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Japan's steel makers can apply until noon on 11 December for aid of up to one-third of costs for fuel switches or electric-arc-furnace conversions, but only if they commit to cutting emissions by at least half.
Manufacturers and data-centre builders that run entirely on decarbonised power, at least half of it sourced in their own prefecture, can seek up to ¥25bn in the second call, which closes on 14 December.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency expects to save ¥15mn to ¥30mn and one to two months per 100,000-kilolitre tank if inspectors may test bottom welds through the coating; comments close on December 7.
Honda's planned Ohio plant, built for up to 240,000 cars a year and targeted to start in 2029, would raise its North American capacity from 1.67 million to 1.91 million units; the company calls the near-term earnings effect minor.
A Kawasaki Heavy Industries turbine that can run on 0% to 100% hydrogen is now installed at RWE's Emsland plant, but the emissions, durability and operability checks that would prove it still lie ahead.
Securities of $834,555 million and gold worth $106,437 million anchor Japan's reserves, which grew by only $723 million in October; the Ministry of Finance gives no breakdown of what drove the change.
Shimizu raised its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥192.0bn from ¥153.0bn, crediting extra work and cost cuts on domestic projects, and lifted its annual dividend forecast to ¥89 while excluding a ¥35.5bn non-cash gain from the payout calculation.
City Index Fifth lengthened its ¥125,000-per-unit offer for Sankei Real Estate to Nov 30 and moved settlement to Dec 7, after a private-equity fund sent a non-binding proposal at least 5% higher but launched no offer.
Persol Holdings now guides to ¥1.269tn in revenue and ¥93.8bn in net profit for the year to March 2027, because Programmed becomes a discontinued operation and an estimated ¥50bn sale gain is booked; the other businesses' outlook is unchanged.
NTT plans to sell its entire 4.90% NEC holding, tendering 32.6mn shares into NEC's ¥3,462 self-tender and placing the same number with mostly overseas investors, while both companies say their business alliance continues.
Nitori Holdings says unauthorized access may have exposed up to 37.62 million records of member and order data, but not login passwords or credit-card information, and it expects a limited hit to consolidated results.
Ryohin Keikaku has postponed the online store's reopening with no date set, added cash-on-delivery recipients to the customers whose data may have been accessed, and will begin notifying affected customers on 10 November 2026.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines earned ¥179.3bn in the half year, helped by container rates and ¥64.1bn from Ocean Network Express, and kept its ¥300bn full-year forecast on the premise that the Persian Gulf and Red Sea stay impassable.
Kobe Steel's construction-machinery subsidiary signed a deal to buy 70% of two new CNH-built companies for $700mn on an enterprise-value basis, funded by bridge loans, with closing subject to competition-law approvals and planned for the third quarter of fiscal 2027.
JX Advanced Metals lifted its operating profit forecast for the year to March 2027 by ¥23.0bn, pointing to AI-server volumes, better pricing and a higher copper assumption, while still allowing for lower mine output.
A second Russian decree has brought the rest of JT's local companies under temporary management, and the company says its Russian business is about 25% of forecast adjusted operating profit and about ¥1.5tn of assets, with the earnings impact still under review.
Mitsui Chemicals will buy JSR from JIC Capital funds with DBJ for ¥1.84tn, funded by a ¥1.64tn bridge loan that it says will temporarily lift net debt above four times EBITDA, with closing targeted for the second half of fiscal 2027.
The Japan Fair Trade Commission is sending survey requests to 40,000 shippers on November 9, due back by December 11, with 40,000 logistics operators to follow, ahead of a revised rule from April 1, 2027 on consignees who impose waiting beyond contract terms.
The Ministry of Finance's quarterly table shows Japan sold dollars and bought yen on July 30, July 31 and August 3, totalling ¥15.40tn, with ¥7.98tn on the first day alone.
Furukawa Electric lifted its operating-profit forecast for the year to March 2027 to ¥136bn from ¥123bn, saying data-center demand is driving optical solutions sales, while the first-half optical segment earned ¥23.6bn.
