Weathernews America Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Weathernews, Inc. Based in Japan, Weathernews is the world's largest, publicly-traded, full-service weather company, employing over 750 people, including more than 400 meteorologists. Weathernews' network spans the globe with 38 offices in 17 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Taiwan.  Weathernews depends on a synergistic "man-machine shareware system" in which our meteorologists use proprietary forecasting tools to analyze and adjust weather data in order to deliver a full range of the most reliable and relevant weather content to our global customers. In November 2003, Weathernews became the first weather service company ever listed in the 1st Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE#1, 4825).