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EX-4.22 SOFTWARE SUPPLY AGREEMENT

 

EXHIBIT 4.22

[Translation]

Software Supply Agreement

As of the date March 1, 2003, IE Group, Inc. (“the Company”) and Crayfish Co.,
Ltd. (“Crayfish”) (each a “party” and collectively the “parties”) hereby agree
as follows regarding [OUSAMA soft] (the “Product”):

Article 1 (Object)

Crayfish shall continuously sell the Product to the Company in accordance with
the terms herein, and the Company shall purchase the Product from Crayfish and
sell it to customers.

Article 2 (Definition)

Terms used herein shall be defined as follows:

	1.	 	“Product” shall mean Crayfish’s software, which is shall be sold,
pursuant to this Agreement, to the Company’s customers with the service
mark [OUSAMA DESK] as specified by the Company.

	2.	 	“Customer” shall mean a party to whom the Company sells the Product,
including the end user of the Product that has been sold by the Company,
affiliate of the Company, resellers and end users of the Product sold by
these affiliates and resellers.

	3.	 	“Delivery Location” shall mean the location specified by the Company to
Crayfish to where the Product shall be delivered.

Article 3 (Applicable Scope)

The contents herein shall also apply to individual sales contracts (“Individual
Contract”) between the Company and Crayfish.

Article 4 (Sales price)

	1.	 	The Price at which Crayfish shall sell the Product to the Company (“Sales
Price”) shall be defined separately at a later date.

	2.	 	The payment method and payment schedule for the sales transaction stated
in Article 4-1 shall be defined in Individual Contracts.

Article 5 (Ordering the Product)

	1.	 	Individual Contracts shall be formed when the Company or third party
specified by the Company sends an order form or similar documents to
Crayfish, and Crayfish sends a confirmation of receipt of the order form
or similar documents.

	2.	 	The Company and Crayfish shall agree that documents described above in
Article 5-1 may be sent or issued by FAX, e-mail, or other simple methods
and these documents shall be binding.

Article 6 (Delivery of the Product)

Crayfish or the Company shall deliver the Product to the location specified by
the Company.

Article 7 (Product Inspection)

The Company shall inspect the Product upon its delivery. If the quantity or
quality of the product is deficient, or other discrepancy involving the
Product, the Company shall notify Crayfish without delay, and follow the
direction from Crayfish. If the Company delays sending its notice to Crayfish,
then Crayfish shall not have any further responsibilities with respect to
curing this deficiency.

Article 8 (Treatment of defective Product)

The Company may follow the procedure specified by Crayfish to return the
Product to Crayfish in any of the following cases. Crayfish shall pay the
shipping fee for returned Products.

	1.	 	Products which are found to be defective or damaged upon inspection shall
be sent to the location specified by Crayfish within five business days
from the inspection. The Company may not return to Crayfish or receive a
discount for a Product if the Product is shipped to Crayfish over five
business days following the purported discovery of defects in the Product.

	2.	 	Only Products that are damaged or defective are eligible to return to
Crayfish if the Product has been inspected.

Article 9 (Quality Guarantee)

 

 

Crayfish shall guarantee the delivered Product is without defect and materially
and operationally functional, and that specifications of the Product conform to
those in the Product manual. If the Product is defective or does not comply to
the standards described herein, Crayfish shall either: a) repair the defective
Product, b) deliver to the Company a replacement Product, or c) discount the
total price of the Product. The Company shall determine which of the above
methods Crayfish uses. However, the discount price for the subject Product
shall be in the price range at which Crayfish sells the Product to the Company
and other customers.

Article 10 (Maintenance Support)

Crayfish shall offer maintenance support to the Company’s customers during
business days and business hours designated by Crayfish. If Crayfish is not
able to remedy the problems of the Company’s customer, Crayfish shall be
responsible for solving the problem after discussion by Crayfish and the
Company.

Article 11 (Ownership protection)

	1.	 	The license for the right to use software, and other licenses, shall be
licensed to the end user by original rights holder on the basis of license
and other agreements, which shall be concluded between Crayfish or
software licensee and end user.

