SOFTBANK FINANCE CORPORATION aims to develop a comprehensive one-stop online financial service market. The SOFTBANK FINANCE Group includes a strategic network of companies such as E*TRADE Japan K.K. (Securities Broker), Morningstar Japan K.K. (Mutual Fund Rating Information), CyberCash K.K. (Online Payment Clearing), E-Loan Japan K.K. (Market Place Provider for Mortgages and Other Loans), Cognotec Japan K.K. (Foreign Exchange), INSWEB Japan K.K. (Market Provider for Insurance), E*Advisor Co., Ltd. (Online Financial Planner), and ASCOT CO., LTD. (Credit Cards and Consumer Loans).

Trans Cosmos USA Inc. is an experienced global strategic investment and business development company dedicated to helping leading-edge, Internet-based technology companies from America and Europe expand into the Japanese marketplace. As both a strategic international investor and an active local business partner, Trans Cosmos provides capitalization of joint ventures, infrastructure development, strategic relationships, staffing and localization.

MVC, a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., is the venture capital firm promoted for the first time by a general trading company with extensive business and management resources. MVC provides growth capital to young and promising venture businesses. They also offer a comprehensive business solution, a wide range of support that will help venture businesses to promptly achieve their enterprise goals.

Nissho Inter Life Company Limited manufactures and installs shopping center and other store establishment interiors. Interiors include display, designs, store accessories and other goods. Other activities includes real estate sales buying and leasing, the insurance business, cleaning equipment sales and rental, home and office renovation, cellular communications service, apparel marketing, karaoke room operation and event planning.

As a full-service venture capital firm, Nippon Venture Capital Corporation (NVCC) supports the entrepreneurs who are creating a new Japan. NVCC assists venture businesses in a range of industries, working with promising entrepreneurs, as well as large, established companies seeking to foster their entrepreneurial spirit.

Tekinvest works closely with early-stage and entrepreneurial firms to help devise their financing strategy, as well as closely held investments. Using both strategic and institutionally managed funds, Tekinvest investors can provide local market insight and expertise. This makes investment by a Japanese partner an attractive option for North American companies during early growth stages, and later, when establishing direct business operations in Japan.

As a digital content publisher, the Impress Group provides high-value-added content and services. In anticipation of the development of new Internet businesses and the rapid digitization of information, the Group is focused on four main areas of business - IT, music, design and finance to create a completely new publishing organization called "Digital Kyoku."

Rentrak Corporation through its Pay-Per-Transaction sm (PPT®) system, is the world's largest distributor of prerecorded videocassettes on a revenue-sharing basis. Rentrak distributes cassettes throughout the U.S. and Canada and, through affiliated companies, to a growing number of international outlets in Japan and the United Kingdom.