On 7 August 2026, Sanyo Homes, a comprehensive provider of housing and lifestyle solutions engaged in housing construction contracts and the development and sale of condominiums, announced its results for Q1 (April–June) FY03/2027. In the Housing Business, orders received and order backlog expanded significantly, confirming an improvement in orders toward the turnaround to profitability projected for FY03/2027. In real estate solutions, the Company secured large-scale projects including student dormitories, steadily building up orders that are expected to translate into future sales. However, Q1 (April–June) sales declined from the same period of the previous year and operating loss widened. Meanwhile, in the Condominium Business, sales were recognized from deliveries of newly completed properties in the same period of the previous year, whereas no such sales were recognized in Q1 (April–June), resulting in a substantial decline in the Company’s sales. Nevertheless, the full-year Company forecast has remained unchanged. In the Condominium Business, sales from deliveries of newly completed properties are expected to be concentrated in Q4 (January–March), as in a typical year. In the Housing Business, meanwhile, a full-year turnaround to profitability is projected, supported by improved profitability across each area.

On 18 August 2026, EM SYSTEMS, Japan’s leading developer and provider of dispensing systems that support pharmacies’ core operations, held an online financial results briefing for Q1 to Q2 (January–June) FY12/2026. Although the waning of welfare administration-related demand inevitably resulted in lower sales and profits, the briefing revealed signs of improvement in the Company’s organic earnings base. Under the company-wide cross-functional specialized activity framework launched in May, sales activities have been concentrated on specific solutions, driving progress in the introduction of welfare administration-related options and other products and contributing to the recovery in operating profit in Q2 (April–June). In addition, ARPU in the IT Systems for Pharmacies business has increased, supported by the wider adoption of the Medication History Generation AI Support Option and growth in higher-priced products. The Company views this improvement in ARPU as a sign that its core business has begun to recover. Meanwhile, welfare administration-related demand represents an irregular upside factor, and the Company believes it remains difficult to forecast its trend in H2 (July–December). Although uncertainty therefore remains over the near-term level of profits, an important consideration in assessing the Company’s future earnings capacity will be not only the trend in welfare administration-related demand but also the extent to which it can strengthen organic growth by establishing the company-wide cross-functional specialized activity framework and increasing ARPU through the expansion of value-added products and services, including those utilizing AI.

On 14 August 2026, Fast Accounting, an Enterprise AI Company specializing in the accounting field and supporting the automation of accounting judgment tasks through AI agents, announced its results for H1 (January-June) FY12/2026. Against the backdrop of an increasingly serious shortage of accounting personnel, the Company is aiming to realize an “Accounting Singularity” and has begun the social implementation of “Steward,” a product suite of AI agents that perform accounting judgment tasks. Since the beginning of FY12/2026, the Company has been focusing on the expansion of “Steward,” which is a product suite comprising multiple products that automate confirmation and judgment tasks previously performed by humans. In particular, the Company is concentrating internal resources, including personnel, on expanding sales of products for expense reconciliation, payment reconciliation and compliance with the new lease accounting standard, where market needs are high, while also focusing on winning large-scale strategic AI projects. The Company is seeking to shorten delivery times and reduce development costs by expanding the use of modules for common requirements that do not differ among individual companies, such as bookkeeping and accounting knowledge, regulations and laws, thereby relatively reducing modules for company-specific requirements. As examples of areas being considered for future expansion, the Company has cited journal entry preparation, support for preparing tax returns, and fixed asset management and inventory checks. These are all tasks that have traditionally involved many processes that have had to rely on human hands, eyes and judgment. The expansion of “Steward,” which performs such tasks in place of humans, will be important in assessing the Company’s medium- to long-term growth.