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Pan Pacific International Holdings Corporation
Retail · Aug 18

Pan Pacific International Clears ¥2.4 Trillion in Revenue as Record Net Profit Jumps 21.6%

The Don Quijote operator reported full-year revenue of ¥2,445,260 million, up 8.8%, operating profit of ¥174,842 million, up 7.7%, and net profit attributable to owners of parent of ¥110,088 million, up 21.6% — a record. Tax-free sales reached an all-time high, the new food-led "Robin Hood" format opened five stores, and Olympic Group became a wholly owned subsidiary on July 1, 2026. Guidance for FY6/2027 pairs 9.9% revenue growth with ordinary profit guided 1.2% lower.

Pan Pacific International Holdings Corporation · TSE: 7532 11 min read

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Ai Holdings Corporation
Diversified Industrials · Aug 19

Ai Holdings FY6/2026 Revenue Up 28% on Nakayo Consolidation as Net Profit Halves Against a Prior-Year Bargain-Purchase Gain

Ai Holdings reported full-year revenue of ¥85,024 million, up 28.4%, operating profit of ¥10,762 million, up 21.1%, and ordinary profit of ¥12,535 million, up 39.2% — but net profit attributable to owners of the parent fell 43.7% to ¥11,937 million. The whole of that divergence sits below the ordinary line: FY6/2025 contained a ¥17,878 million bargain-purchase gain on negative goodwill and a net tax credit, while this year's extraordinary income was a ¥3,836 million property-sale gain. Revenue growth came almost entirely from consolidating Nakayo's telecom business.

TSE: 30768 min read
Saita Holdings Co., Ltd.
Construction · Aug 18

Saita Holdings Operating Profit Falls 39.6% on Building-Materials Slump, but Net Profit Edges Up 0.7%

Saita Holdings reported revenue of ¥7,035.8 million for the year ended June 30, 2026, down 10.3%, and operating profit of ¥595.2 million, down 39.6%, as building-materials revenue fell 21.5% and the construction unit's profit dropped 40% under order-price competition. Net profit attributable to owners of parent nonetheless edged up 0.7% to ¥491.9 million, carried by a ¥171 million swing in foreign-exchange results and a lighter tax charge. Construction orders — next year's revenue — collapsed 37.5% to ¥2,414 million, and guidance for FY6/2027 calls for declines on every line.

TSE: 19999 min read
Kitagawa Seiki Co., Ltd.
Machinery · Aug 18

Kitagawa Seiki Operating Profit Jumps 52% as It Guides FY6/2027 Revenue Up 51% to ¥10 Billion

Kitagawa Seiki reported full-year revenue of ¥6,607 million, up 6.1%, and operating profit of ¥949 million, up 52.2%, with net profit attributable to owners of parent up 90.1% to ¥750 million and return on equity rising to 13.2% from 8.0%. The press-machinery maker then guided FY6/2027 revenue to ¥10,000 million, up 51.3% — the ¥10 billion goal of its 2030 medium-term plan, reached four years early — while guiding net profit up only 8.0%. The evidence for the revenue leap sits on the balance sheet, in a ¥1,224 million build in work in process and an ¥874 million rise in contract liabilities.

TSE: 63279 min read

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Renesas Electronics Corporation
Semiconductors · Jul 31

Renesas Swings to ¥217 Billion Interim Profit — and a ¥443 Billion Gain Is Still to Come

Renesas Electronics turned a ¥175,342 million first-half loss into a ¥217,333 million profit, on revenue up 25.9% to ¥798,742 million and operating profit more than tripled to ¥192,680 million. Industrial/Infrastructure/IoT grew 38.1% and has now overtaken Automotive as the larger segment. Two subsequent events dominate the second half: the transfer of the Timing business to SiTime completed on July 1 is expected to produce a gain of about ¥443.3 billion, and the July 28 Kumamoto earthquake affected two of the group's plants, with damage still under assessment.

