This is largely an interim measure until multilateral talks are resumed.

In a way, the situation is back to what it was in August. Sanctions have failed, so Tokyo needs a new strategy.

When you think what might have happened if the talks had fallen apart, they have avoided a very serious situation.

We are pleased to provide our middleware to Vodafone K.K. that can contribute to greater security for mobile phones. Because the FSE has the industry's fastest authentication speed for mobile phones, an owner's face can be instantly verified. Going forward, we will provide such solutions to the embedded market for entertainment devices as well as to the mobile phone market by combining FSE with our other products, such as FaceCommunicator-E2.

We are pleased to provide our middleware to Vodafone K.K. that can contribute to greater security for mobile phones. Because the FSE has the industry's fastest authentication speed for mobile phones, an owner's face can be instantly verified. Going forward, we will provide such solutions to the embedded market for entertainment devices as well as to the mobile phone market by combining FSE with our other products, such as FaceCommunicator®-E2 (2).

The problems are with the smaller carriers, which SYSCO relies on heavily. Small carriers don't have a lot of this information readily available. We ask them to enter the data in our Internet-based transportation management system, but they're not always good about doing it.