Investigations, recalls, restatements, lawsuits and late filings at Japanese companies.
A hearing with Sun Asterisk Vietnam Co., Ltd. turned up cash outside the accounting books, and Sun* Inc. now needs an extra month, until September 14, to file a half-year report its auditor says it cannot review on the original schedule.
Two Sunwels term loans, carrying balances of ¥321mn and ¥549mn, tripped their covenants this quarter, and lenders have only granted a principal repayment pause through September while the Parkinson's-care operator freezes new facility openings and absorbs a reimbursement-fee cut.
A tip-off about past used-truck sales has widened into a three-fiscal-year accounting correction at AI storm, forcing the company to delay its quarterly results to November and consider a statutory filing extension while its auditor withholds sign-off.
Takara Holdings pulled its August 7 earnings release after its auditor said it could not complete a quarterly review of Takara Bio USA's accounts, and the Kyoto group now expects to miss the standard 45-day disclosure deadline with no new date set.
Abalance expects to publish corrected historical filings and two backlogged fiscal-2026 results by August 21, but the same staffing squeeze pushes its next quarterly summary past its usual 45-day norm and into early October.
Gotham City Research, which admits it is short Sumitomo Pharma's stock, has accused the drugmaker of hiding image-duplication problems in research behind a treatment developed with Kyoto University; the company calls the report one-sided and defends its approval data.
A short seller's report linking Sumitomo Pharma's approved therapy to unresolved image-duplication questions at Kyoto University's CiRA discloses a stock position that pays off if the report's target sees its shares fall; Sumitomo Pharma calls the report one-sided and may sue.
An independent probe into Wel-Dish. Incorporated found that its former president paid only ¥5 a share, not the disclosed ¥140, for 235,000 shares, and later ordered a subordinate to destroy the paperwork before his own committee hearing.
ES Next quit as AI storm's statutory auditor after discovering pre-existing allegations tied to used-truck sales that predate its own appointment, and Frontier Audit Corporation, a firm AI storm had cycled through as recently as March, has returned as temporary auditor while a special committee investigates.
A ¥42.5bn syndicated loan survived only because five banks agreed in July not to demand early repayment after Tsubaki Nakashima breached its financial covenants for a second half in a row, and the company's own numbers show the reported profit recovery ran mostly on a one-off land sale.
A loss-of-field alarm tripped the generator at Kansai Electric's Ohi Unit 3 on August 8, forcing an automatic reactor shutdown that the utility says caused no radioactive release, with the cause still under investigation.
An internal audit at Sun* Inc. found cash at its Vietnamese subsidiary that was not on the books, and the company's auditor says it cannot finish reviewing the accounts before the deadlines for both the quarterly results and the half-year securities report.
Sumitomo Pharma says a ¥164.5bn dividend from its Swiss unit and a jump in receivables were routine accounting, not the earnings-management scheme Gotham City Research alleged in an August 3 short-seller report.
Sumitomo Pharma says its auditor's unqualified opinion covers the accounts a new report questions, and for now it has found nothing that would justify restating them.
A forensic probe found no log evidence that hackers pulled data from Nidec's Taiwan subsidiary, but a dark-web list of folder and file names means Nidec still can't rule out a leak, even as the unit's production and shipping continue as normal.
Datasection has sued short seller Wolfpack Research in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking retraction of a report that accused its AI infrastructure GPU purchases of breaking U.S. export-control law; the company says its lawyers cleared the projects, and the damages claim remains unquantified.
Nine people, six Nippon Paper employees and three contractor staff, died when an earthquake hit the company's Yatsushiro Mill in Kumamoto Prefecture, and production there remains halted while the company checks damage and taps other plants and inventory to keep supply flowing.
IRISO Electronics has no release date for either its year-to-March 2026 results or the following quarter's earnings, as a third-party committee investigates suspected improper overseas payments alongside separate quality and inspection concerns.
An explosion killed seven people at AEON Mall Kumamoto just after evacuation from a magnitude-7 earthquake was completed, and AEON still won't estimate what shutting the 204-tenant mall will cost.
An earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture forced Tokai Carbon to halt nearly all running equipment at the plant that supplies isotropic graphite to chipmakers and solar cell producers, though the company reports no injuries, structural damage or fires so far and is still assessing shipment and earnings impact.
FreeBit says a special committee probing its 2025 CountUp acquisition may not wrap up in time for the company to get its audit report and file by the July 31 statutory deadline, so it is weighing an extension request to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
Appointed on June 25, Media Links' incoming audit firm resigned within a month after it could not get sufficient evidence to sign off on inventory recoverability for the year to March 2026 and earlier periods, and the electronics maker now has no accounting auditor while it looks for a temporary replacement.
REVOLUTION's shares now carry a Tokyo Stock Exchange special-alert warning and a listing penalty fee after auditor Aria declined to issue an opinion on its half-year accounts, prompting internal investigation committees at the company and two subsidiaries.
A ransomware attack in September that let an intruder roam Asahi Group Holdings' Japan network delayed the brewer's annual securities report by four months and forced a rare admission that its internal controls over financial reporting were not effective for the year to December 2025, even though auditors signed off on the underlying numbers.