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 a listed company within the corporate group of the parent company, etc. and other relationships between the listed company and the parent company, etc.
SoftBank Group operates "SoftBank Business," "Sprint Business," "Yahoo Business," "Arm Business," "SoftBank Vision Fund and Delta Fund Business," and "Brightstar Business," among which "SoftBank Business" SoftBank operates a domestic telecommunications business. Additionally, SBGJ is an intermediate holding company. Our company is part of a corporate group centered on SoftBank, and operates an ICT services business mainly for domestic corporations and government offices, with strengths in technological fields such as cloud, security, and big data.

As mentioned above, SoftBank Group, SBGJ, and SoftBank are parent companies that own 54.1% 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, in developing our business, we assume management responsibility and manage our business based on our own decision-making, and we believe that a certain degree of independence is ensured.

In addition, in order to solicit opinions from outside the company and increase the effectiveness of audits, one executive officer of SoftBank has been appointed as an auditor of the Company. The status of concurrent positions of officers is as follows.

• (Note) 1. The above table describes the situation as of March 31, 2019. As of the same date, of the seven directors and four auditors 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 SoftBank 's IT Strategy Headquarters (Head of IT Strategy Headquarters, IT & Network Management, SoftBank Corp. Technology Unit), has been appointed to strengthen mutual synergies with the parent company. He has been appointed as a director of our company. As of the same date, of the eight directors and four auditors of the Company, two of them serve concurrently with the parent company, etc.: Mr. Takashi Naito and Mr. Kimihiko Kaneko.

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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