Fujifilm's first-half operating profit fell 10.9% to ¥141.2bn as healthcare profit shrank 85.8%, even as electronics and imaging earnings rose; the full-year profit forecast is unchanged at ¥365.0bn.
Nonresidents were net buyers of Japanese equities, long-term bonds and short-term debt alike in the week to October 31, taking the weekly total to ¥3.49tn after a week of near-zero net flow.
Apps sold under a partner's "Bank" label must tell users the bank holds the account, and a firm that steers customers to a bank can still need an agency licence, under FSA guidance applying from 6 November.
Ferrotec's tender offer for Japan Resistor drew 1,083,273 shares at ¥1,901 each, enough for an expected 87.55% voting interest at the November 12 settlement, with a squeeze-out and delisting planned afterwards.
Oji Holdings cut its full-year operating-profit forecast to ¥45bn from ¥60bn, citing Middle East fuel costs and slow pulp recovery, but held net profit at ¥35bn by relying on sales of shareholdings.
Ryohin Keikaku has halted Muji's web store and nearly all app functions to strengthen security, targets a restart within one to two days, and says stores are open and the earnings impact should be limited.
3D Investment Partners lifted its J.Front Retailing holding to 13.84% from 12.73%, says it is already in talks with management on capital allocation, and reserves the right to table formal proposals.
Toyota is offering ¥2,725 a share for up to 108.75mn of its own shares held by non-life insurers, a cash cost of about ¥296.4bn, with the shares to be cancelled.
Kioxia's net profit for April to September reached ¥2.20tn against ¥58.9bn a year earlier, driven by data-center pricing, while it spent ¥800bn on buybacks and booked a ¥36.0bn provision for a US patent verdict.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries raised its business-profit forecast to ¥600bn from ¥540bn on faster energy and defense project progress and better gas-turbine margins, while still carrying ¥90bn of IGCC losses and risk buffer, and separately approved a buyback of up to ¥300bn.
Keisei Electric Railway has applied to the transport minister to lift fares 14.1% from March 2028 while holding student passes, scrapping the barrier-free fee and still showing a ¥8.18bn average loss under its own method.
METI has ordered Chubu Electric to rebuild its compliance framework and whistleblowing handling, with outside experts verifying the work and the company reporting progress to the ministry on a continuing basis.
Japan's cabinet approved ¥10bn from reserve funds for cybersecurity, with ¥4.1bn for police equipment, ¥3.8bn for Digital Agency systems and ¥2bn for AI-assisted vulnerability checks on government systems, ahead of a wider emergency package.
Japan Tobacco says a Russian presidential decree signed on 5 November has placed four of its Russian manufacturing companies under temporary administration, and it is still assessing the details, its options and the impact on the group.
SoftBank Group says it confirmed on 4 November that China's foreign investment security review office had notified it of a prohibition on acquiring ABB's Chinese robotics business; it says it is still working with ABB.
A Fisheries Agency draft would pull prepared saury and squid products such as fins and liver into Japan's legal-catch import certificates, with comments due 4 December and enforcement planned for early July 2027.
The Ministry of Finance sold 10-year debt at an average yield of 2.768%, 33.3 basis points lower than the October auction, though a highest accepted yield of 2.8% showed a wide tail.
Anthropic's amended Japan registration statement shows $3.9bn of operating cash inflow in the six months to June 2026, after outflows in each earlier period shown, while the proposed offering of up to $3.5bn still awaits Nasdaq approval.
Trustbank will take Furusato Choice web donations again from noon on November 6, but the app and Choice Pay remain suspended, five donors had additional data exposed, and the earnings effect on CHANGE Holdings is still under review.
Mitsubishi Chemical Group has cancelled its exit from needle coke and pitch coke at Kagawa after finding it difficult to reach its carbon fiber targets with other companies' feedstock; production pauses in the business year beginning April 2027, with a restart expected a year later.
An unnamed private equity fund has told Sankei Real Estate Investment Corporation it is weighing a tender offer at least 5% above the ¥125,000-per-unit bid, with a binding proposal possible from late November once due diligence and financing talks are complete and its investment committee approves.
