Financial Highlights(2nd Quarter YTD)

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2nd Quarter Year-to-Date for 2008 Financial Results (April 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008)

2nd Quarter Year-to-Date for 2008 Financial Summary

(Unit: millions of yen)

	2nd Quarter YTD for 2008	2nd Quarter YTD for 2007	Year-on-year change (%)	FY 2007 Ended March 31, 2008
Net sales	70,594	69,348	1.8	148,855
Operating income	1,190	582	104.4	3,652
Ordinary income	782	621	26.0	3,385
Quarterly net income (current)	312	234	33.2	1,853
Quarterly earnings per share (current) (yen)	11.89	8.86	34.2	69.98
Quarterly dividends per share (Full year) (yen)	9.00	8.00	12.5	18.00

Number of consolidated subsidiaries: 3
Number of affiliates accounted for by the equity method: 1

During the first half of the consolidated accounting fiscal year (referred to below as “the 2nd Quarter YTD”), FJB faced an increasingly severe management environment. Japan’s economy was negatively affected by the financial turmoil that originated in the subprime loan problem in the United States, and the slump in consumption resulting from the sudden rise in prices for crude oil and raw materials, and the business circumstances deteriorated rapidly.

Given these circumstances, our corporate group enhanced the consulting-based sales approach and proprietary solutions that have been its emphasis in recent years, and from this fiscal year shifted its resource further towards growth markets centered on the Tokyo area and developed new business activities, beginning with the introduction of a new business model in the small and medium-sized enterprise market.

As a result, orders outstanding at the end of the 2nd Quarter YTD were ¥70,306 million, down 4.4% from the same period one year earlier. FJB increased both sales and earnings as net sales rose 1.8% year-on-year to ¥70,594 million, operating income jumped 104.4% from the same period of the previous fiscal year to ¥1,190 million, ordinary income increased 26.0% year-on-year to ¥782 million and quarterly net income grew 33.2% over the same period one year earlier to ¥312 million.