	2.	 	The Company shall not copy all or one part of the software and also shall
not adjust, reverse edit or reverse assemble the software.

	3.	 	Crayfish or a company designated by Crayfish shall have the right of
ownership of the [OUSAMA SOFT] software.

Article 12 (Compensation for loss)

Crayfish shall be responsible for the compensating the Company, customers of
the Company or third parties for damages caused by any reason below or related
thereto. However, Crayfish shall not prevent the Company from enter into
litigation to resolve such problems at the Company’s own cost.

	1.	 	Defect or fault of Product in functionally, materially or operationally,
or misstatement in manual or warning display.

	2.	 	If the Product does not meet quality standards based on this agreement.

	3.	 	If the Product does not reasonably perform in function or effect.

Article 13 (Confidential matter)

The Company and Crayfish shall not use any technological and operational
confidential matters of the opposite party, excepted for the purpose defined in
this contract. Also the both parties shall not disclose confidential matters to
third parties without other party’s consent in writing.

Article 14 (Obligation for returning confidential information and others)

When this contract is terminated, the both parties shall return offered
confidential information from opposite party and materials or other information
given to Crayfish from the Company promptly, or return the information if
requested to do so by the other party.

Article 15 (Unchangeable rights and duties)

Under every provision herein, if a party has failed to notify the other party
that it has not performed its duties hereunder, or to invoke a right hereunder,
that party shall not have been deemed to have renunciated or forfeited its
rights hereunder and there shall be no effect on the rights and duties of both
parties.

Article 16 (Prohibition of transferring position)

The Company and Crayfish shall not transfer all or a part of their positions or
rights, or obligation to third parties without having received prior written
consent from the other party.

Article 17 (Discharge of the contract)

	1.	 	If any of the following events has occurred, the Company or Crayfish can
cancel all or a part of this Agreement or Individual Contract. If the
Company or Crayfish has incurred debts to the opposite party and any of
the events below have occurred, the debtor party shall immediately
compensate the creditor party for the entire amount of the debt.

	 	1)	 	When there is violation of the terms in this contract or the
Individual Contract.

	 	2)	 	When there is fraud or injustice execution of this contract
or the Individual Contract by the Company, Crayfish or their
representative (include supplier).

 

 

	 	3)	 	When the Company or Crayfish applies for, or has received
from a third party a notice of petition for bankruptcy, company
reclaim, company arrangement, civil re-organization, sequestrate,
provisional ruling, seizure, auction or compulsory execution.

	 	4)	 	When the Company or Crayfish issues a check that it is unable
to pay or is subject to the suspension of seizure of its banking
transaction.

	 	5)	 	When the Company or Crayfish recognizes that the one of the
events above may occur with respect to the opposite party.

	2.	 	Upon loss due to any of the above, the Company or Crayfish may setoff
all debts with the opposite party in equal amounts.

	3.	 	Even this contract is expired or rescind, article 4 to 15 and 19 will
continue to be effective if the Individualized Contract is valid.

Article 18 (Intellectual Property Rights)

When the sale or use of a Product is the basis for a claim of infringement of
intellectual property such as a third party’s patent property, model utility
right or trademark right, Crayfish shall resolve such claim using its own cost
and responsibility.

Article 19 (Agreement jurisdiction)

If controversy arises from matter related to this contract or an Individualized
Contract based on this contract, the Tokyo district court or Tokyo summary
court shall have exclusive jurisdictional.

Article 20 (Agreement conclusion cost)

The Company and Crayfish shall jointly pay the necessary costs, such as stamp
duty, to conclude this agreement.

Article 21 (Expiration date)

	1.	 	This Agreement shall expire
March 31st in the year following the year in
which this Agreement is signed, but will be automatically renewed for
successive one year terms if either party does not propose in writing to
terminate the agreement at least three months prior to the expiry of the
current term.

