Masaharu Kamo

Part of Lawson, Inc., Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc. sells tickets for music, sports, and other events. The private company is based in Tokyo, Japan.

BMB Corp. distributes and markets audio equipment. It markets and installs karaoke and cable equipment. This equipment includes compact discs, laser discs, amplifiers, TV monitors, microphones, speakers, cassette, and video tapes as well as home entertainment karaoke systems and coin-operated music machines. The company was founded on April 21, 1972 and is located in Tokyo, Japan

HMV Japan KK provides online music distribution services. It distributes music, video, and entertainment software. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Venture Republic Inc. operates multi-branded vertical search engines and provides user-generated product review services over the Internet. Its operations are carried out through the following divisions: Travel and Services. The Travel division operates Travel.jp and Hotel.jp websites, which search and compare prices for plane tickets, package tours, and accommodations. The Services division manages coneco.net and tuhan.net.jp websites, which provides price comparisons for computer and peripherals, household electric appliances, game software, car products, and alcohol. The company was founded by Kei Shibata on January 4, 2001 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

UCOM Corporation (UCOM) was established in July 2000, to offer network services to make most of advanced optical fiber cable, taking advantage of practical cable construction knowledge and techniques accumulated within 'usen' group. On its own backbone network with Tera-bit potential, UCOM has provided wholesale Internet access services, management and maintenance services of servers and networks, gaining credibility for its stable operations and challenging cost performance. Started with broadband connection to residential subscribers to enjoy smooth streaming videos, UCOM has expanded the business field with Voice over IP. The efforts to offer more advanced IP applications now allow UCOM to provide flexible services to corporate users, to fulfill any customer's business needs on the high-speed 'metropolitan access' network, combining the 'know-how' in FTTH (Fibe-to-the-Home) and the state-of-the-art technologies.