Daiken Tsunoda

Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. engages in entertainment business centered on bookstore business. It sells and rents videos, DVDs, CDs, game software, and other entertainment contents. It also handles database marketing business through online and offline. The company was founded by Muneaki Masuda on March 24, 1983 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Nakamura Tsunoda & Matsumoto provides legal services. The company was founded in February 2003 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. engages in the provision of financial services centered on banking. It operates through the following business segments: Wholesale, Retail, International, Market Sales, and Headquarters Management. The Wholesale segment covers business for customers of large and medium-sized companies in Japan. The Retail segment handles business for domestic individuals and SME customers. The International segment comprises of business for overseas Japanese and non-Japanese companies. The Market Sales segment corresponds to financial market business. The Headquarters Management segment includes all other businesses not covered by other segments. The company was founded in April 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The Group's principal activity is to provide non-life insurance and reinsurance services including automobile, aviation, burglary, commercial credit, compulsory automobile liability, all risks, fire, liability, machinery, marine, nuclear energy and personal accident. The Group's subsidiaries and associated companies are involved in the following businesses: Non-life Insurance and Life Insurance services. The Non-life Insurance operations include non-life insurance underwriting, assets investment/management. The Life Insurance operations include life insurance underwriting, assets investment/management. As on 01-Apr-2008, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd. performed a share transfer to become a holding company which works to improve corporate governance of the entire group and plays a vital role in developing group strategy, distributing management resources, auditing and monitoring its group companies and the overall administration of the entire group. It also plays a central part in maximizing the aggregate potential of the group by improving business management, pursuing group synergy, accelerating decision making and nurturing employees through a diverse business/human resources systems.