	2.	 	Crayfish has the right to terminate this Agreement by giving one-month
advance notice in writing without being obligated to indemnify the
Company.

As a proof of this Agreement, the Company shall retain this original Agreement
with the name, seal and signature of each party, and Crayfish shall retain a
copy of the Agreement.

March 1st, 2003

The Company: Nishiikebukuro2-29-16 Toshima-ku Tokyo

IE Group, Inc.

/s/ Takashi Tamamura sealed by stamp

Representative Director: Takeshi Tamamura

Crayfish: Ikebukuro2-2-1 Toshima-ku Tokyo

Crayfish Co., Ltd.

/s/ Kazuhiko Muraki sealed by stamp

Representative Director: Kazuhiko MurakiEX-4.24 AGREEMENT ON ADVERTISEMENT TREATMENT

 

EXHIBIT 4.24

[Translation]

Agreement on the Advertisement Treatment

First Charge, Inc. (“the Company”) and Crayfish Co.,Ltd. (“Crayfish”) (each a
“party” and collectively the “parties”) here by agree to enter into this
Agreement (the “Agreement”) related to the treatment of advertisements on
various media (the “Media”).

Article 1 (Basic principle)

The Company shall cooperate with Crayfish to obtain the original manuscript of
the advertisement.

Article 2 (Application of advertisement)

The Company shall apply for the advertisement prior to the closing date set by
Crayfish, and shall use the form assigned by Crayfish to apply for the
advertisement. Application shall be made by e-mail or other methods designated
by Crayfish. A separate agreement regarding the treatment of the advertisements
(“Advertisement Treatment”) shall be formed when Crayfish accepts the
advertisement application.

Article 3 (Advertisement Treatment Fee)

	1.	 	Following the start of the Advertisement Treatment, Crayfish shall issue
an invoice for the Advertisement Treatment Fee pursuant to the fee agreed
upon by both parties (“Advertisement Treatment Fee”).

	2.	 	The Company shall setoff amounts invoiced by Crayfish above against the
Agency Fee, further described in Article 5 herein, and deposit the balance
to the bank account specified by Crayfish prior to the end of the month
following the closing date of the month of the Advertisement Treatment.

	3.	 	The month of Advertisement Treatment means the month when the treatment
of banner and mailing advertisement begins.

Article 4 (Delay damaging money)

Interest of 14.6% per annum shall accrue on all unpaid Advertisement Treatment
Fees under the Article 3 herein.

Article 5 (Agency Fee)

Crayfish shall pay to the Company the Agency Fee, which is calculated by
multiplying the Advertisement Treatment Fee separately at a later date.

Article 6 (Submission of advertising manuscript)

The Company shall submit the advertising manuscript to Crayfish by the closing
date established by Crayfish using the method established by Crayfish.

Article 7 (Rejection of Advertisement Treatment)

	1.	 	If Crayfish determines that the content or style of advertisement is not
appropriate, Crayfish may reject the Advertisement Treatment or require
the modification of the Advertisement Treatment within five business days
from the date on which the advertisement manuscript has been submitted.

	2.	 	When the site of a banner advertisement is a site which may be freely
read by an unlimited number of people (e.g. a “community” site), when the
content of the ad differs substantially from the content proposed at the
time the advertisement was applied for, and if such content may damage the
reputation, name value and reliance of Crayfish, Crayfish may discontinue
the advertisement even in the midst of the Agreement term. In this case,
the Company is still required to pay an Advertisement Treatment Fee
established at the time of application for the Advertisement Treatment.

Article 8 (Research)

The Company shall perform due diligence re the reliability of the advertisement
sponsors and the Company shall ensure that the Advertisement Treatment shall
not damage Crayfish or the operators of media used by Crayfish. The Company
shall be responsible

 

 

for dealing with claims against Crayfish by third parties alleging damage
caused by the Advertisement Treatment and Crayfish shall reasonably cooperates
in relation thereto.

Article 9 (Cancellation)

The Advertisement Treatment Fee shall arise when the Company applies for an
advertisement as described Article 2, and such fee shall be payable by the
Company even if it cancels its advertisement application.