AGC lowered its operating profit forecast to ¥120bn from ¥150bn and cut attributable net profit by 48% to ¥40bn, citing automotive costs, chemicals input prices, volume shortfalls and a loss on selling its Colorado site, while leaving revenue guidance at ¥2.2tn.
Nintendo's operating profit rose 49.1% to ¥216.5bn in April to September despite a 12.1% fall in sales, helped by software mix and a US tariff refund the company did not size, while full-year guidance and the ¥162 annual dividend forecast stayed unchanged.
Rohm now forecasts ¥50bn of operating profit for the year to March 2027, up from ¥30bn, crediting server and storage demand, a factory-automation recovery and resilient xEV demand, with price and cost measures offsetting rising input costs.
Medipal Holdings will put a change to Article 39 of its articles to a December 15 meeting, letting shareholders decide dividends alongside the board, while recommending against the special dividend and ¥85bn buyback tied to the same vote.
A Financial Services Agency working group discussed on 9 October exempting commitment fees from deemed-interest limits and easing the ¥1bn capital rule for nonbank bond issuers, while members pressed to keep national supervision and clarify who counts as a professional borrower.
From November 9 the National Police Agency will gather abused-account data from all 47 prefectural forces and supply it to 30 banks, so lenders can flag customers who have sent money to those accounts and police can contact them.
Kurita says reversed revenue, an ¥8.8bn loss provision and a ¥1.6bn plant impairment from one US order cut first-half operating profit by ¥18.4bn, and it has cut its full-year business profit guide to ¥40.0bn.
Nippon Steel lifted its net profit forecast to ¥440bn from ¥290bn, with a one-off ¥96.1bn Arkansas tax credit at U.S. Steel inside the total, while its business profit forecast rose ¥90bn to ¥720bn.
Sony raised its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥1.87tn from ¥1.72tn, citing higher profit in pictures and games, while image-sensor sales fell and the sensor segment's profit gain leaned on currency.
Toyota raised its buyback ceiling to ¥1.3tn from ¥1tn and will tender for up to about 108.75 million shares held by Tokio Marine, Sompo Japan and MS&AD units at a 10% discount, using cash on hand.
Toyota's first-half operating profit rose 9.2% to ¥2.19tn on a weaker yen, and it lifted its full-year forecast by ¥500bn to ¥3.9tn while booking a ¥95.4bn loss on Hino.
Minutes of the Bank of Japan's September 2026 meeting show two members opposed the rise to around 1.25% as premature, while two who backed it said inflation had generally reached target, and members agreed further hikes would follow.
PayPay's quarterly net profit fell 75% to ¥18.4bn against a year-earlier quarter that included a ¥57.5bn one-off tax gain, while revenue rose 28% and bank loans grew 37% to ¥1.4tn.
Sumitomo Bakelite lifted its full-year operating profit forecast to ¥50bn from ¥37.5bn as semiconductor-materials revenue rose 37.7% in the first half, and it completed a ¥28.5bn purchase of part of Kyocera's chemicals business on October 30.
Okuma's interim machine-tool orders rose 44.4% to a record ¥161.44bn, led by US and Japanese aerospace, defense and data-centre demand, while the company held its full-year sales forecast at ¥260bn.
Organo's first-half orders rose 70.8% to ¥171.3bn on large Taiwan electronics projects, but operating profit fell 12.3% and the full-year forecast is unchanged because the new work should mostly turn into sales from next year.
Yamato Holdings cut its full-year revenue forecast by ¥23bn to ¥1.895tn on weaker large-customer volumes, but kept its ¥42bn operating profit target and says cost optimization will make up the gap after an interim operating loss.
Tokyo Seimitsu lifted its operating profit guide 2.3% to ¥45bn after semiconductor-equipment orders rose 86% in the half year, and said it intends to double prober production capacity by around the middle of fiscal 2028.
