Kyoko Fujitani

CoorsTek KK develops and manufactures semiconductor materials. It offers general industrial, automotive, electric, and mechanical, semiconductor related, solar cell related, bio and medical related products. The company was founded on September 4, 1928 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Rigaku Corp. designs and manufactures scientific instruments. Its products include X-ray diffraction instruments, X-ray fluorescence , small angle X-ray scattering , protein crystallography, handheld laser induced breakdown spectrometers, process elemental analyzers, thermal analysis , non-destructive testing, small molecule crystallography, stress analyzers, X-ray imaging, evolved gas analysis, and conductor metrology. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Tsunagu Network Communications, Inc. engages in telecommunications services. It operates through the following business: Telecommunication, consulting, information processing service, advertising agency business, Business on the previous issues using the Internet, planning, development, survey related to the preceding items, substitution work for collection and consignment processing of accounting work, Sales of consumer products and all business incidental or related to the preceding items. The company was founded on January 24, 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

AvanStrate, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of glass substrates for Thin-Film-Transistor (TFT) color liquid crystal displays (LCDs). It offers LCD glass substrates which are used in LCD televisions, LCD monitors for personal computers, mobile phones, touch panels, and three-dimensional televisions. The company was founded on May 21, 1991 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The OYATSU Co., Ltd. produces and sells snacks and other confectioneries. Its products include crunchy noodle snack, French bread, pork noodle soup, cup noodles, shrimp crackers, and other gourmet food. The firm operates through the Baby-Star brand. The company was founded by Yoshio Matsuda on September 3, 1948 and is headquartered in Tsu, Japan.

Carlyle Japan Asset Management YK (Carlyle Japan Asset Management) is a private equity subsidiary of The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Sunsho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. engages in the planning, development and outsourced manufacturing of health-foods, medicinal products, non-medicinal products, cosmetics, general foodstuffs and sundries. Its operations are carried out through the following business divisions: Outsourced Pharmaceutical Production, Outsourced Packaging and Selection of Raw and Packaging Materials. The Outsourced Pharmaceutical Production division provides soft capsules, hard capsules, seamless capsules, tablets, Tablate®, granules, jellies, mini-drinks, etc. The Outsourced Packaging division provides all kinds of packaging such as PTP, stick, three-sided seal, three-sided assorted, bottle opening three-sided seal, bottle opening stick, pillow, aluminum laminated zip, bags, bottles and boxes, etc. The Selection of Raw and Packaging Materials provides cultivation, extraction, concentration, fermentation, purification, pulverization and sterilization, sales of soft capsule molds, manufacturing machines and complete production lines. The company was founded by Takashi Kondo on November 4, 1993 and is headquartered in Fuji, Japan.

Part of The Carlyle Group Inc., Carlyle Japan LLC is a Japanese company that provides investment advice. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Simplex, Inc. engages in the acquisition and retention of share certificates. It provides consulting, system development, maintenance and operations to financial institutions to enable revenue generation through the use of sophisticated technologies. The company was founded on September 16, 1997 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in the year 1990 by William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello. The firm is headquartered in Washington DC.