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Company Profile Company Name: ZenmuTech,Inc. Scheduled Listing Date: Thu Mar. 27, 2025 Market Section: Growth Market Representative: TAGUCHI Yoshikazu, President Address of Main Office 8-17-5 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061 Tel. +81-3-6260-6195 Home Page: https://en.zenmutech.com/ Date of Incorporation Mar. 4, 2014 Description of Business: Development and sales of security solutions utilizing secret sharing and secret computation technologies Category of Industry: Information & Communication Ticker: 338A Indicative IPO price: 1,580 yen Income Statement (Profit & Loss  '000 yen)  

 

 

 

 

Nikkei 225 Volatility Index - Tue 25 Mar 2025 21.53 (-1.51% -0.33)  

Nikkei 225 Summary Nikkei gains as property stocks and automakers edge higher - Tue 25 Mar 2025 Mitsubishi Estate (+4.81%) leads gainers on speculation that hedge fund Elliott Investment Management may be interested in building a stake in the company. Toyota (+0.68%) leads automakers to edge higher as US President Trump hinted that impending tariffs, including those for automakers may be more targeted and the administration will likely be more flexible in its implementation. Banks and defense stocks extend losses on profit taking while chipmakers had a mixed showing on possible tariff relief. Meanwhile, Wall Street is trading relatively flat after Monday's strong recovery rally. Nikkei225  37,780.54 (+172.05 +0.46%) 153 up 66 down 6 flat JGB 10YR   1.577% (+0.038)                 USD/JPY    149.70 (-0.99 -0.657%)        

Topix - Tue 25 Mar 2025 Topix   2,797.52 (+6.64 +0.24%)  

JREIT Index - Tue 25 Mar 2025 JREIT   1,709.00 (+0.03 0.00%)  

 

Company Profile Company Name: Visual Processing Japan Co.,Ltd. Scheduled Listing Date: Tue Mar. 25, 2025 Market Section: Growth Market Representative: MIMURA Hiroaki, President and CEO Address of Main Office Center Plaza B1, Yebisu Garden Place, 4-20-7 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, 150-6090 Tel. +81-3-4361-2018 Home Page: https://www.vpj.co.jp/ Date of Incorporation: Jan. 6, 1994 Description of Business: DX solution business that supports the production, management, and distribution of promotional media content (Web, EC, SNS, catalogs, videos, publications) based on DAM (Digital Asset Management) Category of Industry: Information & Communication Ticker: 334A Indicative IPO price: 1,430 yen Income Statement (Profit & Loss  '000 yen)  For videos, please visit https://x.com/apverychio  

 

 

 

 

 

Nikkei 225 Volatility Index - Mon 24 Mar 2025 21.86 (+1.49% +0.32)  

Nikkei 225 Summary Nikkei slides as Manufacturing PMI declines again in March; Wall Street rallies on more tariff flexibility - Mon 24 Mar 2025 Sumitomo Realty & Development Co. (+10.52%) leads gainers after hedge fund Elliott Investment Management built a significant stake and held a meeting with the company's management on improving shareholder returns. Banks and chipmakers lead losers after Japan's March Manufacturing Flash PMI showed a decline to 48.3 in factory activity from 49.0 in February. Japan's factory activity has been contracting for 9 straight months. Meanwhile, Wall Street rallies after President Trump hinted at more flexibility with impending tariff plans. Nikkei225  37,608.49 (-68.57 -0.18%) 75 up 145 down 5 flat JGB 10YR   1.551% (+0.026)                 USD/JPY    150.18 (+0.87 +0.58%)  

Topix - Mon 24 Mar 2025 Topix   2,790.88 (-13.28 -0.47%)    

JREIT Index - Mon 24 Mar 2025 JREIT   1,708.97 (+5.81 +0.34%)  

 

ENEOS Corporation (Representative Director and President: Yamaguchi Atsuji; “ENEOS”) and Mitsubishi Corporation (Representative Director, President and CEO: Nakanishi Katsuya; “MC”) have agreed to jointly conduct a Front End Engineering Design to advance the study of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (“SAF”) production facility at the ENEOS Wakayama Plant in Arida City, Japan (the “FEED”). ENEOS has been studying the feasibility of such a facility since 2022. To advance this study to the next stage, ENEOS and MC, who have been jointly assessing the feasibility on the commercialization of SAF, will work together on the FEED. ENEOS has an established sales network, manufacturing and refining technologies and the expertise in feedstock procurement, while MC has expertise in the procurement of feedstock in Japan and around the world. By combining each companies' respective strengths, ENEOS and MC will accelerate the study with the aim of developing large-scale production of SAF in Japan. The f...

