With regards to news reports of the arrest of the CEO, two other directors, and an ex-director of SUN Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Kotaro Okui), a company with which we established capital and business alliances with in the realm of the three dimensional Internet business on October 22, 2008, by the Osaka Special Prosecutors Office, we take this opportunity to clarify that none of our directors or employees have any involvement with this incident.

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