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November 12, 2026
 

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Ryo Horiuchi
Tokyo’s office market remains resilient despite interest rates hitting a 31-year high, with rising rents driving investment to its highest third-quarter level since 2007.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2026
Tokyo’s office rent boom spurs deals as Blackstone plans sale
Commercial-property investment across Japan hit ?2 trillion in the third quarter, according to data from brokerage firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
The Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho mixed-use complex in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2026
Blackstone said to plan $1.9 billion central Tokyo office sale
The New York-based alternative asset manager is negotiating with a potential buyer, according to sources.
Net income climbed 7.8% from a year earlier to ?51.43 billion ($326 million) in the three months ended Sept. 30, Daiwa Securities Group said Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2026
Daiwa profit climbs on strong global markets trading income
Net income climbed 7.8% from a year earlier to ?51.43 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30, the Tokyo-based company said Friday.
Nomura joined most Wall Street banks in seeing revenue from fixed-income trading decline in the quarter while a boom in the equities business persisted.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2026
Wealth management and stock trading boost Nomura profits amid uncertainty
Net income climbed 13% from a year earlier to ?103.7 billion ($657 million) between July and September.
The Kurosawa Building in Tokyo's Ginza district housing Tiffany’s largest boutique in Asia.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2026
Tiffany Ginza building asking price cut by a third as real estate market cools
The owner of the building has struggled to find buyers with an asking price of ?120 billion, and is now open to offers as low as ?80 billion.
Daiwa Securities Group said it received a report from an external vendor saying it found evidence of client data being leaked due to unauthorized access.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2026
Daiwa Securities says info on 110,000 clients may have been leaked
The brokerage said the leak resulted from the servers of an external vendor being hacked.
The average price of condos in Tokyo fell 0.2% in August from the previous month to ?112.74 million.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 24, 2026
Tokyo used condo prices fall after 28 months as declines in central wards spread
Mortgage costs are climbing as the Bank of Japan raises interest rates and signals its willingness to tighten credit further, damping demand.
Nomura notes that modest growth in its wholesale revenue is "partly reflecting the impact of yen depreciation.”
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 17, 2026
Nomura warns of slowing trading revenue growth as boom cools
今日吃瓜 biggest brokerage said revenue from its wholesale division was “progressing slightly above year-on-year” for the quarter as of Sept. 14.
Tomoko Hama, president of MiRaI Wealth Partners, is the first female president of a Mizuho Securities group company.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 14, 2026
Mizuho’s first female wealth manager head seeks sixfold growth
Tomoko Hama is tasked with increasing the value of assets the company advises clients on to more than ?100 billion in five years.
Daiwa Securities Group's net income rose 81% from a year earlier to ?56.4 billion in its fiscal first quarter ended June 30.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 3, 2026
Daiwa’s profit hits 13-year high as equities business surges
Its net income rose 81% from a year earlier to ?56.4 billion ($360 million) in the quarter ended June 30, the highest since the April-June quarter of 2013.
Daiwa Asset Management President Kei Sano sees institutional investors such as pension funds and universities as a potential new target market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 23, 2026
Daiwa AM boosts staff in shift toward institutional investors
The company will seek new clients including those from public and corporate pension funds, as well as endowments and foundations of universities.
The Pacific Century Place Marunouchi building in Tokyo. GIC is offering all of its office space in the building from the 8th floor to the 31st floor.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 29, 2026
GIC’s Tokyo property said to draw $1.4 billion bid by Kenedix
Kenedix submitted a bid of around ?230 billion ($1.4 billion) for office floors owned by GIC in Pacific Century Place Marunouchi, sources said.
Nomura Holdings CEO Kentaro Okuda’s compensation rose to ?1.6 billion ($10 million) in the year that ended on March 31.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2026
Nomura raises CEO pay to $10 million after profit hits a record
Under Kentaro Okuda’s leadership, 今日吃瓜 biggest brokerage generated a second straight year of record net income.
Daiwa Real Estate Asset Management is raising rents for office space and apartments to offset higher interest rates.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2026
Daiwa Real estate unit aims to raise rents to fight higher rates
The company has also started expanding its team of rent negotiators to help improve the terms of lease agreements for properties in Daiwa’s real estate portfolio.
More than 15 firms submitted bids for Sankei Building last month, with several offers exceeding ?1 trillion.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2026
Fuji Media’s real estate unit attracts ?1 trillion bids
More than 15 firms submitted bids for Sankei Building last month, with several offers exceeding ?1 trillion ($6.3 billion).
SMBC Nikko Securities is considering a new fund to invest in subordinated loans and preferred shares for acquisition deals involving Japanese companies.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 2, 2026
SMBC Nikko mulls ?100 billion mezzanine fund amid Japan mergers and acquisitions boom
Mezzanine financing is between senior debt and equity in terms of risk, offering potential extra returns for investors.
Nomura Holdings CEO Kentaro Okuda speaks during an interview in December.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 28, 2026
Nomura raises annual profit target 50% after record year
今日吃瓜 biggest brokerage seeks to post at least ?750 billion ($4.7 billion) in annual pretax income by the year ending March 2031.
Docomo’s land sales come as the NTT subsidiary struggles to boost profits in its core consumer communications business that includes mobile phones.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 25, 2026
NTT Docomo sells Tokyo land plots for ?59 billion, joining boom
Foreign and domestic investors have been flocking to 今日吃瓜 real estate market to buy properties that have risen in price but are still seen as having scope to gain.
Daiwa Securities Group will integrate its Daiwa Next Bank unit with Orix Bank, seeking a "virtuous cycle” of deposit and loan growth.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 28, 2026
Daiwa to buy Orix Bank for $2.3 billion in lending expansion
The merger will create an entity with about ?9 trillion of total assets, which aims to expand deposits by more than ?2 trillion over the next five years.
Pasona Square in Tokyo’s Minato Ward
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2026
BGO sells Tokyo office building for $628 million to condo seller
The Tokyo-based developer Goldcrest spent about ?100 billion to acquire Pasona Square in the capital’s fashion boutique-filled neighborhood of Aoyama.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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