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Amusement
This segment includes the operating results of all the businesses of
the TAITO Group and goodwill amortization incurred from the
consolidation of the TAITO Group. The TAITO Group’s operating
results are included in the Company’s consolidated statement of
income from October 2005.
During the fiscal year under review, the Company initiated a
drastic restructuring of the Amusement business segment, including
divestiture of commercial karaoke business, closure of underper-
forming arcade facilities and streamlining of human resources,
to improve the efficiency of the segment, and made financial
treatments relating to such measures.
However, the segment struggled in terms of profit, as the amuse-
ment facility operations—a major business in this segment—failed
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Publication
The Company publishes comic magazines, serial comics and
game strategy books.
During the fiscal year under review, the Company published
monthly magazines “SHONEN GANGAN,” “G Fantasy,” “GAN-
GAN WING” and “YOUNG GANGAN,” as well as putting
efforts into sales of comic collections taken from regular monthly
magazine serials and various game strategy guide books. In
addition, the Company published a major game strategy book
for “FINAL FANTASY XII,” which was released in March 2006
in Japan.
During the year, sales in the Publication segment totaled
¥11,208 million (up 15.1% from the previous fiscal year
results), and operating income amounted to ¥3,603 million
(up 25.7%, ditto).
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, Volume 16
©2007 Hiromu Arakawa
FINAL FANTASY XII Official Guidebook
©2006 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved.
CHARACTER DESIGN: Akihiko Yoshida
DRAGONQUEST MONSTERS: Joker Official Guidebook
©2006 ARMOR PROJECT/BIRD STUDIO/SQUARE ENIX All Rights Reserved.
Shonen Gangan, April edition
©2007 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.
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