Notice regarding changes in parent company and largest shareholder

We would like to announce that as of April 1, 2017, there will be a change in our parent company and largest major shareholder.

Record

1. Background to the transfer
SoftBank Group Corp. ("SBG") is the parent company that indirectly holds the Company's shares through its wholly owned subsidiary SoftBank Group Japan, LLC. Today, the Company was notified by SBG that at the SBG board of directors meeting held today, it has resolved to effect an absorption-type merger (the "Merger") with SoftBank Group 's subsidiary, SoftBank Group International, LLC ("SBGI"), as the surviving company and SoftBank Group Japan, LLC ("SBGJ"), as the disappearing company, with the effective date scheduled for April 1, 2017.
We would like to inform you that as a result of this merger, our parent company will change from SBGJ to SBGI.
For details regarding the Merger, please refer to the "Notice Regarding Merger Between Subsidiaries of SBG" dated today.

2. Overview of the new parent company and largest major shareholder

(1) Name	SoftBank Group International LLC
(2) Location	1-9-1 Higashi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
(3) Title and name of representative	Executive Officer Masayoshi Son
(4) Business details	Holding Company
(5) Capital	22 million yen
(6) Date of establishment	January 26, 2001
(7) Net assets	299,387 million yen (fiscal year ending March 2016)
(8) Total assets	1,104,207 million yen (fiscal year ending March 2016)
(9) Major shareholders and shareholding ratio	SoftBank Group Corp. 100%
(10) Relationship between the listed company and the company	Capital ties	The company is scheduled to transfer 5,367,500 shares of the Company's stock held by SBGJ (representing 55.28% of the voting rights*1).
	personal relationships	Not applicable.
	business relationship	Not applicable. (As of March 31, 2016, there are transactions with SBG, including the provision of ICT services.)

• (Note 1) The figures have been rounded down to the third decimal place.

3. Number of voting rights and percentage of voting rights held by SoftBank Group International GK before and after the change

	attribute	Number of voting rights (percentage of voting rights)
		direct ownership	Amount to be added up	total
Before the transfer (As of January 25, 2017)	－	-Individual (-%)	-Individual (-%)	-Individual (-%)
After transfer	Parent company	53,675 pieces (55.28%)	-Individual (-%)	53,675 pieces (55.28%)

• (Note 1) The percentage of voting rights held is calculated using the number of voting rights of all shareholders, etc. as of September 30, 2016, 97,085, as the denominator, as stated in the Second Quarter Report for the 29th Term submitted by the Company on November 11, 2016.
• (Note 2) The figures have been rounded down to the third decimal place.

4. Changes in unlisted parent companies, etc. to be disclosed
As a result of the above changes, SBGI will become our new parent company. However, since SBGI is an intermediate holding company for a wholly owned subsidiary of SBG and SBG is the parent company that has the greatest influence on our company, SBGI will not be considered an unlisted parent company subject to disclosure.

Five. Future outlook
This change in parent company will have no impact on our business performance.

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