Through 25 consolidated and unconsolidated subsidiaries and four affiliated companies, we are active in a wide range of businesses, primarily in such areas as materials inspection, pressure vessel fabrication, trading, hotel management, and travel.

  A significant drop in sales for leasing operations in fiscal 1999 led sales for this sector to fall 28.1%, to 31.3 billion yen compared with the previous fiscal year, while operating income slipped 21.3%, to 3.9 billion yen.