Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust is an investment trust company with its objective to generate long-term capital growth principally through investment in listed Japanese companies. Co. has appointed Aberdeen Fund Managers Limited (AFML), as its alternative investment fund manager, to provides investment management, risk management, administration and company secretarial services as well as promotional activities. Co.'s portfolio is managed by Aberdeen Investment Management Kabushiki Kaisha (AIMKK), its investment manager by way of a group delegation agreement between AFML and AIMKK. As of Mar 31 2017, Co.'s total investment portfolio valued at £102.8 million.

Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Co. Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company is a Taiwan-based company principally engaged in the research, development, manufacture, testing and sales of gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafers. The GaAs wafers are used as components of mobile phones, wireless local area network (WLAN) and high speed optical fiber communication network, including power amplifiers, driver amplifiers, down converters, clock data recoveries, laser diode drives, gain blocks and others. The Company mainly distributes its products in Taiwan, the rest of Asia and the United States.

DISCO and its affiliates are mainly engaged in the manufacture, sale and maintenance of precision cutting, grinding and polishing machines. Co. is also engaged in the manufacture and sale of precision diamond abrasive tools, and disassembly and recycling of precision cutting, grinding and polishing machines. Co.'s principal precision machines are dicing and cutting saws, laser saws, grinders, polishers, wafer mounters, die separators, surface planers, water jet saws, and products for new processes. Co.'s principal precision processing tools are dicing blades, grinding wheels, and dry polishing wheels.

Hitachi Construction Machinery is a manufacture of construction machinery. Co.'s principal business segments are construction machinery and solution. Along with its subsidiaries and associated companies, Co. is engaged in the manufacture, sale, after-sale services and rental of construction machinery, such as mini excavators, medium excavators, large excavators, loading shovels, wheel loaders, demolition equipment, metal recycling equipment, forest machines, rigid dump trucks, compaction equipment, cranes, foundation machines, double-front work machine and mine management systems.

Intel is a data-centric company. The company's operating segments are: Data Center Group, which develops platforms for compute, storage, and network functions; Internet of Things Group, which facilitates its customers creating, storing, and processing data; Mobileye, which provides assistance and automation solutions; Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which provides memory and storage products based on Intel? Optane? technology and Intel? 3D NAND technology; Programmable Solutions Group, which provides programmable semiconductors; and Client Computing Group, which connects people to data, allowing each person to focus, create, and engage in ways that unlock their individual potential.

JVC Kenwood is a holding company mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of audio equipment, wireless machines, and video camera. Co. operates in three business segments. Automotive segment is involved in the manufacture and sale of car navigation systems, car audio and visual ("AV") systems, on-vehicle camera devices, home audio systems and optical pickups. Public service segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of land mobile radio systems, license-free transceivers, security camera systems, professional audio systems as well as medical display monitors. Media service segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of video cameras, headphones, projectors, imaging devices.

Konica Minolta and its affiliates are mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of information technologies related equipment, optical and sensing devices, and healthcare equipment. Co.'s principal products are multi-functional peripherals ("MFPs"), laser printers, filing devices, facsimile machines, and equipment for production printing systems and graphic arts, as well as related solution services; digital X-ray diagnostic image systems, digital mammography, and diagnostic ultrasound systems; and lens units, pickup lenses for optical disks, TAC films for LCD polarizer, and high-precision photo plates. In addition, Co. is engaged in the operation of planetariums.

MonotaRO is mainly engaged in the sale of factory materials to small and medium domestic manufacturing companies through the Internet. Co. offers factory supplies and factory replacement parts, which include solder-related products, electric powered and pneumatic pressure tools, spray oil grease, glasses, cutting tools, painting products, antistatic cleaning room products, adhesives and gloves, packing products, electrical materials, machinery parts, hydraulic pressure equipment, screws and bolts, compressors, casters, truck products, pumps and control equipment and others. Co. also provides batteries, lightings, toners, work suit, office and computer equipment, and laboratory instruments.

Nexon is engaged in the production, development and delivering on-line games. Along with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Co. provides PC online-games and mobile games in Japan, Korea, China, North America and Europe as well as Asian countries. Co.'s principal existing game titles include "MapleStory," "Sudden Attack," "Dungeon & Fighter," "Counter-Strike Online," and "EA SPORTS™ FIFA Online 3." Co. also offers services such as consulting related to PC online-game distribution, in-game advertising, and merchandising incidental to PC online business. As of Dec 31 2017, Co. has 26 consolidated subsidiaries and 14 affiliates.

