Regarding matters regarding controlling shareholders, etc.

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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, 2023)

• (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 40.5% 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 "Holding Company Investment Business," "SoftBank Vision Fund Business," "SoftBank Business," "Arm Business," and "Other," among which SoftBank, which operates the "SoftBank Business," operates the domestic telecommunications business. We are expanding. Additionally, SBGJ is an intermediate holding company.
As the core ICT services company of the corporate group centered on SoftBank, our company has a corporate philosophy of "Information Revolution - Happiness for everyone `- Technologies Design the Future - and is always striving to acquire the latest ICT technology. I am trying. In order to provide high-quality IT services to our customers, we have been implementing DX ourselves and working on reforms such as improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. We aim to be a business partner that leverages this experience to help our customers grow their core business together. In addition to supporting the IT systems of domestic SoftBank Group companies, our company contributes to the realization of an affluent information society by leveraging synergies with SoftBank Group companies and solving various customer issues with ICT services. I will continue to do so.

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, SoftBank 's group management policy values the independence of its subsidiaries, and aims to create synergies and continue to evolve and grow together while ensuring independence.As a result, the group's corporate value We aim to maximize the Under this policy, we assume management responsibility and manage our business based on our own decision-making, and we believe that a certain degree of independence and autonomy is secured.

Furthermore, two SoftBank employees have been appointed as officers 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, 2023. As of the same date, of the nine directors and four auditors of the Company, two of them serve concurrently with the parent company, etc.: Mr. Kimihiko Kaneko and Mr. Takashi Naito.
• (Note) 2. As of June 19, 2023, Mr. Kunihiro Fujinaga, Deputy Head of Corporate Business at SoftBank (Managing Executive Officer SoftBank Corp. Officer (Deputy Head of Corporate Business) has been appointed as a director of the Company. As of the same date, of the nine directors and four auditors of the Company, two of them serve concurrently with the parent company, etc.: Mr. Kunihiro Fujinaga and Mr. Takashi Naito.

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, 2022 to March 31, 2023)

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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