TSE: 672310 min read
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Electronics · Jul 31

Mitsubishi Electric Q1 Adjusted Operating Profit Jumps 54% — With ¥9.05 Billion From a Depreciation Change

Mitsubishi Electric grew first-quarter revenue 14.0% to ¥1,497,109 million and lifted adjusted operating profit 53.8% to ¥144,318 million, with Industry & Mobility more than doubling its profit and Semiconductor & Device up 81.5%. Two one-off items shape the reported line: a change from declining-balance to straight-line depreciation added ¥9,050 million, while a ¥9,904 million special retirement charge subtracted almost exactly as much, leaving reported operating profit up 24.6% at ¥139,501 million. Net profit rose 20.8% to ¥109,817 million. Full-year guidance was revised and the annual dividend rises to ¥60.00.

TSE: 650310 min read
Metaplanet Inc.
Bitcoin Treasury · Aug 14

Metaplanet Posts ¥182.8 Billion Half-Year Net Loss on Bitcoin Revaluation as Holdings Climb to 43,000 BTC

Revenue rose 133.7% to ¥4,944 million and operating profit 136.3% to ¥3,331 million, but a ¥184,297 million non-cash bitcoin valuation loss booked below the operating line produced an ordinary loss of ¥182,874 million and a net loss attributable to owners of parent of ¥182,774 million. No bitcoin was sold during the half: holdings rose 7,898 coins to 43,000 BTC and bitcoin per share climbed to 0.0263554. Full-year guidance of ¥16.0 billion revenue and ¥11.4 billion operating profit is unchanged.

TSE: 33508 min read
Nintendo Co., Ltd. headquarters in Minami-ku, Kyoto
Gaming · Aug 6

Nintendo Q1 Operating Profit Leaps 151% to ¥142.6 Billion as Switch 2 Ships 3.82 Million Units

Nintendo sold 3.82 million Nintendo Switch 2 consoles and 9.46 million Switch 2 games in the June quarter, and a richer software mix plus a refund of U.S. IEEPA tariffs previously charged to cost of sales drove operating profit up 150.5% to ¥142,596 million — even though net sales fell 9.5% to ¥517,813 million against the console's launch quarter a year earlier.

TSE: 79747 min read

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Daito Trust Construction Co., Ltd.
Real Estate · Jul 31

Daito Trust Q1 Operating Profit Rises 15.5% on Price Revisions as Construction Orders Fall 21%

Japan's largest rental-housing group grew first-quarter revenue just 0.4% to ¥480,116 million and still lifted operating profit 15.5% to ¥39,384 million, as price revisions pushed the construction gross margin up 3.5 points to 27.9% and bulk-lease rent income rose 3.3%. The forward book went the other way: construction orders fell 21.1% to ¥102,645 million and the backlog 4.8% to ¥757,766 million. A valuation loss on JustCo Holdings shares left net profit 1.8% lower at ¥23,678 million. On July 31 the group completed a ¥16.3 billion tender-offer buyout of listed developer THE Global. Guidance and the ¥163.00 dividend forecast are unchanged.

TSE: 18789 min read
Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.
Food & Beverage · Jul 31

Yakult's Japan Profit Falls 36% While Asia Nearly Trebles; Asset Sales Lift Net Profit 17%

Yakult Honsha grew first-quarter revenue 3.3% to ¥120,463 million entirely on its overseas business — the Americas up 18.7%, Asia/Oceania up 14.4% — while Japan fell 7.2%. Operating profit still declined 7.5% to ¥10,088 million, because Japan's segment profit dropped 35.6% and Europe turned to a loss. Below the operating line the picture reverses: a ¥5,292 million gain on the sale of investment securities took extraordinary gains to ¥6,642 million and lifted net profit attributable to owners of parent 17.2% to ¥13,591 million. Full-year guidance and the ¥72.00 dividend are unchanged.

