Hanwha will separate its defence, shipbuilding, energy and finance operations from its tech and life businesses after its board approved a shareholder spin-off on Jan. 14. The existing company will keep the core industrial businesses, while a new company will hold tech and consumer units. Hanwha expects the move to ease a conglomerate discount and improve decision-making. It also plans to cancel 4.45 million common shares, raise the minimum dividend and buy back remaining old preferred shares for cancellation.

Nintendo is monitoring its next-generation Switch 2 strategy while maintaining hardware profitability despite rising RAM prices and unstable memory supply. President Shuntaro Furukawa said the company is reviewing factors that directly affect profitability, including procurement terms, cost reductions through mass production, exchange rates and tariffs. He avoided specific comments on possible price changes, calling them hypothetical, but acknowledged that a 145 percent U.S. tariff and other external factors could have negative effects globally, including in Japan.