Article 10 (Confidentiality of information)

The parties shall not disclose to third parties any confidential information
related to this Agreement. This provision shall survive the termination or
expiry of this Agreement.

Article 11 (Exemption)

	1.	 	When the advertisement cannot be used as originally scheduled due to
system trouble, the parties shall mutually determine a new schedule for
the advertisement.

	2.	 	Crayfish may stop, interrupt or change the schedule of advertisement upon
the occurrence of an emergency, natural disaster, illegality, electronic
blackout or other unavoidable causes.

	3.	 	The Company may not make a claim for damages against Crayfish in either
of the above cases.

Article 12 (Cancellation)

	1.	 	The Company or Crayfish may cancel the contract without notice to the
other party or engaging in proceedings upon the occurrence of any of the
following events:

	 	(1)	 	When a party breaches this Agreement and does not quickly respond
to the other party’s notification in relation thereto.

	 	(2)	 	When a party is subject to a claim for levy, sequestrate,
provisional ruling, or punishment for nonpayment of tax or public dues.

	 	(3)	 	When a party’s business has been suspended due to insolvency or a
dishonored check or note for which the party is responsible.

	 	(4)	 	When the property, creditworthiness or ability to a party to pay
its liabilities changes dramatically.

	 	(5)	 	When a party applies for consolidation, special liquidation,
corporate reorganization, civil rehabilitation, bankruptcy, proceeding
or other events related these under the law, or the same is petitioned
for by a third party.

	 	(6)	 	When a party assigns or outsources all or a part of its business to
a third party.

	 	(7)	 	When other significant business uncertainties arise.

	2.	 	Upon the occurrence of any of the above events with respect to a party,
that party shall promptly settle all outstanding liabilities to the
opposite party.

Article 13 (Assignment of an obligation)

	1.	 	Upon the occurrence of any of the events in Article 12-1-(1) to (7) with
respect to the Company, Crayfish may demand that the Company assign to
Crayfish its liabilities with respect to the advertisement space provider.
In such case, if Crayfish claims a liability, the Company shall approve
the claim and Crayfish may give notice of its assignment of the liability
on behalf of the Company.

	2.	 	Other than cases described in Article 13-1, Crayfish may require the
Company to delegate collection of receivables to Crayfish which the
Company has against advertisers based on this Agreement. Crayfish may
setoff the liability of the Company to Crayfish and receivables delegated
by the Company.

Article 14 (Expiration date)

	1.	 	The expiration date of this Agreement shall be one year following the
execution of this Agreement.

	2.	 	The Agreement will automatically renew for one year if either party does
not propose in writing to modify its terms or terminate the Agreement.

	3.	 	Even during the Agreement term, either party may cancel this Agreement
for any reason by sending a writing to the opposite party with thirty days
advance notice.

	4.	 	Not withstanding the termination of this Agreement, this Agreement shall
govern the Advertisement Treatment closed during the term of this
Agreement.

 

 

Article 15 (Supplemental)

Both parties shall make best efforts to amicably discuss and resolve questions
regarding the interpretation of this Agreement.

Article 16 (Jurisdiction)

The Tokyo district court or Tokyo summary court shall have exclusive
jurisdiction over controversies arising under this Agreement or a separate
contract related to this Agreement.

Article 17 (Compliance)

This Agreement is governed by Japanese law.

As a proof for close of contract, the Company shall retain an original of this
Agreement with name, seal and signature of each party, and Crayfish shall
retain a copy.

March 12, 2003

The Company: Nishi Ikebukuro2-29-16 Toshima-ku Tokyo

First Charge, Inc.

/s/ Yoshitaka Enoki sealed by stamp

Representative Director: Yoshitaka Enoki

Crayfish: Ikebukuro2-16-13 Toshima-ku Tokyo

Crayfish Co., Ltd.

/s/ Kazuhiko Muraki sealed by stamp

Representative Director: Kazuhiko Muraki

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