 

 

 

 

 

Nikkei 225 Volatility Index - Fri 21 Mar 2025 21.54 (-4.61% -1.04)  

Nikkei 225 Summary Nikkei slips as Feb core CPI hits 3%; BOJ rate hike by H2; JX Metals IPO raises $2.96bln;Wall Street welcomes flexibility on reciprocal tariffs - Fri 21 Mar 2025 Bank stocks lead gainers as investors bet on a BOJ rate hike by the second half of 2025 as Feb core CPI hits 3%, reflecting a surge in food prices, namely rice and vegetables. Defense stocks and chipmakers fall as traders take profit off the table. JX Advanced Metals Corp debuted on Wed 19 Mar and jumped +6.59% on the first day followed by +9.61% today on heavy volume of over 130 million. JX Advanced Metals is a spinoff from Japan's largest oil company ENEOS Corp, and successfully raised $2.96 billion in the largest IPO of 2025 to date. The IPO was priced at 820 yen per share.   Meanwhile, Wall Street steadied itself on resistant lines and attempts to recover after President Trump says there will be flexibility on reciprocal tariffs from April. Nikkei225  37,677.06 (-74.82 -0.20%) 91 up 131 down 3 f...

Topix - Fri 21 Mar 2025 Topix   2,804.16 (+8.20 +0.29%)  

JREIT Index - Fri 21 Mar 2025 JREIT   1,703.16 (+5.15 +0.30%)  

 

 (TOKYO, Japan) and (Santa Clara, CA) – SoftBank Group Corp. (TSE: 9984, “SoftBank Group”) today announced that it will acquire Ampere® Computing, a leading independent silicon design company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.5 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Ampere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group and retain its name. As part of the transaction, Ampere’s lead investors – Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) and Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) – are selling their respective positions in Ampere. As SoftBank Group broadens its AI infrastructure investments in ventures such as Cristal intelligence and Stargate, the acquisition will help enhance SoftBank Group’s capabilities in key areas and accelerate its growth initiatives. “The future of Artificial Super Intelligence requires breakthrough computing power,” said Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. “Ampere’s expertise in semiconductors and high-performance computing will...

 

March 10, 2025 ― On April 13, 2025, KDDI will release Virtual Mirai City, a service that integrates "The Future Life Expo: Future City" (hereinafter, the "Future City"), one of the Future Society Showcase Projects of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, with KDDI's metaverse/Web3 service platform "αU." Virtual Mirai City is a virtual space themed around the concept of "Thinking about the future that we hope to live in." Based on the theme of the Future City, "To the city of happiness," KDDI and nine other sponsors of the Future City have created a human-centered urban space as envisioned by Society 5.0. Users can enjoy a unique virtual experience through avatars, exploring a future in which humanity has overcome social issues while trying out technologies that will enable such a future. We aim to provide users with the opportunity to think about the ideal future by exploring Virtual Mirai City. Overview of Virtual Mirai City 1...

Public Holiday in Japan - Vernal Equinox Day (Coming of Spring) Thursday, 20 Mar 2025 Japan Market closed, no trading for Cash Equity Market on Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)

 

 

 

 

 

Nikkei 225 Volatility Index - Wed 19 Mar 2025 22.58 (-1.14% -0.26)  

Nikkei 225 Summary Nikkei chipmakers slip; defense stocks rebound - Wed 19 Mar 2025 Defense stocks lead gainers while chipmakers slips on impending US tariffs from April. BOJ holds rate steady at 0.5% as governor Kazuo Ueda is uncertain on how much tariffs will actually be enforced on imports after April. Meanwhile, Wall Street rises as Fed holds rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5% and still expects to cut rates by 0.5% in the second half of 2025, though US GDP growth projection for the year has been lowered to 1.7%. Nikkei225  37,751.88 (-93.54 -0.25%) 154 up 67 down 4 flat JGB 10YR   1.521% (+0.017)                 USD/JPY    149.28 (+0.02 +0.01%)