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Earlier in 2025, Central Japan Railway Company began executing a Board-approved share repurchase program, buying back over 3 million shares as part of an authorization covering up to 48 million shares and as much as ¥110 billion through market purchases on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This sizable buyback initiative underlines management’s focus on returning capital to shareholders and refining the company’s capital structure over time. Next, we’ll examine how this large-scale share repurchase...

Tokai Carbon (TSE:5301) is shaking up its U.S. footprint by folding three fine carbon subsidiaries into a single entity under its American holding company, a structural tidy up that could quietly improve efficiency and oversight. See our latest analysis for Tokai Carbon. Despite the recent U.S. restructuring push, market sentiment has been mixed. The latest pullback leaves the 1 year total shareholder return at 14.23%, while shorter term share price momentum has softened. This hints at fading...

Earlier this week, robot maker Fanuc announced a partnership with U.S. chip company Nvidia to develop industrial robots powered by “physical AI,” lifting sentiment across Japan’s robotics names and helping the Nikkei 225 close at a multi-week high. The collaboration highlights how advances in AI hardware and software are increasingly converging on factory floors, potentially reshaping how investors think about automation leaders like Fanuc. Next, we will examine how Fanuc’s Nvidia-powered...

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Holdings Inc. ( TSE:2579 ) will increase its dividend from last year's comparable payment on...

The board of Yokogawa Electric Corporation ( TSE:6841 ) has announced that it will pay a dividend of ¥32.00 per share...

Sanrio Company (TSE:8136) has quietly slipped almost 16% over the past month and roughly 30% in the past 3 months, prompting investors to reassess whether recent weakness matches the business outlook. See our latest analysis for Sanrio Company. Despite the recent 1 month share price return of negative 16.4 percent and a 3 month share price return of negative 29.8 percent, which signal fading momentum, Sanrio Company still boasts a standout 5 year total shareholder return close to tenfold...

The Asian Star Co. ( TSE:8946 ) share price has fared very poorly over the last month, falling by a substantial 25...

Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. ( TSE:6178 ) will pay a dividend of ¥25.00 on the 26th of June. This means that the...

The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says...

Arata Corporation ( TSE:2733 ) will pay a dividend of ¥56.00 on the 8th of June. This will take the annual payment to...

Pan Pacific International Holdings (TSE:7532) has had a rough three months with its share price down 15%. However, a...

The board of ENEOS Holdings, Inc. ( TSE:5020 ) has announced that it will pay a dividend on the 29th of June, with...

KOZO Holdings Co.,Ltd. ( TSE:9973 ) shareholders would be excited to see that the share price has had a great month...

David Iben put it well when he said, 'Volatility is not a risk we care about. What we care about is avoiding the...

Saison Technology Co., Ltd. ( TSE:9640 ) has announced that it will pay a dividend of ¥45.00 per share on the 18th of...

Rigaku Holdings Corporation reported that, as of November 30, 2025, it had repurchased 844,300 shares in November, bringing total buybacks under the August 7, 2025 board authorization to about 3.6 million shares through market purchases on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This active buyback program highlights management’s focus on capital structure efficiency and signals confidence in the company’s long-term value creation approach. We will now examine how Rigaku’s ongoing share repurchase...

In late November and early December 2025, Fujitsu Limited announced a new multi‑AI agent collaboration technology for secure, cross‑company supply chain optimization, initiated plans for 2026 field trials with Rohto Pharmaceutical and the Institute of Science Tokyo, and held a board meeting to consider a tender offer and business integration agreements. This push to embed agentic AI into real‑world supply chains, with an eye to rolling it into Fujitsu’s Uvance Dynamic Supply Chain services...

Japan Hotel REIT Investment (TSE:8985) just opened its books on October, sharing detailed revenue and operating metrics that give investors a fresh read on Japan’s hotel demand and the REIT’s income momentum. See our latest analysis for Japan Hotel REIT Investment. That solid October update lands against a backdrop where the latest ¥85,700 share price still reflects strong underlying confidence, with a double digit year to date share price return and robust multi year total shareholder...

In early December 2025, Olympus Corporation announced a voluntary corrective action for its Single-Use Ligating Device (“PolyLoop”) after reports that the loop could fail to release, potentially causing bleeding, mucosal injury, perforation, or requiring emergency or surgical intervention, although no deaths were reported. On the same day, Olympus, W. L. Gore & Associates, and ConMed detailed a planned handover of global distribution rights for the GORE VIABIL Biliary Endoprosthesis to...

Mizuho recently downgraded Nitto Boseki Co Ltd to Neutral from Outperform, arguing that the current share price already reflects its new NE/NER glass capacity expansion. Despite the downgrade, Mizuho still highlights a positive longer-term demand backdrop for Nitto Boseki’s glass products, underscoring ongoing structural support for its core business. We’ll now examine how Mizuho’s view that expansion benefits are fully priced in shapes Nitto Boseki’s broader investment narrative and risk...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (TSE:8316) just posted a punchy Q2 2026 print, with revenue of ¥1.6 trillion and EPS of ¥144.69, while trailing 12 month revenue sits at about ¥3.4 trillion alongside EPS of ¥177.26 as the broader earnings picture continues to evolve. The company has seen revenue move from ¥1.54 trillion in Q2 2025 to ¥1.61 trillion in Q2 2026 and EPS shift from ¥90.39 to ¥144.69 over the same period, setting up this quarter as a clean read on how its profit engine is holding...

The board of JFE Holdings, Inc. ( TSE:5411 ) has announced that it will pay a dividend on the 26th of June, with...

Nippon Densetsu Kogyo (TSE:1950) has had a great run on the share market with its stock up by a significant 12% over...

If you are wondering whether Eisai is quietly turning into a value opportunity or still a value trap after a tough few years, this article will walk you through what the current share price is really baking in. Despite a painful longer term slide of about 46.9% over three years and 30.5% over five years, the stock is up 7.5% over the last month, 6.8% year to date and 8.3% over the past year, even after a recent 4.7% pullback in the last week. Recent sentiment around Eisai has been shaped by...