Nxera Pharma will receive $100mn upfront from AbbVie for a phase 1 bowel-disease drug, and it has fixed 2026 revenue guidance at ¥48.8bn, provided the deal closes by 31 December and its auditor agrees to the accounting.
NTT's first-half operating profit fell 12.2% to ¥830.1bn on record revenue, but it raised its annual operating profit forecast to ¥1.73tn and lifted capex by ¥43bn to improve mobile network quality.
Mitsui Chemicals said it is studying various options to raise corporate value, including the reported JSR acquisition, but that nothing has been decided and the press reports did not come from the company.
Mitsubishi Corporation's board authorized market purchases of up to ¥1tn or 420 million shares between 5 November 2026 and 31 July 2027, with all repurchased shares to be cancelled on 31 August 2027.
Japan Post Bank has agreed to buy 51,489,700 Matsui Securities shares from the founding family's holding company, becoming largest shareholder on a planned December 28 closing, with a right to nominate one non-executive director and a referral route to its roughly 120 million accounts.
The Environment Ministry's draft would add lithium battery waste to signage, ledgers, contracts and manifests across Japan's waste chain from a planned April 2027 start, with public comment open until December 3.
JR Kyushu expects about ¥6.7bn of lost fares and a ¥9bn special loss on rail assets from the Kumamoto earthquake, and has cut its net profit forecast to ¥47.0bn while leaving sales and operating profit guidance unchanged.
Astellas lifted its full-year core operating profit forecast to ¥700bn from ¥620bn after first-half sales rose 23.4%, though currency added ¥41.2bn to core profit and the new guide assumes a weaker yen than April's.
The labour ministry would let firms hit by the Noto earthquake keep subsidised secondments for up to three years, but sending employers filing a first plan from 1 January 2027 would get a lower rate.
Sellers of used homes could carry the Anshin R Housing mark without photographing owner-occupied interiors, and with a promise of a renovation proposal rather than a finished one, under a land ministry draft open for comment to 3 December.
Finance Minister Katayama said Japan will act on disorderly or excessively speculative currency moves under its joint statement with Washington, declined to call ¥157 right or wrong, and promised sharper tax-revenue estimates for the next budget.
JPYC and SBI VC Trade want the ¥1mn per-transfer limit on yen and dollar stablecoins eased, while the Japanese Bankers Association calls any relaxation of the second-type cap a matter for extremely cautious review.
Prestige International says up to 5.5mn records, counting duplicates, were taken from a system run by a group company for road-service clients; the system is shut and the earnings impact is still under review.
Tenders of shares and options, equal to 207,044,870 shares, cleared the 158,716,000-share minimum, so K891, Inc. will buy all of them and, once settlement starts on November 9, become Leopalace21's parent with 63.35% of voting rights.
Oasis Management says it holds 5.04% of MIRAIT ONE and has already proposed delisting and a capital-policy change, while reserving board, asset and dividend proposals for the next 12 months.
NH Foods now expects ¥50bn of business profit for the year to March 2027, down 18% from its earlier forecast, as processing costs, feed and Australian cattle prices rise; its ¥1.5tn sales outlook is unchanged.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines raised its forecast for net profit to ¥300bn for the year to March 2027, from ¥240bn in August, citing dry bulk and energy markets and an Ocean Network Express stake expected to beat its earlier assumptions.
Sumitomo Chemical raised its core operating profit forecast to ¥270bn from ¥215bn, and its materials segment, now guided to ¥75bn against ¥20bn, accounts for the whole ¥55bn increase.
Sumitomo Corporation lifted its profit guide for the year to March 2027 by ¥40bn to ¥670bn and raised its dividend forecast to ¥44 a share, citing first-half profit of ¥347.9bn and expected second-half strength.
Hitachi Energy's investor-day decks put first-half sales at $11.0bn and backlog above $65bn, and lift the 2030 adjusted EBITA margin ambition to 19–21%, backed by a $9bn capacity programme and a data-centre order push.
Paycloud Holdings says up to about 380 client companies of its Arara mail service lost email addresses and member data, about 77 million addresses on a provisional count, and the service is suspended with no restart date.
