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, 2019)

• (Note) SoftBank Group Corp. (hereinafter referred to as “SoftBank Group”) is the wholly-owning parent company of SoftBank Group Japan Corp. (hereinafter referred to as “SBGJ”). Additionally, SBGJ is the parent company of SoftBank Corp. (hereinafter referred to as "SoftBank") and owns 66.5% of the company'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

3. Position of the listed company in the corporate group of the parent company, etc. and other relationships between the listed company and the parent company, etc.
SoftBank Group SoftBank business," "Sprint business," "Yahoo business," "ARM business," "SoftBank ・Vision Fund and Delta Fund business," and "Brightstar business," among others. SoftBank, which operates the "SoftBank business," is engaged in the domestic telecommunications business. In addition, SBGJ is an intermediate holding company. The Company, with SoftBank as its core business group, operates ICT service business mainly for domestic corporations and public offices with its strength in technology areas such as "Cloud", "Security" and "Big Data".

SoftBank Group As mentioned above, SBGJ and SoftBank are the parent companies of the Company, holding 54.1% of its voting rights, and are in a position to influence the Company's business decisions through the exercise of their rights as majority shareholders. However, in the development of the Company's business, they are responsible for the management of the Company's business based on their own decision-making, and we believe that a certain degree of independence is ensured.

In addition, in order to seek opinions from outside the Company and to enhance the effectiveness of audits, one executive officer (one person) of SoftBank has been appointed to Corporate Auditor of the Company. The status of concurrent positions held by the executive officers is as follows.

• (Notes) 1. The above table shows the status as of March 31, 2019. As of that date, of the seven directors and four Corporate Auditor of the Company, only one holds a concurrent position with the parent company, etc.
• (Note) 2. As of June 17, 2019, Mr. Kimihiko Kaneko, General Manager of IT Strategy Division at SoftBank (General Manager of IT Strategy Division, IT & Network Unit, SoftBank Corp.), was appointed as a director of the Company for the purpose of strengthening mutual synergies with the parent company, etc. As of the same date, of the eight directors and four Corporate Auditor of the Company, two (Mr. Takashi Naito and Mr. Kimihiko Kaneko) also hold positions 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 SBGJ during the current consolidated fiscal year. The details and amount of the transaction with SoftBank are as follows.

Current consolidated fiscal year (from April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019)

• *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 controlling shareholders, etc.
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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