials accounted for 21.9% of Rorze's quarterly sales, up from 15.3% a year earlier, as AI-driven memory investment pushed the Hiroshima wafer-handling equipment maker's semiconductor orders up 1.9 times to a record ¥42.0bn. Rorze left its full-year profit guidance, set in April, unchanged.
Seven & i lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥425.0bn after gasoline revenue at 7-Eleven, Inc. beat plan and it revised its dollar-yen assumption to ¥157 from ¥150, even as domestic convenience-store profit dipped on store-investment costs.
International Uniqlo profit jumped 45% in the nine months to May, driving group operating profit up 36% and pushing Fast Retailing to raise its full-year revenue and profit forecast for the year to August 2026.
Life Corporation grew quarterly revenue 3.2% but operating profit fell 6.9% after personnel costs rose 5.1% on a third straight year of 5%-plus wage hikes and expanded staff holidays, and the company is sticking with its full-year profit target regardless.
South Korea sales jumped 13.1% as shoppers there recovered from last year's political turmoil, helping push ABC-Mart's operating profit up 8.3% to ¥20.3bn while the full-year forecast stayed unchanged.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's profit attributable to shareholders rose 36.5% to ¥1.73tn for the year to March 2026 under US accounting rules, outpacing a 9.5% rise in revenue and a 12.3% rise in expenses.
The number: customer visits to McDonald's Japan fell 1.5% in June even as diners spent 4.2% more per visit, pulling same-store sales growth down to 2.7% from May's 5.7%.
The number: USS Group sold 619,002 vehicles in the June quarter, up 8.4% year-on-year, while listings rose a slower 4.7% to 950,380. The result: a contract rate of 65.1%, up from 62.9% a year earlier, with Tokyo and Kyushu leading and Osaka the lone large venue to shrink.
The number: Nextage's half-year operating profit came in 34% above its own guidance, on a buoyant used-car purchasing market and shorter inventory lead times. The retailer now expects full-year operating profit of ¥27.6bn, up 15% from January's forecast, while leaving its second-half plan unchanged for now.
The number: DISCO's April-June shipments hit a record ¥116.5bn, up 18.7% from the prior quarter, while sales of ¥95.0bn still lagged behind because DISCO only books revenue once customers accept delivery. Generative-AI demand for its wafer-cutting and grinding tools drove the shipment record; full audited results land July 23.
The number: a ¥22.2bn net loss after last October’s ransomware attack knocked out ordering systems, dragged sales to ¥400.2bn and cut the annual dividend to ¥10. Management is guiding for sales to recover to ¥490bn and profit to return, but says margins will still be rebuilding.
A planned 5.6% fall in net income for the year ending April 2027 reflects a return to a roughly 35% tax burden, the pet-care group says, while advertising has already been stepped back up after a deliberate fourth-quarter pause.
Operating profit rose to ¥418.8mn, or 83.8% of KTK's full-year goal, as higher-margin reuse toner and IT cross-selling lifted both segments and left guidance unchanged.
The move: sales guidance for the year to November rose to ¥28.5bn, but the bigger change is profit, with operating profit lifted to ¥1.4bn as electronic components and photomasks held up and costs ran lower than planned.