Medium-term plans, capital spending, new plants, products and drug approvals from Japanese companies.
Finland's Verda Cloud has put down $5 million for exclusive rights to negotiate a lease over the entire 10MW first phase of Kankyo Friendly's Tomakomai AI data center, with a final contract due within roughly six weeks and an estimated ¥2.4bn to ¥2.5bn in annual fees if it closes.
FDA feedback let AnGes skip a required pre-application meeting and start a staged BLA filing for its HGF gene therapy targeting severe leg ischemia in PAD patients, a procedural green light rather than any read on approval chances.
Daio Paper is dissolving both its Indonesian diaper trading and manufacturing units after sales at the sales arm collapsed to 6.1 billion rupiah and losses widened across both entities, closing out a market entry the company made in 2013 on the strength of Indonesia's birth rate.
Kenedix's asset manager is preparing a new listed REIT for houses and row houses, and it rewrote its internal rules so the newcomer ranks third, not first, for ordinary apartment deals.
NASA and Draper mutually cancelled the CLPS CP-12 lunar-transport task order on July 9, and ispace's US subsidiary now expects its own lander subcontract with Draper to follow suit, though the Tokyo-listed company says it already excluded that revenue from its forecast for the year to March 2027 back in March.
Oki Electric Industry set no cap on how many employees aged 55 and older can take an enhanced retirement payout by October 31, 2026, only on their age and tenure, as it shifts headcount toward AI and digital-transformation work.
JCR Pharmaceuticals will file for Japanese approval of givinostat, already sold for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the US, EU and UK, using foreign trial data instead of a fresh domestic pivotal study, with a 2027 launch in view after talks with Japan's drug regulator.
PowerX and GPU-hosting operator Highreso have signed a memorandum to study battery storage, power trading and joint site development for AI data centers, an early-stage response to grid capacity strain rather than a signed project.
Beating 37 other bidders four months after entering the defense business, Terra Drone's interceptor system now has weeks of trials to prove it can stop Shahed-type suicide drones before Japan's defense agency locks in a mass-production order.
WIZE has built a Solana stash worth more than ¥1.0bn at an average cost of ¥15,053 per token, and because it marks the holding to market every quarter, price swings will flow straight into reported profit, an effect the company says it has not yet quantified.
An overseas client froze a major console project at Tose with no restart date and no payout for the idle staff, prompting the outsourcer to consider penalty clauses in future contracts. Tose also confirms several of its 2026 titles are built for Nintendo's Switch 2.
Eisai and Biogen can now sell a weekly, 15-second self-injection as the starting treatment for early Alzheimer's disease, not just the maintenance dose already approved last year.
Timee will launch a bank-agent service with SBI Sumishin Net Bank and push into elder-care staffing through Benesse Carioc, but ventures outside spot work are set to run at a ¥1.8bn deficit next year.
Axelspace Holdings says its new GRUS-3 constellation cleared critical orbital checks three days after launch, and the earnings forecast due July 14 already assumes the milestone holds.
Okinawa Electric Power wants Japan's industry ministry to lift its five-year grid-wheeling revenue cap by ¥15.7bn to ¥362.1bn, blaming inflation and interest costs its 2023 plan never priced in, with new rates targeted for November 2026 pending approval.
Japan Display's board has voted to dissolve JDI Hong Kong Limited after the unit's revenue collapsed from $636.6mn to $79.2mn in two years; operations stop September 30, 2026, as part of a wider overseas sales reshuffle.
A small Tokyo-listed renewables holding company connected its ¥684mn, 8 MWh battery station in Fukuoka to Kyushu Electric's grid on July 1, ahead of schedule, and is now angling for a spot in Japan's balancing market once the August handover closes.
ispace paid SpaceX $50mn for 500kg of payload space on a Starship mission targeting a lunar landing as early as 2030, and will resell that capacity to customers with payloads too small for a dedicated lander, alongside its own ULTRA lander missions planned for 2028, 2029 and 2030.
The number: Sony Bank is putting $40 million (about ¥6.4bn) behind a new wholly owned US trust company, Connectia Trust, National Association, due to open in July 2026, with room to add more capital later and no representative named yet.
Positive phase 3 data move the IgA nephropathy treatment beyond its earlier proteinuria-based accelerated approval, while leaving Otsuka's outlook for the year ending December 2026 unchanged.
The project would fund two-thirds of eligible costs through March 2028 as the company tests mine-site surveillance and illegal-vessel detection in Latin America and Asia-Pacific, but the final award is still undecided.
The Tokyo Growth-market company says a large-client exit, deferred projects and a shift toward recurring AI services hurt the March quarter, even as it targets 10,000 SME customers spending at least ¥1mn a year.
The group will launch BCDC.Ai on July 15, but the bigger signal is a retreat from its earlier container data-centre plan, with the August start-up, roughly ¥100mn initial investment and partner terms no longer fixed.
The Japanese company says antenna deployment and test communications succeeded after a Rocket Lab launch, and that the event was already built into its outlook for the year ending December 2026.