Kenichi Fukuhara

Berlitz Corp. owns and franchises language centers. It provides language instruction and translation services. It offers courses to adults, teenagers, and children through study-abroad programs, summer camps, face-to-face instruction, books, videotape, audio cassettes, and CDs. The company was founded by Maximilian D. Berlitz in 1878 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (NSC) is a wholly-owned brokerage subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TSE: 8604; NYSE: NMR). Headquartered in Tokyo, the firm was founded in 1925. NSC places a strong emphasis on research, both fundamental and quantitative. In addition to stock and bond underwriting, their activities include IPO and M&A advisory, wealth management, separately managed accounts, fund wrap services, prime brokerage and structured equity finance. Their clients include institutions, hedge funds, private banks and private equity funds as well as corporate clients and retail investors.

TMJ Inc. engages call center outsourcing service. It operates through the following segments: Call centre, Back office and Global segment. The call centre segment involves customer care, sales support, system tool, consulting and analysis and, training. The back office segment involves contact point related solution, Indirect field solution and consulting and Analysis. The global segment involves offshore service and service for China and ASEAN. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Nomura Research & Advisory Co. Ltd. (Nomura Research & Advisor) is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (TK:8604) founded in 2000. Nomura Research & Advisory Co. Ltd. is headquartered in Tokyo.

Part of Benesse Holdings, Inc., Benesse Style Care Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that provides nursing care and childcare services. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 2003.