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Healthy Works Co., Ltd   
   Established in June 2006    Capital stock: 72.8 million yen
   http://www.healthyworks.jp/ (Japanese)   

• Offering food for people with lifestyle diseases, people with the metabolic syndrome who are at considerable risk of such diseases, people with kidney ailments, and people who are obese or otherwise under dietary restrictions. Selling directly to customers, and handles three modes: refrigerated, chilled, and room temperature. 
• Tie-ups with a variety of companies, organizations, and medical institutions that distribute its catalogues to customers, and pays a certain commission to these partners on sales through them. 
• Its strategy over the medium term revolves around capturing customers in the dawn of the new health food age by diffusion of low-calorie and -salt foods through overwhelmingly close contact with the customer and development of single-cell high-performance foods with new features.
• These days, there is a lot of talk about the "metabolic syndrome" and other conditions and disease deriving from lifestyles.  People have had the idea that health food is not very delicious. Under the banner "it's finally arrived - food for body and soul," the company provides medically approved lunches tailored to lifestyles that manage to taste good as well as being good for the body. We empathized with the president's strong determination to "go for the ultimate in pursuit of happiness" and "protect our children."
• Looking for partners for business and investment.
  

BIOS Inc.
   Established in May 2000    Capital stock: 103 million yen
   http://www.bioslab.co.jp/ (Japanese)    

• Two major business lines: testing service for food and medical industries and development of neutraceuticals. In addition, it is involved in a national R&D project. 
• Testing service: performs analysis of the ingredients of essential oils, analysis of physiological functions, and canine genetic diagnosis. Neutraceuticals: draws on its store of achievement in testing services and national projects in offering Kotoro Adia S, an evidence-based, highly functional food product designed for people with high blood-sugar levels due to diabetes.
• The national project consists of advanced R&D in areas such as development of the formulation of blood platelet together with the University of Tokyo.
• In the previous presentation, the focus was on neutraceutical products addressing lifestyle diseases. Entitled "Advance to the Personal Health Care Business based on Testing Service," this time centered around business in testing service, which is also at the foundation of the neutraceuticals business.
• The company is in possession of technology, know-how, and facilities for all sorts of health-related tests, and is attempting to utilize them to accommodate a wider scope of testing needs.

Mr. Kenichi Urakami, President

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Business Supplement Inc.   
   Established in April 2003    Capital stock:72.6 million yen
   http://www.p-bank.info/ (Japanese)    

• Engaged in ASP services for a point card system.  In contrast to the haphazard approaches of conventional point systems, it offers a new system without parallel among analogous rivals and reasonably-priced services.
• Its business is characterized not only by customer relations management (CRM) systems in stores to cyber communities held together by blogs for dialogue with members through "my page" utilization and petty settlements using electronic wallets.
• By constructing a system around point cards emcompassing many original features, the company provide solutions to problems such as how to execute genuine CRM with point cards and to systematically put recommendations in widespread use in cyber space into practice in real-world stores.
• Based on experience of many years of consultation in this field, the president  remarked about "integration of the ends and the means."
• The company is now trying to recruit stores to test the system with the new functions utilizing point cards. 

Mr. Nobuyoshi Horiuchi, President

Mr.Ichiro Terasaka, President

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NSI Co..Ltd.  
    Established in August 1996    Capital stock: 20 million yen
    http://www.nsi.co.jp/ (Japanese)

• Network construction consulting, network solutions, and systems development.
• Concentrating on R&D of products related to network security as well as development and sales of its major product “RegistGate”. RegistGate dramatically improves network security by authentification of identity through linkage of the unique information held by each computer and the user.
• The software “RegistGate” permits connection, by hardware (terminals) authentication, only between users and terminals registered in advance, and excludes all other illegitimate connection. Security can be reinforced because the scope of terminals for use by users can be limited in advance.
• Users and computers can be easily registered from the corporate website. Users can log in merely by inputting the ID and password.
• Other key attractions are the low workload on both the operator and user sides accompanying introduction and the ease of installation by users.