Japan Airlines grew first-half sales 11.7%, but a 47.4% jump in fuel costs left EBIT down 36.0% at ¥70.2bn, and management kept its ¥180bn full-year EBIT forecast.
Macnica now expects ¥67.5bn of operating profit for the year to March 2027, 29.8% above its May forecast, on semiconductor demand, while its CPS Solutions segment, which includes the autonomous-bus business, is guided to a wider ¥8.0bn loss.
Accenture's Japanese unit offers ¥8,500 a share for Global Security Experts, but holders of 59.83% will not tender and will sell to the company after a squeeze-out at ¥5,835 and ¥6,918.
Farallon Capital Management disclosed a 5.02% stake in Yamato Holdings and says it has proposed, by letter and in meetings, that the chairman leave the board and that all directors except the president be outside directors.
Finance Minister Katayama said on October 30 that the approved ¥1.148tn Middle East reserve draw leaves ¥735.9bn, the gasoline reference price rises to ¥175 in December, and winter power and gas support runs December to February.
Anthropic has registered a Japanese offering of up to an estimated $3.5bn (¥552.9bn at the filing's rate), sold through six Japanese dealers, while Nasdaq approval, the price, the share count and the pricing date remain open.
The Bank of Japan's full October outlook says it will keep raising the policy rate, now guided at around 1.25%, while firms' funding costs rise from a low base and ETF sales step up to about ¥860bn a year from January.
Joshin raised its forecast for operating profit in the year to March 2027 to ¥11bn from ¥6bn, crediting early air-conditioner purchases ahead of a 2027 environmental-rule change and solid sales of other home appliances.
TOTO's board authorized purchases of up to 9.5 million shares, or ¥30bn, between November 2026 and March 2027, and plans to cancel all but 100,000 of the acquired shares on April 30, 2027.
An outside party reached a World subsidiary's business server on 17 October and the breach was detected on 28 October; about 1.2 million member records may have leaked, though the company has not confirmed that any payment data was exposed.
Matsuya Foods Holdings says a third party accessed its app management system, exposing 2,377,127 order and delivery records and a separate 2,000 to 3,000 app-member records that include encrypted passwords; the cause is under investigation.
Mitsubishi Logistics agreed to buy all of Hankyu Hanshin Express for ¥120.11bn, about ¥121.337bn with fees, adding an air and sea freight network that includes Asia; closing needs approvals and is targeted for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.
Yokohama Reito wrote off almost all of its outstanding funding to Norwegian salmon partner Hofseth with a ¥24.2bn special loss, turning its net profit forecast into a ¥13.8bn loss while raising sales and operating profit guidance; directors will give up pay.
Murata raised its full-year operating-profit forecast to ¥520bn from ¥430bn, crediting data-centre demand, higher production volume and product mix, with the second-half assumption of ¥155 to the dollar unchanged.
Mitsubishi Electric posted record first-half sales and adjusted operating profit on factory-automation, chip and air-conditioning demand, raised its annual adjusted profit guide to ¥710bn and decided on a buyback of up to ¥200bn.
Japan's privacy regulator would write early detection of unauthorised access into its security guidance as a required measure, and has pulled its timetable forward after large breaches; comments are open until 27 November.
With the subsidy lapsing in March 2027, the FSA wants the industry's own failure buffer raised as a condition of permanence, and a simulation puts aid needed in a one-in-1,000 scenario at ¥1.14tn.
The industry ministry began administrative procedures on 30 October toward a business-improvement order against Chubu Electric, which has not been issued, and set winter electricity and gas relief for December to February.
Japan's Cabinet approved ¥1.148tn from its Middle East response reserve on 30 October, ¥1.146tn of it for METI's fuel-price mitigation fund and ¥2.25bn for taxi LPG support, leaving ¥735.9bn in the ¥2.5tn reserve.
The Bank of Japan set its call-rate guide at around 1.25% by an 8-1 vote, with Takata Hajime proposing 1.5%, said it will keep raising rates, and will sell ETFs at about ¥860bn a year from January.