In the field of NI/SI businesses, a subsidiary, Mitsui Knowledge Indusry Co., Ltd (Japan), and an associated company, Nihon Unisys, Ltd.(Japan), both listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, provide integrated solutions to a wide range of customers.

• Mitsui Knowledge Industry co., Ltd. provides services such as consultation, designing, building and operation of network systems to wide range of customers including telecommunication carriers, government offices, local municipalities and healthcare and education related public bodies. It is also engaged in planning and development of network systems which are equipped with voice recognition technology and typically used by call centers and in high security systems such as automatic billing systems used by pay-TV broadcasters. Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd. was formed by a merger in April 2007 between NextCom K.K. and Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd.
  
  
• Nihon Unisys, Ltd. is engaged in the designing and building of computer systems, business process outsourcing services, support services and other peripheral services as well as sales of computer systems. These services are provided to business enterprises in the financial, manufacturing and distribution and public sectors. Mitsui owns a 31.9% voting interest in Nihon Unisys, Ltd. as of March 2008. Unisys Corporation in the United States, which formerly held the same equity stake as Mitsui, sold its entire shareholding in Nihon Unisys, Ltd. in March 2006, and Mitsui has since been its single largest shareholder.
  
  
• The market for business process outsourcing services has been expanding in Japan. We have developed those businesses through a subsidiary, J-SCube Inc. (Japan), and an associated company, Moshi Moshi Hotline, Inc. (Japan). J-SCube Inc., which has been engaged in distribution of information processing devices such as optical character readers (“OCR”) and information input devices, has recently focused on enterprise information management such as customer information input, management and operation. Moshi Moshi Hotline, Inc. (Japan) is one of the Japan’s major providers of call centers and related outsourcing services. In 1987, it was established by Mitsui and eleven minor shareholders. Moshi Moshi Hotline, Inc. later went public on the over-the-counter market and is now listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with our current voting interest at 34.4%.