Investigations, recalls, restatements, lawsuits and late filings at Japanese companies.
Mitsubishi Motors said a settlement ended the lawsuit against Mitsubishi Motors North America on October 6 US time, will book the cost in the quarter to September, and kept its earnings forecast unchanged, with no amount disclosed.
Japan's transport ministry has barred Tokai Kisen from using three vessels from October 9 to October 28 after inspections found alcohol-related and record-falsification lapses; the company is still assessing the earnings impact.
Axelspace Holdings said restoring the high-speed image-download link on four of the seven GRUS-3 satellites launched in July, and starting their commercial use, has been judged difficult, and a possible impairment charge on fixed assets has not been quantified.
Kyushu Railway expects to reopen the Kumamoto to Shin-Minamata Shinkansen section on September 18 and the Kagoshima Main Line's Uto-Yatsushiro stretch by mid-October, but both dates could slip with aftershocks and the earthquake's cost to earnings is still being tallied.
A court-appointed administrator is running Showa Holdings after a reorganization petition from J Trust Asia, and the company says the accounting and audit work involved means no first-quarter earnings report will appear before its shares are delisted on August 25.
Senko Group Holdings bought back treasury shares beyond what Japan's Companies Act allowed in December 2025, and its board has now approved new sign-off chains, standardized manuals and mandatory legal-review rules for future dividend and buyback decisions.
A former accountant at Mikuni's Taiwan subsidiary moved company funds into a personal account for years, and the discovery has forced the Tokyo auto-parts maker to correct five annual securities reports plus eight half-year and quarterly filings.
Mikuni’s June 26 disclosures were less about annual sales than about governance: the supplier said reporting controls were ineffective after repeated unauthorized transfers at Taiwan Mikuni, and the amendments reach back to the year ended March 2021.