4th quarter sales were up by 40.8 billion yen with improvements to overseas sales volume and mixture, along with exchange rate gains and increases in sales at the three internal companies despite sales deterioration in Japanese market.

Operating income will be discussed in more detail later, while the Japanese sales saw deterioration of sales volume and mixture, exchange rate gains, cost reduction in materials and various expenses increased operating income by 5.2 billion yen up to 20.8 bullion yen.

Ordinary income was also up by 0.6 billion yen compared to the previous year at 15.6 billion yen.

Current net income was up 5.3 billion yen at 2.8 billion yen.