Nintendo is mainly engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of home-use game hardware/software and peripheral equipment as well as software under the name of "Nintendo DS," "Nintendo 3DS," "Game Boy," "Nintendo 64,"" Game Boy Advance," "Wii," "Nintendo GameCube," "Game Boy Color" and "e-Reader (trading card games)." Co.'s principal software trademarks include "Pokemon," "Super Mario Bros.," "The Legend of Zelda," "STARFOX64" and others. Co. also provides online games and repair services. In addition, Co. is involved in the manufacture and sale of Japanese playing cards called "Karuta," playing cards and board games, as well as the management of intellectual property rights.

Nissan Motor, along with its subsidiaries and associated companies, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of vehicles, marine products and related parts; and the provision of finance services throughout world. Co.'s principal businesses are automobile and sales financing. Automobile segment manufactures electric vehicles, sedans, sport coupes, compact cars, mini vans, SUVs, pick-up trucks, and station wagons. Co.'s principal brand names include "Leaf," "Infiniti," "Murano," "Altima," "Maxima," "Sentra," "Quest," "Cedric," "Days Roox," "e-NV200," "Note e-Power," "Caravan," "Wingroad," "GT-R," "Farilady Z, among others. Sales Financing segment provides sales financing services..

Ricoh is engaged in the development, manufacture, sale and service of office equipment and printing equipment. Office Printing segment offers multifunctional printers, copiers, laser printers, digital duplicators, wide format printers, facsimile, scanners and related parts and supplies. Office Service segment offers PCs, servers, network equipment, projectors and unified communication systems for video/web conferencing. Commercial Printing segment offers cut sheet printers, continuous feed printers, related parts and supplies. Industrial Printing segment offers inkjet heads, imaging systems and industrial printers. Thermal Media segment offers thermal paper and thermal transfer ribbons.

Screen Holdings is a holding company. Co., through its subsidiaries and associated companies, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, printing-related equipment, printed-circuit board-related equipment and flat panel displays ("FPDs") manufacturing equipment. Co.'s principal products include single wafer cleaner, wet station, scrubber and laser annealer, full-color variable printing system, thermal plate recorder, direct imaging system, automatic optical inspection system, automatic final visual inspection system, coater/developer, LIA plasma CVD/sputter equipment, coater/dryer, coater/developer for LTPS and others.

Sony is engaged in the development, design, production, manufacture, offer and sale of various kinds of electronic equipment, instruments and devices for consumer, professional and industrial markets such as network services, game hardware and software, televisions, audio and video recorders and players, still and video cameras, mobile phones, and semiconductors. Co. is engaged in the development, production, manufacture, and distribution of recorded music and the management and licensing of the words and music of songs as well as the production and distribution of animation titles. Co. is also engaged in the production, acquisition and distribution of motion pictures and television.

Square Enix Holdings is a holding company that is mainly engaged in the entertainment industry. Co., through its subsidiaries, operates in four business segments. The Digital Entertainment business is engaged in the design, development, sale, licensed sale and operation of digital entertainment contents focusing on computer games. The Amusement segment is engaged in the operation of amusement facilities, the design, development, manufacture, sale and rental of amusement equipment. The Publishing segment is involved in the publication of comic magazines, books and game related books. The Rights Property segment is involved design, production, sale and grant of secondary works.

Tokyo Electron is a supplier of semiconductor production equipment ("SPE") and flat panel display ("FPD") selling through global network that spans Japan, the U.S., Europe and Asia. Co.'s principal products are coater/developers, plasma etch systems, thermal processing systems, single wafer deposition systems, cleaning systems (auto wet station, single wafer cleaning system, pre-clean system and scrubber system), wafer prober, FPD coater/developers and FPD plasma etch/ash systems. In addition, Co., through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the provision of transportation services, insurance services, as well as the support services for Co.'s photovoltaic cell ("PV") production equipment.

Toyota Motor is an automobile manufacturer. Co. is primarily engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of sedans, minivans, compact cars, sport-utility vehicles, trucks and related parts and accessories throughout the world. Co. provides financing, vehicle and equipment leasing and certain other financial services primarily to its dealers and their customers to support the sales of vehicles and other products manufactured by Co. Co.'s principal business segments are automotive operations, financial services operations and other operations. Co. sells its vehicles in approximately 190 countries and regions, and markets for its automobiles in Japan, North America, Europe and Asia.