Objective of Issuing the “ZIPANGU” Magazine

The global economy has been severely impacted by the U.S.
subprime loan crisis leading to the Japanese economy being clouded by a veil of uncertainty in terms of its future outlook. However, in contrast to the economic problems that the Euro area, the U.S. and China are facing, the world’s investors would agree that the current state of the Japanese economy is in a relatively advantageous position in terms of its unemployment rate, inflation rate and corporate earnings.

Furthermore, many Japanese corporations boast toplevel technologies and are globally expanding business with strong competitiveness. However, the Japanese stock market is in such a dismalsituation that global investors dare not buy Japanese stock.

We at IRI, a firm with a long track record of being involved in IR activities for overseas investors, questioned ourselves by saying, “Something is wrong…are there any effective measures?” As a result, we came up with a plan to issue an IR magazine, “ZIPANGU” to have global investors know about Japanese corporations with their high-level technologies and management skills.

With the aim of having investors gain understanding about these “not yet discovered” Japanese corporations, we plan to feature exclusive top-level interviews and to make the contents of this IR magazine easy to
understand.

We would like to ask for your support as we strive to offer useful information with the IR magazine, “ZIPANGU.”

Sincerely,