Welcome back to US Market Entry as we continue coverage the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part five, we cover the business presentations of three Japanese companies with their eye on entering the US market. The representatives include:

• Hiro Takahashi, CEO of DTS, Inc.
  
• Yuuki Ishikawa, Principal Engineer of Realcom
  
• Nao Ito, President and CEO of Shop Airlines, Ltd (a subsidiary of NetPrice)