TSE: 22678 min read
ZOZO, Inc.
E-Commerce · Jul 31

ZOZO Lifts Q1 Operating Profit 5.7% and Sets Out a ¥30 Billion Buyback to Be Cancelled in Full

Japan's largest fashion e-commerce operator grew first-quarter revenue 3.9% to ¥56,132 million and operating profit 5.7% to ¥17,883 million. Headline merchandise transaction value fell 1.6% to ¥156,750 million, but that reflects a reporting change: excluding the discontinued 'other' category the figure rose 5.1% to ¥156,694 million. Global platform LYST grew 33.3%, cheaper delivery terms cut the SG&A ratio 0.6 points, and net profit rose 4.6% to ¥11,895 million. The board approved a buyback of up to 43 million shares or ¥30,000 million — all of which will be cancelled. Guidance and the ¥40.00 dividend are unchanged.

TSE: 30928 min read
Toyota Boshoku Corporation
Auto Parts · Jul 31

Toyota Boshoku Revenue Climbs 10% but Operating Profit Falls 15% as China and Europe Turn Down

The Toyota-affiliated seat and interior maker lifted first-quarter revenue 10.1% to ¥528,077 million, helped by higher production in Japan and by currency, but operating profit fell 15.1% to ¥15,882 million. China's segment profit halved, Europe & Africa swung to a ¥768 million loss and the Americas gave up 43.9% of its profit, leaving Asia to carry the group. Profit attributable to owners of parent fell 18.9% to ¥8,757 million and EPS to ¥49.03. Full-year guidance was revised in light of China; the ¥86.00 dividend is unchanged.

TSE: 31168 min read
NTT Corporation
Telecommunications · Aug 6

NTT Q1 Revenue Climbs 10.9% to ¥3.62 Trillion as Global Solutions Adds ¥173 Billion

NTT Corporation reported first-quarter operating revenue of ¥3,617,707 million, up 10.9%, operating profit of ¥425,149 million, up 4.9%, and profit attributable to NTT of ¥274,830 million, up 5.8%. Nearly half of the group's ¥355,668 million revenue increase came from a single segment — Global Solutions, the consulting, IT-services and data-centre arm — whose external revenue rose ¥172,614 million. But operating costs grew faster than revenue, at 11.8%, so the operating margin narrowed to 11.75% from 12.42%; and full-year guidance, left untouched, still points to a 5.5% fall in annual profit.

TSE: 943211 min read
Daifuku Co., Ltd.
Machinery · Aug 6

Daifuku Raises FY26 Guidance After Record First Half as Orders Jump 31.6% on AI Chip Capex

Daifuku booked record interim orders of ¥440,186 million, up 31.6%, on revenue of ¥355,513 million, up 8.9%, operating profit of ¥56,680 million, up 10.9%, and net profit attributable to owners of parent of ¥43,143 million, up 14.7% — five interim records in a row. It then raised full-year revenue guidance to ¥735,000 million from ¥700,000 million, net profit to ¥86,500 million, and its order forecast to ¥860–900 billion from ¥780–820 billion. Two things deserve attention before the records are taken at face value: a weaker yen supplied roughly half the profit growth and about two-thirds of the revenue upgrade, and the parent company's own revenue fell 16.1%.

TSE: 638311 min read
Suntory Beverage & Food Limited
Beverages · Aug 6

Suntory Beverage & Food H1 Revenue Climbs 11.6% to ¥899.9 Billion, but Operating Profit Falls 5.4% Excluding Currency

Suntory Beverage & Food reported first-half revenue of ¥899,879 million, up 11.6%, and operating profit of ¥73,965 million, up 3.0% — yet on a currency-neutral basis revenue grew only 5.4% and operating profit fell 5.4%. Profit attributable to owners of the parent rose 2.3% to ¥42,075 million, and the operating margin narrowed to 8.2% from 8.9%. Of five reporting segments, only Oceania — revenue up 69.7%, segment profit up 156.2% — and Japan grew profit on their own operating merits; Europe, Asia and the Americas all went backwards excluding currency. Full-year guidance and the ¥120.00 dividend are unchanged, though a July earthquake in Kumamoto damaged a plant that makes soft drinks for the company under contract.

