Computer Soft, the packaged software development and sales subsidiary of CSK Ltd, which is either the largest or second largest software house in Japan according to your definition has translated Style, the applications generator from Footlight Research into Japanese and launched it last month: Style, currently offered only for IBM’s VM/370 operating system, is claimed to increase programmer productivity in a development environment by a factor of 10, and in maintenance by a factor of 20; the company looks to sell 55 to 60 copies in the first year at between $14,000 and $140,000 depending on CPU size; Japanese language versions of Style for Data General and NCR Tower Unix machines are planned.