Net sales were 796.0 billion yen, up 14.7% compared to the same period last year. Operating income was 42.2 billion yen, up 4.5%, and net income was 24.2 billion yen, up 1.4%, both compared to the same period last year. Details of changes in accounting for royalty and technical assistant fees and the costs of the royalty and technical assistance fees, and changes in the method of depreciation and amortization under revisions to the Japanese Corporate Tax Law are described in notes* to the Consolidated Statements of Income (PDF: 25KB) of the Consolidated Financial Results for the First Quarter Ended June 30, 2007. If impact of these two accounting changes were adjusted to make the comparison on the same basis, operating income for this quarter would be up 3.4% compared to the same period in the previous year. *Notes to the Consolidated Statements of Income of the Consolidated Financial Results for the First Quarter Ended June 30, 2007 1. Until the first quarter of the previous year (the three months ended June 30, 2006), royalty and technical assistance fees had been included in "Other income," and the costs of the royalty and technical assistance fees had been calculated in "Other expenses." However, starting from the first half of the previous year, these were included in "Net sales" and "Cost of sales," respectively. If calculated on the new basis, for the three months ended June 30, 2006, net sales, cost of sales and operating income would be up 4,327 million yen, 1,525 million yen and 2,802 million yen, respectively. However, these would have no impact on income before income taxes and minority interests. 2. Starting from this period (the three months ended June 30, 2007), the method of depreciation and amortization was changed, in accordance with the revision of the Japanese Corporate Tax Law in fiscal 2007. With this change, for the three months ended June 30, 2007, operating income and income before income taxes and minority interests were down 2,442 million yen each, compared to the previous method.