Regarding matters regarding controlling shareholders, etc.

We would like to inform you of the following matters regarding our controlling shareholders, etc.

1. Trade names, etc. of the parent company, controlling shareholder (excluding the parent company), or other affiliated companies

(As of March 31, 2018)

• (Note) 1. SoftBank Group Corp. (hereinafter referred to as "SoftBank Group") is the wholly-owning parent company of SoftBank Group International LLC (hereinafter referred to as "SBGI"). As of June 15, 2018, SBGI changed its organization from a limited liability company to a joint stock company and changed its trade name to SoftBank Group Japan Corp.
• (Note) 2. As of April 1, 2018, SBGI made an in-kind investment in SoftBank Corp. (hereinafter referred to as "SoftBank") with all of the Company's shares it holds. As a result, SoftBank has become a parent company that directly owns our shares. Please note that SBGI owns 99.99% of SoftBank 's voting rights.

2. Among the parent companies, the name of the company deemed to have the greatest influence on the listed company and the reason thereof

• (Note: Effective April 1, 2018, SoftBank became the parent company directly owning our shares; however, after April 1, 2018, the parent company with the greatest impact on us is still SoftBank Group.

3. The position of the listed company within the corporate group of the parent company, etc. and the relationship between the listed company and the parent company, etc.
SoftBank Group operates the domestic telecommunications business, Sprint business, Yahoo business, distribution business, Arm business, SoftBank Vision Fund and Delta Fund business, etc. Within the group, the Company operates an ICT services business, leveraging its strengths in the technical fields of "cloud," "security," and "big data," primarily for domestic corporations and government agencies.

As mentioned above, SoftBank Group and SBGI are the parent companies that own 54.3% of the voting rights of the Company, and are in a position to influence the management decisions of the Company through the exercise of their rights as majority shareholders. However, the Company believes that a certain degree of independence is ensured because the Company conducts business operations with its own management responsibility based on its own decision-making.

In addition, in order to solicit opinions from outside the company and to improve the effectiveness of audits, one person who is the head of a related business unit of SoftBank Group has been appointed as Corporate Auditor of the Company.

• (Notes) 1. The above table shows the status as of March 31, 2018. As of that date, of the six directors and four Corporate Auditor of the Company, only one holds a concurrent position with the parent company, etc.
• (Note 2) As of April 1, 2018, SoftBank became the parent company directly owning the Company's shares, and the company is in a position to influence the Company's business decisions through the exercise of its rights as the majority shareholder. However, in developing our business, the company has its own management responsibility and manages its own business based on its own decision-making, and we believe that a certain degree of independence is ensured.
• (Note) 3. As of June 18, 2018, Mr. Takashi Naito, an executive officer of SoftBank (Executive Officer, General Manager of the Finance and Accounting Division, Finance Unit, and General Manager of the Executive Officer Office, Finance Unit, Listing Preparation Office SoftBank Corp.) was appointed as Corporate Auditor of the Company for the purpose of strengthening the auditing system, etc. Of the seven directors and four Corporate Auditor of the Company, only one, Mr. Takashi Naito, holds a concurrent position with the parent company, etc.

Four. Matters related to transactions with controlling shareholders, etc.
There are no applicable matters regarding transactions with SoftBank Group and SBGI during the current consolidated fiscal year.

• (Note) As of April 1, 2018, SoftBank has become a parent company that directly owns our shares. The details of transactions with SoftBank during the current consolidated fiscal year are as follows.

(From April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018): (Thousands of yen)

• *The transaction amount does not include consumption tax, etc., but the end-of-period balance includes consumption tax, etc.

Five. Status of implementation of measures to protect minority shareholders when conducting transactions with the parent company
As with other business partners, the Company determines selling prices for transactions with its parent company, taking into consideration factors such as the cost of the transaction, selling, general and administrative expenses, appropriate profits, and market trends. Furthermore, the calculation and determination of price conditions are the same as with other business partners.

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