TSE: 258710 min read
Hoshizaki Corporation
Machinery · Aug 6

Hoshizaki H1 Revenue Up 14.7% as the Americas Grows 29%, and the Board Approves a 2-for-1 Stock Split

Hoshizaki reported first-half revenue of ¥273,646 million, up 14.7%, its fastest interim growth in years — and operating profit of ¥32,705 million, up only 7.3%, with net profit attributable to owners of parent up 1.6% to ¥22,297 million. The gap is acquisition accounting: adjusted operating profit, which strips out ¥4,567 million of goodwill and intangible amortisation and ¥2,056 million of hyperinflation effects, rose 16.1% to ¥39,330 million. Almost all of the divergence sits in one segment, where Americas revenue grew 29.3% while reported segment profit fell 16.8%. Guidance and the ¥115.00 dividend are unchanged, and the board resolved a 2-for-1 stock split effective January 1, 2027.

TSE: 646511 min read
Daio Paper Corporation
Paper & Pulp · Aug 6

Daio Paper Slips to a ¥463 Million Q1 Net Loss as the Paper Business Turns Negative

Daio Paper reported first-quarter revenue of ¥161,160 million, up 1.8%, operating profit down 28.7% to ¥1,495 million, ordinary profit up 763.5% to ¥1,247 million, and a net loss attributable to owners of parent of ¥463 million against a ¥335 million profit a year earlier. Almost every line moved for a different reason: Paper & Paperboard swung to a ¥257 million segment loss while Home & Personal Care swung to a ¥1,159 million profit; a currency swing and higher dividend income lifted ordinary profit more than eight-fold; and below that, extraordinary income collapsed from ¥2,765 million to ¥120 million while tax and minority interests absorbed everything that was left. Full-year guidance was left unchanged.

TSE: 388011 min read
Toyobo Co., Ltd.
Chemicals · Aug 6

Toyobo Q1 Operating Profit Rises 28% on AI-Server Film Demand as It Restores FY3/2027 Guidance

Toyobo reported first-quarter revenue of ¥110,373 million, up 7.3%, operating profit of ¥7,132 million, up 28.1%, ordinary profit of ¥6,626 million, up 55.3%, and net profit attributable to owners of parent of ¥3,072 million, up 95.3%, as release film for multilayer ceramic capacitors expanded on AI-server demand. The larger news sits in the guidance box: a company that could not put a number on FY3/2027 at all — it had declared the forecast undetermined because the escalation in the Middle East made a reasonable estimate impossible — published one on August 6, and it points down, to operating profit of ¥23,000 million, a 17.6% decline.

TSE: 31019 min read
Seiko Epson Corporation
Electronics · Aug 5

Epson Raises FY3/2027 Guidance Across Every Line After Q1 Operating Profit Jumps 46%

Seiko Epson reported first-quarter revenue of ¥367,241 million, up 14.4%, business profit of ¥22,122 million, up 12.0%, and profit attributable to owners of the parent of ¥12,984 million, up 96.4%, on a yen 10% weaker against the dollar and 13% weaker against the euro. The company then raised full-year guidance on every line — revenue to ¥1,510.0 billion and operating profit to ¥101.0 billion, ¥60.0 billion and ¥15.0 billion above the May forecast — crediting the currency move and a one-off refund of U.S. tariffs.

TSE: 67247 min read
EDION Corporation
Retail · Aug 5

EDION Q1 Operating Profit More Than Doubles on Early Air-Conditioner Season as Yamada Merger Talks Advance

EDION reported first-quarter revenue of ¥201,494 million, up 9.9%, operating profit of ¥11,077 million, up 134.0%, and net profit of ¥7,573 million, up 136.4%, as an air-conditioner season that began roughly a month early lifted the operating margin to 5.5% from 2.6%. The quarter also carried a basic agreement with Yamada Holdings on integrating the two companies under a holding structure, and damage to four Kumamoto stores from the 2026 earthquake. Full-year guidance was left unchanged even though the quarter delivered 41.0% of the guided operating profit.

TSE: 27307 min read

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